Publications by authors named "Yuichiro Ishigami"
Article Synopsis
- Patients in ICUs need effective palliative care to relieve suffering, leading to a study focused on creating and testing quality indicators (QIs) for such care using expert consensus and EMR data.
- The study developed a set of 28 quality indicators based on expert input, despite some items being less measurable but still deemed important for holistic care.
- Pilot testing showed the feasibility of these QIs, revealing variability in care performance and highlighting areas needing improvement, such as pain management, advance care planning, family involvement, and psychological support for families.
Objectives: To examine 1-year functional outcomes after invasive mechanical ventilation for adults greater than or equal to 65 years with preexisting long-term care-needs.
Design: We used medical and long-term care administrative databases. The database included data on functional and cognitive impairments that were assessed with the national standardized care-needs certification system and were categorized into seven care-needs levels based on the total daily estimated care minutes.
The evaluation of patients who have experienced a fall has been an integral part of geriatric emergency care. All physicians who engage in the care of the geriatric population in acute settings need to familiarize themselves with the current literature on this topic. However, it can be challenging to navigate the large body of literature on this topic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Although the implementation of simulation-based education (SBE) is essential for emergency medicine residency programs (EMRPs), little is known about the factors associated with its degree of SBE implementation in EMRPs. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate factors associated with SBE implementation in EMRPs. We hypothesized that the number of the simulation faculty was associated with the degree of SBE implementation.
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