These pages contain many of my experiences and observations over almost forty years of medical practice as an internist and a hospitalist. It is my hope that by reading this, some health care professionals will recognize that perhaps there is a better way to practice. We need to change our ...
General patient satisfaction does not provide information about patient satisfaction in the anesthesia setting. Previous satisfaction instruments do not adequately reflect the performance of nursing, although this is essential for team performance.Revision and validation of an instrument to measure patient ...
The vocabulary of identity reformation does not try to explain why it happens when it does, but rather to describe what it is: a change in both internal motivational structure, and self-presentation to the world. While our respondents did not credit the physician– patient relationship with ...
Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN) team, and Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) [29] published “Diagnostic error—Change Package,” a document including a menu of strategies and concepts that any hospital should implement (improvin...
To make matters worse, I am working my first weekend on nights in the ICU, which does not always have an attending in-house. Luckily, I’ll have a senior resident supervising me, but I have this sinking feeling there will be a record number of Codes called, and I’ll be on my own...
had experienced an AE. Preventable AEs that contributed to death occurred in 4.1% (95% CI 3.5% to 4.8%) of all hospital deaths. Extrapolating to a national level, between 1482 and 2032 potentially preventable deaths occurred in Dutch hospitals in 2004.The incidence of AEs, preventable AEs and...
Loop’s patient-centric wearable was designed for the most vulnerable patients and does not require any set-up, WiFi or smartphone. Patients need to charge it once a day and continue with their daily activities. The wrist-worn wearable passively captures multiple vital signs, such as blood oxyg...
I did not took it very serious and so I console her. But soon she started being Fatigue and used to remain usually tired. I consulted Cardiologist who, after having came to know as to what had happened, asked to admit in the hospital. Next day he took Endoscopy, give 3 bottles Blood...
this does not necessarily mean that it did not contribute to the discussion of barriers, facilitators and theories of PPI, but that the evidence for critical domains that affect the validity of the review and its conclusions was more limited. Such reviews were therefore included, but not treated...
Although some trial studies have been done, error correction methods in the technology have not been able to win the medical professionals’ complete trust. 5 Conclusion This paper has reviewed remote patient monitoring systems in the current literature. Heart and blood related systems, fall ...