Banerjee, Suvro Halder, Swapan Kumar Kimani, Peter Tran, Patrick Ali, Danish Roelas, Marina Weight, Nicholas Dungarwalla, Moez Banerjee, Prithwish
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Open Heart
Introduction Survival gaps in acute heart failure (AHF) continue to expand globally. Multinational heart failure (HF) registries have highlighted variations between countries. Whether discrepancies in HF practice and outcomes occur across different health systems (ie, private, public or universal healthcare) within a city or between countries remai...
Sessions, Laura C. Ness, Michelle Mark, Hayley
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Teaching and Learning in Nursing
Aim : To gain an understanding of the experiences of nurse educators during the COVID-19 crisis. Background : The pandemic forced the closure of colleges and universities nationwide. Nurse educators were challenged to offer didactic and experiential learning in online formats. Design : Qualitative description. Method : A purposive sample of 27 nurs...
Sohn, Jae Ho Chen, Yixin Lituiev, Dmytro Yang, Jaewon Ordovas, Karen Hadley, Dexter Vu, Thienkhai H Franc, Benjamin L Seo, Youngho
Our objective was to develop deep learning models with chest radiograph data to predict healthcare costs and classify top-50% spenders. 21,872 frontal chest radiographs were retrospectively collected from 19,524 patients with at least 1-year spending data. Among the patients, 11,003 patients had 3 years of cost data, and 1678 patients had 5 years o...
Kempf, Emmanuelle Priou, Sonia Lamé, Guillaume Daniel, Christel Bellamine, Ali Sommacale, Daniele Belkacemi, Yazid Bey, Romain Galula, Gilles Taright, Namik
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International journal of cancer
The SARS-Cov2 may have impaired care trajectories, patient overall survival (OS), tumor stage at initial presentation for new colorectal cancer (CRC) cases. This study aimed at assessing those indicators before and after the beginning of the pandemic in France. In this retrospective cohort study, we collected prospectively the clinical data of the ...
Mittal, Tarun Kumar Evans, Emma Pottle, Alison Lambropoulos, Costas Morris, Charlotte Surawy, Christina Chuter, Antony Cox, Felicia de Silva, Ranil Mason, Mark
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Open Heart
Objective The study evaluated the feasibility of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in patients with non-cardiac chest pain by assessing their willingness to participate and adhere to the programme, and for these data to help further refine the content of MBCT for chest pain. Patients and methods This prospective 2:1 randomised controlled t...
Pecoraro, Alfonso Jan Kemp Herbst, Philipus George Pienaar, Colette Taljaard, Jantjie Prozesky, Hans Janson, Jacques Doubell, Anton Frans
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Open Heart
Background The diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) is based on the modified Duke/European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2015 clinical criteria. The sensitivity of the criteria is unknown in South Africa, but high rates of blood culture negative endocarditis (BCNIE), coupled with a change in the clinical features of IE, may limit the sensitivity....
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Demmer, Ryan T Ulrich, Angela K Wiggen, Talia D Strickland, Ali Naumchik, Brianna M Kulasingam, Shalini Stovitz, Steven D Marotz, Clarisse Belda-Ferre, Pedro Humphrey, Greg
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Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is possible among symptom-free individuals. Patients are avoiding medically necessary healthcare visits for fear of becoming infected in the healthcare setting. We screened 489 symptom-free healthcare workers for SARS-CoV-2 and found no positive results, strongly suggestin...
Fadahunsi, P Wark, P Mastellos, N Gallagher, J Majeed, F Car, J
Introduction Digital health technologies (DHTs) such as electronic health records, clinical decision support systems and electronic prescribing systems are widely used in healthcare. While adoption of DHTs can improve healthcare delivery, information quality (IQ) problems associated with DHTs can compromise quality and safety of care. The clinical ...
Khatib, Rani Khan, Mutiba Barrowcliff, Abigail Ikongo, Eunice Burton, Claire Mansfield, Michael Hall, Alistair
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Open Heart
Background Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitors (PCSK9is) are an important but underutilised option to help optimise lipid management. We developed a new service to improve patient access to these medicines in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommendations. This paper describes the model and provides...
