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Overview on patient safety in healthcare and laboratory diagnostics [PDF]

, 2010
The healthcare context is characterized by a high degree of complexity. Despite eager efforts of the healthcare personnel, sometimes things go wrong and produce unintentional harm to the patients.
Ana-Maria Simundic, Camilla Mattiuzzi, Giuseppe Lippi   +2 more
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Integrative analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and exosomes from small‐cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients: a comprehensive approach

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study simultaneously investigated circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and exosomes from small‐cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients. The elevated expression of JUNB and CXCR4 in CTCs was a poor prognostic factor for SCLC patients, whereas exosomal overexpression of these biomarkers revealed a high discrimination ability of patients from healthy individuals,
Dimitrios Papakonstantinou, Argyro Roumeliotou, Evangelia Pantazaka, Athanasios‐Nasir Shaukat, Athina Christopoulou, Angelos Koutras, Foteinos‐Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, Vassilis Georgoulias, Anastasia Xagara, Evangelia Chantzara, Fillipos Koinis, Athanasios Kotsakis, Constantinos Stathopoulos, Galatea Kallergi   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of cyclopentolate versus tropicamide cycloplegia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Optometry, 2018
Purpose: The aim of the present meta-analysis is to compare the efficacy of cyclopentolate and tropicamide in controlling accommodation during refraction. Methods: A comprehensive literature search was performed in PubMed, Scopus, Science direct and Ovid
Negareh Yazdani, Ramin Sadeghi, Hamed Momeni-Moghaddam, Leili Zarifmahmoudi, Asieh Ehsaei   +4 more
doaj  

Using information to deliver safer care: a mixed-methods study exploring general practitioners’ information needs in North West London primary care [PDF]

, 2014
The National Health Service in England has given increasing priority to improving inter-professional communication, enabling better management of patients with chronic conditions and reducing medical errors through effective use of information.
Aylin, P, Car, J, Majeed, A, Mastellos, N   +3 more
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Addressing persistent challenges in digital image analysis of cancer tissue: resources developed from a hackathon

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Large multidimensional digital images of cancer tissue are becoming prolific, but many challenges exist to automatically extract relevant information from them using computational tools. We describe publicly available resources that have been developed jointly by expert and non‐expert computational biologists working together during a virtual hackathon
Sandhya Prabhakaran, Clarence Yapp, Gregory J. Baker, Johanna Beyer, Young Hwan Chang, Allison L. Creason, Robert Krueger, Jeremy Muhlich, Nathan Heath Patterson, Kevin Sidak, Damir Sudar, Adam J. Taylor, Luke Ternes, Jakob Troidl, Xie Yubin, Artem Sokolov, Darren R. Tyson   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pitfalls of counterfactual thinking in medical practice: preventing errors by using more functional reference points

Journal of Public Health Research, 2013
Background. Counterfactual thinking involves mentally simulating alternatives to reality. The current article reviews literature pertaining to the relevance counterfactual thinking has for the quality of medical decision making.
John V. Petrocelli
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the Barriers to Medical Error Reporting the Viewpoint of Nurses in Selected Hospitals of Ahvaz [PDF]

مراقبت پرستاری و مامایی ابن سینا, 2023
Background and Objective: Error reporting leads to changes in hospital processes and improved health outcomes. In this regard, this study aimed to examine the barriers to the reporting of medical errors from the viewpoint of nurses in selected hospitals ...
Sajad Vahedi, Samaneh Moradi, Mahdi Amraei, Shahrzad Atarzade, Shirin Kianpour, Mohsen Zare Nasiri   +5 more
doaj  

Lessons Learned: Nurses’ Experiences with Errors in Nursing [PDF]

, 2016
Background Health care organizations seek to maximize the reporting of medical errors to improve patient safety. Purpose This study explored licensed nurses' decision-making with regard to reporting medical errors.
Burke Draucker, Claire, Ebright, Patricia R., Koehn, Amy R.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Targeted metabolomics reveals novel diagnostic biomarkers for colorectal cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study employed targeted metabolomic profiling to identify 302 distinct metabolites present in platelet‐rich plasma (PRP), revealing aberrant metabolic profiles amongst individuals diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC). Compared to carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and cancer antigen 19‐9 (CA199), our metabolite panel showed improved sensitivity ...
Zuojian Hu, Fenglin Shen, Yang Liu, Ziqing Zhong, Yongling Chen, Zhiyuan Xia, Cuiju Mo, Hongxiu Yu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive Reversible Watermarking Based on Linear Prediction for Medical Videos [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
Reversible video watermarking can guarantee that the watermark logo and the original frame can be recovered from the watermarked frame without any distortion. Although reversible video watermarking has successfully been applied in multimedia, its application has not been extensively explored in medical videos.
arxiv