MedPage Today) — Adena Health is responding to the pause of its cardiac surgery program after two alleged deaths during cardiac procedures and several alleged instances of sexual misconduct. These allegations have been levied in media reports…
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School nurses treat children daily for a wide range of illnesses and injuries, and sometimes serve as a young patient’s only health provider. They also function as a point person for critical public health interventions. Yet many states don’t require them, and school districts struggle to hire them…
MedPage Today) — BOSTON – Patients with a penicillin allergy may be delabeled based on methods that don’t require specialist intervention or other more resource-intensive testing, a researcher reported. In a quality-improvement project…
They say it’s a step forward in developing ASD screening programs that can reduce healthcare disparities and improve access to early diagnosis and intervention. …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers led by Professor Steve Watson and Dr. Eleyna Martin from the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Birmingham have delivered a breakthrough for thrombosis researchers, by producing the first binding molecules (ligands) of defined composition to make platelets clump together in a predictable way. The research team developed
MedPage Today) — A multilevel primary care intervention that included automated electronic health record (EHR) reminders and patient outreach/navigation improved timely follow-up of overdue abnormal cancer screening test results, a cluster randomized…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a new Annals ‘Beyond the Guideline’s feature, two experts review the available evidence about cognitive impairment to determine effective screening tools, interventions to improve patient outcomes, and the circumstances under which they would recommend screening for cognitive impairment (CI). All Beyond the Guidelines features are based on the Department of
MedPage Today) — Epidemiological records suggest that Seattle’s drop in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival during the pandemic could be largely explained by indirect factors such as treatment delays, not acute SARS-CoV-2 infections…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An educational and social support intervention for caregivers reduced elder mistreatment of older adults with chronic illness, including dementia. That’s the result of a double-blind, randomized controlled trial published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Elder mistreatment is defined as “an intentional act or failure to act by a
It flags cases in real time, prompting faster patient interventions…