Traditionally, physicians have provided many uncompensated services to hospitals such as emergency room on-call duty, charity care and committee appointments. But physicians can no longer afford to give away services, and hospitals need their assistance to become more cost-efficient. This article describes an innovative physician-driven cost-management program that pays physicians for their hospital work and saves the hospital money.
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Public Health Nurs
January 2025
School of Nursing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Background: Grasping the nuanced needs of older adults is paramount for the efficacious provision of day-care services. Our study sought to identify the demand patterns for day-care services in China and to explore the underlying factors. This study aims to offer useful evidence that can refine nursing care strategies and guide policy development within day-care settings.
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January 2025
Brunel University London, College of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, London, UK.
Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) services are increasingly using alternative programme delivery modes, for example telerehabilitation strategies including videoconferencing, to improve patient choice and accessibility. Although telerehabilitation results in improvements in core outcomes, the effect on knowledge attainment is not known. To observe the real-world responses of patients choosing to undergo videoconference PR to a matched control group choosing to undergo in-person PR, in terms of knowledge attainment.
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January 2025
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Background: Double outlet right ventricle (DORV) is a challenging congenital cardiac lesion to surgically master. We utilize computed tomography-guided-three-dimensional (3D) modeling/printing and novel in-house software to delineate anatomical relationships providing operative insight into the surgical approach. Our intent is to highlight this and showcase our technology.
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September 2024
Service de médecine gériatrique, Hôpital Xavier-Arnozan, Pessac, France.
Hemasphere
January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, and Institute of Medical Genetics and Genomics, University Hospital Brno and Medical Faculty Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic.
In chronic lymphocytic leukemia, the reliability of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to detect variants ≤10% allelic frequency (low-VAF) is debated. We tested the ability to detect 23 such variants in 41 different laboratories using their NGS method of choice. The sensitivity was 85.
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