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Reclaiming the primary care consultation for patients and clinicians: is AI-enabled ambient voice technology the answer?
Electronic health records (EHRs) are now ubiquitous in primary care in most developed countries, offering significant benefits for patient safety and care quality.1 However, as their functionality and complexity have increased, they increasingly divert clinicians’ attention from patients.2 This is particularly true in systems like the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, where the funding model makes EHR use essential for the survival of primary care practices.3 More broadly, the...
Heparin induced thrombocytopenia: diagnosis and management update
Heparin is widely used for thromboprophylaxis or treatment in many clinical situations, including cardiovascular and orthopaedic surgery and invasive procedures, acute coronary syndromes, venous thromboembolism, atrial fibrillation, peripheral occlusive disease, dialysis, and during extracorporeal circulation.1 One third of hospitalised patients in the USA, or about 12 million a year, receive heparin.2 Heparin‐induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is the most important and most frequent drug‐induced...
Weekend mortality for emergency admissions. A large, multicentre study
Background Several studies have identified higher mortality for patients admitted as emergencies at the weekend compared with emergency admissions during the week, but most have focused on specific conditions or have had a limited sample size. Methods Using routinely collected hospital administrative data, we examined in-hospital deaths for all emergency inpatient admissions to all public acute hospitals in England for 2005/2006.
Football 2017: Harvard 25, Dartmouth 22
Ivy League football is like Hollywood: Nobody knows anything. Eight days after being steamrolled on its home turf by Princeton 52-17, and after spotting Dartmouth the first 14 points in this weekend’s game, Harvard’s football team rallied behind the resourceful play of quarterback Jake Smith ’21 for a 25-22 win over the Big Green. The victory moves the Crimson to 4-3 overall and 2-2 in the Ivy League. Dartmouth drops to 5-2 and 2-2 in league play.
FAS’s Inequality in America Initiative
Last Friday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) Social Science division marked the launch of its Inequality in America Initiative at a day-long symposium in Loeb House. The initiative is designed to strengthen the University’s work on economic, political, and social inequality across disciplines.
Brief life of Guy Davenport,
“Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker’s attention, it fails,” Guy Mattison Davenport Jr., Ph.D. ’61, once advised. “This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.” The author, artist, and professor lived up to his own advice, producing works both deeply edifying and unclassifiable: nearly 50 books of fiction, essays, commentary, poetry, and translations.
The Legal Services Corporation tackles the “justice gap”
Almost a century ago, a young Boston lawyer named Reginald Heber Smith published a landmark book called Justice and the Poor. It was about how people struggling economically were faring in the American legal system and why American lawyers needed to provide them with free legal aid. He wrote, “Nothing rankles more in the human heart than the feeling of injustice.” At the time, there were only 41 legal-aid organizations in the country, with a total of about 60 lawyers.
Australian researchers report peanut allergy breakthrough
Australian researchers have reported a major breakthrough in the relief of deadly peanut allergy with the discovery of a long-lasting treatment they say offers hope that a cure will soon be possible. In clinical trials conducted by scientists at Melbourne's Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, children with peanut allergies were given a probiotic along with small doses of a peanut protein over an 18-month period.
How to monitor patient safety in primary care? Healthcare professionals' views
Participants A total of 113 healthcare professionals returned the survey from a group of 500 who were invited to participate achieving a response rate of 22.6%. Method A paper-based and equivalent online survey was developed and subjected to multiple stages of piloting. Respondents were asked to suggest strategies for monitoring patient safety in primary care. These monitoring suggestions were then subjected to a content frequency analysis which was conducted by two researchers.
The reality of terrorist attacks around the world
The Los Angeles Times recently came out with a story that rounded up the number of deaths and injuries incurred by terror attacks worldwide for the month of April. The confirmed death toll was 858 in 27 countries, with 1,385 injuries. With high profile attacks such as San Bernardino, Orlando, Paris and Brussels, fear of terrorism has been at the forefront of many people’s minds in the west, but the most affected areas of the world can be overshadowed by threats to the U.S. and Europe.
Gunmen Attack Bacha Khan University in Pakistan
At least 22 people were killed and nearly as many wounded when militants attacked a campus in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday.
Weekend mortality for emergency admissions. A large, multicentre study
Contributors PA, DB and AY were involved in the original research question. PA and AY carried out the data extract and analyses. PA, AY, AB, AM and DB drafted the paper. All investigators contributed comments on drafts. Background Several studies have identified higher mortality for patients admitted as emergencies at the weekend compared with emergency admissions during the week, but most have focused on specific conditions or have had a limited sample size.
Peshawar school massacre: Pakistan executes 4 for attack that killed 125 children
Pakistan has hanged four terrorists for abetting and aiding militants who carried out the horrific Peshawar school massacre last year. Maulvi Abdus Salam, Hazrat Ali, Mujeebur Rehman and Sabeel, all belonging to the Toheedwal Jihad Group, had been convicted by a military court in August on charges of helping terrorists carry out the attack, besides other terrorism charges.
Earthquake death toll rises in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India [Photo report]
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The death toll is expected to rise after a powerful earthquake struck a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan. The quake was 213km (132 miles) deep and centred 254km north east of Kabul, in the Hindu Kush mountain range. The US Geological Survey initially measured the quake's intensity at 7.7 then revised it down to 7.5. Shock waves were felt in northern India and parts of Pakistan.
By Matt Adams Verified, David Sim, A Majeed, Danish Ismail, Tauseef Mustafa Verified, Khuram Parvez, Fayaz Aziz, Yawar Nazir, Hazrat Ali Bacha
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International Business Times (U.K.)
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Afghan Families Flee Persecution In Pakistan After School Attack: IOM
KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of Afghan families are fleeing Pakistan to escape harassment after a deadly Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar in December, the head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Afghanistan said on Saturday. More than 22,000 undocumented Afghans flocked across the border at Torkham in January, more than twice the figure for the whole of 2014, said Richard Danzinger, the IOM's mission chief in Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s answer to terror: show good news at bedtime
A parliamentary panel has endorsed a list of 46 guidelines for television and print media, including censoring live reporting and setting up editorial boards to vet “each and every news, image, breaking news,” according to a statement on the parliament’s website.
Pakistan’s challenge in attack response to root out ‘good’ Taliban
The Pakistani military carried out a “blitzkrieg” of airstrikes on suspected Taliban positions, allegedly killing dozens of militants. Authorities also lifted a moratorium on capital punishment in the country, and set about executing those with death sentences for terrorism charges. Six people have already been hanged, while some 50 more face imminent execution, according to reports. As many as 500 inmates on death row in Pakistan could be executed in the coming weeks.
From Ottawa to Peshawar, religious fundamentalism is a common enemy
Eight weeks ago, it was Ottawa. At the beginning of this week, it was Sydney. Two days ago, it was Peshawar. If anybody questioned the global and diffuse nature of the challenge that religious fundamentalism poses, the last few weeks have provided a clear demonstration of the problem. Indeed, one of the greatest threats facing the world today is jihadist terrorism.
Brief life of novelist Ann Petry, by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Unlike many aspiring artists who move to New York, Ann (Lane) Petry did not come in search of celebrity or fame. She left her hometown of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, for Harlem in 1938 to join her new husband, George, to escape the expectations of her middle-class family, and to pursue her literary ambitions. Yet in less than a decade, she would become the most successful black woman writer of her day.
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