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Qian C, Wang R, Fang Y. Is ChatGPT Proficient in extracting critical medical information from patient records? Asian J Surg 2024:S1015-9584(24)00385-3. [PMID: 38448291 DOI: 10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.02.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024] Open
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- Chengxing Qian
- Department of Neurosurgery, the Tongling People's Hospital, Tongling, China
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- Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) School of Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China; Department of Neurosurgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
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Wallis C, Ivanova A, Holcombe LJ. Persistent deciduous teeth: Association of prevalence with breed, breed size and body weight in pure-bred client-owned dogs in the United States. Res Vet Sci 2024; 169:105161. [PMID: 38309195 DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2024.105161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/21/2024] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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Dogs use their teeth for a multitude of tasks and, as such, it is vital for their health and wellbeing that their oral health is maintained. Persistent deciduous teeth (PDT), those that fail to fall out at the appropriate time, are associated with malocclusion (misaligned bite), soft tissue trauma and increased risk of periodontal disease. The objective of the current study was to perform a retrospective analysis of veterinary medical data to understand the effect of dog breed size, dog breed and body weight on prevalence of PDT. Medical records collected from almost 3 million dogs visiting a chain of veterinary hospitals across the United States over a 5-year period showed an overall prevalence of 7% for PDT, the data represented 60 breeds with extra-small breeds (<6.5 kg) showing significantly higher prevalence (15%) than all other breed sizes (P < 0.001). Statistical modelling of extra-small, small and medium-small breed sizes showed that those on Wellness Plans or that had not received a dental prophylaxis for at least two years had significantly increased odds of PDT being detected (Odds ratio 2.72-3.2 and 2.17-3.36 respectively, P < 0.0001). Dogs with a below ideal body condition score had a decreased odds of PDT (Odds ratio 0.57-0.89, P < 0.0001) whereas those above ideal had an increased odds (Odds ratio 1.11-1.60, P < 0.0001). The findings from this extensive dataset highlight the importance of regular veterinarian examinations to identify and remove PDT, helping to avoid increasing the risk of associated issues such as periodontal disease and malocclusion.
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- C Wallis
- Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Freeby Lane, Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE14 4RT, UK.
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- Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Freeby Lane, Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE14 4RT, UK
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Riegel M, Buckley T, Randall S. Family's preferences for and experiences of writing practices in adult intensive care and its use in early bereavement: A descriptive qualitative study. Aust Crit Care 2024:S1036-7314(24)00007-9. [PMID: 38360470 DOI: 10.1016/j.aucc.2024.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Family partaking in writing practices, such as writing intensive care unit (ICU) patient diaries, personal diaries/journaling, social media, or instant messaging services, during ICU admission may allow the family to unintentionally participate in a form of expressive writing. These writing practices could provide structure for the family authors to explore emotions and manage significant life events, including death of a loved one. Limited studies have explored the family's postmortem experiences and perceived value of writing practices maintained during an ICU admission. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to explore the family member's preferences for and experiences of writing practices in the adult ICU and its use in early bereavement. METHODS descriptive qualitative design using inductive reflexive thematic analysis from a purposeful, convenience sample of 16 bereaved participants from a tertiary referral, adult ICU in Australia who discussed their experiences of and preferences in writing practices. Reporting adheres to the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research checklist. FINDINGS Six participants maintained writing practices during the ICU admission and 10 did not. Three themes were generated from the data: the decision to maintain writing practices was shaped by past behaviours and perceived utility; moments captured were influenced by the loved ones' clinical status and their ability to access the writing medium; and writing practices have limited utility as a memory making object in early bereavement. CONCLUSIONS Based on the generated findings, participants who did not maintain writing practices did not later regret this decision during early bereavement. Participants who did maintain writing practices predominately used a personal diary/journal that they carried with them. As the loved one approached death, the written entries became shorter, then ceased. Most of the written entries were not read during early bereavement, suggesting the writing practices' psychological value might have been predominately gained at the time of writing, rather than during early bereavement.
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- Melissa Riegel
- Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Adult Intensive Care Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia.
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- Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; Broken Hill Department of Rural Health, University of Sydney, Australia
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Khan M, Muhmood K, Mahmood HZ, Khaliq IH, Zaman S. The health and economic burden of dust pollution in the textile industry of Faisalabad, Pakistan. J Egypt Public Health Assoc 2024; 99:3. [PMID: 38282165 PMCID: PMC10822829 DOI: 10.1186/s42506-024-00150-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
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BACKGROUND Exposure to dust in textile mills adversely affects workers' health. We collected epidemiological data on textile workers suffering from respiratory diseases and assessed work absence associated with illnesses in Faisalabad, Pakistan. METHODS We recruited 206 workers using multistage sampling from 11 spinning mills in Faisalabad, Pakistan. The data were collected using 2-week health diaries and face-to-face interviews. The data pertains to socio-demographics, occupational exposures, the state of the workers' health, and other attributes. A theoretical framework of the health production function was used to estimate the relationship between cotton dust exposure and respiratory illnesses. We also estimated functional limitations (e.g., work absence) associated with dust exposure. STATA 12 was used to calculate descriptive statistics, an ordered probit for byssinosis, a probit model for chronic cough, and three complementary log-log models for blood phlegm, bronchitis, and asthma to measure dose-response functions. A Tobit model was used to measure the sickness absence function. RESULTS We found that cotton dust exposure causes a significant health burden to workers, such as cough (35%), bronchitis (17%), and different grades of byssinosis symptoms (22%). The regression analysis showed that smoking cigarettes and working in dusty sections were the main determinants of respiratory diseases. Dusty work sections also cause illness-related work absences. However, the probability of work absence decreases with the increased use of face masks. CONCLUSION The study's findings imply the significance of promoting occupational safety and health culture through training and awareness among workers or implementing the use of safety gadgets. Promulgating appropriate dust standards in textile mills is also a need of the hour.
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- Muhammad Khan
- Department of Economics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Economics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Economics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
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Weinschreider J, Tenzek K, Foltz-Ramos K, Jungquist C, Livingston JA. Electronic health record competency in graduate nurses: A grounded theory study. Nurse Educ Today 2024; 132:105987. [PMID: 37890193 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2023.105987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2023] [Revised: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/06/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND The use of electronic health records is ubiquitous in healthcare settings, yet newly graduated nurses struggle with developing electronic health record competency prior to entry into nursing practice. Insufficient electronic health record knowledge, skills, and attitudes among newly graduated nurses are contributing to patient harm, clinical burn-out, and unsafe practices. In this study, we interviewed electronic health record educators to identify how newly graduated nurses develop electronic health record competency characteristics and to learn about their educational approaches for teaching electronic health record proficiency. METHOD This study used a constructive grounded theory approach to develop a theoretical model to make sense of electronic health record educators' experiences working with newly graduated nurses during electronic health record education and training sessions. FINDINGS Electronic health record educators found that in the newly graduated nurse population, practicing builds competency in electronic health record knowledge, skills, and attitudes. The research revealed that it is the combination of teaching through modeling, working hard as a new graduate, and understanding charting to standards requirements that impacts the development of electronic health record competency characteristics. CONCLUSION Electronic health record competency characteristics are developed when an educator is modeling documentation knowledge, skills, and attitudes, the newly graduated nurse is working hard to learn, and there is clarity by nursing leadership related to charting to standards requirements. It is the success or failure in these core areas that impacts a newly graduated nurse's ability to achieve electronic health record competency. A level of competency and proficiency in electronic health record is required to provide care that is safe and patient centered.
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- Joanne Weinschreider
- University at Buffalo, graduated Fall 22, Saint John Fisher University, School of Nursing, Director of Experiential Learning, 3690 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14618, United States of America.
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- University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 323 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-1020, United States of America
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- School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 211 Wende Hall, Buffalo, NY 14214-3079, United States of America
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- School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 211 Wende Hall, Buffalo, NY 14214-3079, United States of America
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- School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 211 Wende Hall, Buffalo, NY 14214-3079, United States of America
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Bartch VM, Vetting Wolf TL, Lee SA, Poncelet SA, Nemec SL, Morgenthaler TI. A service blueprint approach to prioritize operational improvements in a new outpatient clinic. Healthc (Amst) 2023; 11:100715. [PMID: 37748214 DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2023.100715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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As a US-based health care system, Mayo Clinic faced considerable challenges opening a new affiliated outpatient facility in the UK at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which severely affected patient volumes and staffing. As COVID-19 restrictions were eased, the clinic had to prioritize gradual improvements to reestablish service while using resources responsibly. To assist in understanding the current state and to isolate challenges, we elected to develop a service blueprint. We describe how we did this during the COVID-19 pandemic with the use of both face-to-face and virtual services. In many industries, service blueprints are used to help with the design, delivery, and management of new and established services. Although they share some features with value stream mapping, service blueprints often focus on human tasks and the customer's service experience, while value stream maps emphasize information or product flows and capabilities. Several themes for prioritized improvement efforts were identified for future work. In addition, the service blueprint workshops led to a much better understanding of how each person's work affected the other team members and the patient experience. We learned that service blueprints are an efficient way to identify and anticipate critical operational interdependencies and team dynamics that will affect the patient experience when building new clinical services.
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- Mayo Clinic International, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Mayo Clinic International, Mayo Clinic Health System, Southeast Minnesota region, Austin, MN, USA
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Hutaif M, Al Moaish A, Soliman M, Al-Fadliy A. The hidden toll of war: a comprehensive study of orthopedic injuries in Yemen. Confl Health 2023; 17:55. [PMID: 38037162 PMCID: PMC10691014 DOI: 10.1186/s13031-023-00551-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2023] [Accepted: 11/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Yemen has been experiencing a protracted civil war and humanitarian crisis since 2015, which has resulted in many war-related injuries. However, there is a lack of data on the epidemiology, characteristics, and outcomes of these injuries, especially the orthopedic ones. This study aimed to describe the war-related orthopedic injuries in Yemen and their impact on the patients' health and function. METHODS This was a retrospective study based on medical records and trauma registries of 3930 patients who were admitted to three major trauma centers in Sana'a city with war-related orthopedic injuries from January 2015 to December 2020. We collected data on demographics, injury mechanisms, injury types and locations, surgical procedures, complications, mortality, and functional outcomes using the Musculoskeletal Function Assessment questionnaire. We used descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze the data and performed a logistic regression analysis to identify the factors associated with mortality. RESULTS Most of the patients were young males and civilians who suffered from complex and severe injuries involving multiple body regions, especially the lower extremities. The main mechanisms of injury were gunshot wounds, blast injuries, and landmine explosions. The patients required multiple surgical procedures and implants, and had high rates of complications and mortality. The most common complications were infection, nonunion, malunion, and amputation. The most common cause of death was sepsis. The functional outcomes were poor, as indicated by the high mean MFA score. The logistic regression analysis showed that older age, blast injuries, spine injuries, vascular injuries, and infection were significant predictors of mortality. CONCLUSION This study provides valuable information on the war-related orthopedic injuries in Yemen and their impact on the patients' health and function. It also identifies some areas for future research, such as exploring the risk factors for infection and nonunion/malunion, evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different surgical procedures and implants, assessing the long-term outcomes and quality of life of the patients, and developing novel strategies to enhance bone and soft-tissue healing.
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- Mohammad Hutaif
- Sana'a University School of Medicine, Vice Dean, Sana'a, Yemen.
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- Sana'a University School of Medicine, Vice Dean, Sana'a, Yemen
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- Sana'a University School of Medicine, Vice Dean, Sana'a, Yemen
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McDonald N, Little N, Kriellaars D, Doupe MB, Giesbrecht G, Pryce RT. Database quality assessment in research in paramedicine: a scoping review. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2023; 31:78. [PMID: 37951904 PMCID: PMC10638787 DOI: 10.1186/s13049-023-01145-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/05/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Research in paramedicine faces challenges in developing research capacity, including access to high-quality data. A variety of unique factors in the paramedic work environment influence data quality. In other fields of healthcare, data quality assessment (DQA) frameworks provide common methods of quality assessment as well as standards of transparent reporting. No similar DQA frameworks exist for paramedicine, and practices related to DQA are sporadically reported. This scoping review aims to describe the range, extent, and nature of DQA practices within research in paramedicine. METHODS This review followed a registered and published protocol. In consultation with a professional librarian, a search strategy was developed and applied to MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine), EMBASE (Elsevier), Scopus (Elsevier), and CINAHL (EBSCO) to identify studies published from 2011 through 2021 that assess paramedic data quality as a stated goal. Studies that reported quantitative results of DQA using data that relate primarily to the paramedic practice environment were included. Protocols, commentaries, and similar study types were excluded. Title/abstract screening was conducted by two reviewers; full-text screening was conducted by two, with a third participating to resolve disagreements. Data were extracted using a piloted data-charting form. RESULTS Searching yielded 10,105 unique articles. After title and abstract screening, 199 remained for full-text review; 97 were included in the analysis. Included studies varied widely in many characteristics. Majorities were conducted in the United States (51%), assessed data containing between 100 and 9,999 records (61%), or assessed one of three topic areas: data, trauma, or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (61%). All data-quality domains assessed could be grouped under 5 summary domains: completeness, linkage, accuracy, reliability, and representativeness. CONCLUSIONS There are few common standards in terms of variables, domains, methods, or quality thresholds for DQA in paramedic research. Terminology used to describe quality domains varied among included studies and frequently overlapped. The included studies showed no evidence of assessing some domains and emerging topics seen in other areas of healthcare. Research in paramedicine would benefit from a standardized framework for DQA that allows for local variation while establishing common methods, terminology, and reporting standards.
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- Neil McDonald
- Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, EMS Training, 2546 McPhillips St, Winnipeg, MB, R2P 2T2, Canada.
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, S203 Medical Services Building, 750 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0W2, Canada.
- Applied Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, 202 Active Living Centre, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada.
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- Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, EMS Training, 2546 McPhillips St, Winnipeg, MB, R2P 2T2, Canada
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- College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, 771 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0T6, Canada
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, 750 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0W2, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba, 102-420 University Crescent, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Department of Kinesiology and Applied Health, Gupta Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Winnipeg, 400 Spence St, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2E9, Canada
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Biesiada A, Mastalerz-Migas A, Babicki M. Response to provide key health services to Ukrainian refugees: The overview and implementation studies. Soc Sci Med 2023; 334:116221. [PMID: 37689012 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Revised: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND The outbreak of war in Ukraine has contributed to the largest migration crisis in this part of Europe since the Second World War. In a short period of time, several million refugees of different ages and with different health needs have arrived in Poland. This study aims to assess the health problems of Ukrainian refugees, evaluate the barriers faced by primary care physicians (PCPs), and analyse and evaluate the system solutions available (including the use of modern information technology) to address them. METHODOLOGY For this purpose, an original questionnaire distributed to PCPs in Poland was created and a literature review of implemented system solutions was conducted. The survey was conducted between the 3rd-10th April 2022-45 days after the outbreak of the war. The survey was repeated between 20th January and February 15, 2023. RESULTS The survey was completed by 402 physicians who provided health care to refugees at that time. There were 252 respondents in the first stage of the study while 150 PCPs took part in the repeat survey. The findings of the survey revealed that the most common health problems among refugees were infections, regardless of age. The biggest barrier to providing care to refugees was the lack of available medical records and language difficulties. During the first months of the refugee influx in Poland, many - both systemic and grassroot - solutions were implemented to improve the quality of health care for refugees. CONCLUSIONS According to PCPs, the language barrier and the lack of previous medical records are key constraints when providing medical care to refugees. The health needs of refugees and the difficulties in providing care for them require constant monitoring and implementation of appropriate systemic solutions that can reduce the limitations in the daily work of medical staff.
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- Aleksander Biesiada
- Ad Vitam Przychodnia Zdrowia Sp. z o.o. Sp. k, Poland; Polish Society of Family Medicine, Poland.
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- Polish Society of Family Medicine, Poland; Department of Family Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, 51-141, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Polish Society of Family Medicine, Poland; Department of Family Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, 51-141, Wroclaw, Poland
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Bauer PDS, Teixeira C, Leão BM, Rosa RG. Predictive factors of functional limitation after cardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort study. Braz J Phys Ther 2023; 27:100550. [PMID: 37801775 PMCID: PMC10562669 DOI: 10.1016/j.bjpt.2023.100550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Revised: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Functional limitation is relatively common and can negatively influence the postoperative outcome of patients after cardiac surgery. OBJECTIVE To identify the predictive factors of functional limitation in patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. METHODS Retrospective cohort study was performed to evaluate patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. All patients underwent a cardiovascular rehabilitation protocol. Functional limitation was defined based on performance in the rehabilitation protocol following cardiac surgery. Poor performance in the cardiac surgery rehabilitation protocol defined functional limitation, whereas good performance indicated no limitation. RESULTS Data were collected from 548 patients; of these, 190 (34.7%) had functional limitation. In multivariate analysis, the factors associated with postoperative functional limitation were as follows: hospitalization by the public healthcare system [OR: 2.14; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.73, 2.65]; age (OR 1.23; 95% CI: 1.15, 1.31); length of hospitalization in the intensive care unit (OR 1.03; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.05); history of previous acute myocardial infarction (OR 1.40; 95% CI: 1.13, 1.73); presence of previous comorbidities [chronic kidney disease (OR 1.56; 95% CI: 1.15, 2.10); cerebrovascular disease (OR 1.57; 95% CI: 1.19, 2.07)]; presence of expiratory muscle weakness (OR 1.54; 95% CI: 1.08, 2.20); and intercurrence of cardiorespiratory arrest during hospitalization (OR 1.76; 95% CI: 1.40, 2.22). CONCLUSION Functional limitation after cardiac surgery could be predicted by multiple pre and postoperative factors, except for preoperative functionality, which does not suggest to be an independent factor for functional limitation after surgery.
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- Patrícia da Silva Bauer
- Post-graduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences of the Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
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- Post-graduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences of the Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Post-graduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences of the Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Intensive Care Department of Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
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Tucker J, Salas J, Secrest S, Scherrer JF. Erectile dysfunction associated with undiagnosed prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in young adult males: A retrospective cohort study. Prev Med 2023; 174:107646. [PMID: 37499919 DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2023] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 07/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common comorbidity in type 2 diabetes (T2D). ED has been studied as an outcome in diabetes, but it is not known if ED is a risk factor for T2D. We determined if patients with ED have an increased risk for prediabetes and/or T2D and measured the duration between ED and prediabetes/T2D diagnosis. Retrospective cohort study using de-identified medical record data from a large mid-western health care system to measure ED, T2D and potential confounding factors. Patients were 18 to 40 years of age because we were interested in early onset pre-diabetes/T2D. Eligible patients had ED and were free of prediabetes, hyperglycemia and T2D at index. Entropy balancing controlled for confounding. Modified Poisson regression models with robust error variances calculated relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence intervals for the association of ED and pre-diabetes/T2D. Patients' mean age was 28.3 (±7.0) years, 81.7% were White and 14.0% were Black. After controlling for confounding, ED was associated with increased risk for prediabetes/T2D (RR = 1.34; 95%CI:1.16-1.55). This association was similar to that between ED and T2D alone (RR = 1.38; 95% CI: 1.10-1.74). About 30% had ED and prediabetes/T2D diagnosed on the same day and nearly 75% were diagnosed within a year of ED. ED is a marker for undiagnosed prediabetes/T2D and a risk factor for near term onset of prediabetes/T2D. ED may offer the opportunity for earlier detection and diagnoses of T2D, particularly in younger men. Younger patients presenting with ED should be screened for hyperglycemia.
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- Jane Tucker
- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1008 S. Spring, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1008 S. Spring, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; Advanced HEAlth Data (AHEAD) Research Institute, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 3545 Lafayette Ave, 4(th) Floor, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1008 S. Spring, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1008 S. Spring, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; Advanced HEAlth Data (AHEAD) Research Institute, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 3545 Lafayette Ave, 4(th) Floor, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1438 South Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA.
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Shapiro LN, Gray MF, Freitag C, Taneja P, Kariya H, Crane PK, O'Hare AM, Vig EK, Taylor JS. Expanding the ethnographic toolkit: Using medical documents to include kinless older adults living with dementia in qualitative research. J Aging Stud 2023; 65:101140. [PMID: 37268383 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Ethnographic research with cognitively impaired older adults can be challenging, in part because cognitive impairment raises questions about the ability to provide informed consent. Relying on proxy consent is a commonly used strategy, but often excludes people with dementia who lack close kin (de Medeiros, Girling, & Berlinger, 2022). In this paper, we describe how we have analyzed existing research data from a well-established and ongoing prospective cohort study, the Adult Changes in Thought Study, along with unstructured text from the medical records of participants who had no living spouse or adult children when they developed dementia, as a way of studying the circumstances, life trajectories, caregiving resources, and care needs of this vulnerable and difficult-to-research group. In this article, we detail this methodology, exploring what can and cannot be gleaned from it, what the ethical implications may be, and how and whether this type of research can be considered ethnographic. In conclusion, we argue that collaborative interdisciplinary research using existing, longitudinal research data and text from medical records deserves to be considered as a potentially useful addition to the ethnographic toolkit. We anticipate that this is a methodology that could be applied more broadly, and paired with more traditional ethnographic methods, might be one way to make research with this population more inclusive.
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- Lily N Shapiro
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, USA.
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- University of Washington and VA Puget Sound Health Care System, USA
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- University of Washington and VA Puget Sound Health Care System, USA
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Röchner P, Rothlauf F. Unsupervised anomaly detection of implausible electronic health records: a real-world evaluation in cancer registries. BMC Med Res Methodol 2023; 23:125. [PMID: 37226114 DOI: 10.1186/s12874-023-01946-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Cancer registries collect patient-specific information about cancer diseases. The collected information is verified and made available to clinical researchers, physicians, and patients. When processing information, cancer registries verify that the patient-specific records they collect are plausible. This means that the collected information about a particular patient makes medical sense. METHODS Unsupervised machine learning approaches can detect implausible electronic health records without human guidance. Therefore, this article investigates two unsupervised anomaly detection approaches, a pattern-based approach (FindFPOF) and a compression-based approach (autoencoder), to identify implausible electronic health records in cancer registries. Unlike most existing work that analyzes synthetic anomalies, we compare the performance of both approaches and a baseline (random selection of records) on a real-world dataset. The dataset contains 21,104 electronic health records of patients with breast, colorectal, and prostate tumors. Each record consists of 16 categorical variables describing the disease, the patient, and the diagnostic procedure. The samples identified by FindFPOF, the autoencoder, and a random selection-a total of 785 different records-are evaluated in a real-world scenario by medical domain experts. RESULTS Both anomaly detection methods are good at detecting implausible electronic health records. First, domain experts identified [Formula: see text] of 300 randomly selected records as implausible. With FindFPOF and the autoencoder, [Formula: see text] of the proposed 300 records in each sample were implausible. This corresponds to a precision of [Formula: see text] for FindFPOF and the autoencoder. Second, for 300 randomly selected records that were labeled by domain experts, the sensitivity of the autoencoder was [Formula: see text] and the sensitivity of FindFPOF was [Formula: see text]. Both anomaly detection methods had a specificity of [Formula: see text]. Third, FindFPOF and the autoencoder suggested samples with a different distribution of values than the overall dataset. For example, both anomaly detection methods suggested a higher proportion of colorectal records, the tumor localization with the highest percentage of implausible records in a randomly selected sample. CONCLUSIONS Unsupervised anomaly detection can significantly reduce the manual effort of domain experts to find implausible electronic health records in cancer registries. In our experiments, the manual effort was reduced by a factor of approximately 3.5 compared to evaluating a random sample.
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- Philipp Röchner
- Information Systems and Business Administration, Johannes Gutenberg University, Jakob-Welder-Weg 9, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
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- Information Systems and Business Administration, Johannes Gutenberg University, Jakob-Welder-Weg 9, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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Schøllhammer H, Jørgensen TM, Jensen HI. Documenting care together with patients: the experiences of nurses and patients. BMC Nurs 2023; 22:143. [PMID: 37106369 PMCID: PMC10133905 DOI: 10.1186/s12912-023-01309-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND One way in which patients can participate in care is by taking part in medical documentation. Producing documentation together with patients has been found to decrease the amount of incorrect information, help patients to be involved, and promote shared decision-making. The aims of this study were to develop and implement a practice of producing documentation together with patients and to examine staff and patient experiences of this practice. METHODS A quality improvement study was conducted from 2019 to 2021 at a Day Surgery Unit in a Danish University Hospital. Before implementing a practice of documenting together with patients, nurses' perceptions of doing documentation together with patients were examined via a questionnaire survey. After an implementation period, a similar follow-up survey with staff was conducted, together with structured patient phone interviews. RESULTS A total of 24 nursing staff out of 28 (86%) filled in the questionnaire at baseline and 22 out of 26 (85%) at follow-up. A total of 61 out of 74 invited patients (82%) were interviewed. At baseline, the majority (71-96%) of participants agreed that documentation done together with the patient would contribute to increased patient safety, fewer errors, real-time documentation, patient involvement, visible patient perspective, correction of errors, more accessible information and less duplication of work. At follow-up, significant decreases in the staffs' positive perceptions of the benefits of documenting together with patients were found for all areas except for "real-time documentation" and "less duplication of work". Almost all patients found it okay that the nurses wrote up medical documentation during the interview, and more than 90% of patients found the staff responsive or very responsive and present during the reception interview. CONCLUSION Before implementation of a practice of documenting together with patients, the majority of staff assessed such documentation as being beneficial, but a significant decrease in positive assessment was found at follow-up, with challenges such as feeling less connected with the patient and practical, IT-related issues being described. The patients found the staff to be present and responsive and felt that it was important to know what was being written in their medical record.
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- Helle Schøllhammer
- Day Surgery Unit, Kolding Hospital, Sygehusvej 24, Kolding, DK - 6100, Denmark.
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- Day Surgery Unit, Kolding Hospital, Sygehusvej 24, Kolding, DK - 6100, Denmark
- Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, J. B. Winsløwsvej 19.3, Odense C, 5000, Denmark
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Arena PJ, Dzogang C, Gadoth A, Nkamba DM, Hoff NA, Kampilu D, Beia M, Wong HL, Anderson SA, Kaba D, Rimoin AW. Comparison of adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes using archival medical records before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: a facility-based, retrospective cohort study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2023; 23:31. [PMID: 36647021 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-05291-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Little research has been conducted on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on either birth outcomes or the ability of archival medical records to accurately capture these outcomes. Our study objective is thus to compare the prevalence of preterm birth, stillbirth, low birth weight (LBW), small for gestational age (SGA), congenital microcephaly, and neonatal bloodstream infection (NBSI) before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). METHODS We conducted a facility-based retrospective cohort study in which identified cases of birth outcomes were tabulated at initial screening and subcategorized according to level of diagnostic certainty using Global Alignment of Immunization Safety Assessment in pregnancy (GAIA) definitions. Documentation of any birth complications, delivery type, and maternal vaccination history were also evaluated. The prevalence of each birth outcome was compared in the pre-COVID-19 (i.e., July 2019 to February 2020) and intra-COVID-19 (i.e., March to August 2020) periods via two-sample z-test for equality of proportions. RESULTS In total, 14,300 birth records were abstracted. Adverse birth outcomes were identified among 22.0% and 14.3% of pregnancies in the pre-COVID-19 and intra-COVID-19 periods, respectively. For stillbirth, LBW, SGA, microcephaly, and NBSI, prevalence estimates were similar across study periods. However, the prevalence of preterm birth in the intra-COVID-19 period was significantly lower than that reported during the pre-COVID-19 period (8.6% vs. 11.5%, p < 0.0001). Furthermore, the level of diagnostic certainty declined slightly across all outcomes investigated from the pre-COVID-19 to the intra-COVID-19 period. Nonetheless, diagnostic certainty was especially low for certain outcomes (i.e., stillbirth and NBSI) regardless of period; still, other outcomes, such as preterm birth and LBW, had moderate to high levels of diagnostic certainty. Results were mostly consistent when the analysis was focused on the facilities designated for COVID-19 care. CONCLUSION This study succeeded in providing prevalence estimates for key adverse birth outcomes using GAIA criteria during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kinshasa, DRC. Furthermore, our study adds crucial real-world data to the literature surrounding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and neonatal services and outcomes in Africa.
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Gu JH, Li WQ, Chen CJ. A retrospective cohort study evaluating the improvement of medical records management based on whole-process control. Technol Health Care 2023; 31:1901-1910. [PMID: 37393450 DOI: 10.3233/thc-220863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Whole-process management is a novel approach widely applied in industry and commerce; however, it is not widely used in the management of medical records in hospitals. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to investigate the application of whole-process control in the administration of a hospital's medical records department to achieve refined management of medical records. METHODS Whole-process control is a management measure that begins with process conception and implementation and includes control over all processes. The control group included medical records that were created prior to the implementation of whole-process control, i.e., those created between June 1 and December 31, 2020. The observation group included medical records that were created after the implementation of whole-process control. The behavior of the medical records staff (in terms of medical record collection, sorting, entry, inquiry, and supply) and the final quality of the medical records (the number of grade-A medical records and their front-page quality) were compared between the two groups, and subjective judgments related to staff satisfaction were reviewed. RESULTS The implementation of whole-process control improved the behavior of the medical records staff. The final quality of the medical records was also improved, as was the job satisfaction of the medical records staff. CONCLUSION Implementing whole-process control improved the management of medical records and quality of medical records.
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- Jun-Hua Gu
- Department of Medical Records and Statistics, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China
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- Department of Quality and Safety Management Office, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China
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Sanjuluca TH, Almeida A, Correia R, Costas T. Quality of records in clinical forms of childbirth in the Maternity Hospital of Lubango, Angola. Gac Sanit 2022; 37:102246. [PMID: 36099698 DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2022.102246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To describe the quality of clinical records of deliveries and births by quantitative assessing the unfilled variables in birth data collection forms and their implications at Maternity Hospital, in the municipality of Lubango, Angola. METHOD The study was conducted from January to August 2018. It adopted a quantitative research design, analysed variables not filled in a total of 202 birth record forms collected for 3 months (secondary data). RESULTS The findings revealed that 80% of the sections of the entire set of information about obstetrical history were not filled in. This occurred with a relatively high frequency resulting in some of the relevant variables being left blank, such as antenatal diagnosis (94%) and the number of last menstruation (91%). CONCLUSIONS The rate of missing fundamental information from the clinical birth record are high. This result has important implications in evaluating the quality of data and may, consequently, jeopardize: 1) the evaluation of the prenatal assistance, 2) the clinical assistance at delivery, and 3) decision-making for preventive and intervening procedures.
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- Tomas Hambili Sanjuluca
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal; Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Mandume Ya Ndemufayo University, Lubango, Angola; Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
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- Management and Economics Department, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal; NECE-Research Unit in Business Sciences
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- Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; CIDES-FMUP (Health Information and Decision Sciences); CINTESIS-FMUP (Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems)
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- Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems-FMUP, Virtual Care
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Shinohara E, Shibata D, Kawazoe Y. Development of comprehensive annotation criteria for patients' states from clinical texts. J Biomed Inform 2022; 134:104200. [PMID: 36089198 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In clinical records, much of the clinical information is recorded as free text, thus necessitating the use of advanced automatic information extraction technology. The development of practical technologies requires a corpus with finer granularity annotations that describe the information in the corpus, but such annotation criteria have not been researched enough thus far. This study aimed to develop fine grained annotation criteria that exhaustively cover patients' states in case reports. We collected 362 case reports-written in Japanese-of intractable diseases that were expected to contain a broad range of patients' states. Criteria were developed by repeatedly revising and annotating the clinical case report text. A set of annotation criteria for patients' states, consisting of 46 entity types, 9 attributes, and 36 relations, was obtained it allows more detailed information to be expressed than in previous studies by broader range of concept types including treatment, and captures clinical information based on a combination of causality and judgment, which could not be expressed before.
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- Emiko Shinohara
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Leite MM, Bello FPS, Sakano TMS, Schvartsman C, da Costa Reis AGA. Analysis of death in children not submitted to cardiopulmonary resuscitation. J Pediatr (Rio J) 2022; 98:477-483. [PMID: 35139342 PMCID: PMC9510803 DOI: 10.1016/j.jped.2021.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Revised: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Describe the epidemiology of deaths in children not submitted to CPR, compare to a CPR group and evaluate patients' medical records of those not submitted to CPR. METHODS Observational cross-sectional study assessing deaths between 2015 and 2018 in a pediatric tertiary hospital, divided into two groups: CPR and no- CPR. The source of data included the cardiorespiratory arrest register, based on Utstein style. Children's medical records in no-CPR group were researched by hand. RESULTS 241 deaths were included, 162 in CPR group and 79 in the no-CPR group. Preexisting diseases were observed in 98.3% of patients and prior advanced intervention in 78%. Of the 241 deaths, 212 (88%) occurred in the PICU, being 138/162 (85.2%) in CPR group and 74/79 (93.7%) in no-CPR group (p = 0.018). Bradycardia as the initial rhythm was five times more frequent in the CPR group (OR 5.06, 95% CI 1.94-13,19). There was no statistically significant difference regarding age, gender, preexisting diseases, and period of the day of the occurrence of death. Medical records revealed factors related to the family decision-making process or the suitability of therapeutic effort. Discrepancies between the practice of CPR and medical records were identified in 9/79 (11,4%) records allocated to the no-CPR group. CONCLUSION Most deaths with CPR and with the no-CPR occurred in the PICU. Bradycardia as the initial rhythm was five times more frequent in the CPR group. Medical records reflected the complexity of the decision not to perform CPR. Discrepancies were identified between practice and medical records in the no-CPR group.
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- Márcia Marques Leite
- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Pediatria, Hospital das Clínicas, Instituto da Criança, Pronto-Socorro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Pediatria, Hospital das Clínicas, Instituto da Criança, Pronto-Socorro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Pediatria, Hospital das Clínicas, Instituto da Criança, Pronto-Socorro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Pediatria, Hospital das Clínicas, Instituto da Criança, Pronto-Socorro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Pediatria, Hospital das Clínicas, Instituto da Criança, Pronto-Socorro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Kaplan S, Bogojevic DI, Rainville C, Gross N. A multinational, drug utilization study of lipegfilgrastim use in real-world setting in Europe. Support Care Cancer 2022; 30:9191-9201. [PMID: 36044089 DOI: 10.1007/s00520-022-07341-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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PURPOSE Lipegfilgrastim (Lonquex, Teva Pharma B.V.) is approved for reduction in neutropenia duration and febrile neutropenia incidence. In the framework of lipegfilgrastim regulatory approval in the EU, the Health Authorities requested a drug utilization study. This study was conducted to characterize prescribing patterns of lipegfilgrastim and quantify the extent of on- and off-label use of lipegfilgrastim in real-world setting in Europe. METHODS Information on lipegfilgrastim use between January 2014 and March 2020 was abstracted from medical records in hospital and outpatient clinical settings. Indication for lipegfilgrastim was classified either as on-label or off-label use according to pre-determined criteria. The primary endpoint was the extent of lipegfilgrastim off-label use based on the most recent lipegfilgrastim cycle. RESULTS Records of 481 patients were obtained from five European countries. Lipegfilgrastim was most commonly prescribed for prevention of neutropenia by oncologists and hematologists. Patients who were administered lipegfilgrastim were primarily ≥ 55 years old (65.1%) and female (65.7%). The most frequent underlying diagnosis was breast cancer (38.3%). For the most recent lipegfilgrastim cycle, on-label use was recorded in 452/459 patients with no missing data (98.5%), while off-label use was recorded in 7/459 patients (1.5%). The majority of off-label use was attributed to use with non-cytotoxic chemotherapy (57.1%). Off-label use of lipegfilgrastim across all treatment cycles with no missing data was 11/1547 cycles (0.7%). CONCLUSION Using real-world data, these findings confirm the low rate of lipegfilgrastim off-label use as reported in a preceding feasibility study, indicating very high adherence to the approved indication.
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- Sigal Kaplan
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, 12 Hatrufa St, 4250483, Netanya, Israel.
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- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, 400 Interpace Pkwy, Parsippany, NJ, 07054, USA
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- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, 41 Moores Road, Malvern, PA, 19355, USA
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- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, 145 Brandywine Pkwy, West Chester, PA, 19380, USA
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Saaristo L, Ukkonen MT, Wirta EV, Kotaluoto S, Lammi M, Laukkarinen JM, Pauniaho SLK. Computer-generated structured electronic medical records are preferable to conventional medical records for patients with acute abdominal pain - a prospective, double-blinded study. J Med Syst 2022; 46:63. [PMID: 36008740 PMCID: PMC9411218 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-022-01852-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Revised: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Objectives Structured medical records improve readability and ensure the inclusion of information necessary for correct diagnosis and treatment. This is the first study to assess the quality of computer-generated structured medical records by comparing them to conventional medical records on patients with acute abdominal pain. Materials and methods A prospective double-blinded study was conducted in a tertiary referral center emergency department between January 2018 and June 2018. Patients were examined by emergency department physicians and by experience and inexperienced researcher. The researchers used a new electronical medical records system, which gathered data during the examination and the system generate structured medical records containing natural language. Conventional medical records dictated by physician and computer-generated medical records were compared by a group of independent clinicians. Results Ninety-nine patients were included. The overall quality of the computer-generated medical records was better than the quality of conventional human-generated medical records – the structure was similar or better in 99% of cases and the readability was similar or better in 86% of cases, p < 0.001. The quality of medical history, current illness, and findings of physical examinations were likewise better with the computer-generated recording. The results were similar when patients were examined by experienced or inexperienced researcher using the computer-generated recording. Discussion The quality of computer-generated structured medical records was superior to that of conventional medical records. The quality remained similar regardless of the researcher’s level of experience. The system allows automatic risk scoring and easy access for quality control of patient care. We therefore consider that it would be useful in wider practice.
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- Leena Saaristo
- Department of Surgery, Seinäjoki Central Hospital, Seinäjoki, Finland.,Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. .,Department of Gastroenterology and Alimentary Tract Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.,Department of Gastroenterology and Alimentary Tract Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.,Department of Gastroenterology and Alimentary Tract Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.,Department of Gastroenterology and Alimentary Tract Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Emergency Division, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.,Department of Adolescent Psychiatry, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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Garg R, Talwar Y, Garg N. Application of lean management after audit of Medical Records Department in a COVID19 dedicated center during the COVID pandemic. Med J Armed Forces India 2022; 80:S0377-1237(22)00065-X. [PMID: 35722445 PMCID: PMC9188669 DOI: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2022.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Background The Medical Record (MR) contains the information which is needed to plan, provide, and evaluate the care given to the individual. It also serves as a pivotal tool for communicating information to all the health personnel who manage the patient, and it contributes to the continuity of patient care. There is an unmet need of identifying and correcting the issues faced with MR and Medical Records Departments (MRDs) so that higher efficiency can be achieved. This study was conducted to study the deficiencies and discrepancies found in MRD files during COVID management and to correlate the deficiencies with the facilities available and the workflow. Later Lean Management (LM) was applied to ensure compliance and efficiency in the system. Methods An observational study was done on the audit of COVID 19 patient files and facilities in the care centres. Process mapping was done. The data for LM were collected by brainstorming, observation, interview, and workflow review of several processes, values, number of wastes, and suggestions were documented the MRD staff. Results Area available was 400 m2 which is adequate against the norm of 350 m2. The existing staff of 30 was adequate as per norms. Deficiencies were observed in physical examination, history, radiology, and laboratory reports. The findings showed that the MRD units had 13 current processes, 26 wastes, and 10 values were identified. In addition, they were offered a total of 25 comments on eliminating the waste. Conclusion Staff and equipment were adequate. Recommendations include regular staff training and usage of electronic medical records, focus on deficiency check by specific MRD staff on regular basis monitored by the administration and supported by the medical audit committee. The study also recommends that suggestions applied after LM should be implemented in letter and spirit and a repeat study of LM is advisable after regular intervals to maintain the quality standards and to maintain or further improve the efficiency.
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- Ruchi Garg
- Assistant Professor (Hospital Administration), AIIMS, Jodhpur, India
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- Resident (Hospital Administration), AIIMS, Jodhpur, India
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- Associate Professor, Department of Hospital Administration, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India
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Tubi O. Infrastructural capital in the Israeli vaccination campaign against COVID-19. Soc Sci Med 2022; 303:115022. [PMID: 35569233 PMCID: PMC9081040 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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This article examines the Israeli vaccination campaign against COVID-19, focusing on the state's acquisition of the vaccines from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. In December 2020, Israel signed an agreement with Pfizer to purchase enough doses to vaccinate its entire population. In the months that followed, the country became a world leader in vaccination rates. But how was Israel able to purchase large quantities of then-scarce vaccines in the first place? To answer this question, I examine reports and publications by government and civil society bodies as well as news coverage about the campaign. Drawing on insights from the sociology of the state and from science and technology studies, I argue that Israel was able to secure vaccines by using its state-power as a form of currency. Theoretically, I suggest the term “infrastructural capital” – which I define as the resources a state can provide to an external capitalist actor by virtue of its power – to explain how Israel traded with Pfizer. In the conclusion, I discuss the potential implications of this case for other cases.
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- Omri Tubi
- Northwestern University, Department of Sociology, 1810 Chicago Avenue, 60208, Evanston, IL, USA.
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Bergqvist E, Probert-Lindström S, Fröding E, Palmqvist-Öberg N, Ehnvall A, Sunnqvist C, Sellin T, Vaez M, Waern M, Westrin Å. Health care utilisation two years prior to suicide in Sweden: a retrospective explorative study based on medical records. BMC Health Serv Res 2022; 22:664. [PMID: 35581647 PMCID: PMC9115926 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-08044-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Previous literature has suggested that identifying putative differences in health care seeking patterns before death by suicide depending on age and gender may facilitate more targeted suicide preventive approaches. The aim of this study is to map health care utilisation among individuals in the two years prior to suicide in Sweden in 2015 and to examine possible age and gender differences. METHODS Design: A retrospective explorative study with a medical record review covering the two years preceding suicide. SETTING All health care units located in 20 of Sweden's 21 regions. PARTICIPANTS All individuals residing in participating regions who died by suicide during 2015 (n = 949). RESULTS Almost 74% were in contact with a health care provider during the 3 months prior to suicide, and 60% within 4 weeks. Overall health care utilisation during the last month of life did not differ between age groups. However, a higher proportion of younger individuals (< 65 years) were in contact with psychiatric services, and a higher proportion of older individuals (≥ 65 years) were in contact with primary and specialised somatic health care. The proportion of women with any type of health care contact during the observation period was larger than the corresponding proportion of men, although no gender difference was found among primary and specialised somatic health care users within four weeks and three months respectively prior to suicide. CONCLUSION Care utilisation before suicide varied by gender and age. Female suicide decedents seem to utilise health care to a larger extent than male decedents in the two years preceding death, except for the non-psychiatric services in closer proximity to death. Older adults seem to predominantly use non-psychiatric services, while younger individuals seek psychiatric services to a larger extent.
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- Erik Bergqvist
- Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Lund University, Baravägen 1, 221 85, Lund, Sweden.
- Psychiatric In-Patient Clinic, Hallands Sjukhus Varberg, Region Halland, 432 81, Varberg, Sweden.
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Lund University, Baravägen 1, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
- Office of Psychiatry and Habilitation, Region Skåne, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
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- School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, 551 11, Jönköping, Sweden
- Region Jonköpings Län, Jönköping, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Lund University, Baravägen 1, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
- Office of Psychiatry and Habilitation, Region Skåne, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, 413 45, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Psychiatric Out-Patient Clinic, Region Halland, 432 43, Varberg, Sweden
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- Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Care Science, Malmö University, 214 28, Malmö, Sweden
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, University Health Care Research Center, Örebro University, 701 82, Örebro, Sweden
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- Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, 413 45, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Psychosis Clinic, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Region Västra Götaland, 431 30, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Lund University, Baravägen 1, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
- Office of Psychiatry and Habilitation, Region Skåne, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
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Steinberg J, Chan P, Hogden E, Tiernan G, Morrow A, Kang YJ, He E, Venchiarutti R, Titterton L, Sankey L, Pearn A, Nichols C, McKay S, Hayward A, Egoroff N, Engel A, Gibbs P, Goodwin A, Harris M, Kench JG, Pachter N, Parkinson B, Pockney P, Ragunathan A, Smyth C, Solomon M, Steffens D, Toh JWT, Wallace M, Canfell K, Gill A, Macrae F, Tucker K, Taylor N. Lynch syndrome testing of colorectal cancer patients in a high-income country with universal healthcare: a retrospective study of current practice and gaps in seven australian hospitals. Hered Cancer Clin Pract 2022; 20:18. [PMID: 35509103 PMCID: PMC9066828 DOI: 10.1186/s13053-022-00225-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 04/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND To inform effective genomic medicine strategies, it is important to examine current approaches and gaps in well-established applications. Lynch syndrome (LS) causes 3-5% of colorectal cancers (CRCs). While guidelines commonly recommend LS tumour testing of all CRC patients, implementation in health systems is known to be highly variable. To provide insights on the heterogeneity in practice and current bottlenecks in a high-income country with universal healthcare, we characterise the approaches and gaps in LS testing and referral in seven Australian hospitals across three states. METHODS We obtained surgery, pathology, and genetics services data for 1,624 patients who underwent CRC resections from 01/01/2017 to 31/12/2018 in the included hospitals. RESULTS Tumour testing approaches differed between hospitals, with 0-19% of patients missing mismatch repair deficiency test results (total 211/1,624 patients). Tumour tests to exclude somatic MLH1 loss were incomplete at five hospitals (42/187 patients). Of 74 patients with tumour tests completed appropriately and indicating high risk of LS, 36 (49%) were missing a record of referral to genetics services for diagnostic testing, with higher missingness for older patients (0% of patients aged ≤ 40 years, 76% of patients aged > 70 years). Of 38 patients with high-risk tumour test results and genetics services referral, diagnostic testing was carried out for 25 (89%) and identified a LS pathogenic/likely pathogenic variant for 11 patients (44% of 25; 0.7% of 1,624 patients). CONCLUSIONS Given the LS testing and referral gaps, further work is needed to identify strategies for successful integration of LS testing into clinical care, and provide a model for hereditary cancers and broader genomic medicine. Standardised reporting may help clinicians interpret tumour test results and initiate further actions.
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- Julia Steinberg
- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia.
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia
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- Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe), Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- NSW Health, Western Sydney Local Health District, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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- Cancer Council NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Genetic Services of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia
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- The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- The University of Sydney, Northern Clinical School Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Personalised Oncology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Tissue Pathology & Diagnostic Oncology, NSW Health Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Genetic Services of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western, Australia
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- Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- Westmead Familial Cancer Services, The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe), Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, The University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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- Fiona Stanley Hospital, South Metropolitan Health Service, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia
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- Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Colorectal Medicine and Genetics, Department of Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Hereditary Cancer Clinic, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, 153 Dowling St, NSW, 2011, Woolloomooloo, Australia
- School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Lin J, Wolfe I, Ahsan MD, Krinsky H, Lackner AI, Pelt J, Bolouvi K, Gamble C, Thomas C, Christos PJ, Cantillo E, Holcomb K, Chapman-Davis E, Sharaf R, Lipkin SM, Blank SV, Frey MK. Room for improvement in capturing cancer family history in a gynecologic oncology outpatient setting. Gynecol Oncol Rep 2022; 40:100941. [PMID: 35242980 PMCID: PMC8861387 DOI: 10.1016/j.gore.2022.100941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The literature demonstrates that the quality of cancer family history (CFH) as currently collected in the outpatient setting is inadequate to assess disease risk. Prior to implementation of a web-based application for cancer family history collection, we aimed to review the quality of collected CFH in a gynecologic oncology outpatient clinic and determine contributing patient factors. Medical records were reviewed for 200 new patients presenting between 4/2019-7/2019. CFH was collected during the patient interview and evaluated for inclusion of eight elements based on standards set by the genetics community. Univariate and multivariable linear regression analyses were utilized to evaluate the effect of patient characteristics on the number of relatives included in the CFH. Among our cohort of 200 patients, CFH was documented for 185 patients (92.5%). On univariate analysis, patients with a family history of cancer and prior genetic testing had significantly greater median number of relatives included in the CFH. On multivariable analysis, patients with family members with cancer had significantly more relatives included. Our data are consistent with the literature, suggesting that the current collection methods may not adequately capture all measures of a high quality CFH. Patients reporting no family history of cancer and those without prior genetic testing were least likely to have CFH that included key quality elements and these patients might benefit from health information technology CFH collection tools.
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- Jenny Lin
- Weill Cornell Medicine, United States
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, United States
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute, United States
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Ziogas C, Hillyer J, Saftlas AF, Spracklen CN. Validation of birth certificate and maternal recall of events in labor and delivery with medical records in the Iowa health in pregnancy study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2022; 22:232. [PMID: 35317778 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-04581-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Background Epidemiological research of events related to labor and delivery frequently uses maternal interview or birth certificates as a primary method of data collection; however, the validity of these data are rarely confirmed. This study aimed to examine the validity of birth certificate data and maternal interview of maternal demographics and events related to labor and delivery with data abstracted from medical records in a US setting. Methods Birth certificate and maternal recall data from the Iowa Health in Pregnancy Study (IHIPS), a population-based case-control study of risk factors for preterm and small-for-gestational age births, were linked to medical record data to assess the validity of events that occurred during labor and delivery along with reported maternal demographics. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and kappa scores were calculated. Results Postpartum maternal recall and birth certificate data were excellent for infant characteristics (birth weight, gestational age, infant sex) and variables related to labor and delivery (mode of delivery) when compared with medical records. Birth certificate data for labor induction had low sensitivity (46.3%) and positive predictive value (18.3%) compared to medical records. Compared to maternal interview, birth certificate data also had poor agreement for smoking and alcohol use during pregnancy. Agreement between all three methods of data collection was very low for pregnancy weight gain (kappa = 0.07-0.08). Conclusions Maternal interview and birth certificate data can be a valid source for collecting data on infant characteristics and events that occurred during labor and delivery. However, caution should be used if solely using birth certificate data to gather data on maternal demographic and/or lifestyle factors.
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Canonico M, Artaud F, Degaey I, Moisan F, Kabore R, Portugal B, Nguyen TTH, Pesce G, Boutron-Ruault MC, Roze E, Elbaz A. Incidence of Parkinson's disease in French women from the E3N cohort study over 27 years of follow-up. Eur J Epidemiol 2022; 37:513-523. [PMID: 35286513 DOI: 10.1007/s10654-022-00851-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2021] [Accepted: 02/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is an uncommon disease with a long prodromal period and higher incidence in men than women. Large cohort studies of women with a long follow-up are needed. Within the E3N French cohort study (98,995 women, 40-65 years at baseline), we identified 3,584 participants who self-reported PD or used anti-parkinsonian drugs over 27 years (1992-2018). We obtained medical records to validate PD diagnosis (definite, probable, possible, no). When medical records were not available, we used a validated algorithm based on drug claims to predict PD status. We retained a PD diagnosis for 1,294 women (medical records, 62%; algorithm, 38%). After exclusion of prevalent/possible cases, cases without age at diagnosis, and women lost to follow-up, our analyses included 98,069 women, of whom 1,200 had incident PD (mean age at diagnosis = 71.8 years; incidence rate = 0.494/1,000 person-years). Age-adjusted incidence rates increased over the six first years of follow-up, possibly due to healthy volunteer bias, and remained stable thereafter, similar to incidence rates in women from Western Europe. Forty three percent of PD cases occurred after 20 years of follow-up (2012-2018). The cumulative incidence of PD from 50 to 90 years was 2.41% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.27-2.65). PD incidence was lower in ever than never smokers (hazard ratio = 0.86, 95% CI = 0.76-0.96). In conclusion, we estimated PD incidence rates in French women over a 27-year follow-up, and showed stable incidence between 2002 and 2018. The long follow-up and large sample size make this study a valuable resource to improve our knowledge on PD etiology in women.
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- Marianne Canonico
- Paris-Saclay University, Paris-South University, UVSQ, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Paris-South University, UVSQ, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Paris-South University, UVSQ, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Santé publique France, French Public Health Agency, Direction Santé Environnement Travail, Saint-Maurice, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Paris-South University, UVSQ, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Paris-South University, UVSQ, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Paris-South University, UVSQ, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Paris-South University, UVSQ, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Paris-South University, UVSQ, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Département de Neurologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.,INSERM U1127, CNRS 7225, Institut du Cerveau, Paris, France
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- Paris-Saclay University, Paris-South University, UVSQ, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif Cedex, France.
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Randall LM, Dasgupta S, Day J, DeMaria A, Musolino J, John B, Cranston K, Buchacz K. An outbreak of HIV infection among people who inject drugs in northeastern Massachusetts: findings and lessons learned from a medical record review. BMC Public Health 2022; 22:257. [PMID: 35135527 PMCID: PMC8822794 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-12604-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 01/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We conducted a medical record review for healthcare utilization, risk factors, and clinical data among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Massachusetts to aid HIV outbreak response decision-making and strengthen public health practice. SETTING Two large community health centers (CHCs) that provide HIV and related services in northeastern Massachusetts. METHODS Between May and July 2018, we reviewed medical records for 88 people with HIV (PWH) connected to the outbreak. The review period included care received from May 1, 2016, through the date of review. Surveillance data were used to establish date of HIV diagnosis and assess viral suppression. RESULTS Sixty-nine (78%) people had HIV infection diagnosed during the review period, including 10 acute infections. Persons had a median of 3 primary care visits after HIV diagnosis and zero before diagnosis. During the review period, 72% reported active drug or alcohol use, 62% were prescribed medication assisted treatment, and 41% were prescribed antidepressants. The majority (68, 77%) had a documented ART prescription. HIV viral suppression at < 200 copies/mL was more frequent (73%) than the overall across the State (65%); it did not correlate with any of the sociodemographic characteristics studied in our population. Over half (57%) had been hospitalized at least once during the review period, and 36% had a bacterial infection at hospitalization. CONCLUSIONS Medical record review with a field investigation of an outbreak provided data about patterns of health care utilization and comorbidities not available from routine HIV surveillance or case interviews. Integration of HIV screening with treatment for HIV and SUD can strengthen prevention and care services for PWID in northeastern Massachusetts.
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- Liisa M Randall
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, 305 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130-3515, USA.
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- Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc., Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, 305 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130-3515, USA
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- Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, 305 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130-3515, USA
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- Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, 305 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130-3515, USA
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- Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Mariam S, Goyal A, Dhareula A, Gauba K, Bhatia SK, Kapur A. A case-controlled investigation of risk factors associated with molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH) in 8-12 year-old children living in Chandigarh, India. Eur Arch Paediatr Dent 2022; 23:97-107. [PMID: 34725798 DOI: 10.1007/s40368-021-00665-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Despite mounting evidence in favour of various perinatal risk factors for occurrence of MIH, verification of these remains doubtful because of lack of documented proof. The present study was aimed at examining the putative risk factors for MIH based on hospital-maintained records assessment. METHODS A total of 3176, 8-12 year-old children were screened for MIH using EAPD criteria (2003). Of these, risk factor analysis was carried out for 104 MIH affected and 211 non-MIH affected children with complete peri-natal medical records maintained up to 3 year post-birth. Chi-square test was used for risk factor comparison, while significance was assessed using logistic regression. RESULTS Prevalence of MIH in study population was 11.72% (372/3176). Various pre-natal, natal and post-natal risk factors including intra-uterine growth retardation (6.7 vs. 1.4%); maternal anaemia (10.6 vs. 3.8%) and neonatal jaundice (29.8 vs. 14.2%) were significantly higher in the MIH group. Furthermore, pre-term birth (OR 3.01), low birth weight (OR 2.37), more than three pyrogenic episodes (OR 7.61) and consumption of Amoxicillin Clavulanate (OR 3.01) were significantly associated with higher risk of developing MIH. CONCLUSIONS Pre and post-natal risk factors showed a moderate to high association for occurrence of MIH although social and nutritional factors had a lesser association.
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Kernebeck S, Busse TS, Jux C, Bork U, Ehlers JP. Electronic Medical Records for (Visceral) Medicine: An Overview of the Current Status and Prospects. Visc Med 2022; 37:476-481. [PMID: 35087897 DOI: 10.1159/000519254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Electronic medical records (EMRs) offer key advantages over analog documentation in healthcare. In addition to providing details about current and past treatments, EMRs enable clear and traceable documentation regardless of the location. This supports evidence-based, multi-professional treatment and leads to more efficient healthcare. However, there are still several challenges regarding the use of EMRs. Understanding these challenges is essential to improve healthcare. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the current state of EMRs in the field of visceral medicine, to describe the future prospects in this field, and to highlight some of the challenges that need to be faced. Summary The benefits of EMRs are manifold and particularly pronounced in the area of quality assurance and improvement of communication not only between different healthcare professionals but also between physicians and patients. Besides the danger of medical errors, the health consequences for the users (cognitive load) arise from poor usability or a system that does not fit into the real world. Involving users in the development of EMRs in the sense of participatory design can be helpful here. The use of EMRs in practice together with patients should be accompanied by training to ensure optimal outcomes in terms of shared decision-making. Key Message EMRs offer a variety of benefits. However, it is critical to consider user involvement, setting specificity, and user training during development, implementation, and use in order to minimize unintended consequences.
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- Sven Kernebeck
- Chair of Didactics and Educational Research in Health Science, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
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- Chair of Didactics and Educational Research in Health Science, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
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- Chair of Didactics and Educational Research in Health Science, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
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- Department of Gastrointestinal-, Thoracic- and Vascular Surgery, Dresden Technical University, University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Chair of Didactics and Educational Research in Health Science, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
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Gutton J, Lin F, Billuart O, Lajonchère JP, Crubilié C, Sauvage C, Buronfosse A. [Artificial intelligence for medical information departments : construction and evaluation of a decision-making tool to identify and prioritize stays of which the PMSI coding could be optimized, and to ensure the revenues generated by activity-based pricing]. Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 2022; 70:1-8. [PMID: 35027236 DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2021.11.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Medical Information Departments help to optimize the hospital revenues generated by activity-based pricing. A review of medical files, selected after the targeting of coding summaries, is organized. The aim is to make any corrections to the diagnoses or coded procedures with a potential impact on the pricing of the stay. Targeting is of major importance as a means of concentrating resources on the files for which coding can be effectively improved. The tools available for targeting can be optimized. We have developed a decision-making support tool to make targeting more efficient. The objective of our study was to evaluate the performance of this tool. METHODS The tool combines an artificial intelligence module with a rule-based expert module. A predictive score is assigned to each coding summary that reflects the probability of a revalued stay. Evaluation of the performance of this tool was based on a sample of 400 stays of at least 3 nights of patients hospitalized at the Paris Saint-Joseph Hospital from 1st November to 31st December 2019. Each stay was reviewed by a coding expert, without knowledge of the score assigned and without help from expert queries. Two main assessment criteria were used: area under the ROC curve and positive predictive value (PPV). RESULTS The area under the ROC curve was 0.70 (CI 95% [0.64-0.76]). With a revalued coding rate of 32%, PPV was 41% for scores above 5, 65% for scores above 8, 88% for scores above 9. CONCLUSION The study made it possible to validate the performance of the tool. The implementation of new variables could further increase its performance. This is an area of development to be considered, particularly with in view of generalizing individual invoicing in hospitals.
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- J Gutton
- Direction de l'information médicale du Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 Paris, France.
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- Direction de l'information médicale du Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 Paris, France
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- Direction de l'information médicale du Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 Paris, France
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- Direction du Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, Paris, France
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- Direction de l'information médicale du Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 Paris, France
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- Direction de l'information médicale du Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 Paris, France
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- Direction de l'information médicale du Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 Paris, France
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da Silva TPF, Mendes GG, Muglia VF, Chojniak R, Barbosa PNVP. Communication in radiology: evaluation of terminology and TNM descriptor use at a cancer center. Radiol Bras 2022; 55:353-358. [PMID: 36514682 PMCID: PMC9743259 DOI: 10.1590/0100-3984.2022.0043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Objective The purpose of our study was to evaluate the transmission of information from radiologists to physicians, focusing on the level of certainty and the use of imaging descriptors from the tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system. Materials and Methods Radiologists (n = 56) and referring physicians (n = 50) participated in this questionnaire-based, singlecenter study, conducted between March 20, 2020, and January 21, 2021. Participants were presented with terms commonly used by the radiologists at the institution and were asked to order them hierarchically in terms of the level of certainty they communicate regarding a diagnosis, using a scale ranging from 1 (most contrary to) to 10 (most favoring). They then assessed TNM system descriptors and their interpretation. Student's t-tests and the kappa statistic were used in order to compare the rankings of the terms of certainty. Items related to T and N staging were analyzed by Fisher's exact test. The confidence level was set to 97% (p < 0.03). Results Although overall agreement among the radiologists and referring physicians on term ranking was poor (kappa = 0.10- 0.35), the mean and median values for the two groups were similar. Most of the radiologists and referring physicians (67% and 86%, respectively) approved of the proposal to establish a standard lexicon. Such a lexicon, based on the participant responses, was developed and graphically represented. Regarding the TNM system descriptors, there were significant differences between the two groups in the reporting of lymph node numbers, of features indicating capsular rupture, and of vessel wall irregularities, as well as in the preference for clear descriptions of vascular involvement. Conclusion Our findings indicate that ineffective communication and differences in report interpretation between radiologists and referring physicians are still prevalent in the fields of radiology and oncology. Efforts to gain a better understanding of those impediments might improve the objectivity of reporting and the quality of care.
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- Thiago Pereira Fernandes da Silva
- A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. ,Correspondence: Dr. Thiago P. Fernandes da Silva. A.C.Camargo Cancer Center
– Departamento de Imagem. Rua Professor Antônio Prudente, 211, Liberdade.
São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 01509-010.
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- Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de
São Paulo (FMRP-USP), Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
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Lorkowski J, Maciejowska-Wilcock I. Surgical Safety Checklist: Polychromatic or Achromatic Design. Adv Exp Med Biol 2021. [PMID: 34970728 DOI: 10.1007/5584_2021_699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has been created based on the recommendations of the WHO and obligatorily introduced worldwide. SSC is used to increase the patient's safety and reduce complications while in the hospital, especially in the perioperative period. The original SSC template was of a multicolor polychromatic design. However, an achromatic black-and-white or gray-gray design on plain printer paper appears often used in clinical practice. This review aims to assess the level of SSC use in the polychromatic versus achromatic versions and the pros and cons of using either in practice. We used the Google browser for the identification and collection of SSC graphic images available as of June 2021 using the following search commands: "surgical safety checklist WHO" or "surgical safety checklist" or "SSC WHO." The commands were repeated in 103 languages representing the five continents with the back answers provided in 41 languages. The successive top 10 thematically relevant images or fewer if not available in the cases of some foreign languages were considered for analysis, providing a mean of 5 ±2 images per language. The numbers of achromatic and polychromatic two-color or multicolor images were calculated. The number of images corresponding to the respective color designs ranged as follows: 0-6 (27.6%), 0-9 (41.6%), and 0-6 (27.6%) We conclude that polychromatic imaging of SSC documents predominates in practical use. The polychromatic SSC design catches the doctor's eye, which likely increases the effectiveness of completing the document.
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Petersson J, Backman C. Patient-accessible online health records: Reconfigurations of clinical rhythms and doctors' front- and backstage spaces. Soc Sci Med 2021; 292:114635. [PMID: 34891029 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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With patients' increasing online access to medical information traditionally contained within healthcare institutions, researchers have argued that the spaces of medicine are increasingly becoming blurred, allowing patients to sidestep their doctors and challenge their prior information dominance. In this context, Sweden has recently been spotlighted as it allows its inhabitants to continually access medical record content online. Based on an interview study on Swedish doctors' clinical experiences of the patient-accessible online health record, this paper expands on the theme of emergent medical information spaces accessible to laypersons online by arguing that this not only may challenge the traditional spaces of medicine but can impose on its temporal orders too. We detail doctors' attitudes toward the patient-accessible online health record, patients as continually updated record readers, and how this may transform clinical work rhythms and affect doctors' perceptions of the boundary between front- and backstage spaces. We moreover show how doctors can avoid "inappropriate intrusion" into the record by delaying patient access, but also that doctors can experience patients opposing to adapt to doctors' preferred pace and instead attempting to control the clinical rhythm. By intertwining clinical rhythms with doctors' front- and backstage, this paper contributes with an extended analysis of the emergent spaces of online medical information, adding a temporal layer. The paper furthermore enlarges the existing sociological body on historical developments of medical records and adds a piece to the so-far piecemeal social science literature on how online records may affect the medical profession.
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- Jesper Petersson
- University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science, PO Box 720, SE40530, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science, PO Box 720, SE40530, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Pintaudi B, Scatena A, Piscitelli G, Frison V, Corrao S, Manicardi V, Graziano G, Chiara Rossi M, Gallo M, Mannino D, Nicolucci A, Di Bartolo P. Clinical profiles and quality of care of adults with type 1 diabetes according to their cardiovascular Risk: A Multicenter, Observational, retrospective study. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2021; 182:109131. [PMID: 34762997 DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2021.109131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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AIMS The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) recently defined cardiovascular risk classes for subjects with diabetes. Aim of this study was to explore the distribution of subjects with type 1 diabetes (T1D) by cardiovascular risk groups according to the ESC classification and to describe the quality indicators of care. METHODS The study is based on data extracted from electronic medical records of patients treated at the 258 Italian diabetes centers participating in the AMD (Associazione Medici Diabetologi) Annals initiative. Patients with T1D were stratified by cardiovascular risk. Measures of intermediate outcomes, intensity/appropriateness of pharmacological treatment, and overall quality of care were evaluated. RESULTS Overall, 29.368 subjects with type 1 diabetes (64.7% at very high cardiovascular risk, 28.5% at high risk and 6.8% at moderate risk) were evaluated. A lack of use of drugs in case of high values and an inadequate control despite the antihypertensive and lipid-lowering treatment was recognized. The overall quality of care tended to be lower as the level of cardiovascular risk increased. CONCLUSION A large proportion of subjects with T1D is at high or very high risk. Antihypertensive and lipid-lowering treatment seem not adequately used. Several actions are necessary to improve the quality of care.
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- Internal Medicine and Diabetology Service, ULSS6, Cittadella, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, ARNAS Civico Benfratelli Hospital, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Diabetes Clinic, Azienda USL-IRCCS Di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology, CORESEARCH, Pescara, Italy
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- Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology, CORESEARCH, Pescara, Italy
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- AOU Città Della Salute E Della Scienza, Molinette Hospital, Torino, Italy
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- Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology, CORESEARCH, Pescara, Italy.
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Probert-Lindström S, Vaez M, Fröding E, Ehnvall A, Sellin T, Ambrus L, Bergqvist E, Palmqvist-Öberg N, Waern M, Westrin Å. Utilization of psychiatric services prior to suicide- a retrospective comparison of users with and without previous suicide attempts. Arch Suicide Res 2021; 27:401-414. [PMID: 34821208 DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2021.2006101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The aim was to investigate psychiatric health care utilization two years before death by suicide among individuals with previous suicide attempts (PSA) compared with those without (NSA). METHOD A retrospective population-based cohort study was conducted including 484 individuals who died by suicide in Sweden in 2015 and were in contact with psychiatric services within the two years preceding death, identified through the Cause of Death register. Data on psychiatric health care two years before death, including suicide attempts according to notes in the medical record was used. Associations between having at least one PSA vs. NSA and health care utilization were estimated as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) by logistic regression analyses. RESULTS Of the 484 individuals included, 51% had PSA. Those with PSA were more likely than NSA to have received a psychiatric diagnosis [OR 1.96 (CI 95% 1.17-3.30)], to have ongoing psychotropic medication [OR 1.96 (CI 95% 1.15-3.36)] and to have been absent from appointments during the last three months [1.97 (1.25-3.13)]. In addition, elevated suicide risk was more often noted in the psychiatric case records of those with a PSA than those without [OR 2.17 (CI 95% 1.24-3.79)]. CONCLUSION The results underline the importance of improved suicide risk assessment as well as thorough diagnostic assessment and when indicated, psychiatric treatment as suicide preventive interventions regardless of PSA. Furthermore, the larger proportion of absence from appointments in individuals with PSA may indicate a need of improved alliance between psychiatric care providers and individuals with PSA.HIGHLIGHTSBeing assessed with elevated suicide risk was more common among those with previous attempt/s (PSA).One-fifth of all with no previous attempt (NSA) had no psychiatric diagnosis, compared to one in ten in those with PSA.Receiving psychotropic medication was more common among those with PSA.
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Duque A, Fabregat H, Araujo L, Martinez-Romo J. A keyphrase-based approach for interpretable ICD-10 code classification of Spanish medical reports. Artif Intell Med 2021; 121:102177. [PMID: 34763812 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2021.102177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The 10th version of International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) codification system has been widely adopted by the health systems of many countries, including Spain. However, manual code assignment of Electronic Health Records (EHR) is a complex and time-consuming task that requires a great amount of specialised human resources. Therefore, several machine learning approaches are being proposed to assist in the assignment task. In this work we present an alternative system for automatically recommending ICD-10 codes to be assigned to EHRs. METHODS Our proposal is based on characterising ICD-10 codes by a set of keyphrases that represent them. These keyphrases do not only include those that have literally appeared in some EHR with the considered ICD-10 codes assigned, but also others that have been obtained by a statistical process able to capture expressions that have led the annotators to assign the code. RESULTS The result is an information model that allows to efficiently recommend codes to a new EHR based on their textual content. We explore an approach that proves to be competitive with other state-of-the-art approaches and can be combined with them to optimise results. CONCLUSIONS In addition to its effectiveness, the recommendations of this method are easily interpretable since the phrases in an EHR leading to recommend an ICD-10 code are known. Moreover, the keyphrases associated with each ICD-10 code can be a valuable additional source of information for other approaches, such as machine learning techniques.
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- Andres Duque
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). ETS Ingeniería Informática, Juan del Rosal 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain; Instituto Mixto de Investigación - Escuela Nacional de Sanidad (IMIENS), Spain.
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- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). ETS Ingeniería Informática, Juan del Rosal 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). ETS Ingeniería Informática, Juan del Rosal 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain; Instituto Mixto de Investigación - Escuela Nacional de Sanidad (IMIENS), Spain.
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- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). ETS Ingeniería Informática, Juan del Rosal 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain; Instituto Mixto de Investigación - Escuela Nacional de Sanidad (IMIENS), Spain.
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Ju YJ, Lee S, Sheen S, Choi DW, Leem JH, Lee SY. A comprehensive study of deaths due to exposure to humidifier disinfectant in Korea: focusing on medical records, assessment of exposure to humidifier disinfectants, and causes of death. Epidemiol Health 2021; 43:e2021091. [PMID: 34727493 PMCID: PMC8920737 DOI: 10.4178/epih.e2021091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine the characteristics of the deceased victims of deaths caused by exposure to humidifier disinfectants, and present the distribution of the victims’ data submitted for damage application, demographic characteristics, imaging findings, characteristics of humidifier disinfectant exposure, and distribution of the causes of death. METHODS An integrated database of victims was established using the medical records data of 1,413 victims submitted during the application for death damage caused by exposure to humidifier disinfectants, and the demographic characteristics, medical records, imaging findings, exposure characteristics, and cause of death were examined. RESULTS The average numbers of data submissions of each applicant for death damage were 3.0 medical use records. A total of 608 (43.0%) victims had more than one finding of acute, subacute, or chronic interstitial lung diseases. The average daily and cumulative use times of the victims were 14.40 and 24,645.81 hours, respectively, indicating greater exposure in this group than in the survivors. The humidifier disinfectants’ components comprised polyhexamethylene guanidine (72.8%), chloromethylisothiazolinone/methylisothiazolinone (10.5%), other components (15.0%), and oligo-[2-(2-ethoxy)-ethoxyethyl] guanidine chloride (1.5%). The components’ distribution was 67.8% for single-component use, which was higher than that in the survivors (59.8%). The distribution of the causes of death were: respiratory diseases (54.4%), neoplasms (16.8%), and circulatory diseases (6.3%). Other interstitial lung diseases (65.5%) were the most common cause of death among those who died due to respiratory diseases. CONCLUSIONS Careful discussions of appropriate remedies should be conducted based on a comprehensive understanding of the characteristics of the deceased victims, considering their specificities and limitations.
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- Yeong Jun Ju
- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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- Data Link and Operation Team, Cancer Data Center, National Cancer Control Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, Korea.,Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Inha University School of Medicine, Incheon, Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea
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Radovich E, Banke-Thomas A, Campbell OMR, Ezeanochie M, Gwacham-Anisiobi U, Ande ABA, Benova L. Critical comparative analysis of data sources toward understanding referral during pregnancy and childbirth: three perspectives from Nigeria. BMC Health Serv Res 2021; 21:927. [PMID: 34488752 PMCID: PMC8420846 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06945-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The highest risk of maternal and perinatal deaths occurs during and shortly after childbirth and is preventable if functional referral systems enable women to reach appropriate health services when obstetric complications occur. Rising numbers of deliveries in health facilities, including in high mortality settings like Nigeria, require formalised coordination across the health system to ensure that women and newborns get to the right level of care, at the right time. This study describes and critically assesses the extent to which referral and its components can be captured using three different data sources from Nigeria, examining issues of data quality, validity, and usefulness for improving and monitoring obstetric care systems. METHODS The study included three data sources on referral for childbirth care in Nigeria: a nationally representative household survey, patient records from multiple facilities in a state, and patient records from the apex referral facility in a city. We conducted descriptive analyses of the extent to which referral status and components were captured across the three sources. We also iteratively developed a visual conceptual framework to guide our critical comparative analysis. RESULTS We found large differences in the proportion of women referred, and this reflected the different denominators and timings of the referral in each data source. Between 16 and 34% of referrals in the three sources originated in government hospitals, and lateral referrals (origin and destination facility of the same level) were observed in all three data sources. We found large gaps in the coverage of key components of referral as well as data gaps where this information was not routinely captured in facility-based sources. CONCLUSIONS Our analyses illustrated different perspectives from the national- to facility-level in the capture of the extent and components of obstetric referral. By triangulating across multiple data sources, we revealed the strengths and gaps within each approach in building a more complete picture of obstetric referral. We see our visual framework as assisting further research efforts to ensure all referral pathways are captured in order to better monitor and improve referral systems for women and newborns.
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- Emma Radovich
- Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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- Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Edo State, Nigeria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Edo State, Nigeria
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- Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Koopman C, Jones P, Simon V, Showler P, McLevey M; Critical Genealogies Collaboratory. When data drive health: an archaeology of medical records technology. Biosocieties 2021;:1-23. [PMID: 34512794 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00249-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Medicine is often thought of as a science of the body, but it is also a science of data. In some contexts, it can even be asserted that data drive health. This article focuses on a key piece of data technology central to contemporary practices of medicine: the medical record. By situating the medical record in the perspective of its history, we inquire into how the kinds of data that are kept at sites of clinical encounter often depend on informational requirements that originate well outside of the clinic, in particular in health insurance records systems. Although this dependency of today's electronic medical records on billing requirements is widely lamented by clinical providers, its history remains little studied. Following the archaeology of medicine developed by Michel Foucault in The Birth of the Clinic and expanding his methodology in light of more recent contributions to the field of media archaeology, this article excavates some of the underexplored technological conditions that help constitute today's electronic medical record. If in some contexts, it is true that data drive health, then an archaeology of medical records helps reveal how health insurance records often impact clinical care and, by extension, health and disease.
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Boch S, Sezgin E, Ruch D, Kelleher K, Chisolm D, Lin S. Unjust: the health records of youth with personal/family justice involvement in a large pediatric health system. Health Justice 2021; 9:20. [PMID: 34337696 PMCID: PMC8327457 DOI: 10.1186/s40352-021-00147-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Mass incarceration has had an undeniable toll on childhood poverty and inequality, however, little is known about the consequences on pediatric health. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the health of pediatric patients with probable personal or family history involvement with the correctional system. METHODS A descriptive study was conducted using electronic health record data of 2.3 million youth (ages 0-21 years) who received care in a large Midwestern hospital-based institution from February 2006-2020. We employed a correctional-related keyword search (e.g. jail, prison, probation, parole) to locate youth with probable personal or family history involvement. Health characteristics were measured as clinician diagnostic codes. RESULTS Two percent of the total pediatric population had a correctional keyword in the medical chart (N = 51,855). This 2% made up 66% of all patients with cannabis-related diagnoses, 52% of all patients with trauma-related diagnoses, 48% of all stress-related diagnoses, 38% of all patients with psychotic disorder diagnoses, and 33% of all suicidal-related disorders within this institution's electronic health record database - among other highly concerning findings. CONCLUSIONS We captured an alarming health profile that warrants further investigation and validation methods to better address the gaps in our clinical understanding of youth with personal or family history involvement with the correctional system. We can do better in identifying, and supporting families affected by the correctional system.
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- Samantha Boch
- College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
- James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
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- Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA
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Nakajima K, Akebo H, Tsugihashi Y, Ishimaru H, Sada R. Association of physician experience with a higher prescription rate of anti-influenza agents in low-risk patients. Intern Emerg Med 2021; 16:1215-1221. [PMID: 33389450 DOI: 10.1007/s11739-020-02570-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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During the influenza season, most patients suspected of having influenza undergo rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs) in Japan despite their low sensitivity. However, the physician's actual rationale for prescribing antivirals, besides the results of RIDTs, remains poorly understood. Our study sought to identify the role of clinical information and physicians' experience in the initiation of anti-influenza agents. We retrospectively reviewed 380 patients who underwent RIDTs at the emergency department of our hospital from September 2018 to May 2019. Data regarding sex, age, etc., which could affect the decision of prescribing antivirals, were extracted from medical records. We performed logistic regression analysis to analyze the concurrent effect of potentially relevant clinical factors, results of RIDTs, and the physician's status on antiviral prescription. Multivariable analysis revealed that a positive RIDT had the largest effect on antiviral prescription, followed by physician status, high regional influenza activity, and patients' presentation within 12 h of symptom onset. Patient's age, comorbidities, and presentation after 48 h of symptom onset were not associated with antiviral treatment. Physicians with more years of experience were significantly more likely to prescribe antivirals for patients with low risk of complications. Our findings revealed the physicians' rationale for initiating antiviral treatment and the discrepancy with guideline indications of antivirals, which is the patient's age and comorbidities. Physicians, especially those with more than 3 years of experience, frequently prescribed antivirals for patients with low risk of complications; thus, educational interventions against this population could be useful to improve this situation.
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- Koji Nakajima
- Department of General Internal Medicine, Tenri Hospital, 200 Mishima-cho, Tenri-city, Nara, 632-8552, Japan
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- Department of General Internal Medicine, Tenri Hospital, 200 Mishima-cho, Tenri-city, Nara, 632-8552, Japan
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- Center for Healthcare Education, Tenri Health Care University, Tenri, Nara, Japan
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- Department of General Internal Medicine, Tenri Hospital, 200 Mishima-cho, Tenri-city, Nara, 632-8552, Japan
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- Department of General Internal Medicine, Tenri Hospital, 200 Mishima-cho, Tenri-city, Nara, 632-8552, Japan.
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Shen Y, Hao Q, Wang Y, Chen X, Jiang J, Dong B, Guyatt G. The association between preoperative modified frailty index and postoperative complications in Chinese elderly patients with hip fractures. BMC Geriatr 2021; 21:370. [PMID: 34134662 PMCID: PMC8207648 DOI: 10.1186/s12877-021-02330-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/06/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the role of a preoperative modified frailty index (mFI) based on data from medical records in predicting postoperative complications among older Chinese patients with hip fractures. METHODS This retrospective cohort study included consecutive older patients with hip fracture admitted to the Department of Orthopaedics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, from December 2010 to June 2017 who underwent surgical repair. We selected 33 variables, including characteristics of hip fracture, to construct a mFI. Each variable was coded with a value of 0 when a deficit was absent or 1 when it was present. We calculated the mFI as the proportion of positive items and defined frailty as mFI value greater than or equal to 0.21 according to threshold proposed by Hoover et al. We examined the relationship between mFI and severity of postoperative complications and the occurrence of in-hospital pneumonia including statistical adjustment for several demographics (e.g. age, gender, and marital status) and habits (smoking and alcohol intake), time from fracture to surgery in the multivariable model. RESULTS We included 965 patients (34% male; mean age: 76.77 years; range: 60 to 100 years) with a prevalence of frailty of 13.06%. The presence of frailty was associated with a higher severity of complications (OR: 2.07; 95% CI: 1.40 to 3.05). Frail patients were more likely to develop in-hospital pneumonia than non-frail patients (OR: 2.08; 95% CI: 1.28 to 3.39). CONCLUSION The preoperative modified frailty index based on data from medical records proved significantly associated with postoperative complications among older patients with hip fractures undergoing hip surgery.
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- Yanjiao Shen
- The Center of Gerontology and Geriatrics/National Clinical Research Center of Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, #37 Guoxuexiang, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- The Center of Gerontology and Geriatrics/National Clinical Research Center of Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, #37 Guoxuexiang, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China. .,Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- The Center of Gerontology and Geriatrics/National Clinical Research Center of Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, #37 Guoxuexiang, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- The Center of Rehabilitation, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- The Center of Gerontology and Geriatrics/National Clinical Research Center of Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, #37 Guoxuexiang, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Edwards Z, Chapman E, Pini S, Bennett MI. Understanding the role of hospice pharmacists: a qualitative study. Int J Clin Pharm 2021. [PMID: 34121156 DOI: 10.1007/s11096-021-01281-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Background Pharmacists are important members of multidisciplinary teams but, despite surveys of provision, the role of the hospice pharmacist is not well described. Objective To explore the role of the hospice pharmacist and identify barriers and facilitators to the role. Setting Hospices offering in-patient services caring for adults towards the end of life in one geographical area of northern England. Method Pharmacists providing services to hospices were invited to take part in qualitative semi-structured interviews asking about experience, patient contact, team working and barriers and facilitators to the role. These were recorded verbatim and data were analysed thematically using framework analysis. Main outcome measure The hospice pharmacist’s perceptions of their role and barriers and facilitators to it. Results Fifteen pharmacists took part. Two themes and ten subthemes were identified focused on tasks and communication. Practise was varied and time limited the quantity and depth of services carried out but was often spent navigating complex drug supply routes. Participants found methods of communication suited to the hours they spent in the hospice although communication of data was a barrier to effective clinical service provision. Participants identified the need for appropriate training and standards of practice for hospice pharmacists would enable better use of their skills. Conclusion Barriers to the role of hospice pharmacist include time, access to role specific training, access to clinical information and complex medicines supply chains. The role would benefit from definition to ensure that hospices are able to use hospice pharmacists to their greatest potential.
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Farmer CC, Pang SC, Kevat D, Dean J, Panaccio D, Mahar PD. Medico-legal implications of audiovisual recordings of telehealth encounters. Med J Aust 2021; 214:357-359.e1. [PMID: 33840094 DOI: 10.5694/mja2.51008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC
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- Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC.,Western Health, Melbourne, VIC
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- Skin Health Institute, Melbourne, VIC.,Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
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Lorkowski J, Maciejowska-Wilcock I, Pokorski M. Overload of Medical Documentation: A Disincentive for Healthcare Professionals. Adv Exp Med Biol 2021; 1324:1-10. [PMID: 33034843 DOI: 10.1007/5584_2020_587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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This review addresses the theories concerning the development and functioning of medical bureaucracy creating an excess of the patient records. An ever-growing number of medical files comply with the typical development of the bureaucratic management of an entrepreneurial organization, an essential feature of which is the life cycle of documentation. When the life cycle ends, an update is created with a multiplication of forms and items to be filled out, resembling that of what happens with the outdated computer program. Yet medical records should have a logical and well-functioning structure using the language of computer science in the form of a cascade or evolutionary model. Further, we believe that mass computerization, in contradistinction to the primary predestination purpose, increases the number of time-consuming medical records, with the evidence that it enhances the occupational burnout among physicians. Clear and concise medical documentation is necessary to handle economic and legal issues in medicine. However, the creation of medical records sits at the crux between a health-conscious provision of the best evidence-driven treatment and the continuum of care and a potential health detriment caused by taking away the time and care devoted to the patient by healthcare professionals. We submit that the hitherto pattern of creating medical records requires a turnabout to attain the intended reasons and user-friendliness for practical ends.
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Lech S, Schenk L, De la Torre Castro J, Schindel D. A retrospective analysis of the health and social situation of homeless people in Berlin: study protocol. Arch Public Health 2021; 79:28. [PMID: 33676557 PMCID: PMC7937212 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-021-00546-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Homelessness is often described as both a driver and a consequence of poor health, social exclusion and economic marginalisation. The present protocol provides a detailed description of the study Examining the health situation of homeless people in Berlin: a retrospective analysis of data from the health centre for the homeless of the Jenny De la Torre Foundation from 2006 to 2020 (GIG study). The primary objective of the GIG study is to describe and analyse the social and health situation of homeless people in Berlin. METHODS A retrospective secondary data analysis of an anonymous full census of medical records for the years 2006 until 2020 from a health centre for homeless people will be carried out. The main outcome is the description and analysis of the social and health situation of homeless people in Berlin. Total and cross-sectional sample characteristics will be presented in a descriptive analysis using Chi-Square Test, Mann-Whitney-U-Test or independent t-Test as appropriate to test (sub) group differences. Further, outcomes will be analysed using finite mixture modelling in order to distinguish different types of social and health conditions. Latent variable regressions will be applied in order to identify sociodemographic and disease-related factors associated with decreasing health conditions. DISCUSSION Given the high number of homeless individuals in Germany, it is of great importance to examine their social and health situation in order to gain a better understanding of challenges and needs of homeless people and work on new approaches and solutions to effectively address these. TRAIL REGISTRATION The study was prospectively registered with the German Clinical Trials Register (trial registration number: DRKS00021172 ). Registered 26 June 2020.
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- Sonia Lech
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Berlin, Germany.
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Berlin, Germany
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Verma N, Mamlin B, Flowers J, Acharya S, Labrique A, Cullen T. OpenMRS as a global good: Impact, opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned from fifteen years of implementation. Int J Med Inform 2021; 149:104405. [PMID: 33639327 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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INTRODUCTION OpenMRS is an open source medical record system that was first released in 2004. This research study analyzed OpenMRS implementations by conducting a survey of implementers and by reviewing publicly available data reported to the OpenMRS Community to learn about the utilization and impact of OpenMRS over the past 15 years. METHODS Data about the use of OpenMRS were collected by conducting a survey of OpenMRS implementers that included both quantitative and qualitative questions. Data were also gathered from the OpenMRS community-hosted Atlas website and the OpenMRS Community Annual report to arrive at a comprehensive view of OpenMRS implementations. RESULTS OpenMRS has been implemented in over 62 countries worldwide (Community Annual report). The survey was responded to by 16 organizations with projects spanning 16 countries, which were launched over 15 years (2004-2019). Fourteen of these sites reported a total of 1,436,357 patients; 4,248,248 visits; 18,028,204 encounters; 312,068,205 observations; and 5088 users, of which 3933 were health providers, recorded in the system database. Implementers reported a positive impact from implementing OpenMRS in streamlining operational processes for healthcare delivery; improved interoperability; improved reporting; improved availability and quality of data for decision making, advocacy, and research; and, improvement in the quality of healthcare delivery. Key challenges in implementing OpenMRS included finding skilled technical staff; acceptability of electronic health records by clinical staff; poor training provided to staff when transitioning from a paper-based to an electronic system; technical challenges, including infrastructure availability (computers, servers, equipment, connectivity, power); missing clinical/programmatic functionality in OpenMRS; poor documentation; and, difficulties faced when contributing code to the open source project. CONCLUSION OpenMRS has a broad reach globally in a variety of settings. Organizations have reported a positive impact on health care delivery after implementing OpenMRS. Several risks and challenges were identified by implementers that need to be addressed to deliver successful implementations. Continued investment in the development of OpenMRS is needed to sustain and scale its impact.
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Myhrmann MS, Janstrup KH, Møller M, Mabit SE. Factors influencing the injury severity of single-bicycle crashes. Accid Anal Prev 2021; 149:105875. [PMID: 33242711 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2020.105875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Revised: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The majority of research on bicyclist injury severity relates to bicycle-motor vehicle crashes, even though single-bicycle crashes make up more than half of bicycle crashes. This study explores the factors related to the injury severity outcome of single-bicycle crashes. We use single-bicycle crash data obtained from medical records collected in the period 2010-2015 combined with road maintenance data. The data includes three injury severity categories: 'severe injury', 'slight injury', 'no injury'. The relation between the factors surrounding single-bicycle crashes and the resulting injury severity is estimated using a latent class ordered probit model. The model estimation identifies three latent classes where the likelihood of cyclist membership depends on the bicyclist's age and gender. Furthermore, several factors appear to affect the likelihood of injuries in single-bicycle crashes. These are the road geometry (i.e. if the crash occurred on a bicycle lane or a road section), maintenance level, and the interaction between road geometry and maintenance level. The findings suggest that single-bicycle crashes on road sections result in more severe injuries than single-bicycle crashes on bicycle lanes. The largest effect is seen when a single-bicycle crash occurs on a road section with a poorly maintained bicycle lane being available. Crashes on low volume roads with few bicyclists are also related to an increased probability of severe injury as well as crashes occurring after dark.
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- Marcus Skyum Myhrmann
- Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Bygningstorvet 116B, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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- Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Bygningstorvet 116B, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Bygningstorvet 116B, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Bygningstorvet 116B, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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