What do Japanese residents learn from treating dying patients? The implications for training in end-of-life care: How medical
What do Japanese residents learn from treating dying patients? The implications for training in end-of-life care: How medical residents’ experiences with care for dying patients affect their emotional well-being, their learning outcomes, and the formation of their professional identities is not fully...
Source: biomedcentral.com
The Health and Social Care Act of 2012 - making GPs lead Clinical Commissioning Groups - did not reduce overall hospitalisations
The Health and Social Care Act of 2012 - making GPs lead Clinical Commissioning Groups - did not reduce overall hospitalisations study concludes. "[G]iving control of healthcare budgets to GP-led CCGs was not associated
with a reduction in overall hospitalisations and was associated with an
increase...
Source: plos.org
Denying patients NHS treatment based on lifestyle factors is not conducive to a good doctor-patient relationship. In response
Denying patients NHS treatment based on lifestyle factors is not conducive to a good doctor-patient relationship. In response to the Hertfordshire Valley CCG’s decision to restrict
access to routine surgery until morbidly obese patients have lost
weight, or smokers have given up, as discussed...
Source: rcgp.org.uk
Reducing patient mortality, length of stay and readmissions through machine learning-based sepsis prediction in the emergency
Reducing patient mortality, length of stay and readmissions through machine learning-based sepsis prediction in the emergency department, intensive care unit and hospital floor units. Sepsis management is a challenge for hospitals nationwide, as severe sepsis carries high mortality rates and costs...
Source: bmj.com
Eldercare - an open source project for clinical measurement scales and summaries / links to guidelines in geriatric medicine.
Eldercare - an open source project for clinical measurement scales and summaries / links to guidelines in geriatric medicine. I have been working on this with colleagues at Royal Cornwall Hospital as an educational tool that can run on any mobile device and (when it is wrapped into an Android or iOS...
Source: github.com
Smartphone Heart Monitor Beats Doctors at Diagnosing Atrial Fibrillation: The Kardia heart monitor from AliveCor did almost
Smartphone Heart Monitor Beats Doctors at Diagnosing Atrial Fibrillation: The Kardia heart monitor from AliveCor did almost 4 times better than doctors providing standard care
Source: ieee.org
UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed
UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed an ‘entirely new industry’ in AI-based diagnostics and mint billions for tech companies, strategic review reveals. "Sir John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford university...
Source: theguardian.com
IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling
IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling Watson to recommend the best cancer treatments to doctors around the world three years ago. But is it really doing its job? Not so much. An investigation by Stat found that the supercomputer...
Source: slashdot.org
Germany turns refugees into mental health counsellors for their peers: Project counters lack of mental health care by helping
Germany turns refugees into mental health counsellors for their peers: Project counters lack of mental health care by helping migrants to teach coping skills and offering asylum seekers a listening ear
Source: theguardian.com
Chatbots as a Patient Engagement solution – Florence.chat "Chatbots are computer programs that are able to conduct a
Chatbots as a Patient Engagement solution – Florence.chat "Chatbots are computer programs that are able to conduct a conversation
and are typically used in dialog systems for various practical purposes
including customer service or information acquisition. Despite their
creation more than 60...
Source: florence.chat
Collaborative Care Linked to Better Outcomes in Substance Use Disorders: By Kelly Young Edited by David G. Fairchild,
Collaborative Care Linked to Better Outcomes in Substance Use Disorders: By Kelly Young
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
Patients with alcohol or opioid use disorder treated with a collaborative care model in primary care are twice as likely to receive evidence-based...
Source: jwatch.org
Improving MRCP PACES pass rates through the introduction of a regional multifaceted support framework. "Our innovative,
Improving MRCP PACES pass rates through the introduction of a regional multifaceted support framework. "Our innovative, cost-effective teaching framework for PACES preparation has improved exam outcomes and facilitated swift junior doctor career progression, while raising the profile of the trust. Furthermore,...
Source: bmj.com
Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is
Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development (CPD) and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as...
Source: amegroups.com
Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs and Policies are a Failure | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs and Policies are a Failure | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health "Two scientific review papers released today show that abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and policies in the United States are ineffective as they do not delay sexual initiation...
Source: columbia.edu
Using machine learning to improve patient care : New CSAIL research employs many types of medical data, including electronic
Using machine learning to improve patient care : New CSAIL research employs many types of medical data, including electronic health records, to predict outcomes in hospitals. Rachel Gordon | CSAIL.
Source: mit.edu
Jeremy Hunt can attack me all he wants – but he is wrong to say the NHS is working | Stephen Hawking "Hunt doesn't deny
Jeremy Hunt can attack me all he wants – but he is wrong to say the NHS is working | Stephen Hawking "Hunt doesn't deny that he dismissed research contradicting his claim of excess deaths due to poorer hospital care and staffing at the weekend. He admits he relied on one paper by Professor Nick Freemantle...
Source: theguardian.com
A single-centre hospital-wide handoff standardisation report: what is so special about that? "Using a relatively low-cost
A single-centre hospital-wide handoff standardisation report: what is so special about that? "Using a relatively low-cost approach, they managed to implement the system across 15 medical departments, as well as nursing, train nearly 6000 healthcare staff and collect observational data on process reliability...
Source: bmj.com
How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of
How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal risk. However we do not know how consistently...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Prospect of losing new GPs so early in their careers could be disastrous for the NHS, says RCGP
Prospect of losing new GPs so early in their careers could be disastrous for the NHS, says RCGP
Source: rcgp.org.uk
The burden of triumph: meeting health and social care needs. Andrew Dilnot, Lancet 15 August 2017. "Life is getting longer.
The burden of triumph: meeting health and social care needs. Andrew Dilnot, Lancet 15 August 2017. "Life is getting longer. Death is not defeated, but it takes longer to win than it used to. The increases seen for most people in life expectancy are surely a matter for great rejoicing. References to...
Source: thelancet.com
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