Adverse diagnostic events in hospitalised patients: a single-centre, retrospective cohort study.

Background: Adverse event surveillance approaches underestimate the prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors (DEs) related to hospital care.

Methods: We conducted a single-centre, retrospective cohort study of a stratified sample of patients hospitalised on general medicine using four criteria: transfer to intensive care unit (ICU), death within 90 days, complex clinical events, and none of the aforementioned high-risk criteria. Cases in higher-risk subgroups were over-sampled in predefined percentages.

Patient-Clinician Diagnostic Concordance upon Hospital Admission.

Objectives:  This study aimed to pilot an application-based patient diagnostic questionnaire (PDQ) and assess the concordance of the admission diagnosis reported by the patient and entered by the clinician.

Methods:  Eligible patients completed the PDQ assessing patients' understanding of and confidence in the diagnosis 24 hours into hospitalization either independently or with assistance. Demographic data, the hospital principal problem upon admission, and International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes were retrieved from the electronic health record (EHR).

Vanadium Dioxide by Atomic Layer Deposition: A Promising Material for Next-Generation Memory Devices.

The synthesis of a vanadium dioxide (VO) film using atomic layer deposition (ALD) with vanadium tetrachloride (VCl) as a precursor for the realization of programmable memory devices is reported. X-ray diffraction analysis revealed the epitaxial growth of VO on c-AlO. The phase transition was monitored using resistivity measurements across varying temperatures, demonstrating a decrease of >4 orders of magnitude at the transition temperature, thereby confirming the high quality of the material.