Moving towards equity with digital health innovations for stroke care

A Verma, A Towfighi, A Brown, A Abhat, A Casillas - Stroke, 2022 - ahajournals.org
Digital health has long been championed as a means to expanding access to health care.
Now that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many health systems' integration of digital …

Implementation strategies to reduce surgical site infections: a systematic review

P Ariyo, B Zayed, V Riese, B Anton, A Latif… - Infection Control & …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) portend high patient morbidity and mortality.
Although evidence-based clinical interventions can reduce SSIs, they are not reliably …

Improved prophylaxis and decreased rates of preventable harm with the use of a mandatory computerized clinical decision support tool for prophylaxis for venous …

ER Haut, BD Lau, FS Kraenzlin, DB Hobson… - Archives of …, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Objective Venous thromboembolism is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality
and is largely preventable. Despite this fact, appropriate prophylaxis is vastly underutilized …

Eliminating health care disparities with mandatory clinical decision support: the venous thromboembolism (VTE) example

BD Lau, AH Haider, MB Streiff, CU Lehmann… - Medical care, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Background: All hospitalized patients should be assessed for venous thromboembolism
(VTE) risk factors and prescribed appropriate prophylaxis. To improve best-practice VTE …

Practices to prevent venous thromboembolism: a brief review

BD Lau, ER Haut - BMJ quality & safety, 2014 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common cause of preventable harm for
hospitalised patients. Over the past decade, numerous intervention types have been …

Organizational culture changes result in improvement in patient-centered outcomes: implementation of an integrated recovery pathway for surgical patients

EC Wick, DJ Galante, DB Hobson, AR Benson… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background The goals of quality improvement are to partner with patients and loved ones to
end preventable harm, continuously improve patient outcomes and experience, and …

Impact of a venous thromboembolism prophylaxis “smart order set”: improved compliance, fewer events

AM Zeidan, MB Streiff, BD Lau… - American journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) affects over 700,000 Americans annually. Prophylaxis
reduces the risk of VTE by 60% but many patients still do not receive risk‐appropriate VTE …

Increasing compliance with low tidal volume ventilation in the ICU with two nudge-based interventions: evaluation through intervention time-series analyses

CP Bourdeaux, MJC Thomas, TH Gould, G Malhotra… - BMJ open, 2016 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Low tidal volume (TVe) ventilation improves outcomes for ventilated patients, and
the majority of clinicians state they implement it. Unfortunately, most patients never receive …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy, validity, and reliability of an electronic visual analog scale for pain on a touch screen tablet in healthy older adults: a clinical trial

ML Bird, ML Callisaya, J Cannell, T Gibbons… - Interactive journal of …, 2016 - i-jmr.org
Background: New technology for clinical data collection is rapidly evolving and may be
useful for both researchers and clinicians; however, this new technology has not been tested …

Use of computerized clinical decision support systems to prevent venous thromboembolism in surgical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

ZM Borab, MA Lanni, MG Tecce, CJ Pannucci… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Health care professionals do not adequately stratify risk or provide prophylaxis
for venous thromboembolism (VTE) among surgical patients. Computerized clinical decision …