3 results match your criteria: "UMass Chan - Lahey School of Medicine[Affiliation]"
Access to a Patient Portal is Associated with a Higher Rate of Diabetic Eye Examination Completion.
Ophthalmic Epidemiol
October 2024
Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, UMass Chan - Lahey School of Medicine, Burlington, MA, USA.
Purpose: To evaluate factors associated with a higher completion rate of annual diabetic eye examinations.
Methods: This retrospective, cross-sectional study included patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM) who were aged 18-75 years and receiving primary care in a suburban integrated delivery network (IDN). Patient demographic, sociomedical, biometric characteristics, and Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures within the Comprehensive Diabetes Care bundle were extracted from the electronic health record (EHR) and analyzed by using multivariate logistic regression to assess factors associated with completion of an eye exam (retinal) performed during the study year.
Tracheal intubation in critically ill adults with a physiologically difficult airway. An international Delphi study.
Intensive Care Med
October 2024
Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India.
Article Synopsis
- * The study focused on creating a set of expert guidelines for managing difficult airways in critically ill adults, specifically those with physiologically challenging conditions like obesity and pregnancy.
- * An international group of airway management specialists used the Delphi method, which involved multiple rounds of surveys, to achieve consensus on 53 out of 61 proposed statements regarding best practices.
- * Key recommendations included forming a robust intubation team, using videolaryngoscopy, optimizing patient conditions before intubation, and carefully monitoring the patient's status post-intubation to improve overall outcomes.
First-Attempt Success Between Anatomically and Physiologically Difficult Airways in the National Emergency Airway Registry.
Anesth Analg
June 2024
Department of Emergency Medicine, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, UMass Chan - Lahey School of Medicine, Burlington, Massachusetts.
Article Synopsis
- In the emergency department, certain anatomical (ADAs) and physiological (PDAs) airway characteristics may increase the risk of complications during tracheal intubation, leading to lower success rates on the first attempt.
- A study using data from the National Emergency Airway Registry analyzed the impact of these difficult airways on intubation outcomes, focusing on adult patients from 2016 to 2018.
- Results showed that patients with ADAs had significantly lower odds of first-attempt success compared to those without difficult airway findings, with odds ratios indicating the challenges posed by both ADAs and PDAs.