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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

This would mean that instituting sepsis screening would lead to escalating treatment in patients – transferring them to the ICU, escalating antibiotics, bringing in more consultants – without benefiting them. If patient data tripped the alert, an EMR pop-up message would appear for nurses and physicians. to 0.3%).

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

For example, Bergman reports a 2002 study in which ventilated premature babies were placed to sleep on either their tummies or backs, and the following states were measured: quiet sleep, active sleep (which is less restorative than quiet sleep), crying time, number of stress responses (startle, tremor, and twitch), and oxygen saturation.

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Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone

Sensible Medicine

Even though my practice is made up of about 750, overwhelmingly older people, mostly with chronic medical conditions, I only attend to the death of a patient a few times a month. There have been previous admissions after which the patient did not make it to follow-up appointments. Acceptance followed and waxed and waned.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum.

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Babies with the DNA of Three Different People Born in the U.K.

Scrubs

Once the egg has been fertilized with sperm, it is transferred back into the womb of the mother. “The Newcastle team involved in carrying out the procedures are cautious and will have wanted to include at least some follow-up data on the babies, while also protecting the privacy of the families,” Lovell-Badge explained.

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4 Military Spouse Facts Worth Sharing

MedCerts

However, transferring these licenses between states can take time and effort, resulting in extended periods of unemployment. The academic instability among military-dependent students increases the chances of lower standardized test scores and school dropouts. According to the U.S.

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A Comprehensive Guide To APIs In Healthcare

Arkenea

FHIR uses REST (Representational State Transfer) as the basis of API and for data transfer. Drawback of APIs in healthcare is the lack of design, proper testing, and monitoring tools. Application programming interfaces allow information systems to streamline communication and transfer data.