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Mashup Score: 0
Transitions of care are a vulnerable time for all patients and especially older adults with complex care needs. Utilizing document review, observations, and interviews, this study describes how inconsistencies in timing and precision at the time of transition put patients at risk. Examples include early discharge from hospital due to crowding, insufficient assessment of activities of daily living, and incomplete transfer of information. A safe care transition pathway describes critical steps to ensure safe transitions.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Patients' perspectives on quality and patient safety failures: lessons learned from an inquiry into transvaginal mesh in Australia. | PSNet - 20 hour(s) ago
Women patients experience medical gaslighting wherein clinicians, policy makers, or the public do not believe their lived experiences. This article details more than 400 accounts submitted by women who were harmed by transvaginal mesh, and how their harm was exacerbated by dismissals by their physicians and regulatory bodies.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Application of trigger tools for detecting adverse drug events in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | PSNet - 22 hour(s) ago
Adverse drug events (ADE) are common in older adults. This systematic review identified 12 trigger tools for detecting ADE in older adults. Trigger tools designed or adapted for the older adult population performed better than those designed for the general population. Most studies assessed performance using positive predictive value (PPV), but there was no consensus of what constitutes a good or poor PPV.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Comparative evaluation of LLMs in clinical oncology. | PSNet - 24 hour(s) ago
Large language models (LLM) are being developed to improve diagnostic accuracy. This study compared five LLMs on their accuracy of oncology diagnoses. Accuracy ranged from no better than random chance to similar to resident physicians. Notably, all models exhibited poor performance on women-predominant malignancies, suggesting a bias in training materials. This highlights the importance of partnerships between developers and medical professionals to co-develop reliable training sets.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2
Transitions of care are a vulnerable time for all patients and especially older adults with complex care needs. Utilizing document review, observations, and interviews, this study describes how inconsistencies in timing and precision at the time of transition put patients at risk. Examples include early discharge from hospital due to crowding, insufficient assessment of activities of daily living, and incomplete transfer of information. A safe care transition pathway describes critical steps to ensure safe transitions.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 5
Clinician burnout is a pervasive problem and can threaten patient safety. This special issue explores burnout among nurses and its impact across healthcare systems, approaches to recognizing burnout, and strategies for managing and reducing burnout at individual and organizational levels.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2
Women patients experience medical gaslighting wherein clinicians, policy makers, or the public do not believe their lived experiences. This article details more than 400 accounts submitted by women who were harmed by transvaginal mesh, and how their harm was exacerbated by dismissals by their physicians and regulatory bodies.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Application of trigger tools for detecting adverse drug events in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | PSNet - 2 day(s) ago
Adverse drug events (ADE) are common in older adults. This systematic review identified 12 trigger tools for detecting ADE in older adults. Trigger tools designed or adapted for the older adult population performed better than those designed for the general population. Most studies assessed performance using positive predictive value (PPV), but there was no consensus of what constitutes a good or poor PPV.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Comparative evaluation of LLMs in clinical oncology. | PSNet - 2 day(s) ago
Large language models (LLM) are being developed to improve diagnostic accuracy. This study compared five LLMs on their accuracy of oncology diagnoses. Accuracy ranged from no better than random chance to similar to resident physicians. Notably, all models exhibited poor performance on women-predominant malignancies, suggesting a bias in training materials. This highlights the importance of partnerships between developers and medical professionals to co-develop reliable training sets.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 5
Clinician burnout is a pervasive problem and can threaten patient safety. This special issue explores burnout among nurses and its impact across healthcare systems, approaches to recognizing burnout, and strategies for managing and reducing burnout at individual and organizational levels.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
New #AHRQ PSNet featured research outlining recommendations to help facilities better manage patients across care transitions. #patientsafety https://t.co/v2nZ2JPSJb https://t.co/7vSAlMHRUm