Author: Rebecca Shover
Leukocyte Glucose Index, Fistula Failure Linked in ESKD
A high preoperative leukocyte glucose index is associated with arteriovenous fistula failure among patients with end-stage kidney disease.
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Disability Status Impacts Postoperative Outcomes
Patients with disabilities had higher readmission rates and postoperative complications compared with those without disabilities.
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Checklist Intervention Improves Surgical Safety
Surgical safety checklist reimplementation improved team performance, safety culture, and patient outcomes.
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Poor Disease Control Common in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Patients and clinicians generally report suboptimal disease control at lower rates than those determined by Selecting Therapeutic Targets in IBD-II metrics.
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Pain Management Discrepancies in COPD Guidelines
Optimizing pain management strategies can help physicians better support patients with COPD in their journey towards improved health and well-being.
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Medical Fiction: Clifford and the Missing Hospital Sheets
In a hospital basement, surgical robot J4K is awakened when lightning disrupts its update. It then embarks on a mission, searching for patients in need.
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Medication Reconciliation Reduces Errors at Discharge
Researchers compared routine, pharmacist-led medication reconciliation with standard care to reduce medication errors and healthcare use.
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Postoperative Opioid Guidelines Reduce Morphine Use
A standardized guideline for opioid prescribing reduced morphine use in patients who underwent emergency surgery.
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Gains in Heart Failure Mortality Have Been Erased
Heart failure-related mortality declined from 1999 to 2012, but the trend reversed entirely over the decade that followed, according to recent research.
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Physical Activity Supports ECOG Performance Status Measurement
Physical activity can serve as an objective measure to complement subjective ECOG Performance Status measurements in patients with advanced lung cancer.
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Strategies For Minimizing & Managing Tardive Dyskinesia
Authors of a recent review outlined barriers to tardive dyskinesia diagnosis and how neurologists and psychiatrists can collaborate to optimize care.
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Noninvasive Imaging Aids Selection of Patients With Stenosis Needing Revascularization
Computed tomography fractional flow reserve analysis helped clinicians identify which patients with stenosis would benefit from revascularization procedures.
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Systematic Endoscopic Staging Improves NSCLC Treatment Accuracy
Investigators advocated for systematic endoscopic staging to be implemented in routine clinical practice for patients with locally advanced NSCLC.
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Unraveling the Impact of Iron Deficiency, Anemia on Survival in Heart Failure
Among the landscape of HF, comorbidities such as anemia and iron deficiency have garnered attention for their potential impact on patient outcomes.
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Use of Technology Increasing for Treatment Diagnosis, Monitoring in Psoriasis
Line-field confocal optical coherence tomography can non-invasively monitor treatment response in psoriasis.
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Does the Prognostic Value of Serum Neurofilament Light Chain for Relapsing MS Vary by BMI & Age?
Researchers analyzed whether age and BMI impacted the value of serum neurofilament light chain for predicting demyelinating events in relapsing MS.
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Medical Fiction: The Adventures of J4K, The Surgical Robot
In a hospital basement, surgical robot J4K is awakened when lightning disrupts its update. It then embarks on a mission, searching for patients in need.
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