Articles Tagged With: tracking
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Retained Surgical Objects: The Centuries-Long Search for Solutions
The 21st century development of data matrix tags and built-in tracking chips appear to hold potential for turning retained sponges into a never event. But even with this help, people still will make mistakes.
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Quality of Life Important to ICU Patients, But Clinicians Lack Data
This underscores how clinicians must start keeping track of these outcomes to improve their ability to predict them and provide patients and families with information they want.
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Ethical Concerns About Surge of Involuntary Psychiatric Detention, Lack of Data
There is no national database on involuntary detentions. States and jurisdictions inconsistently report rates. States differ as to what label they use for detentions; whether they count events or unique persons; whether they report the age group (adult or child), sex, or ethnicity; whether the detention is short- or long-term; how long people are held; whether all eligible counties or institutions are reporting; who prepares the data; and time frames to release data.
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Substance Abuse and Suicidal Ideation Commonly Coexist in ED Patients
Appropriate discharge planning, including tracking patients and measuring outcomes of follow-up tactics, is a key aspect of the emergency management of this population.
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Is There Bundle Branch Block?
Try to interpret the ECG in the figure without the benefit of any clinical information. What do you see?
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FDA, U.S. Labs Team Up on COVID-19 Testing
Officials race against the clock to rapidly close the gap on kit shortages.