Background: Clinician documentation is highly variable, and awareness of documentation requirements remains low despite post-training experience. At our hospital, critical care (CC) documentation was inconsistent. Our aim was to increase appropriate CC attestations from 51% to 90% for status asthmaticus, anaphylaxis, and diabetic ketoacidosis in the pediatric emergency department by December 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: School-based COVID-19 contacts in England have been asked to self-isolate at home, missing key educational opportunities. We trialled daily testing of contacts as an alternative to assess whether this resulted in similar control of transmission, while allowing more school attendance.
Methods: We did an open-label, cluster-randomised, controlled trial in secondary schools and further education colleges in England.
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol
July 2019
Allostatic load is a multiple biomarker measure of physiological 'wear and tear' that has shown some promise as marker of overall physiological health, but its power as a risk predictor for mortality and morbidity is less well known. This study has used data from the 2003 Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) (nationally representative sample of Scottish population) linked to mortality records to assess how well allostatic load predicts all-cause and cause-specific mortality. From the sample, data from 4,488 men and women were available with mortality status at 5 and 9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF