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Clinical Decision Software Highly Effective in OR
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) say advanced clinical decision support software can prevent up to 95% of medication errors in the operating room.
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Patient Perception of Safety Falling in Recent Research
Despite improvements in some key metrics for patient safety, consumers do not report a corresponding confidence in their quality of care.
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Outpatient Safety Overlooked with Focus on Inpatient
Despite years of efforts to improve patient safety, recent research indicates that nearly all the attention has been on inpatient care. Outpatient safety is being neglected and needs far more attention, researchers say.
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Kentucky Protects Clinicians from Criminal Charges
The state of Kentucky has responded to the sensational criminal prosecution of a nurse in neighboring Tennessee by enacting a law that shields healthcare providers from criminal prosecution for medical errors.
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Culture of Safety Results in Low Reported Harm Rate
A focused effort to create a just culture is paying off in big ways for the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, which is seeing low rates of errors and patient harm while instilling a sense of safety responsibility at all levels.
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Elafibranor Tablets (Iqirvo)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an oral dual peroxisome proliferator-activated alpha and delta receptor agonist for the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis, formerly known as primary biliary cirrhosis. Elafibranor was granted an accelerated approval and an orphan designation.
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Racial Inequities in Shared Decision-Making for Critically Ill Patients
In this thematic analysis of a previously conducted randomized clinical trial, disparate shared decision-making behaviors were observed among meetings with white vs. Black caregivers of critically ill patients, illustrating opportunities for future clinician-level interventions.
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Is Artificial Intelligence Coming for Your Job?
A retrospective analysis of plain chest X-ray images in the medical record using deep learning in patients suitable for risk assessment for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) has shown similar results as the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association ASCVD risk calculator for determining who is at sufficient risk to consider statin therapy.
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Empagliflozin Post-Acute Myocardial Infarction
A prespecified further analysis of the EMPACT-MI trial has shown that patients within two weeks of an acute myocardial infarction who are at risk for heart failure who receive empagliflozin compared to placebo have significantly fewer episodes of heart failure hospitalizations over a median follow-up of 18 months.
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Constipation: Adult and Pediatric Considerations
Constipation is a common diagnosis in the emergency department (ED) that has been steadily increasing in prevalence over the past several decades. As the morbidity and healthcare costs from this condition increase, it is important that ED physicians be aware of the workup, management, and potential complications of this common condition in adults and children alike.