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An Audit of Orthopaedic Discharge Summaries Comparing Electronic With Handwritten Summaries: A Quality Improvement Project.
Cureus
May 2023
Orthopaedics, MVJ (MV Jayaraman) Medical College and Research Hospital, Bangalore, IND.
Introduction Discharge summaries (DS), which are sent from inpatient to outpatient settings, transmit critical clinical information. DS play a crucial role in the discharge process since they provide critical information about the patients that is simple to remember and help with patient follow-up in the community. This audit sought to determine if a quality improvement (QI) program may have an influence on the severity of mistakes at the moment of discharge and to assess the existing degree of inconsistencies on handwritten DS for orthopaedic patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnaccompanied Clinic Visits: Practical Consequences of a Stressor Imposed by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
J Patient Exp
December 2021
Ophthalmica Eye Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece.
One of the restrictive measures of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic control is the prohibition of accompanied clinic visits. The specific features of ophthalmological patients imply different degrees of dependency that directly affect their response to such measures. This study aims to assess the effects of unaccompanied medical appointments on outpatients' stress levels and their retention of medical advice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiagnosis experiences from 50 hepatitis B patients in Chongqing, China: a qualitative study.
BMC Public Health
December 2021
School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Yixueyuan Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China.
Background: The aim of this study was to provide recommendations for reducing the impact of hepatitis B infection on patients with chronic hepatitis B by describing their experiences during the diagnosis process.
Methods: We conducted face-to-face interviews with 50 hepatitis B patients recruited by convenient sampling from an infectious diseases department of a teaching hospital in Chongqing, China from July to August 2019. Thematic analysis framework included interviewees' social demographic characteristics, diagnosis approach, signs and symptoms before diagnosis, feelings after diagnosis, and doctor's instructions.
Clinical Unmet Needs in the Treatment of Adrenal Crisis: Importance of the Patient's Perspective.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
February 2022
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, and Center for Endocrine Tumors Leiden (CETL), and European Reference Network on Rare Endocrine Conditions (Endo-ERN), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Adrenal crisis is the most severe manifestation of adrenal insufficiency (AI), but AI can present with variable signs and symptoms of gradual severity. Despite current hormone replacement strategies, adrenal crisis is still one of the leading causes of mortality in AI patients. Although underlying factors explaining differences in interindividual susceptibility are not completely understood, several subgroups are particularly vulnerable to adrenal crises, such as patients with primary AI, and patients treated for Cushing's syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"Crimes against the Nervous System": Neurological References During the Nuremberg Doctors' Trials.
World Neurosurg
February 2019
Department of Neurological Surgery, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Electronic address:
The Nuremberg Trials were a sequence of tribunal sessions held by the Allied Forces between November 1945 and October 1946 with the intent of prosecuting prominent representatives of the Nazi Party for crimes committed before and during the war. Because medical experiments in human prisoners were among the most heinous offenses, a specific series of court cases, known as the Doctor's Trials (the USA vs. Karl Brandt et al), was carried out.
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