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Mind the gap! Risk factors for poor continuity of care of TB patients discharged from a hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
BackgroundTB patients discharged from hospitals in South Africa experience poor continuity of care, failing to continue TB treatment at other levels of care.
Lilian Dudley   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Annotated Bibliography: Understanding Ambulatory Care Practices in the Context of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The ambulatory care setting is an increasingly important component of the patient safety conversation. Inpatient safety is the primary focus of the vast majority of safety research and interventions, but the ambulatory setting is actually where most ...
Mehdi, Harshal   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Medical errors : Healthcare professionals’ perspective at a tertiary hospital in Kuwait [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Medical errors are of economic importance and can contribute to serious adverse events for patients. Medical errors refer to preventable events resulting from healthcare interactions, whether these events harm the patient or not.
Ahmed, Zamzam   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Interoperable Digital Medication Records on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources: Development and Technical Validation of a Minimal Core Dataset

open access: yesJMIR Medical Informatics
BackgroundMedication errors represent a widespread, hazardous, and costly challenge in health care settings. The lack of interoperable medication data within and across hospitals not only creates an administrative burden through ...
Eduardo Salgado-Baez   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

NRASQ61R Expression in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Causes Enlarged Vessels, Hemorrhagic Chylous Effusions, and High Mortality in a Mouse Model of Kaposiform Lymphangiomatosis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA) is an aggressive complex lymphatic anomaly. Patients exhibit malformed lymphatic vessels and often develop hemorrhagic effusions and elevated angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2) levels. A somatic NRAS p.Q61R (NRASQ61R) mutation has been associated with KLA.
C. Griffin McDaniel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Controlling errors in unidosis carts

open access: yesNURE Investigación, 2010
Objective: To identify errors in the unidosis system carts. Method: For two months, the Pharmacy Service controlled medication either returned or missing from the unidosis carts both in the pharmacy and in the wards.
Inmaculada Díaz Fernández   +2 more
doaj  

A Novel Method for Assessing Medication-Related Adverse Outcomes in a Community Hospital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The use of medications for hospitalized patients is universal, and unfortunately medication-related adverse outcomes are common. The accurate assessment of medication-related harm in hospitalized patients is foundational to the development of an ...
Patty, Christopher M.
core   +1 more source

A systems intervention for improving medical-school-hospital interrelationships

open access: yesAcademic Medicine, 1978
The large number of affiliations between medical schools and hospitals resulting from recently increased size of schools has typically been accompanied by both school-hospital and hospital-hospital interrelationship problems involving faculty and administrative personnel in all departments and at all levels.
N S, Stearns   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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