Commentary: Should I stay (at primary valve center) or should I go (transfer to comprehensive valve center)?

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael and Marian Ilitch Department of Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Mich. Electronic address:

Published: August 2023

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.09.046DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

commentary stay
4
stay at primary
4
at primary valve
4
valve center
4
center i go
4
i go transfer
4
transfer comprehensive
4
comprehensive valve
4
valve center?
4
valve
2

Similar Publications

Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is considered good practice in all health research including literature reviews. Reporting of involvement practice in realist reviews has been inconsistent leaving gaps in understanding of best practice. Realist reviews are theory driven and explain how interventions work, for whom and in which circumstances.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Electronic Health in the Palliative Care Pathway for Patients With Head and Neck Cancer.

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

January 2025

Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Importance: The Expert Center of Palliative Care for head and neck cancer offers structural attention to patients' complex physical and psychosocial care needs. Patients are offered remote care, including digital monitoring using patient-reported outcome measures, to enable them to stay as long as possible in their trusted home environment. There is limited literature on qualitative feedback and patient-reported experiences with palliative head and neck cancer care, especially for remote care.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Importance: Machine learning tools are increasingly deployed for risk prediction and clinical decision support in surgery. Class imbalance adversely impacts predictive performance, especially for low-incidence complications.

Objective: To evaluate risk-prediction model performance when trained on risk-specific cohorts.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Importance: Despite its implementation in several countries, there has not been a randomized clinical trial to assess whether telemedicine in intensive care units (ICUs) could improve clinical outcomes of critically ill patients.

Objective: To determine whether an intervention comprising daily multidisciplinary rounds and monthly audit and feedback meetings performed by a remote board-certified intensivist reduces ICU length of stay (LOS) compared with usual care.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A parallel cluster randomized clinical trial with a baseline period in 30 general ICUs in Brazil in which daily multidisciplinary rounds performed by board-certified intensivists were not routinely available.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Importance: Blood transfusions are commonly administered to patients with acute brain injury. The optimal hemoglobin transfusion threshold is uncertain in this patient population.

Objective: To assess the impact on neurological outcome of 2 different hemoglobin thresholds to guide red blood cell transfusions in patients with acute brain injury.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!