Benefits of electronic charts in intensive care and during a world health pandemic: advantages of the technology age.

Aims And Objectives: This study sets out to describe benefits from the implementation of electronic observation charting in intensive care units (ICU). This was an extension to the existing hospital wide digital health system. We evaluated error reduction, time-savings and the costs associated with conversion from paper to digital records.

Silicon nitride nanobeam enhanced emission from all-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals.

Optically active perovskite nanocrystals have shown considerable promise for a myriad of applications, such as single photon source, light-emitting diodes and nanophotonics. Coupling those nanocrystals to photonic micro- and nanostructures will offer additional degrees of freedom to manipulate their optical properties. Herein, we demonstrate the coupling of perovskite nanocrystals to a mechanically robust, poly(methyl-methacrylate) (PMMA)-encapsulated silicon nitride nanobeam photonic crystal cavity at room temperature.

Hospital acquired Acute Kidney Injury is associated with increased mortality but not increased readmission rates in a UK acute hospital.

Background: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) has evoked much interest over the past decade and is reported to be associated with high inpatient mortality. Preventable death and increased readmission rates related to AKI have been the focus of considerable interest.

Methods: We studied hospital acquired AKI in all emergency hospital admissions, except transfers from ICU to ICU or patients known to renal services, to ascertain mortality and readmission rates, and trackable modifiable factors for death, using cox regression and Kaplan Meier survival curves.

Missed medication doses in hospitalised patients: a descriptive account of quality improvement measures and time series analysis.

Objective: To investigate the changes in overdue doses rates over a 4-year period in an National Health Service (NHS) teaching hospital, following the implementation of interventions associated with an electronic prescribing system used within the hospital.

Design: Retrospective time-series analysis of weekly dose administration data.

Setting: University teaching hospital using a locally developed electronic prescribing and administration system (Prescribing, Information and Communication System or PICS) with an audit database containing details on every drug prescription and dose administration.