Sat.Oct 01, 2022 - Fri.Oct 07, 2022

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Patient Centered Care and Communication Defined: How They Lead to Better Health Outcomes

Cassling

For many patients, hospital visits bring a lot of fear and uncertainty. Patients are thrown into an unfamiliar environment with minimal knowledge and lack the confidence to ask the questions they want to, leaving them feeling overwhelmed and lost. When providers don’t take the time to center the care and communication around their patient, it can lead to poor health outcomes.

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Association between operator volume and mortality in primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Open Heart

Background There is a paucity of real-world data assessing the association of operator volumes and mortality specific to primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). Methods Demographic, clinical and outcome data for all patients undergoing PPCI in Leeds General Infirmary, UK, between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2011, and 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2013, were obtained prospectively.

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Annals Celebrates “Peer Review Week”: Research Integrity and Priorities

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Webinar Annals Celebrates “Peer Review Week”: Research Integrity and Priorities kchalko Tue, 10/04/2022 - 08:43 September 22, 2022 In this STS webinar—scheduled during Peer Review Week (Sept 19-23)—"The Annals of Thoracic Surgery" Editor-in-Chief Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS, is joined by a panel of editors, editorial board members, and experts to highlight touchstones of publication ethics, how research drives quality and affects patient safety, and a focused discussion on research priorities for ou

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The college football fans that beat COVID and the experts that couldn’t

Dr. Anish Koka

The COVID pandemic was supposed to herald the end of the idea that a smaller government is a better government. The experts who desperately seek to be in charge of a sprawling bureaucratic state told us that it was only a powerful central authority that could do what was needed to safeguard individual liberties at a time when a highly contagious respiratory virus was spreading across the globe.