An explosion of new hospital building has created the opportunity for nurse leaders to transform the patient care experience with evidence-based architecture, technology innovations, and new patient care delivery models. The authors share the first-year results of the creation of a hospital of the future in which staff actively participated and addressed the challenges of transforming the patient care experience. Positive results include patient satisfaction at the 99th percentile, successful integration of 63 software applications, and energized nursing staff.
Background: Tracheostomy is performed in patients with trauma who need prolonged ventilation for respiratory failure or airway management. Although it has benefits, such as reduced sedation and easier care, it also has risks. This study explored the unclear timing, technique, and patient selection criteria for tracheostomy in patients with trauma.
Background: Single-slice computed tomography (CT) body composition has been studied extensively for prognostication in patients with cancer. New software packages can also provide multi-slice volumetric measurements, but the clinical utility of these remains under explored. This study aimed to evaluate the agreement between single- and multi-slice body composition analyses in patients with oesophagogastric cancer and to explore the association between these measures and overall survival.
Many trials are designed to collect outcomes at or around pre-specified times after randomization. If there is variability in the times when participants are actually assessed, this can pose a challenge to learning the effect of treatment, since not all participants have outcome assessments at the times of interest. Furthermore, observed outcome values may not be representative of all participants' outcomes at a given time.
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to enhance healthcare practices, including periodontology, by improving diagnostics, treatment planning and patient care. This study introduces 'PerioGPT', a specialized AI model designed to provide up-to-date periodontal knowledge using GPT-4o and a novel retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system.
Aim: With the advantage of preserving thyroid function while minimizing intervention-related morbidity, minimally invasive thermal ablation techniques such as microwave ablation (MWA) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) have emerged as alternatives to traditional open surgery. This study compares the efficacy and safety of MWA and RFA with that of open surgery for the treatment of benign thyroid nodules by utilizing a propensity score matching study design to improve comparability.
Methods: This retrospective study included patients with benign thyroid nodules treated at the North China Electric Power University (Baoding) School Hospital between May 2020 and May 2023.
