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Batteries Gone Bad

open access: yesPatient Safety, 2019
A battery's moment of death may come as a beep, a red warning light, or a complete surprise. If you are lucky (i.e., prepared), you have a power cord or backup battery handy.
Kim Liberatore, Barry Kohler
doaj   +1 more source

Pursuing patient safety [PDF]

open access: yesQuality and Safety in Health Care, 2004
Role of nurses in improving the quality of care Whether you work as a nurse in the US, the UK, or elsewhere in the world, you will be familiar with the often quoted words of Florence Nightingale (1869): “ First do [the patient] no harm ”. Reflecting upon the fundamentals of good nursing, Nightingale was in no doubt that the moral, professional, and ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of Satralizumab in a Pregnant NMOSD Patient With AQP4/MOG‐IgG Dual Seropositive: A Case Report

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) is a chronic autoimmune neuroinflammatory disease, typically characterized by antibodies against aquaporin 4 (AQP4‐IgG) or myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG‐IgG). Simultaneous seropositivity for both antibodies in a single patient is exceedingly rare.
Yeting Luo, Shuhua Xie, Xianghong Liu
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of health information technology on patient safety

open access: yesSaudi Medical Journal, 2017
Since the original Institute of Medicine (IOM) report was published there has been an accelerated development and adoption of health information technology with varying degrees of evidence about the impact of health information technology on patient ...
Yasser K Al-Otaibi, F. Federico
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lessons Learned From a Delayed‐Start Trial of Modafinil for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Freezing of gait (FOG) in people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) is debilitating and has limited treatments. Modafinil modulates beta/gamma band activity in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), like PPN deep brain stimulation. We therefore tested the hypothesis that Modafinil would improve FOG in PwPD.
Tuhin Virmani   +8 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

Safety analysis in patients with autoimmune disease receiving allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells infusion: a long-term retrospective study [PDF]

open access: gold, 2018
Jun Liang   +9 more
openalex   +1 more source

Effect of Nonsteroidal Anti‐Inflammatory Drugs on Sacroiliac Joint Inflammation, as Seen on Magnetic Resonance Imaging, in Axial Spondyloarthritis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Imaging evidence of active sacroiliitis is important for diagnosis, classification, and monitoring of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). However, there is no consistent guidance on whether patients should temporarily stop nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) before magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Gareth T. Jones   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time Trends and Predictors of Gout Remission Over 6 Years

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aims to describe the trends in remission rates over 6 years of follow‐up among people with gout taking urate‐lowering therapy (ULT) and to identify variables that predict remission. Methods A post hoc analysis was conducted using data from the Cardiovascular Safety of Febuxostat or Allopurinol in Patients with Gout (CARES) trial ...
Adwoa Dansoa Tabi‐Amponsah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns of errors and weaknesses in the diagnostic process: retrospective analysis of malpractice claims and adverse events from two national databases

open access: yesBMJ Open Quality
Background Diagnostic errors (DEs) are a significant global patient safety issue, often associated with increased morbidity and mortality due to overlooked, delayed, or incorrect diagnoses.
Kim Lyngby Mikkelsen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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