Balance, Landing Biomechanics, and Functional Movement Screen Characteristics With and Without Knee Exoskeleton in Military Soldiers.

Introduction: A light-weight pneumatic-powered knee exoskeleton could augment mobility and lifting capabilities for a variety of occupational settings. However, added weight/bulkiness and artificially produced knee extension torque could compromise sensorimotor characteristics.

Materials And Methods: Ten healthy participants conducted 3 visits within 10 days to the biomechanics laboratory.

Improving Time to Molecular Testing Results in Patients With Newly Diagnosed, Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.

Purpose: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a crucial component of evaluation of patients with newly diagnosed metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to determine appropriate first-line treatment. This quality improvement project aimed to reduce time to NGS results in patients with metastatic NSCLC.

Methods: We reviewed electronic medical records of patients with newly diagnosed, untreated metastatic NSCLC from December 2018 to August 2021 and determined the number of days from pathologic diagnosis to NGS results.

Quality improvement in breast cancer project: compliance with antiresorptive agents and changing patterns of drug use.

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute participated in NCCN's Quality Improvement in Breast Cancer initiative. The Opportunities for Improvement (OFI) team elected to improve concordance with the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Breast Cancer recommendation that all patients diagnosed with skeletal metastases receive bisphosphonates. Assembling a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, and administrative stakeholders, the OFI team followed Six Sigma's approach to problem-solving known as DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control).

Retrospective study of multidisciplinary rounding on a thoracic surgical oncology unit.

Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) reduces medical errors and improves the quality of care for hospitalized patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate hospital length of stay, patient satisfaction, admission to a skilled care facility, and the use of home health care or hospice in patients who received MDR compared to those who did not. This retrospective study included the records of 3,077 thoracic surgical patients with cancer who were admitted to a midwestern National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center from January 1, 2006, through July 1, 2011.

Creating a fair and just culture: one institution's pat toward organizational change.

Background: Health care organizations have begun to move toward a nonpunitive, or "blame-free," process when analyzing medical errors and near misses. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's (Boston) "Principles of a Fair and Just Culture," define for staff and managers behavioral expectations when an error occurs.

Creating The Principles Of A Fair And Just Culture: The principles focus not just on patient safety but on a culture of safety and transparency in all the organization's functional areas, including nonclinical departments such as information services, administration, and research.