Internal medicine physicians at a Swiss teaching hospital frequently worked overtime and spent about 3 times as much time using a computer as they did on patients. Most of their time at work was spent on activities indirectly ...
Jan 30, 2017
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Researchers found significant inconsistencies between what symptoms patients at ophthalmology clinics reported on a questionnaire and documentation in the electronic medical record, according to a study published online by ...
Jan 26, 2017
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Compare a patient's self-reported eye symptoms to their electronic medical record, and clear discrepancies can be seen.
Jan 26, 2017
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When patients experience acute kidney injury (AKI)—sudden kidney failure or damage—in the hospital, they are at increased risk of death and other adverse events. Theoretically, if clinicians could predict which patients ...
Jan 26, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Strategies can be employed to help physicians deal with the increasing burden of uncompensated tasks, according to an article published in Medical Economics.
Jan 26, 2017
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In a new study in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, Vanderbilt University's Jonathan Mosley, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues use genetic correlation to link two unrelated biomedical data sets, one from a longstanding ...
Jan 23, 2017
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Kidney transplant patients have a better chance of survival if physicians use all the data that's available to them—including data that's tracked over time—to predict the likelihood of organ failure, according to new ...
Jan 6, 2017
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In a study published online by JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Kathleen M. Schieffer, B.S., of the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pa., and colleagues examined the association between ...
Dec 29, 2016
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(HealthDay)—A data-driven algorithm for personalized diabetes care can yield substantial improvements in hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), according to a study published online Dec. 5 in Diabetes Care.
Dec 14, 2016
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(HealthDay)—A standardized sliding scale insulin (SSI) order sheet can reduce the incidence of SSI-related medication errors, according to a study published online Dec. 7 in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.
Dec 14, 2016
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