Sep 3, 2015
Individualized comprehensive surgical coaching appears to enhance surgical training and result in superior skill acquisition when compared with conventional training, according to published research. Surgical trainees who...
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University of Wisconsin researchers suggest that bleeding disorders, long operative times, in-hospital complications, functional status, and the need for a higher level of care at discharge appear to predict 30-day readmission...
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Study investigators suggest that incident stroke appears to be associated with an acute decline in cognitive function. Incident stroke also appears to accelerate cognitive decline over 6 years. The study, which involved patients...
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When managing patients with a first episode of unprovoked pulmonary embolism (PE), a study has found that adding 18 months of warfarin after patients have already received 6 months of anticoagulation treatment appears to improve...
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Individualized care plans developed by a multidisciplinary team and integrated into an electronic health record at the time of hospitalization appear to reduce healthcare use and costs among high users of healthcare services,...
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An intervention involving computerized clinical decision support for obesity management for clinicians and self-guided behavior change for families appears to improve BMI among children aged 6 to 12 with a BMI at the 95th...
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Researchers in Boston indicate that more than one-third of older adult ED fall patients appear to have an ED revisit or die within 1 year. Among patients who were an average age of 78.6 years old, ED revisit rates increased from...
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