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Thromb Res
January 2025
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: Advances in alternative oral anticoagulants has reduced use and clinician comfort with warfarin. Our specialty anticoagulation clinic (AC) operates at maximum capacity and must transfer patients to accept new referrals.
Objectives: To compare time within therapeutic range (TTR) during 6 months of AC care versus following transfer to primary care for a minimum of 6 months and to a maximum of 24 months.
Exploring knowledge of first aid in epistaxis-25 years on.
PLoS One
January 2025
Department of Otolaryngology, Cambridge University Hospitals Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Background: Epistaxis is the most common acute disorder managed by ENT services. A 1998 survey (Strachan and England) demonstrated widespread ignorance of correct first aid amongst the public with only 11% of respondents applying correct first aid techniques. Here we repeated and expanded the 1998 study to investigate whether understanding of correct first aid in epistaxis amongst the public and emergency department staff has improved in the last 25 years.
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BMJ Open Qual
January 2025
Department of Pharmacy, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
Public Health England outlines a national ambition of anticoagulating 90% of eligible patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) by 2029. In 2019/2020, two out of three boroughs reviewed in this study were in the bottom 10% of boroughs compared with others within England. Stroke National Audit data for these three boroughs from 2019 to 2020 identified that in patients with known AF admitted to hospital with strokes, 37% were not anticoagulated.
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- Residents of supported disability homes in Victoria, Australia, frequently call the Victorian Poisons Information Centre for guidance following medication incidents, with a total of 391 calls logged during a three-month period.
- The majority of incidents involved missed doses (37%) and accidental overdoses (20%), with calls predominantly occurring outside regular business hours (73%).
- Many incidents involved moderate to high-risk medications, highlighting significant gaps in medication management support, particularly after hours, for both residents and disability support workers.
Development, Implementation, and Evaluation Methods for Dashboards in Health Care: Scoping Review.
JMIR Med Inform
December 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, NCRC Building 14, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, United States, 1 734 430 5359.
Background: Dashboards have become ubiquitous in health care settings, but to achieve their goals, they must be developed, implemented, and evaluated using methods that help ensure they meet the needs of end users and are suited to the barriers and facilitators of the local context.
Objective: This scoping review aimed to explore published literature on health care dashboards to characterize the methods used to identify factors affecting uptake, strategies used to increase dashboard uptake, and evaluation methods, as well as dashboard characteristics and context.
Methods: MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were searched from inception through July 2020.
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