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TuRBO integrates different team communication and calibration processes under the overarching concept of in-action TR and provides descriptive behavioral markers. TuRBO taps into powerful cultural and normative components of patient safety. This tool can augment team training that allows all team members to serve as an important resource for flexible, resilient, and safer patient care.The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) disturbed the gravitational forces of medical education when they entered into a historic agreement in August 2014. This agreement resulted in a 6-year journey to a single accreditation pathway for all residency programs and nearly all fellowship programs in the United States. It brought together the two traditions of medicine in the country for the first time in more than 100 years, unifying a critical phase of medical education for all physicians in the United States. In this commentary, the authors briefly describe the Single Accreditation System and relate their perspective on the factors leading to this profoundly important event and its impact on the ACGME, AOA, and medical education.

We present a case of fatal Rickettsiosis from South Africa.

We present a case of fatal Rickettsiosis from South Africa.

Opioid analgesics are commonly prescribed for postoperative analgesia following pediatric surgery and often result in leftover opioid analgesics in the home. To reduce the volume of leftover opioids and overall community opioid burden, the State of Tennessee enacted a policy to reduce initial opioid prescribing to a 3-day supply for most acute pain incidents. We aimed to evaluate the extent of leftover opioid analgesics following pediatric ambulatory surgeries in the context of a state-mandated restrictive opioid-prescribing policy. We also aimed to evaluate opioid disposal rates, methods of disposal, and reasons for nondisposal.

Study personnel contacted the parents of 300 pediatric patients discharged with an opioid prescription following pediatric ambulatory surgery. Parents completed a retrospective telephone survey regarding opioid use and disposal. OD36 in vitro Data from the survey were combined with data from the medical record to evaluate proportion of opioid doses prescribed that were left over.

The final ascribed opioids were left over following pediatric ambulatory surgeries. A majority of parents did not engage in safe opioid disposal practices. Given the safety risks related to leftover opioids in the home, further interventions to improve disposal rates and tailor opioid prescribing are warranted after pediatric surgery.

Despite Tennessee's policy aimed at reducing leftover opioids, a significant proportion of prescribed opioids were left over following pediatric ambulatory surgeries. A majority of parents did not engage in safe opioid disposal practices. Given the safety risks related to leftover opioids in the home, further interventions to improve disposal rates and tailor opioid prescribing are warranted after pediatric surgery.Substandard and falsified medicines have severe public health and socioeconomic effects, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The WHO has emphasized the need for reliable estimates of the prevalence of such medicines to efficiently respond to this problem. link2 In the present study, we used 601 medicine samples collected in Cameroon, the DR Congo, and Malawi to assess the rates of substandard and falsified medicines based on different criteria. Based on the specifications of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia for the amount of the active pharmaceutical ingredients, the rate of out-of-specification medicines was 9.3%. By contrast, this rate ranged from 3.3% up to 35.0% if the tolerance limits of other pharmacopoeias or recently published medicine quality studies were used. This shows an urgent need for harmonization. Principal methods to assess the rate of falsified medicines are packaging analysis, chemical analysis, and authenticity inquiries. In the present study, we carried out an authenticity inquiry for the aforementioned medicine samples, contacting 126 manufacturers and 42 distributors. Response rates were higher for samples stated to be manufactured in Asia (52.4%) or Europe (53.8%) than for samples manufactured in Africa (27.4%; P less then 0.001). One sample had been identified as falsified by packaging analysis by the local researchers and two additional ones by chemical analysis. Notably, seven additional falsified samples were identified by the authenticity inquiries. The total rate of falsified medicines resulted as 1.7%. Considerations are discussed for assessing the rates of "substandard" and "falsified" medicines in future medicine quality studies.

Nurse-led pelvic floor muscle exercise and lifestyle education programs are effective first-line interventions for women with stress incontinence (SI).

To develop an evidence-based stress incontinence care protocol (SICP) using the Stevens Star Model of Knowledge Transformation and evaluate its effect on the frequency and quantity of urinary incontinence, quality of life, pelvic muscle self-efficacy levels, and lifestyle variables of women with SI.

An SICP was developed on the basis of the Star model. The views of an expert were consulted for testing the content validity of the protocol. Using a pretest-posttest experimental design, 68 women with SI who visited an outpatient clinical at a hospital in Turkey were prospectively enrolled in the intervention (n = 34) and control (n = 34) groups. After obtaining baseline demographic and health history information, participants completed the King's Health Questionnaire, the Broome Pelvic Muscle Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale, a 3-day voiding diary, and a 1-hour pad test. The intervention group received an 8-week program of care according to the Star model-derived SICP, and follow-up assessments were completed by both groups after 8 and 12 weeks.

The content validity index for the SICP was 91.9%. The intervention group had a reduced quantity and frequency of urinary leakage, reduced King's Health Questionnaire scores, and increased Broome Pelvic Muscle Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale scores (P < .05).

Care provided according to the Star model-derived SICP reduced the quantity and frequency of SI and improved the perceived pelvic muscle exercise self-efficacy and quality of life of the participants.

Care provided according to the Star model-derived SICP reduced the quantity and frequency of SI and improved the perceived pelvic muscle exercise self-efficacy and quality of life of the participants.

Medical device-related pressure ulcers/injuries (MDRPU/Is) are a serious concern in health care.

To develop and assess the psychometric testing of a questionnaire to measure nursing students' attitudes about the care and prevention of MDRPU/Is.

Based on a review of the literature, a 26-item questionnaire was developed; face validity was assessed by ten (10) nursing students. The modified Lawshe's model was used, and both the content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio were calculated. Items with a CVI more than 0.63 were retained. link3 The minimum optimal CVI for the new instrument was 79%. Qualitative assessments were performed by 10 experienced faculty members. One-hundred-and-eighty seven (187) nursing students participated in the construct validity testing of the 11-item questionnaire. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test of sampling adequacy and Bartlett's test of sphericity were performed. Following analysis of the main components and the varimax rotation, the factor analysis was determined. Internaed to confirm these results.

In this sample of nursing students, the Attitude Towards Medical-device Related Pressure Ulcers/Injuries Questionnaire was valid and reliable. Studies including licensed clinicians are needed to confirm these results.

Stomal mucocutaneous separation (SMS) is a serious and common short-term and long-term complication of ostomy surgery, but optimal methods to help prevent it have not been established. The authors hypothesized that seromuscular-dermal (SM-D) suturing may be better than all layer-dermal (AL-D) suturing to help prevent SMS.

This retrospective study evaluated the short-term SMS rate of patients who underwent colostomy or ileostomy surgery between 2015 and 2019. Patient demographics, medical and surgical history variables, as well as SMS outcomes were abstracted. Postoperative SMS severity was categorized by extent as follows grade A (mild), grade B (moderate), and grade C (severe).

In total, 105 patients (AL-D group, 45 patients; SM-D group, 60 patients) were enrolled in the study. SMS occurred in 24 patients (23%). The overall SMS rate was 18% (n = 11) in the SM-D group and 29% (n = 13) in the AL-D group (P = .202). The occurrence of severe (grade C) or moderate and severe SMS (grades B + C) in the SM-D c significantly lower rate of moderate or severe SMS.

Although offloading foot ulcers with a total contact cast (TCC) remains the cornerstone of managing these wounds, the TCC is underutilized. Patient intolerance and potential iatrogenic complications due to TCCs' general lack of customizability and the inability to address flexible biomechanical deformities that are not in the sagittal plane may be one of the reasons patients with foot ulcers do not receive this crucial component of care.

To describe the use of a novel approach to the standard TCC technique that uses strategic padding to potentially increase patient compliance and comfort while decreasing the likelihood of iatrogenic ulceration, as well as to correct flexible frontal plane biomechanical deformities with casting tape that is pulled medial to lateral, or lateral to medial, to bring the plantar surface of the foot to neutral position.

The custom total contact cast (C-TCC) was used in a 54-year-old woman who had diabetes, obesity, and a flexible cavovarus foot type with a recurring plantar fhods are needed to guide care and improve the utilization of optimal offloading methods for the management of plantar foot ulcers.

In this case, the C-TCC helped address flexible frontal plane deformities and facilitated healing. Randomized, controlled clinical studies to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of different TCC methods are needed to guide care and improve the utilization of optimal offloading methods for the management of plantar foot ulcers.

The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of drug-induced interstitial lung disease (DILD) on the mortality of patients with lung cancer.

Japanese patients with lung cancer who had received chemotherapy in Fujita Health University Hospital from January 2017 to December 2018 were enrolled in this study. The primary outcome was to identify independent factors associated with patient mortality. The secondary outcome was to identify the risk factor of DILD.

Four hundred and fifty-seven patients were assigned to the current study. The multivariable analysis revealed that being aged 75 years or older, small cell lung carcinoma, cancer stage IV, and DILD event were risk factors of mortality. Male sex was identified as a risk factor of DILD.

DILD event has the same degree of risk for mortality as age 75 years or older in lung cancer patients.

DILD event has the same degree of risk for mortality as age 75 years or older in lung cancer patients.