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As a part of a series of yearly meeting, in May 2010 over 40 medical laboratory opinion leaders, pathologists, clinical biochemists and physicians from Europe, Israel and South Africa gathered together in Bardolino, Italy to discuss issues and current challenges for laboratory medicine, including a)...
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PMID: 21366504
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These professionals do a lot more than fill prescription orders. They are now full-fledged partners on the care team. You might say they're indispensable.
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PMID: 21485260
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Disruptive behaviors can have a significant negative impact on staff relationships, communication flow, task responsibility, and team collaboration, all of which can adversely impact patient outcomes of care. Addressing disruptive behaviors in a positive manner by emphasizing the benefits of mutual u...
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PMID: 21183152
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Data regarding costs of prostate cancer treatment are scarce. This study investigates how initial treatment choice affects short-term and long-term costs.
This retrospective, longitudinal cohort study followed prostate-cancer cases diagnosed in 2000 for 5 years using...
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PMID: 20734396
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Since its inception in the 1900s, hospital social work has been impacted by the ever changing hospital environment. The institution of Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs), the era of reengineering, and the constant struggle toward health care reform make it necessary to evaluate and substantiate the va...
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PMID: 20938879
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We evaluated associations between errors of commission and omission, copayment status between errors of commission and omission, and associations between errors of commission in primary and secondary sections of the drug profiles.
Demographics of study patients are similar to previously published re...
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PMID: 20964475
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We estimated the intervention effect using electronic medical record data and hierarchical linear models. The intervention was a PST displaying "care gaps" and recommendations for glycosylated hemoglobin, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and blood pressure screening and control; retinopathy, nep...
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PMID: 20964477
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I describe the refashioning of a sense of self and identity of a junior officer in the U.S. Army who was injured in Iraq. Ethnographic data for this article were collected between July 2006 and January 2008. The setting for this article is the U.S. Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program at Walter...
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PMID: 20949837
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Patient experiences of care were related to measures of technical quality of care, supporting their validity as summary measures of hospital quality. Further study may elucidate implications of these relationships for improving hospital care....
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PMID: 20528990
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We examine the current and increasing emphasis on accountability and patient safety in health care, focusing on practices of incident reporting and management in New South Wales, Australia. We describe the frames of accountability associated with an incident reporting system, and explore how this sy...
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PMID: 20479138
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We share our experience of using computer software (Microsoft Office Excel) to improve the planning of patient care. This technology is now widely available and we suggest that it is feasible and, indeed, particularly valuable in a resource-poor setting. We focus on the steps taken to minimize the c...
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PMID: 20223798
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This paper considers recent developments in health care facility design and in the psychology literature that support a case for increased design sensitivity to the emotional experience of patient care. The author discusses several examples of innovative patient-centred health care design interventi...
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PMID: 20203081
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Program directors' expectations predicted residents' actual performance for the majority of patient care learning objectives. The authors offer lessons learned to inform the next iteration of performance standards for clinical competence....
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PMID: 20592511
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Rheumatologists assigned the most importance to the DAS score (relative importance of 30.7%) in their decision to escalate care. The age of the patient (21.5%) and erosions (20.5%) were rated as equally important in this decision. The decision to escalate care was least influenced by change in sympt...
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PMID: 20535795
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Increasing demand for acute surgical services is one of the major challenges facing modern health systems. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of implementing a dedicated surgical assessment and review area (SARA) on patient flow for acute general surgical patients at a major teaching hos...
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PMID: 20618195
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Respectively 79% and 91% of TB patients were HIV tested shortly and at medium term after service integration. The HIV-positive rate varied from 96% before the intervention to respectively 88% (305/347) and 74% (301/405) after. The estimated number of HIV-positive cases was respectively 303, 323 and...
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PMID: 20392355
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Diabetic retinopathy, the most common long-term complication of diabetes mellitus, remains one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Strict metabolic control, tight blood pressure control, laser photocoagulation, and vitrectomy remain the standard care for diabetic retinopathy. Focal/grid ph...
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PMID: 20423681
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To comply with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD), from 1 August 2009, junior doctors are required to work no more than 48 hours per week. In accordance with this, East Sussex Hospitals Trust introduced changes to working practice in August 2007. To assess the impact upon patient care and ju...
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PMID: 20437982
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The main principles of leprosy control, based on timely detection of new cases and their treatment with effective chemotherapy in the form of multidrug therapy, will not change over the coming years. The emphasis will remain on sustaining the provisions for quality patient care that are equitably di...
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PMID: 20169985
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The symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB) -- urinary urgency, frequency, and urge incontinence -- can cause significant lifestyle limitations. Social isolation, depression, employment difficulties, and relationship stress are common findings in patients with this condition. This article focuses on wo...
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PMID: 20170596
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Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) take a major human toll on society and reduce public confidence in the healthcare system. The current convergence of scientific, public, and legislative interest in reducing rates of HAI can provide the necessary momentum to address and answer important questi...
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PMID: 20038249
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There is evidence from medicine that schools and practitioners are slow to adopt new and proven effective treatments while marketing efforts lead practitioners to too quickly adopt unproven modalities. To address these problems, the dental school at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at...
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PMID: 20836411
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Rochester General Hospital developed an exceedingly well received homegrown database, CMReview, for its CMs. The right team comprised of a data analyst, IT programmers, technology-appreciative CMs, and administrative support has created an asset to the functioning of the care management department....
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PMID: 20234294
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