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End-of-life preferences of elderly patients with chronic heart failure [PDF]

, 2017
Aims Elderly heart failure (HF) patients are assumed to prefer improved quality of life over longevity, but sufficient data are lacking. Therefore, we assessed the willingness to trade survival time for quality-of-life (QoL) and the preferences for ...
Brunner-La Rocca, Hans-Peter, Jeker, Urs, Kiowski, Wolfgang, Leventhal, Marcia E., Maeder, Micha T., Muzzarelli, Stefano, Osswald, Stefan, Pfister, Otmar, Pfisterer, Matthias E., Rickenbacher, Peter, Rickli, Hans, Schindler, Ruth   +11 more
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Impact of manual sepsis screening in hospitalized adult patients: A systematic review

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Manual sepsis screening, which includes bedside clinical assessment, is widely used in emergency departments and hospital wards and may improve early recognition and treatment. Objectives To synthesize evidence on the impact of manual sepsis screening on sepsis‐related processes of care and mortality.
Rachel K. Hechtman, Natasha Garamani, Yezen R. Anabtawi, Amanda G. Rivas, Bailey Antonowicz, Anna K. Barker, Tami Garcia, Rosalie Mulcahy, Patricia J. Posa, Michael W. Sjoding, Hallie C. Prescott   +10 more
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The interpretation of code status concept among pediatric health care workers, a multicenter cross sectional study across Lebanon

Frontiers in Medicine
BackgroundCardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) use with no considerations given to patient selection or therapeutic aim resulted in extension of the agony, pain and dying process for terminally ill patients.
Raymonda Chahrour, Amani Bannout, Marianne Majdalani, Rana Yamout, Ali Ismail, Elma Abou Raffoul, Jihane Moukhaiber   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation of TeamSTEPPS [PDF]

, 2016
This scholarly project focused on implementing Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) in an emergency room (ER).
Jones, Trynequa S
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Use of the physician orders for life-sustaining treatment program in the clinical setting: a systematic review of the literature [PDF]

, 2015
The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a palliative care tool that contains standardized, actionable medical orders.
Hammes, Bernard J., Hickman, Susan E., Keevern, Elisabeth   +2 more
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Renal screening sonography—A comparative study in a Portuguese basic emergency service

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 8-16, March 2025.
Renal sonography screening aids in clinical decision‐making for patients with suspected renal colic. This study intends to compare the accuracy and pertinence of sonographic findings obtained by a sonographer in a Basic Emergency Service (BES) with that of radiologists at Referral Hospital (RH) in Portugal. Renal sonography screening was able to detect
Sérgio Miravent, Carmen Jiménez, Narciso Barbancho, Manuel Duarte Lobo, Teresa Figueiredo, Carla Gomes, Ion Ratusneac, João Mário Gonçalves, Corina Hasnas, Rui de Almeida   +9 more
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Characteristics of “do not resuscitate” orders among elderly patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit in Taiwan

Frontiers in Medicine
ObjectiveAs patient life expectancy has increased and people are living longer than before, the rate of mechanical ventilation among elderly patients in the intensive care unit has increased.
Pei-Jun Chen, Chung-Han Ho, Chung-Han Ho, Chung-Han Ho, Ying-Jia Lin, Ming-Hung Chang, Kuang-Ming Liao, Kuang-Ming Liao   +7 more
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End of Life Care and Do Not Resuscitate Orders: How Much Does Age Influence Decision Making? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2017
With population aging, “do not resuscitate” (DNAR) decisions, pertaining to the appropriateness of attempting resuscitation following a cardiac arrest, are becoming commoner.
Ifor Cook, Aimee L. Kirkup BSc, Lauren J. Langham, Muminah A. Malik, Gabriella Marlow, Ian Sammy FRCEM   +5 more
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Validation of an ICD code for accurately identifying emergency department patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. [PDF]

, 2018
AIM: International classification of disease (ICD-9) code 427.5 (cardiac arrest) is utilized to identify cohorts of patients who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), though the use of ICD codes for this purpose has never been formally validated.
Abella, Benjamin S., Carr, Brendan G., Chukwulebe, Steve B., Gaieski, David F., Perman, Sarah M., Shelton, Shelby K.   +5 more
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Abundance and Distribution of Enteric Bacteria and Viruses in Coastal and Estuarine Sediments—a Review [PDF]

, 2016
The long term survival of fecal indicator organisms (FIOs) and human pathogenic microorganisms in sediments is important from a water quality, human health and ecological perspective.
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