Publications by authors named "J Weisstuch"
Article Synopsis
- - Quality assessment organizations use various patient safety measures to evaluate hospitals, but these assessments can create significant burdens for health systems.
- - The Braden score is a bedside evaluation tool typically used to assess the risk of pressure injuries, and this study suggests it could be effective in predicting other adverse outcomes like mortality and infections.
- - The research indicates that abnormal Braden scores correlate with several negative health outcomes, highlighting the potential of this low-cost tool to quickly identify high-risk patients and improve overall patient safety despite advancements in technology.
Article Synopsis
- The study addresses the issue of "note bloat" in electronic medical documentation, where excessive unstructured data makes notes less useful for clinical decision-making.
- Researchers from NYU Langone Health developed innovative templates to streamline information flow, guiding principles for better documentation, and a usability curriculum for providers.
- Usability testing showed a high satisfaction rate among healthcare providers, with an average score of 90.6 out of 100, indicating the new templates improved ease of use and efficiency in clinical documentation.
Importance: Hospital consolidations have been shown not to improve quality on average.
Objective: To assess a full-integration approach to hospital mergers based on quality metrics in a safety net hospital acquired by an urban academic health system.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This quality improvement study analyzed outcomes for all nonpsychiatric, nonrehabilitation, non-newborn patients discharged between September 1, 2010, and August 31, 2019, at a US safety net hospital that was acquired by an urban academic health system in January 2016.
Background: Standard urine sampling and testing techniques do not mitigate against detection of colonization, resulting in false positive catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI). We aimed to evaluate whether a novel protocol for urine sampling and testing reduces rates of CAUTI.
Methods: A preintervention and postintervention study with a contemporaneous control group was conducted at 2 campuses (test and control) of the same academic medical center.
Objective: To study the membrane expression of endothelial protein C receptor (mEPCR) in the renal microvasculature in lupus nephritis (LN) as a potential marker of injury and/or prognostic indicator for response to therapy.
Methods: mEPCR expression was analysed by immunohistochemistry in normal kidney and in 59 biopsies from 49 patients with LN. Clinical parameters were assessed at baseline, 6 months and 1 year.