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Recommendations for Conducting Mortality and Morbidity Meetings Derived from Perceptions of Faculty and Residents, and Qualitative Analysis of Records [PDF]
Introduction: Even though Mortality and Morbidity meetings (M&Ms) are incorporated into postgraduate training programs for imparting the attributes of self-appraisal, audit and quality control, they are not uniformly structured across institutes.
Archana Arvindrao Dambal +3 more
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Introduction: Knowing the temporal trends as to when and how many pediatric surgery patients present and are operated on in a newly developed unit is crucial in the allocation of resources and policy making in health care center.
Noor Ul Sabah Butt +5 more
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Physician factors associated with medical errors in Norwegian primary care emergency services
Objective The aim of this study was to examine the associations between characteristics of physicians working in primary care emergency units (PCEUs) and the outcome of assessments of the medical records.
Svein Zander Bratland +4 more
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Introduction: Although many protocols are available in the field of the prehospital medical care (PMC), there is still a notable gap between protocol based directions and applied clinical practice.
Mostafa Mehrara +7 more
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Artificial intelligence systems for health care, like any other medical device, have the potential to fail. However, specific qualities of artificial intelligence systems, such as the tendency to learn spurious correlates in training data, poor generalisability to new deployment settings, and a paucity of reliable explainability mechanisms, mean they ...
Liu, X +5 more
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Objectives: This case study aims to demonstrate the method's feasibility and capacity to improve quality of care. Several drawbacks attached to tracer condition and selected procedure audits oblige clinicians to rely on external evaluators.
Jean-Pierre Unger +6 more
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Adherence to Hospital Antibiotic Policy for Treatment of Escherichia coli ESBL in Urine [PDF]
Introduction: Escherichia coli are the most common uropathogen worldwide accounting for 80% of the Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs). Nosocomial infections caused by Multi-drug resistant Gram negative bacteria expressing Extended Spectrum β Lactamase ...
R. Someshwaran +3 more
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Day 10 Post-Prescription Audit Optimizes Antibiotic Therapy in Patients with Bloodstream Infections
This study aimed to investigate the clinical and organizational impact of an active re-evaluation (on day 10) of patients on antibiotic treatment diagnosed with bloodstream infections (BSIs).
Rita Murri +9 more
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Objective: To measure the impact on the quality of the empirical antibiotic prescription in general practitioners, after the implementation of an evaluation and feedback system.
Jaime Enrique Paillier-González +4 more
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Background: Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) has become the most common type of community-acquired meningitis. CM has a poor outcome if the initial in-hospital treatment does not adhere to standard guidelines. The aim of this audit was to improve the quality
K.B. von Pressentin +2 more
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