MedPage Today

Patients Can Manage Their Own Warfarin Just Fine, Study Suggests

Patients can transition to self-managing their warfarin in the U.S., according to a small feasibility study. Among 138 ...
ahajournals.org

Sedentary Behavior and Cardiac Events and Mortality After Hospitalization for Acute Coronary Syndrome Symptoms: A Prospective Study

Patients hospitalized with symptoms of acute coronary syndrome remain at high risk for adverse events postdischarge, highlighting a need for modifiable therapeutic targets. The role of sedentary ...

Can plants count? Study suggests they can track the number of events they experience

It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, ...
Bates College

CMS Senior Capstone Examples

In sum, the student transformed a general interest in children in tragedy to an examination of Euripides’ depictions of children murdered by their parents. They then narrowed their focus to three ...
American College of Cardiology

Evaluating Variations in Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: The INTERASPIRE Study

Guideline-endorsed secondary-prevention measures reduce recurrent adverse events in individuals with coronary artery disease. The INTERASPIRE (International Action on Secondary Prevention through ...
TCTMD

Current Examples of Observational Studies in Coronary Revascularization – When to do a Single Arm Study and How to Analyze Large Datasets

Dilemma 2: Do I Need Mechanical Circulatory Support? Case Presentation (LM with LVSD) Receive the the latest news, research, and presentations from major meetings right to your inbox. TCTMD ® is ...
ebm.bmj

Patient-reported outcomes and acupuncture-related adverse events are overlooked in acupuncture randomised controlled trials: a cross-sectional meta-epidemiological study

Objectives To investigate the patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and acupuncture-related adverse events (A-AEs) in acupuncture randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Data sources We comprehensively ...
qualitysafety.bmj

Adverse diagnostic events in hospitalised patients: a single-centre, retrospective cohort study

Background Adverse event surveillance approaches underestimate the prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors (DEs) related to hospital care. Methods We conducted a single-centre, retrospective cohort ...
San Francisco Fed

U.S. Monetary Policy Event-Study Database

This data series is part of the Center for Monetary Research. The U.S. Monetary Policy Event-Study Database (USMPD) collects high-frequency changes of interest rates and asset prices around Federal ...
BMJ

Boston Marathon athlete performance outcomes and intra-event medical encounter risk associated with low energy availability indicators

Objective To determine the association between survey-based self-reported problematic low energy availability indicators (LEA-I) and race performance and intra-event medical encounters during the ...
Tribune Chronicle

City event studies MLK’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Vincent Shivers, a longtime area historian, talks about the importance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” during a program ...
BMJ

Study protocol for a Prospective Observational study of Safety Threats and Adverse events in Trauma (PrO-STAT): a pilot study at a level-1 trauma centre in Canada

Introduction Traumatic injuries are a significant public health concern globally, resulting in substantial mortality, hospitalisation and healthcare burden. Despite the establishment of specialised ...