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…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most health care facilities in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are unprepared to treat patients with cardiovascular diseases—despite these conditions leading to millions of people dying prematurely every year, a new study reveals. Experts analyzed health survey data from eight LMICs across four World Health Organization world regions to discover
Change in diagnostic cardiovascular testing in 2021 compared with prepandemic procedure baseline volumes. Chart compares the median percentage change in procedure volumes of U.S. (represented by U.S. flag), NUHIC (represented by gold bars), and all non-U.S. (represented by world globe) facilities from March 2019 to April 2021. Percentage change represents the median of the percentage
One of the New Jersey health system’s interventional pulmonologists tells the story of how an artificial intelligence-aided detection system is offering significant clinical ROI…
Phase 2 polio campaign- a timely intervention bunyao@who.int Sat, 16/09/2023 – 17:51 16 September 2023…
MedPage Today) — FDA advisors conceded on Wednesday that the benefit-risk balance of patisiran (Onpattro) technically checks out in wild-type or hereditary transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM, also known as cardiac ATTR amyloidosis…
One radiologist supported by AI detected more cases of breast cancer in screening mammography than two radiologists working together, reports the ScreenTrustCAD study from Karolinska Institutet in a paper, titled “Artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in screening mammography: A paired-readers prospective interventional screen positive trial,” published in The Lancet Digital Health…