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The Lean approach

Lean Approach May Help Tackle Burnout in Health Care Providers

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Creation of a huddle board represents one method to address issues in a timely manner
Despite the popularity

Unique Risks Associated With Texting Medical Orders

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Institute of Safe Medication Practices indicates risks such as abbreviations, autocorrection
A new

Blueprint Being Developed to Address Physician Burnout

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As part of blueprint, task force developing strategies that can be adopted by any institution/practice
Antibiotic treatment for Helicobacter pylori in patients who underwent endoscopic resection of early-stage gastric cancer or high-grade adenoma is associated with a reduced rate of metachronous gastric cancer

H. Pylori Treatment Tied to Lower Metachronous Gastric Cancer Risk

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Those treated after early CA also had improvement in atrophy grade at gastric corpus lesser curvature
For neonates undergoing congenital heart surgery

Costs Up for Neonates With Vocal Fold Motion Impairment

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Increased costs due to postprocedure length of stay among neonates undergoing congenital heart surgery
For adults with nasal airway obstruction

Review Supports Rhinoplasty for Nasal Airway Obstruction

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Based on 10 observational studies, repair of the lateral nasal wall is effective treatment
For patients with obtunded blunt trauma to the cervical spine

No Benefit for MRI After Normal Cervical CT in Blunt Trauma

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MRI had lower health benefit and higher cost compared with no follow-up after normal CT findings
Children aged younger than 3 years seem to have increased risk of complications following tonsillectomy compared with children aged 3 years or older

Risk of Post-Tonsillectomy Complications Up for Under-3s

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Increased risk of complications, complications within 24 hours of surgery, compared with older children
Virtual reality appears to be an effective distraction intervention to relieve pain and distress during various medical procedures

Review: Virtual Reality Distracts From Pain of Medical Procedures

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VR effective for reducing pain and distress of even extremely painful procedures
Almost all emergency general surgery patients treated operatively and nonoperatively have increased risk of venous thromboembolism and should receive prophylactic treatment

VTE Risk Up in Most Emergency General Surgery Patients

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Pharmacologic prophylaxis should be considered unless an absolute contraindication exists