A Cochrane Review into the effectiveness of hospital-based specialist palliative care has found evidence that when compared to usual care, it may slightly improve patient satisfaction and depression, and increase the chances of patients dying in their preferred place (measured by home death). The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based specialist palliative care for adults with […]
Today, researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus released a new study evaluating the effectiveness and safety of high-intensity rehabilitation for older adults in skilled nursing facilities. The study was published today in Physical Therapy. Skilled nursing facilities provide medical and rehabilitation services to individuals post-hospitalization to help facilitate the transition to home […]
Delays and cancelation of cancer treatments and other safety measures undertaken to minimize the risk of exposure to the coronavirus (COVID-19) have generated a huge backlog in oncology care and research.Thethreat of delayed diagnoses looms while oncology professionals face burnout, according to new studies discussed at the ESMO Virtual Congress 2020. But is only COVID-19 […]
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The next crop of health care professionals has a price when it comes to illegally releasing confidential medical information, according to researchers at Florida Atlantic University, Baylor University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. While many of the graduating students interviewed believed there would be a high probability of getting caught, they […]
A Cambridge hospital has piloted the use of combined rapid point-of-care nucleic acid and antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection after researchers at the University of Cambridge showed that this approach was superior to virus detection alone for diagnosing COVID-19 disease. Point-of-care testing—in other words, testing patients as soon as they arrive at the hospital—is essential […]
(HealthDay)—Six percent of health care personnel (HCP) caring for patients with COVID-19 have positive test results for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies, according to research published in the Aug. 31 early-release issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Wesley H. Self, M.D., from the […]
Many care home residents who have COVID-19 infection are either asymptomatic or experience “atypical” symptoms—according to a new study from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and North Norfolk Primary Care, supported by UEA Health and Social Care Partners. Due to the rapid-response nature of this evaluation, it has not yet been peer reviewed. In […]
Are we medically intervening in maternity care when we don’t need to? Researchers from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin have provided an international perspective on differences in key birth interventions as part of a European research network on understanding and contextualising physiological labour and birth (EU COST Action IS1405), which […]
A University of California, Riverside, study that sought to determine barriers to health care among Spanish-speaking Latino farmworkers in rural communities has devised an innovative health care service delivery model that addresses many challenges these communities face. The researchers, led by Ann Cheney, a medical anthropologist and assistant professor in the Department of Social Medicine, […]
