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Committed to Safety: Ten Case Studies on Reducing Harm to Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Presents case studies of healthcare organizations, clinical teams, and learning collaborations to illustrate successful innovations for improving patient safety nationwide.
David Blumenthal, Douglas McCarthy
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Prevalence of web trackers on hospital websites in Illinois [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
Web tracking technologies are pervasive and operated by a few large technology companies. This technology, and the use of the collected data has been implicated in influencing elections, fake news, discrimination, and even health decisions. Little is known about how this technology is deployed on hospital or other health related websites.
arxiv  

Association of COPD with adverse outcomes in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 799-808, April 2025.
Abstract We performed a systematic review and meta‐analysis to detect the impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on the prognosis of heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). We systematically screened eligible literature from three electronic databases, PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library, up to April 2023.
Shuo Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forecasting heart failure: Seasonal alignment of heart failure outcomes in New York

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 819-831, April 2025.
Abstract Background Seasonal variations have been observed in heart failure (HF) hospitalization. Numerous explanatory mechanisms have been proposed, but no prior studies have examined potential contributors directly. Our objective was to identify specific factors that could contribute to seasonal variability using a large longitudinal dataset of HF ...
Prerna Gupta   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of Current Healthcare Proposals: Obama and McCain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The healthcare system of the U.S. is broken. The next opportunity for overwhelming healthcare system reform will be when the next president takes office.
Terrell, Dan
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Connecting the dots: A narrative review of the relationship between heart failure and cognitive impairment

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1119-1131, April 2025.
Abstract Large clinical data underscore that heart failure is independently associated to an increased risk of negative cognitive outcome and dementia. Emerging evidence suggests that cerebral hypoperfusion, stemming from reduced cardiac output and vascular pathology, may contribute to the largely overlapping vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease ...
Mauro Massussi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adverse events in veterans affairs inpatient psychiatric units: Staff perspectives on contributing and protective factors. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to identify risk factors and protective factors in hospital-based mental health settings in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), with the goal of informing interventions to improve care of persons with serious mental ...
Cullen, Sara W.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

End‐organ protective effect of serelaxin in patients hospitalized for heart failure: Results of the biomarker substudy of Relaxin in Acute Heart Failure‐2 (RELAX‐AHF‐2)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Heart Failure, EarlyView.
End‐organ protective effect of serelaxin in patients with acute heart failure. CV, cardiovascular; HF, heart failure; NT‐proBNP, N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide. Abstract Aims Serelaxin is recombinant human relaxin‐2, a hormone responsible for haemodynamic adaptations and organ protection in pregnancy.
Adriaan A. Voors   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing the Quality and Safety Gap Part II: How Nurses Are Shaping, and Being Shaped by, Health Information Technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Explores the role of health information technologies (HIT) in improving patient safety and the role of nurses in designing, implementing, and educating clinicians to use HIT, including electronic health records and bar code medication ...

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The use of left ventricular ejection fraction in the diagnosis and management of heart failure. A clinical consensus statement of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC, the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), and the Japanese Heart Failure Society (JHFS)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Heart Failure, EarlyView.
Abstract This clinical consensus statement revisits the role of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) as a measurement of cardiac function, a prognostic marker and a major criterion to classify patients with heart failure, and gives new advice for clinical practice.
Giuseppe M.C. Rosano   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

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