Personal health records (PHR), particularly the patient portal, are touted as instrumental to the future of medical care and health management. The patient portal could be a powerful means to engage ...

Objective To characterize EVT-treated patients with ICA-I- and ICA-E occlusion by comparing them with ICA-T occlusions. Methods The German Stroke Registry (GSR), a national, multicenter, prospective ...

Given her symptom recurrence, rise in inflammatory markers and the microbiological isolates, the patient was admitted for intravenous antibiotics. A diagnostic aspirate of the left-sided pleural ...

Patients are triaged or prioritized according to their need ... Its historic roots for medical purposes go back to the days of Napoleon when triaging large groups of wounded soldiers was necessary.

Introduction Low back pain, and especially non-specific low back pain, is a common cause of presentation to the emergency department (ED). Although these patients typically report relatively high pain ...

Background Understanding patient experiences is crucial to evaluating care quality in EDs. However, while previous reviews describe the determinants of ED patient experiences (ie, factors that ...

The retest ICC was 0.86, which showed high stability over 1 week. A CFA (n=439) with data from patients with low back pain confirmed the single-factor structure of the instrument. Conclusion The ETS ...

Introduction The onset of cancer compels patients to grapple with existential questions. Enabling individuals with cancer, irrespective of the disease stage, to experience meaningful lives is of ...

To better understand the extent and nature of the problem of unsafe care, the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety commissioned an overview of the world's literature on patient safety research.

Setting Clinical Practice Research Datalink, linked to hospitalisation and mortality (1998–2020). Participants Database cohort of 86 882 patients with a new HF diagnosis. In two separate analyses for ...

Methods 83 patients with arthralgia positive for ACPA or IgM-RF were randomly allocated to intramuscular injections of 100 mg dexamethasone or placebo at baseline and 6 weeks. The primary end point ...