Health IT Adoption in German Hospitals: Could We See Any Changes Between 2017 and 2023?

Introduction: Increase in health IT adoption is often driven by financial support through the state. In 2020, the German Hospital Future Law passed Parliament with a schedule to see potential effects in 2023. The research question of the present study thus was if there were differences between 2017 and 2023 in selected application areas eligible for funding by the law.

Improving Medical Students Learning Through an Interprofessional Pharmacotherapy Selective.

Purpose: Current trends in medical school education indicate an existing need for increasing medical student exposure to pharmacotherapy education. The objectives of this study are to describe the development of an interprofessional, application-based Pharmacotherapeutics in Primary Care selective for 3rd year medical students and to assess its influence on knowledge, attitudes, and skills related to pharmacotherapy of high-risk medications and patient populations.

Methods: The selective was implemented across fourteen cohorts of medical students that were evaluated over a 5-year academic period ( = 68).

Neurocognitive Constructs Underlying Executive Control in Statistically-Determined Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Background: The model of executive attention proposes that temporal organization, i.e., the time necessary to bring novel tasks to fruition is an important construct that modulates executive control.

A retrospective analysis of prescription medications as it correlates to falls for older adults.

Objectives: To determine the correlation between falls and two medication factors: the class of medications and potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) prescribed to community-dwelling older adults aged 55 and older.

Methods: Retrospective, cross-sectional study. Home health patients residing in a Texas/Mexico border community and reporting at least one fall within the past month.

Comparing efficacy of plaque removal using professionally applied manual and power toothbrushes in 4- to 7-year-old children.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate in 4- to 7-year-olds the efficacy of plaque removal of 2 toothbrushes: (1) the Philips Sonicare for Kids (SFK) power toothbrush with 2 amplitude settings (A and B); and (2) the Oral-B Stages 3 toothbrush (MTB).

Methods: Sixty-eight children participated in a single-masked, randomized, split-mouth study. Only subjects with a Quigley Hein plaque index (modified by Turesky et al.