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Creating the Health Care Team of the Future: The Toronto Model for Interprofessional Education and Practice [PDF]

, 2014
[Excerpt] In 2000, the Institute of Medicine\u27s landmark report To Err Is Human launched the contemporary patient safety movement with its clarion call to the health care systems all over the globe to act to prevent the errors that kill over 100,000 ...
Hodges, Brian D, Nelson, Sioban, Tassone, Maria   +2 more
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Value of MRI Outcomes for Preventive and Early‐Stage Trials in Spinocerebellar Ataxias 1 and 3

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the value of MRI outcomes as endpoints for preventive and early‐stage trials of two polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs). Methods A cohort of 100 participants (23 SCA1, 63 SCA3, median Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) score = 5, 42% preataxic, and 14 gene‐negative controls) was scanned at 3T up ...
Thiago J. R. Rezende, Emilien Petit, Young Woo Park, Sophie Tezenas du Montcel, James M. Joers, Jonathan M. DuBois, H. Moore Arnold, Michal Povazan, Ipek Özdemir, Guita Banan, Romain Valabregue, Philipp Ehses, Jennifer Faber, Chiadi U. Onyike, Peter B. Barker, Jeremy D. Schmahmann, Eva‐Maria Ratai, Sub H. Subramony, Thomas H. Mareci, Khalaf O. Bushara, Henry Paulson, Thomas Klockgether, Alexandra Durr, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Christophe Lenglet, Gülin Öz, READISCA Investigators   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

OPTimising MEDicine information handover after Discharge (OPTMED-D): protocol for development of a multifaceted intervention and stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

Trials
Background General practitioners (GP) and community pharmacists need information about hospital discharge patients’ medicines to continue their management in the community.
Laetitia Hattingh, Melissa T. Baysari, Holly Foot, Tin Fei Sim, Gerben Keijzers, Mark Morgan, Ian Scott, Richard Norman, Faith Yong, Barbara Mullan, Claire Jackson, Leslie E. Oldfield, Elizabeth Manias   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are We Making Smart Pumps Smarter? [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Medication errors comprise a significant proportion of medical errors, and are abundant, costly, and associated with causing harm to patients via adverse drug events. The most serious medication errors often involve IV medications.
Schaefer, Brittany
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Structure–Function Decoupling of the Sensorimotor and Default Mode Networks in Black Americans With MS

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibits racially disparate rates of disease progression. Black people with MS (B‐PwMS) experience a more severe disease course than non‐Hispanic White people with MS (NHW‐PwMS). Here we investigated structural and functional connectivity as well as structure–function decoupling in the ...
Emilio Cipriano, Giacomo Boffa, Maria Petracca, Marta Ponzano, Nicole Graziano, Claire Wigley, Claire Riley, Jonathan Howard, Pietro Bontempi, Sylvia Klineova, Fred Lublin, Matilde Inglese   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validity of a Wearable Digital Insole for Assessing Gait ON and OFF in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Gait impairment is a distinctive symptom of Parkinson's disease that negatively impact mobility. We assessed the validity of wearable digital insoles against a validated reference gait analysis system for measuring select gait characteristics in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods A comparative analysis between digital insoles
Deborah A. Hall, Kimberly Kwei, Rolando J. Acosta, Bharatkumar Koyani, Erin Robertson, Pratyush Rai, Roland Barge, Emily Timm, Nicollette L. Purcell, Natasha Desai, Dhanesh Patel, Ana‐Maria Visoiu‐Knapp, Samuel Stuart, Rinol Alaj, Matthew F. Wipperman, Oren Levy, Joan A. O'Keefe   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limited Options to Manage Specialty Drug Spending [PDF]

, 2012
Outlines rising trends in costs of and spending on specialty drugs; health plans' efforts to curb specialty drug spending, including patient cost sharing and utilization management; and efforts to integrate medical and pharmaceutical ...
Divya R. Samuel, Ha T. Tu
core  

Epilepsy‐Associated Variants of a Single SCN1A Codon Exhibit Divergent Functional Properties

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Pathogenic variants in SCN1A, which encodes the voltage‐gated sodium channel NaV1.1, are associated with multiple epilepsy syndromes exhibiting a range of clinical severity. SCN1A variants are reported in different syndromes, including Dravet syndrome, which is associated with loss‐of‐function, whereas neonatal/infantile‐onset ...
Lanie N. Liebovitz, Christopher H. Thompson, Linda C. Laux, Alfred L. George Jr.   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing minor ailments and pharmacy services: How do people make their decisions?

PLoS ONE
BackgroundHealthcare systems face challenges such as rising costs and workforce shortages. Optimal resource allocation is needed, notably in the management of minor ailments.
Léa Charnaux, Jérôme Berger, Clémence Perraudin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Risk of Severe Fibromyalgia, Depression, Anxiety, and Insomnia Symptoms in Arab Women: An Implication of Self-Medication with Analgesics? A Cross-Sectional Study

Medicina
Background and Objectives: The investigation of the psychosomatic symptoms in women residing in developing countries is still emerging. To be precise, the prevalence and correlates of severe fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, and insomnia are ...
Omar Gammoh, Mariam Al-Ameri, Ghaith Altaani, Ahmed Al-smadi, Reham Al-Zegoul, Talal Massad, Ahmad F. Klaib, Mervat Alsous, Ammena Y. Binsaleh, Sireen Abdul Rahim Shilbayeh   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source