Diagnostic Accuracy of Delirium Assessment Methods in Critical Care Patients

Diagnostic Accuracy of Delirium Assessment Methods in Critical Care Patients

Delirium is a disorder of decreased ability to focus, sustain or shift attention, change in cognition and or perception. The main objective was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU... read more

A Digital Revolution in Health Care is Speeding Up

A Digital Revolution in Health Care is Speeding Up

Telemedicine, predictive diagnostics, wearable sensors and a host of new apps will transform how people manage their health. In the longer term, the biggest upheaval may come from the large technology firms. Amazon and Google... read more

Utility and Diagnostic Accuracy of Bedside Lung Ultrasonography During MET

Utility and Diagnostic Accuracy of Bedside Lung Ultrasonography During MET

Lung ultrasonography can be rapidly performed in the majority of patients with MET activation for respiratory deterioration. As an independent diagnostic test, lung ultrasonography is non-inferior to the medical emergency... read more

Data on 211 Million Referrals Shows How Doctors Really Work Together

Data on 211 Million Referrals Shows How Doctors Really Work Together

A peek into the hidden world of medicine reveals some surprising trends. Sometimes it involves the traditional sense of the word - a primary care physician referring a patient to a specialist (like a cardiologist or gastroenterologist)... read more

Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of C. difficile: Current State of the Evidence

Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of C. difficile: Current State of the Evidence

This is a summary of a systematic review that evaluated the recent evidence regarding the accuracy of diagnostic tests and the effectiveness of interventions for preventing and treating Clostridium difficile (C. difficile)... read more

ICU Medicine Is a Team Sport

ICU Medicine Is a Team Sport

I am incredibly fortunate to work on a multidisciplinary team every day. The team includes respiratory therapists, nurses, nutritionists, attending physicians (APs), and advanced practice providers (APPs) (nurse practitioners... read more

Strategies for Optimizing Diagnostic Predictive Value of Clostridium difficile

Strategies for Optimizing Diagnostic Predictive Value of Clostridium difficile

Because nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) do not distinguish Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and asymptomatic C. difficile carriage, the diagnostic predictive value of NAATs is limited when used in patients with... read more

VR Technology for Surgical Procedures Planning

VR Technology for Surgical Procedures Planning

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland developed a technology that uses CT data to generate 3-D images that can be viewed in a virtual environment to help surgeons as they plan surgical procedures. The technology,... read more

Beating the Dunning-Kruger Effect at Its Own Game

Beating the Dunning-Kruger Effect at Its Own Game

Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when individuals assume that their competency in a given area is significantly higher than it is.... read more

Urine test may detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Urine test may detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Researchers at the Medical Research Council in Britain have discovered it may be possible to test patients for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease using urine samples.... read more

Urine test may detect respiratory conditions in newborns

Urine test may detect respiratory conditions in newborns

Testing urine samples for a set of proteins may help improve diagnosis of respiratory conditions in newborns, according a proof-of-concept study in Russia.... read more

7 Essential Clinical Application Downloads

7 Essential Clinical Application Downloads

Our clinical application article library contains a wide range of the most recent application notes, scientific posters, white papers and case studies. This article highlights seven of our most popular downloaded articles... read more