Improving Clinical Documentation in an Academic Setting: A Multidisciplinary Team Approach Focused on the Physician's Perspective.

This research article discusses the results of a pilot study at a large academic medical center to appropriately describe patient severity and the likelihood of mortality. In this study, we compare two projects, both of which use a clinical document specialist (CDS). The control case measures documentation quality using an attending physician-focused model.

Detection of atherosclerotic lesions and intimal macrophages using CD36-targeted nanovesicles.

Current approaches to the diagnosis and therapy of atherosclerosis cannot target lesion-determinant cells in the artery wall. Intimal macrophage infiltration promotes atherosclerotic lesion development by facilitating the accumulation of oxidized low-density lipoproteins (oxLDL) and increasing inflammatory responses. The presence of these cells is positively associated with lesion progression, severity and destabilization.

Heart failure and galectin 3.

Innovations in medical diagnosis and treatment have led to prolongation of life of patients. Increasing the life expectancy of cardiac patients and thereby increasing the prevalence of heart failure (HF). Currently more than one million hospital admissions per year are due to HF and it has been estimated that the cost is approximately $39 billion annually in the U.

Comparison of patients rehospitalized for heart failure with versus without a history of habitual alcohol consumption.

Alcohol paradoxically is known to have a protective and a deleterious effect on the heart. The effect of alcoholism on the growing problem of heart failure (HF) readmissions is not known. This study addressed this issue with a population of adult patients (>20 years old) who were readmitted for HF within 30 days after a hospitalization for HF at a university hospital in West Texas for a period of 5 years.