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Artificial Intelligence Documentation Assistant Shows Promise for Healthcare Charting
Advocates are seeking relief for physicians overburdened with too many administrative tasks.
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Significance of Flail Mitral Leaflet and Wall-Impinging Regurgitant Flow
Using cardiac MRI as a gold standard, the presence of a flail mitral leaflet or a wall-impinging mitral regurgitant jet on transthoracic echocardiography were associated with severe mitral regurgitation, but not diagnostic of it.
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Jugular Venous Pressure by Bedside Ultrasound
Using a handheld point-of-care ultrasound device to estimate right atrial pressure from images of the jugular vein resulted in a higher imaging success rate vs. visual inspection and a reasonably accurate estimation, especially in those with elevated right atrial pressures.
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Importance of Exercise Testing-Associated Ventricular Ectopy
A study of asymptomatic subjects without known cardiovascular disease undergoing treadmill exercise testing and followed for a mean of 20 years showed high-grade premature ventricular contractions during exercise recovery (but not during exercise) are predictive of subsequent cardiovascular mortality.
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Post-TAVR Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Bleed Less on Vitamin K Antagonists vs. Edoxaban
In this randomized trial of post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement patients with atrial fibrillation, edoxaban was noninferior to vitamin K antagonists with regard to a composite of adverse endpoints, but was associated with a higher rate of major bleeding.
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New Treatment for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
A study of the echocardiographic characteristics of symptomatic patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy treated with mavacamten showed a persistent 30-week improvement in several key pathophysiologic characteristics.
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Screening Ineffective for Identifying HCWs with Respiratory Illness
Ubiquitous employee temperature screening and symptom questions upon entry during the pandemic have not yielded much success in identifying sick healthcare workers and reducing the long-standing problem of presenteeism. -
HIT Changes and Case Management
While health information technology is ever-changing, case managers should have an idea of how new (or improved) solutions might affect their practice. -
‘Why Not Home?’ Program Improves Efficiency of Care Transitions
Why Not Home? is a new program designed to encourage more transitions from hospital to home with healthcare support instead of from the hospital to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Data show a positive effect on costs. Research showed the rate of SNF discharges per 1,000 patients declined from 73 per 1,000 to 70 per 1,000 patients in the postintervention period. -
Universal Method Needed to Collect Social Determinants of Health Information
Healthcare professionals seek a standardized universal method for collecting and using social determinants of health data, according to new research.