Whiteboards to Facilitate Hospitalized Patient Communication, Safety, and Education: A Scoping Review.

Background: Bedside whiteboards are ubiquitous fixtures in hospitalized patients' rooms and present unique, low-cost opportunities to improve patient care. Specifically, bedside whiteboards may enhance communication practices, safety standards, and patient education. Despite their commonality at the bedside, the direct impact of whiteboards on patient care remains unclear.

Cachexia Alters Central Nervous System Morphology and Functionality in Cancer Patients.

Background: Cachexia is a clinically challenging multifactorial and multi-organ syndrome, associated with poor outcome in cancer patients, and characterised by inflammation, wasting and loss of appetite. The syndrome leads to central nervous system (CNS) function dysregulation and to neuroinflammation; nevertheless, the mechanisms involved in human cachexia remain unclear.

Methods: We used in vivo structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (Cohort 1), as well as postmortem neuropathological analyses (Cohort 2) in cachectic cancer (CC) patients compared to weight stable cancer (WSC) patients.

Impact of empiric antibiotics on risk of -a causal inference observational analysis.

Background: infection (CDI) is a common and often nosocomial infection associated with increased mortality and morbidity. Antibiotic use is the most important modifiable risk factor, but many patients require empiric antibiotics. We estimated the increased risk of hospital-onset CDI with one daily dose-equivalent (DDE) of various empiric antibiotics compared to management without that daily dose-equivalent.

Patients and families reading their discharge summaries: A cross-sectional analysis of benefits, concerns, and implications.

Background: Transitioning from hospital to home is fraught with anxiety and risk, as patients and family members assume responsibility for caring for themselves.

Objectives: We aimed to explore patients' experiences with reading their discharge summaries and the impact of having this information during the posthospitalization period. We focus on opportunities to address common concerns-such as medication changes, follow-up steps, and documentation errors.

Identification and Biological Characterization of a Novel NRF2 Activator Molecule Released From the Membranes of Heat-Treated Bifidobacterium breve NCC 2950.

Postbiotics are defined as a "preparation of inanimate microorganisms and/or their components that confers a health benefit on the host". They represent an attractive alternative to probiotics as they could be used in a broader range of applications, where probiotic stability is limiting. To date knowledge on the mechanism of action of inanimate microorganisms is relatively scarce.