Research Insights
This section focuses on the most recent research and discoveries across the globe in the various healthcare disciplines.
Postoperative opioids administered to inpatients with major or orthopaedic surgery: A retrospective cohort study using data from hospital electronic prescribing systems
Opioids administered in hospital during the immediate postoperative period are likely to influence postsurgical outcomes but inpatient prescribing during the admission is
Beyond objective metrics: A comparative analysis of health care systems incorporating subjective dimensions to improve comparability of access and equity in healthcare assessments
Comparing health care systems is important for several reasons Eg lowerresource health care systems can learn from higherresource ones and countryspecific progress
Similarity-driven motion-resolved reconstruction for ferumoxytol-enhanced whole-heart MRI in congenital heart disease
A similaritydriven multidimensional binning algorithm reconstruction of freerunning cardiac magnetic resonance imaging data was previously proposed While very
Relationship between youth cardiometabolic health and physical activity in medical records
Engaging in physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviors improves cardiometabolic health and weight status in children The prevalence of cardiometabolic diseases
Surgical appropriateness nudges: Developing behavioral science nudges to integrate appropriateness criteria into the decision making of spine surgeons
Substantial variation exists in surgeon decision making In response multiple specialty societies have established criteria for the appropriate use of spine surgery
Effect of systemic vascular resistance on the agreement between stroke volume by non-invasive pulse wave analysis and Doppler ultrasound in healthy volunteers
Stroke volume can be estimated beattobeat and noninvasively by pulse wave analysis However its reliability has been questioned during marked alterations in systemic vascular resistance
Motivating factors for physical activity participation among individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease A qualitative study applying the motivation, opportunity, and ability model
The study aims to explore the driving forces behind physical activity engagement among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease focusing on motivation
Hepcidin, in contrast to heparin binding protein, does not portend acute kidney injury in patients with community acquired septic shock
Acute kidney injury is a common and severe complication in patients treated at an Intensive Care Unit The pathogenesis of AKI has been reported to involve hypoperfusion diminished oxygenation
Characterization of heart rate variability in end-stage renal disease patients after kidney transplantation with recurrence quantification analysis
Heart rate variability is a noninvasive approach to studying the autonomic modulation of heart rate in experimental settings such as active standing sympathetic stimulation It is known that patients with endstage renal disease
A model-based cost-utility analysis of an automated notification system for deteriorating patients on general wards
Delayed response to clinical deterioration of hospital inpatients is common Deployment of an electronic automated advisory vital signs monitoring and notification system to signal clinical deterioration
