Basic Movement Ability Linked to Inpatient Fall Locations in Acute Care
A retrospective study of older acute-care inpatients who experienced a fall found that higher basic movement ability was independently associated ...
Tag: Patient Safety
Simulated Patient Educators Set Global Standards for Human-Centered Medical Training
New standards for Physical Exam Teaching Associates mark the third publication in a global framework tracing simulated patient methodology from ...
Blinded experts flag unsafe actions in synthetic outputs from local clinical LLMs
A blinded panel of eight multidisciplinary experts judged the primary action acceptable in 338 of 400 synthetic clinical outputs from ...
Most nurses at Ugandan hospital miss at least one of the Five Rights of antimicrobial administration, survey finds
A cross-sectional survey of 92 qualified nurses at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in Eastern Uganda found that 61.96 percent reported ...
Nurses’ Compassion Fatigue Linked to Weaker Patient Safety Attitudes
A cross-sectional study of 368 Turkish nurses found that higher compassion fatigue was associated with more negative patient safety attitudes, ...
Perioperative AI needs to put humans first, anesthesiologists argue
Anesthesiology researchers argue that AI in perioperative care must be human-centered, warning that most models lack prospective validation and real-world ...
Written medical histories reveal more conditions than verbal questioning in dental records
A retrospective analysis of 2,800 dental patient records found written self-reported medical histories captured more systemic conditions, including anemia and ...
Large Language Models Show Promise and Limits in Hospital Infection Control
A systematic review of fourteen studies finds large language models perform well on structured infection control tasks but fall short ...
Automated oxygen monitors reveal hospitals may be undercounting oxygen use
A five-month study in 21 Brazilian hospital beds found automated oxygen monitoring recorded far higher oxygen use than manual electronic ...
Four-Week Education Program Boosts Psychiatric Nurses’ Medication Error Knowledge
A four-week structured educational program significantly improved medication error knowledge among 89 psychiatric nurses in Egypt, with reported errors declining ...
Denmark Sets First National Standards for Chiropractic Care of Infants
Denmark has developed national recommendations defining minimum requirements for history taking, examination, red flag screening and clinical management of infants ...
Blood Culture Contamination Hits 4.6 Percent in Six-Year Mogadishu Hospital Review
A six-year retrospective analysis at a Mogadishu tertiary hospital found a 4.64 percent blood culture contamination rate, with hemodialysis and ...
Higher Sufentanil Dose Steadies Hysteroscopic Anesthesia but Raises Breathing Risks
A randomized trial found that 0.15 µg/kg sufentanil with ciprofol reduced intraoperative body movement and supplemental sedative doses during hysteroscopic ...
Fear of being without a phone linked to missed nursing care in pediatric nurses
A cross-sectional study of 210 pediatric nurses in Tehran found that higher nomophobia scores and caring for more than three ...
Network and Biometric Signatures Combined to Fingerprint Hacked Medical Devices
A new forensic framework fuses network traffic metrics with physiological payload data, detecting data-alteration attacks on medical devices with an ...
Medication Reconciliation at Care Transitions Cuts Readmissions and Drug Events, Review Finds
A systematic review of 70 studies finds medication reconciliation at care transitions reduces discrepancies, adverse drug events, readmissions, and emergency ...
Most patients with prior contrast hypersensitivity tolerate re-exposure, study finds
A retrospective Chinese hospital study found that 90.8 percent of patients with a history of iodinated contrast hypersensitivity had no ...
When Human Review of AI Medical Notes Is Oversight in Name Only
A qualitative study of online professional discussion proposes that AI documentation review can become nominal oversight when verification responsibility exceeds ...
AI Chatbots Show an Accuracy-Practicality Trade-off in Anesthesia Crisis Scenarios
A benchmark study of OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1 across 30 anesthesia crisis scenarios found that the most accurate model gave the ...
Neurosurgeons Identify Key Risk Factors for Postoperative Infections
A study in Acta Neurochirurgica identifies age, immobilization, and prolonged catheter use as key independent predictors of postoperative infections in ...
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