Posts Tagged ‘outcomes’
Research Roundup: Financing Boomers’ Care; California’s Budget Cuts; Racial Disparities In Surgical Outcomes
Health Affairs: Chronic Conditions Account For Rise In Medicare Spending From 1987 To 2006 – “Medicare beneficiaries’ medical needs, and where beneficiaries undergo treatment, have changed dramatically over the past two decades…
Researchers Identify Racial Differences In Pain Treatment Outcomes
Findings from a retrospective analysis of a three-week treatment program for chronic pain revealed African Americans experienced worse outcomes compared to a matched group of Caucasians. The research was presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s 26th Annual Meeting in San Antonio…
Introducing an online community into a clinical education setting: a pilot study of student and staff engagement and outcomes using blended learning
Background:There are growing reasons to use both information and communication functions of learning technologies as part of clinical education, but the literature offers few accounts of such implementations or evaluations of their impact. This paper details the process of implementing a blend of online and face-to-face learning and teaching in a clinical education setting and it reports on the educational impact of this innovation.Methods:This study designed an online community to complement a series of on-site workshops and monitored its use over a semester. Quantitative and qualitative data recording 43 final-year medical students’ and 13 clinical educators’ experiences with this blended approach to learning and teaching were analysed using access, adoption and quality criteria as measures of impact.Results:The introduction of the online community produced high student ratings of the quality of learning and teaching and it produced student academic results that were equivalent to those from face-to-face-only learning and teaching. Staff had mixed views about using blended learning.Conclusions:Projects such as this take skilled effort and time. Strong incentives are required to encourage clinical staff and students to use a new mode of communication. A more synchronous or multi-channel communication feedback system might stimulate increased adoption. Cultural change in clinical teaching is also required before clinical education can benefit more widely from initiatives such as this.
Kicking The Smoking Habit Improves Surgical Outcomes
With the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout Challenge just a week away, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) is giving smokers yet another reason to quit. The scientific evidence is clear — smoking has a direct negative impact on postoperative outcomes. Quitting smoking is one of the best things people can do to improve their chances of recovering from surgery without complications.
Newer, Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedure For Treatment Of Sciatica Does Not Result In Better Outcomes
A comparison of surgical treatments for sciatica finds that the minimally invasive procedure known as tubular diskectomy does not provide a significant difference in improvement of functional disability compared to the more common surgery, conventional microdiskectomy, according to a study in the July 8 issue of JAMA. Sciatica or lumbosacral radicular syndrome affects millions of individuals worldwide and is typically caused by disk herniation.
Newer, Minimally Invasive Surgery To Treat Sciatica Does Not Result In Better Outcomes
A comparison of surgical treatments for sciatica finds that the minimally invasive procedure known as tubular diskectomy does not provide a significant difference in improvement of functional disability compared to the more common surgery, conventional microdiskectomy.
Somnia Anesthesia: 3rd Study Confirms Anesthesia Improves Outcomes In Colonoscopies
More pre-cancerous polyps were found in colonoscopies performed with deep sedation primarily using Propofol than with milder sedation in which patients remained conscious, according to a recent study conducted by Katherine Hoda, M.D. of Oregon Health and Science University. This improvement in cancer detection will save lives and reduce the number of patients requiring surgery and chemotherapy.
Back To Normal: Surgery Improves Outcomes For Spine Patients, Study Finds
People with the spine disease called degenerative spondylolisthesis — who choose surgical treatment — experience substantially greater relief from pain over time compared to those who do not have surgery, according to a new study.
Comparison Is Key To Lower Costs, Better Outcomes From Medications
Patients can expect significant savings and better outcomes from their prescription medications when health care professionals use comparative effectiveness research, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Gene Variation Found To Help Predict Surgical Outcomes Of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients
A study with far-reaching implications for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery has identified human genetic variants that could help doctors predict the potential for certain patients to suffer poor heart function. Amanda A. Fox, M.D.
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