PICSO: Population, Intervention, Control, Setting, Outcome
Things likethis NICE manual talk aboutsetting, when formulating a search question, and there is the SPICE scheme, where S is the setting. But I am not sure I have seen a version of the PICO grid which includes setting.If there is one, it would be good to know about it and you can tell me in the comments.  But if not, I may have just invented it. But I can ' t claim the credit. My eye was caught bya Guardian article today about whether face masks work to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and my eye was particularly caught because the author is Professor Trisha Greenhalgh of Oxford Uni...
Source: Browsing - June 6, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: EBP literature searching Source Type: blogs
Get Used to It: Remote Care Is the New Norm
After living through the past 2-3 months at home, remote care feels just like remote work does: a no-brainer. It is quite frustrating that a global crisis had to lead to this point. Just like in the case of (especially higher) education, people now start to realize how to leverage the tools that have already been there for a while. Once considered science fiction, remote care is today’s new standard. Let me show you how.
There are many good examples of remote care solutions. It can connect patients and doctors without the need to travel (did you know that in Alaska patient records can only be transported on a sled wit...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 4, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Artificial Intelligence Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Telemedicine & Smartphones mobile app mobile health digital technology digital health strategy covid covid19 remote Source Type: blogs
Details of 155 Immigration Detainers for U.S. Citizens
David J. BierImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) routinely requests that local law enforcement detain U.S. citizens to allow it to pick them up. ICE ’s recordslist 3,158 U.S. citizens as targets of ICE detainers from October 2002 to September 2019. Another 1.6 percent of actual ICEarrests through Secure Communities —the targeting system that ICE uses to issue detainers—were U.S. citizens from October 2008 to April 2011—or 3,627 citizens. Immigration courts—again with incomplete records—show 2,549 removal proceedings terminated in the favor of U.S. citizens from 2002 to June 9, 2017.These totals undercount...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Boston Sci ’s DIRECTSENSE Ablation Monitoring Tech Coming to U.S.
Boston Scientific is releasing in the United States its DIRECTSENSE Technology for live monitoring of cardiac tissue during radiofrequency ablation procedures. The capability is designed for use on the company’s RHYTHMIA HDx Mapping System along with the INTELLANAV MiFi Open-Irrigated ablation catheter and it works by measuring the change in electrical impedance of the tissue around the catheter as it is being irradiated.
It is currently very difficult to create sufficient lesions that alleviate cardiac arrhythmias while also minimizing unnecessary damage to surrounding tissues. Physicians have to perform a good ...
Source: Medgadget - June 2, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Source Type: blogs
