Background: Organisational change is an important part of development and growth. Transitioning from paper-based hospital records to electronic health records improves efficiency and patient safety by streamlining data access and reducing the risk of errors, ultimately leading to enhanced patient care and outcomes. In October 2020, a large NHS trust underwent the transition from paper notes to a fully electronic health records system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: A transition from paper to Electronic Health Records has numerous benefits, including better communication and information exchange and decreased errors by medical staff. However, if managed poorly, it can result in frustration, causing errors in patient care and reduced patient-clinician interaction. Furthermore, a drop in staff morale and clinician burnout due to familiarising themselves with the technology has been mentioned in previous studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Children with neurodevelopmental disorders share common phenotypes, support needs and comorbidities. Such overlap suggests the value of transdiagnostic assessment pathways that contribute to knowledge about research and clinical needs of these children and their families. Despite this, large transdiagnostic data collection networks for neurodevelopmental disorders are not well developed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany autistic adults have trouble in social situations and at work. Researchers do not know exactly why autistic people might find it difficult in these environments, and no studies to date have looked the way anxiety or other cognitive processes might affect autistic peoples' ability to socialise and succeed in getting and keeping jobs. Anxiety (how much you worry) and difficulty with getting stuff done or switching attention (known as executive function) can be concerns for autistic people and may contribute to social and work difficulties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe rabbit placenta perfused in itu was used to investigate the factors determining the placental transfer of drugs used in labour. Each doe was given an intravenous infusion of pethidine, lignocaine, bupivacaine and antipyrine concurrently, and the umbilical circulation was artificially perfused with Mammalian Krebs' bicarbonate buffer. The umbilical flow rate was varied between 0.
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