Publications by authors named "M Tietze"

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  • Radiation-induced morphea (RIM) is an uncommon complication of radiotherapy, mainly seen in breast cancer patients, characterized by inflammatory fibrosis where the underlying mechanisms are not well understood.
  • The study focused on analyzing fibroblasts from RIM patients to find potential therapeutic targets, discovering key differences like increased alpha-smooth-muscle-actin (αSMA) and Myc activation in RIM fibroblasts.
  • Treatment with the anti-inflammatory drug mesalazine was shown to effectively improve patient symptoms by reversing the harmful fibroblast changes and significantly reducing levels of the biomarker osteopontin (OPN).
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Perinatal documentation is challenging and complex requiring multiple documentation modalities. By customizing an academic EHR to parallel documentation in perinatal units, pre-licensure nursing students will learn and experience documentation standards and practice on the academic EHR. Student feedback and experiences will be recorded utilizing student surveys.

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Electronic health records (EHR) are designed to promote patient safety, workflow efficiency, and communication (HealthIT.gov). Competency in the use of an EHR is essential for both undergraduate and graduate nursing students.

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Workforce well-being and associated factors such as burnout, depression and documentation burden, have been identified as the highest concerns to be addressed. In academia, the new essentials of nursing practice including domain 8 for informatics and healthcare technology have become a focus for curricular revisions/enhancements. Our study focused on technology skills by using the technology of an academic EHR to measure baselines and progression of EHR use, sense of confidence, documentation competency, and post-graduation employer-based performance assessment.

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Digitalization in healthcare and the increasing availability of data demand data literacy competences of nurses and other healthcare professionals including technical, ethical and communication skills. The international Spring School 2023 "Information in Healthcare - From Date to Knowledge" aimed at these competences covering interoperability, data protection and security, data analytics and ethical issues. These topics were embedded in the overall case of data-driven quality improvement for diabetes patients in a region.

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