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Comparison of frailty measures in predicting outcomes after emergency general surgery.
Surgery
March 2025
Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology, Department of Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA; Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA. Electronic address:
Introduction: Although frailty has been recognized to adversely influence outcomes of emergency general surgery, there are limited data comparing the performance of frailty instruments among this population. We compared the discriminatory power of 4 risk prediction models across a national cohort of patients who underwent emergency general surgery to assess outcomes of interest.
Methods: Adults undergoing emergency general surgery (large bowel resection, small bowel resection, repair of perforated ulcer, cholecystectomy, appendectomy, lysis of adhesions, or laparotomy) were identified in 2016-2021 Nationwide Readmissions Database.
Enablers and Barriers of Compassionate Care From a Nurses' Perspective: A Scoping Review.
Scand J Caring Sci
March 2025
Department of Health Sciences, Section Health Psychology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Aims And Objectives: To identify and synthesise empirical evidence on the perspectives of nurses regarding factors that enable and/or obstruct the delivery of compassionate care.
Methodological Design And Justification: A scoping review was chosen for its capacity to perform a broad exploration of the available literature.
Ethical Issues: This scoping review raises no ethical issues.
Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and performance of postgraduate nursing students regarding clinical reasoning and evidence-based nursing: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Iran.
BMC Nurs
March 2025
Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran.
Background: Within the realm of medical education, particularly in nursing, the paramount objective is to cultivate professionals who can make optimal clinical decisions through the integration of critical thinking skills, comprehensive knowledge, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based nursing practices. Given that these professional competencies constitute the cornerstone of effective healthcare delivery; their systematic development has become increasingly imperative. This study, therefore, aims to evaluate postgraduate nursing students' knowledge, attitudes, and performance regarding clinical reasoning and evidence-based nursing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComputer-Assisted Surgery Has Already Arrived in Sports Medicine, and Robots Are Next.
Arthroscopy
March 2025
Bone & Joint Sports Medicine Institute, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, VA, USA; Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Electronic address:
Robot-assisted surgery (RAS) is a procedure in which a computerized system actively interacts with surgical instruments to perform specific tasks independent of the human surgeon. This is distinguished from computer-aided navigation (CAN) by the independence of the computer system. Navigation tells the surgeon what to do, whereas RAS does (some of) it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHandedness in surgical education: Evaluating suturing proficiency among left- and right-handed trainees.
Surg Open Sci
March 2025
Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Background: Left-handedness is often perceived as a disadvantage in surgical training due to the predominance of right-handed instruments and right-handed mentors. Whether this affects the performance of left-handed trainees remains unclear. This study aims to compare the suturing proficiency of left-handed and right-handed novice learners when taught by right-handed instructors using right-handed tools.
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