Publications by authors named "E Sapey"
Introduction: Despite unprecedented pressures on urgent and emergency care services, there is no clear consensus on how to provide acute medical care delivery in the UK. These pressures can lead to significant delays in care for patients presenting with emergencies when admitted via traditional routes through the emergency department. Historically, a separate pathway has existed where patients are directly admitted to acute medicine services without attending the emergency department.
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- There is a significant risk of reinforcing existing health inequalities in AI health technologies due to biases, primarily stemming from the datasets used.
- The STANDING Together recommendations focus on transparency in health datasets and proactive evaluation of their impacts on different population groups, informed by a comprehensive research process with over 350 global contributors.
- The 29 recommendations are divided into guidance for documenting health datasets and strategies for using them, aiming to identify and reduce algorithmic biases while promoting awareness of the inherent limitations in all datasets.
Objective: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a leading cause of hospitalisation in older adults and is associated with a high likelihood of adverse outcomes. Given the ageing population and lack of therapeutic advances in CAP, new strategies to manage the burden of this disease are needed. Neutrophil dysfunction has been widely demonstrated in CAP and is associated with poor outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Medical research improves patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, staff morale and retention. It is unclear what research opportunities and training staff in acute medicine had.
Methods: The Society for Acute Medicine supported a survey to assess current research activity, training and perceived opportunities and barriers.
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- Older adults hospitalized with COVID-19 often face significant functional decline, especially those over 70.
- A study found that inpatient rehabilitation significantly improved functionality in COVID-19 survivors, particularly among older patients.
- The findings suggest that while hospitalization negatively impacts functionality, targeted rehabilitation can effectively aid recovery across different age groups.