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Hospital overcrowding and care of stroke patients: Irish national audit of stroke

BMC Health Services Research
Introduction Hospital overcrowding where patient admissions exceed capacity is associated with worse outcomes in Emergency Department. Developments in emergency stroke care have been associated with improvements in stroke outcome but are dependent on ...
Joseph Harbison, Joan McCormack, Olga Brych, Ronan Collins, Tim Cassidy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Audit and Its Role in the Practice of Dentistry

Journal of Islamic International Medical College, 2021
Audit is the practice of ensuring good professional practice, which has been practiced in the various fields of professional world for a long time. The concept of clinical auditing which primarily ensures quality provision ofequitable, ethical healthcare
Muhammad Humza Bin Saeed, Shakeel Kazmi, Faisal Moeen, Yusuf Bhatti
doaj  

Permissive versus restrictive temperature thresholds in critically ill children with fever and infection: a multicentre randomized clinical pilot trial

Critical Care, 2019
Background Fever improves pathogen control at a significant metabolic cost. No randomized clinical trials (RCT) have compared fever treatment thresholds in critically ill children.
Mark J. Peters, Kerry Woolfall, Imran Khan, Elisabeth Deja, Paul R. Mouncey, Jerome Wulff, Alexina Mason, Rachel S. Agbeko, Elizabeth S. Draper, Blaise Fenn, Doug W. Gould, Abby Koelewyn, Nigel Klein, Christine Mackerness, Sian Martin, Lauran O’Neill, Samiran Ray, Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Shane Tibby, Kentigern Thorburn, Lyvonne Tume, Jason Watkins, Paul Wellman, David A. Harrison, Kathryn M. Rowan, the FEVER Investigators on behalf of the Paediatric Intensive Care Society Study Group (PICS-SG)   +25 more
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Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine, Ofélie Trudeau‐Ferrin, Caroline Laverdière, Patrick Hamel, Rosanne Superstein, Bénédicte Koukoui, Carole Provost, Paul C. Nathan, Vijay Ramaswamy, Furqan Shaikh, Brenda Gallie, Ashwin Mallipatna, Stephanie Kletke, Helen Dimaras, Hallie Coltin   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restricted fluid bolus versus current practice in children with septic shock: the FiSh feasibility study and pilot RCT

Health Technology Assessment, 2018
Background: There has been no randomised controlled trial (RCT) of fluid bolus therapy in paediatric sepsis in the developed world despite evidence that excess fluid may be associated with harm.
David Inwald, Ruth R Canter, Kerry Woolfall, Caitlin B O’Hara, Paul R Mouncey, Zohra Zenasni, Nicholas Hudson, Steven Saunders, Anjali Carter, Nicola Jones, Mark D Lyttle, Simon Nadel, Mark J Peters, David A Harrison, Kathryn M Rowan   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experience with a Clinical Audit Requirement for Interns in the Emergency Department

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, 2021
Background: The clinical audit is an important evaluation tool to ensure quality assurance. A clinical audit requirement for interns during their emergency department (ED) term may be a valuable educational activity.
Ryan Windish, Douglas Morel, Catherine E Forristal   +2 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discovery and Targeted Proteomic Studies Reveal Striatal Markers Validated for Huntington's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Clinical trials for Huntington's disease (HD) enrolling persons before clinical motor diagnosis (CMD) lack validated biomarkers. This study aimed to conduct an unbiased discovery analysis and a targeted examination of proteomic biomarkers scrutinized by clinical validation. Methods Cerebrospinal fluid was obtained from PREDICT‐HD and
Daniel Chelsky, Cara Joyce, H. Jeremy Bockholt, Paul A. Rudnick, William H. Adams, Fiona McAllister, Justin W. Smock, Michael A. Newton, Jane S. Paulsen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The ESR Audit Tool (Esperanto): genesis, contents and pilot

Insights into Imaging, 2018
Clinical audit is a powerful tool to improve patient care, experience and outcome. It consists of measuring a clinical outcome or procedure against predefined standards, identifying differences between current practice and the standards, and changing ...
European Society of Radiology (ESR)
doaj   +1 more source

Unraveling the Molecular Mechanisms of Glioma Recurrence: A Study Integrating Single‐Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Glioma recurrence severely impacts patient prognosis, with current treatments showing limited efficacy. Traditional methods struggle to analyze recurrence mechanisms due to challenges in assessing tumor heterogeneity, spatial dynamics, and gene networks.
Lei Qiu, Yinjiao Fei, Jiaxuan Ding, Kexin Shi, Jinyan Luo, Yuchen Zhu, Xingjian Sun, Gefei Jiang, Yuandong Cao, Weilin Xu, Shu Zhou   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source