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Individual on Death Row Receiving Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) for Catatonia: A Case Report.
J ECT
November 2024
Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, GA.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is underused, logistically challenging for those who are justice-involved, and laced with ethical problems for those on death row. Herein we describe a case of a man without history of long-standing psychiatric illness who, after more than 15 years on death row, was hospitalized for altered mental status. After medical stabilization, the altered mental status persisted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProhibiting Babel-A call for professional remote interpreting services in pre-operation anaesthesia information.
PLoS One
January 2025
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Vienna, Austria.
Introduction: Language barriers within clinical settings pose a threat to patient safety. As a potential impediment to understanding, they hinder the process of obtaining informed consent and uptake of critical medical information. This study investigates the impact of the current use of interpreters, with a particular focus on of engaging laypersons as interpreters, rather than professional interpreters potentially affecting patient safety.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluating the effects, implementation experience and political economy of primary healthcare facility autonomy reforms within counties in Kenya: a mixed methods study protocol.
BMJ Public Health
July 2024
Health Economics Research Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
Introduction: There is a growing emphasis on improving primary health care services and granting frontline service providers more decision-making autonomy. In October 2023, Kenya enacted legislation mandating nationwide facility autonomy. There is limited understanding of the effects of health facility autonomy on primary health care (PHC) facilities performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImplementing a Responsible Conduct of Research Curriculum for an Undergraduate Summer Clinical Research Program in Quantitative Sciences.
J Med Educ Curric Dev
January 2025
Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
Objectives: Instilling the principles of ethical and responsible medical research is critical for educating the next generation of clinical researchers. We developed a responsible conduct of research (RCR) workshop and associated curriculum for undergraduate trainees in a quantitative clinical research program.
Methods: Topics in this 7-module RCR workshop are relevant to undergraduate trainees in quantitative fields, many of whom are learning about these concepts for the first time.
Minimizing the error in the hemoglobin estimation of blood donors as an articulate step toward donors' blood management.
Asian J Transfus Sci
August 2024
Department of Transfusion Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Introduction: Hemoglobin (Hb) estimation in blood donors is conducted using capillary samples on portable hemoglobinometers, representing measurement methods in practice. The reference standard is conducted using a venous sample on a hematology analyzer, representing the mentor measurement method or the true value. The correction involves the calculation of the secondary adjustment factor (SAF) to mitigate the difference between the two values.
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