Background: With the introduction of online health screenings, guidelines describing how to communicate about a person's health need to be adapted for a digital setting. This study aimed to uncover older adults' preferences regarding such online messages.
Materials And Methods: Thirty older adults (aged 65 to 75 years) viewed four versions of the results message of a screening aimed at identifying frailty: a standard, empathic, tailored, or both empathic and tailored message.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
June 2014
Background: Antimicrobial resistance poses a threat to patient safety worldwide. To stop antimicrobial resistance, Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs (ASPs; programs for optimizing antimicrobial use), need to be implemented. Within these programs, nurses are important actors, as they put antimicrobial treatment into effect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA noninvasive method of recording His-bundle activity was developed in our laboratory. This technique is based on the principle of high-gain amplification of the external signals, use of appropriate filters to eliminate random noise, and averaging of the amplified signals over 200-500 cardiac cycles to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Using this technique we were able to demonstrate external His-bundle activity and to measure the extent His-bundle-ventricular (H-V) interval in 29 of 51 (60%) patients referred to our unit for evaluation of conduction abnormalities or history of collapse.
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