Clinical care pathways have been developed to integrate multidisciplinary treatment for a defined diagnosis or treatment. The concept of surgical pathways is not new, with published examples ranging from craniotomy to the treatment diabetic foot ulcers. From the standpoint of the surgical care, such ...
MethodsA descriptive and explorative survey of all Swedish ICUs (N84) and a review of submitted examples of CPs (n12) were conducted. ResultsCPs were in use at 20% of the Swedish ICUs. There was a significant geographic variation but no relationship between the use of CPs and category of...
Opportunities for pharmacist role integration into perioperative medication management processes are described along with published examples of successful PCPh practice models, including those with interventions targeted toward Enhanced Recovery Pathways (ERP). Recommended training and competencies for future and...
Using the existing evidence-base, guidelines and examples from contemporary clinical practice, we developed theeClinical Care Pathway Framework, a nine-step iterative process. Step 1: define the aims of the online pathway; Step 2: define the functional units; Step 3: draft the clinical consultation...
For examples, previous studies have shown delayed reperfusion could be caused by atypical symptoms or electrocardiographic changes, concomitant respiratory failure or cardiac arrest requiring urgent management prior to transferral to catheterization laboratory, as well as presentation to medical facilities at ...
provided by senior investigators of the Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) unit of the Regional Healthcare Agency of Marche and the University of Eastern Piedmont [31–34]. The teams developed their CPs over a 6-month period (for examples of CPs, see Additional file1, Additional file2). All ...
Etiology categoryExamples Endocrine disorders Hyperthyroidism Hyperparathyroidism Cushing syndrome Hypogonadism / estrogen deficiency Vitamin D deficiency / resistance Bone marrow disorders Multiple myeloma Leukemia Lymphoma GI disorders astrectomy Malabsorption syndromes Crohn’s disease Connective tissue disorde...
Extracting aging patterns from patient data can be challenging because many statistical and machine learning techniques require datasets with more examples (for example, subjects) than there are features40. Unfortunately, the cost and difficulty to generate such datasets scale with the number of samples...
(LDL) cholesterol as surrogates for cardiovascular events, blood glucose as a surrogate for diabetic morbidity, and HIV viral load as a surrogate for subsequent HIV complications and survival. Examples of biomarkers that were shown, upon definitive testing, to be unrelated to clinical end points...
Examples of development cost reduction include the development of enrofloxacin (the N-ethyl analog of ciprofloxacin) for animals, having previously developed ciprofloxacin for humans; the application of enalapril in dogs, having established its use in humans; the development of imidacloprid and f...