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J Paediatr Child Health
January 2025
School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Aim: COVID-19 has brought unprecedented challenges to the healthcare system. The rapid spread of the virus, laboratory burn-out, exhausted staff, diagnostic uncertainty and lack of guidelines cumulatively disrupted hospital antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs. This scoping review evaluated how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the implementation of AMS, particularly within the context of clinical audits.
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January 2025
Darwin Respiratory and Sleep Health, Darwin Private Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
Background: Globally, adult Indigenous people, including Aboriginal Australians, have a high burden of chronic respiratory disorders, and bronchiectasis is no exception. However, literature detailing bronchiectasis disease characteristics among adult Indigenous people is sparse. This study assessed the clinical profile of bronchiectasis among adult Aboriginal Australians and compared against previously published international bronchiectasis registry reports.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Paediatr Child Health
January 2025
School of Medicine and Psychology, College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University, Acton, Australia.
Background: Hospital care for neonates can be challenging for parents, and a negative parental experience can affect the well-being of the infant after discharge. A family-centred approach is the gold standard of care in neonatology.
Aim: This study aimed to identify common themes in voluntary unstructured feedback received from parents and caregivers of infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, special care nursery or postnatal ward or followed up by neonatal outpatient services at a tertiary Australian Women and Children's Hospital.
J Vasc Surg
January 2025
University of Vermont Medical Center, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Burlington, VT. Electronic address:
Objective: To conduct a "Noise Audit" of the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) Peripheral Vascular Intervention (PVI) Registry to analyze variation in device selection for similar patients and anatomies.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study analysis of the VQI PVI Registry. Eight clinical-based, and seven lesion-based scenarios were developed, and the VQI was queried for all procedures matching these descriptions from December 2010 to December 2021.
J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs
January 2025
Anna Yoo Chang, DNP, FNP-BC, Family Nurse Practitioner, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to determine whether hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) could be prevented by implementing an educational tool kit for patient care technicians (PCTs).
Participants And Setting: Data were collected from 24 PCTs and 43 patients in a 26-bed inpatient adult acute care unit at an academic medical center in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Approach: Outcome data were collected over an 8-week period from September to November 2021.
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