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Use of telehealth jumped sharply during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, with the approach being used more often for behavioral health services than for medical care, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Between mid-March and early May 2020, telehealth was used by more than 40% of patients with a chronic physical health condition and by more than 50% of those with a behavioral health condition, according to findings published in the
Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Overall, almost half of the people who were undergoing treatment when the pandemic shutdown began reported using some form of telemedicine.
Researchers found that the use of telehealth for behavioral health conditions was lower among women and among people over the age of 60. Use of telehealth also was lower among Non-Hispanic Whites relative to Non-Hispanic Blacks, and was lower among those with less than a high school education relative to those with a college degree.
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New research from Swansea University suggests that a simple nurse- or carer-led medicines monitoring system can help reduce medication-related illness for people living in residential care homes - and the process takes just a few minutes per patient.
The research paper published in the
PLOS ONE journal looked how the monitoring system, known as the Adverse Drug Reaction Profile (ADRe-p), can help nurses or carers identify medicines mismanagement or adverse drug reactions in patients prescribed multiple medicines, and can help avoid medication-related harm and improve prescribing.
Professor Sue Jordan, who led the study said: The problem presented by the scale and complexity of inadvertent harm from both use and misuse of medicines is very real, which is reflected in the World Health Organisation s (WHO) Third Global Patient Safety Challenge aiming to reduce avoidable medication-related harm by 50% by next year.
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Many Sub-Saharan countries have a desperate shortage of surgeons, and to ensure that as many patients as possible can be treated, some operations are carried out by medical professionals who are not specialists in surgery.
This approach, called task sharing, is supported by the World Health Organisation, but the practice remains controversial. Now a team of medical researchers from Norway, Sweden, Sierra Leone and the Netherlands shows that groin hernia operations performed by associate clinicians, who are trained medical personnel but not doctors, are just as safe and effective as those performed by doctors. The study has been published in
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VIDEO: Alexander Stremitzer discusses the legal implications for physicians of following artificial intelligence advice in this new video from The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. view more
Credit: Video created by Alexander Stremitzer and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Center for Law and Economics.
Reston, Virginia Physicians who follow artificial intelligence (AI) advice may be considered less liable for medical malpractice than is commonly thought, according to a new study of potential jury candidates in the U.S. Published in the January issue of
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM). The study provides the first data related to physicians potential liability for using AI in personalized medicine, which can often deviate from standard care.