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Peer Audit and Feedback: A Documentation-Focused Quality Improvement Project.
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 PDFFrom errors to excellence: the pre-analytical journey to improved quality in diagnostics. A scoping review.
Clin Chem Lab Med
January 2025
School of Dentistry and Medical Science, Faculty of Science and Health, 110481 Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia.
This scoping review focuses on the evolution of pre-analytical errors (PAEs) in medical laboratories, a critical area with significant implications for patient care, healthcare costs, hospital length of stay, and operational efficiency. The Covidence Review tool was used to formulate the keywords, and then a comprehensive literature search was performed using several databases, importing the search results directly into Covidence (n=379). Title, abstract screening, duplicate removal, and full-text screening were done.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Short Cognitive and Neuropsychiatric Assessment Scale for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.
Mov Disord Clin Pract
January 2025
Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Background: Patients with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) suffer from several neuropsychological impairments. These mainly affect the frontal lobe and subcortical brain structures. However, a scale for the assessment of cognitive and neuropsychiatric disability in PSP is still missing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExploring the role of T cells in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases: Emerging therapeutic insights from the T Cells in the Brain symposium.
Alzheimers Dement
January 2025
Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
This proceedings article summarizes the inaugural "T Cells in the Brain" symposium held at Columbia University. Experts gathered to explore the role of T cells in neurodegenerative diseases. Key topics included characterization of antigen-specific immune responses, T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire, microbial etiology in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and microglia-T cell crosstalk, with a focus on how T cells affect neuroinflammation and AD biomarkers like amyloid beta and tau.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFunctional independence trajectories over 5 years in older veterans with traumatic brain injury: A model systems study.
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January 2025
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Background: Research on older adults who sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) has predominantly been on civilian, nonveteran populations. Military populations experience higher rates of TBI and often experience the additive effects of TBI and other comorbid disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder and/or substance use that may increase disability over time.
Objective: To investigate predictors of functional independence trajectories over the 5 years after TBI in veterans 55 years or older at injury.
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