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Qual Manag Health Care
January 2025
Author Affiliations: Department of Medical Staff Quality, Corporate Quality, Atrium Health Waxhaw, North Carolina (Dr Glass); School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, UNC Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina (Dr Powers); School of Nursing, College of Health & Human Services, UNC Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina (Dr Magennis), and Nursing Excellence, Enterprise Nursing, Atrium Health Nursing Administration (Dr Shaw).
Background And Objectives: Nurses' documentation of communication, including notification of critical laboratory results (CLR), is important to ensure safe, high-quality care. Evidence supports peer audit with feedback as a quality improvement (QI) intervention to improve documentation. Nursing compliance with CLR documentation requirements was below goal for several years in an intensive care unit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAddiction
January 2025
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Background And Aims: Primary care systems often screen for unhealthy alcohol use with brief self-report tools such as the 3-item Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test for consumption (AUDIT-C). There is little research examining whether change in alcohol use measured on the AUDIT-C captures meaningful change in outcomes affected by alcohol use. This study aimed to measure the association between change in AUDIT-C and change in all-cause hospitalization risk, measured in the year after each AUDIT-C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Healthcare is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is one of the most widely used healthcare services in the US, indicated for approximately 134 million adults. Recommended screening options include fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) every year, CT colonographies (CTCs) every 5 years, or colonoscopies every 10 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCureus
December 2024
Critical Care, Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, USA.
This is a case of a young, 20-year-old, male Navy recruit who was admitted to our healthcare facility with intermittent atypical chest pain and limiting exertional symptoms and was diagnosed with myocardial bridging (MB) as the most likely etiology of his chest after the complete cardiac workup, leading to his career limitations due to potential risks. Our patient presented with atypical chest pain and limiting exertional symptoms. Chest pain was non-radiating.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfect Control Hosp Epidemiol
January 2025
Center for Health Equity and Innovation, Cook County Health, Chicago, IL, USA.
Objective: We aimed to determine whether benchmarking antimicrobial use (AU) to antimicrobial resistance (AR) using select AU/AR ratios is more informative than AU metrics in isolation.
Design: We retrospectively measured AU (antimicrobial therapy days per 1,000 days present) and AU/AR ratios (specific antimicrobial therapy days per corresponding AR event) in two hospitals during 2020 through 2022. We then had antimicrobial stewardship committee members evaluate each AU and corresponding AU/AR value and indicate whether they believed it represented potential overuse, appropriate use, or potential underuse of the antimicrobials, or whether they could not provide an assessment.
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