Evaluating Medication Habits in Medical Mission Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background Short-term medical missions (STMMs) are a highly debated and largely understudied form of international volunteer work. With growing dedication to health care abroad, research evaluating their impact is crucial to ensure continued interventions are effective in improving medical care. STMM care varies in length, frequency, size, location, services offered, and country of origin and destination.

The #PalliativeCare Conversation on Twitter: An Analysis of Trends, Content, and Caregiver Perspectives.

Context: Palliative care is known to improve patients' quality of life, but oftentimes these conversations occur outside of the health-care setting.

Objectives: To characterize the #PalliativeCare Twitter network and evaluate the caregiver experience within palliative care.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 182,661 #PalliativeCare tweets by 26,837 users from June 1, 2015 to June 1, 2019 were analyzed using Symplur Signals.

48-Hour Hospice Home Immersion Encourages Osteopathic Medical Students to Broaden Their Views on Dying and Death.

To augment learning about interprofessional palliative and end-of-life care, the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine immersed 2 second-year osteopathic medical students in an 18-bed acute care hospice home in Scarborough, Maine, for 48 hours. The students worked with an interprofessional staff and independently to provide patient care, family support, and postmortem care. For data collection, students wrote in journals before the immersion experience (prefieldwork), while living in the hospice home (fieldwork), and for 10 days following the immersion experience (postfieldwork).

A New Test for the Detection of Direct Oral Anticoagulants (Rivaroxaban and Apixaban) in the Emergency Room Setting.

Unlabelled: Determining whether a patient has taken a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) is critical during the periprocedural and preoperative period in the emergency department. However, the inaccessibility of complete medical records, along with the generally inconsistent sensitivity of conventional coagulation tests to these drugs, complicates clinical decision making and puts patients at risk of uncontrollable bleeding. In this study, we evaluate the utility of inhibitor-II-X (i-II-X), a novel, microfluidics-based diagnostic assay for the detection and identification of Factor Xa inhibitors (FXa-Is) in an acute care setting.

Mobile health applications for atrial fibrillation: A readability and quality assessment.

Background: Mobile health applications may improve patient education and self-care for a complex condition such as atrial fibrillation (AF). Little is known about the accessibility of mobile health applications ("apps") and their readability. We evaluated the readability and quality of available apps for AF.