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Strahlenther Onkol
January 2025
TUM School of Medicine and Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, Technische Universität München (TUM), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany.
Purpose: Increasing life expectancy and advances in cancer treatment will lead to more patients needing both radiation therapy (RT) and cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). CIEDs, including pacemakers and defibrillators, are essential for managing cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure. Telemetric monitoring of CIEDs checks battery status, lead function, settings, and diagnostic data, thereby identifying software deviations or damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWest J Nurs Res
January 2025
Golden Apple Healing Arts, LLC, Wauwatosa, WI, USA.
Background: The concept of inclusion within diversity, equity, and inclusion has broad meanings and implications and has not been explored in nursing through a World Café.
Purpose: To describe the process and experiences of 9 nurse scientists who hosted a World Café focused on inclusion, to share participants' insights, and to offer considerations to advance inclusion in nursing.
Approach: We hosted and encouraged active participation in a World Café that focused on 7 inclusion topics in nursing during the 2024 Midwestern Nursing Research Society Annual Research Conference.
J Am Heart Assoc
January 2025
Janssen Scientific Affairs LLC, a Johnson & Johnson company Titusville NJ USA.
Background: The economic burden of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) is substantial. Many patients with NVAF are obese and manage other health conditions requiring multiple medications. This real-world study compared health care resource use (HRU) and costs for rivaroxaban and warfarin in patients with NVAF who had polypharmacy and obesity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Heart Assoc
January 2025
Background: Use of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) to treat atrial fibrillation continues to increase. Despite great interest in leveraging administrative data for real-world analyses, contemporary procedural codes for identifying PVI have not been evaluated.
Methods And Results: In this observational retrospective cohort study, inpatient PVIs were identified among US Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries using Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code 93656 in Carrier Line Files.
Cardiovasc Diagn Ther
December 2024
Operational Research Center in Healthcare, Near East University, Nicosia, Turkey.
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) continue to be the world's greatest cause of death. To evaluate heart function and diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD), myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) has become essential. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have been incorporated into diagnostic methods such as MPI to improve patient outcomes in recent years.
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