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Physician-owned specialized facilities: focused factories or destructive competition?: a systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Multiple studies have investigated the business case of physician-owned specialized facilities (specialized hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers). However literature lacks integration.
Annemans, Lieven   +4 more
core  

Epidermal Patch Technologies for Integrated Healthcare and Infection Management

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Epidermal patches have evolved from simple wound coverings into multifunctional, skin‐conformable platforms integrating drug delivery, biosensing, and therapeutic functionalities. This review highlights their material innovations, fabrication strategies, and intelligent designs, including hydrogels, microneedles, and flexible electronics, while ...
Yuqi Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of rapid response system in mortality and complications post-orthopedic surgery: a retrospective cohort study

open access: yesPerioperative Medicine
Background Rapid response systems (RRSs) are used in hospitals to identify and treat deteriorating patients. However, RRS implementation and outcomes in orthopedic and surgical patients remain controversial.
Hey-ran Choi, In-Ae Song, Tak Kyu Oh
doaj   +1 more source

A US hospital budget impact analysis of a skin closure system compared with standard of care in hip and knee arthroplasty. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: Medicare\u27s mandatory bundle for hip and knee arthroplasty necessitates provider accountability for quality and cost of care to 90 days, and wound closure may be a key area of consideration.
Ferko, Nicole   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Bacteria‐Responsive Nanostructured Drug Delivery Systems for Targeted Antimicrobial Therapy

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bacteria‐responsive nanocarriers are designed to release antimicrobials only in the presence of infection‐specific cues. This selective activation ensures drug release precisely at the site of infection, avoiding premature or indiscriminate release, and enhancing efficacy.
Guillermo Landa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Ionic and Electronic Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Toward Attachable and Implantable Biomedical Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides an overview of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)–based biomedical applications by classifying studies into electronic and ionic systems across attachable and implantable platforms. It summarizes key material choices, device structures, and working mechanisms that characterize current TENG‐based research, and outlines six future ...
Kyongtae Choi   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Augmented Reality-based Feedback for Technician-in-the-loop C-arm Repositioning

open access: yes, 2018
Interventional C-arm imaging is crucial to percutaneous orthopedic procedures as it enables the surgeon to monitor the progress of surgery on the anatomy level.
Andreas Maier   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Tourniquets in orthopedic surgery

open access: yesIndian Journal of Orthopaedics, 2012
Tourniquets are commonly used in limb surgeries, be it orthopedic or plastic surgeries. But the inflation pressures, the duration, and release guidelines are still not clear. According to a survey, majority of orthopedic surgeons inflate the tourniquet to fixed pressures for the upper and the lower limbs without considering the baseline blood pressure ...
Sharma, Jai Prakash, Salhotra, Rashmi
openaire   +3 more sources

Sea Urchin‐Inspired Immuno‐Instructive Ionic Flow Drives MSCs‐Macrophage Communication to Promote Bone Regeneration

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bone tissue regeneration is a complex physiological process dependent on the spatiotemporal coordination of immune cells and stem cells. Conventional research primarily elucidates the mechanism through which materials facilitate bone formation by initially modulating macrophages and subsequently encouraging the osteogenic differentiation of ...
Yang Lu   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outcomes of Shoulder Arthroplasty Performed for Postinfectious Arthritis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the functional outcomes, infection rate, and complications associated with shoulder arthroplasty for sequelae of prior septic arthritis.
Lazarus, Mark D.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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