Can Acute Kidney Injury Be Considered a Clinical Quality Measure?

Can Acute Kidney Injury Be Considered a Clinical Quality Measure.

Quality indicators are measurements of healthcare outcome, process, or structure that can be used as tools to measure the quality of care and identify opportunities for improvement. Acute kidney injury (AKI) has many characteristics that make it a potential target for quality indicator development. It is common, associated with a high risk of adverse outcomes, and there are reports of gaps in t...

A Slightly Dorsally Tilted Lunate on MRI can be Considered Normal

  Background: Abnormal angulation of the lunate can be an indication of intercarpal pathology. On magnetic resonance images (MRIs) the lunate often looks dorsally angulated, even in healthy wrists. The tilt on individual slices can also be different and might be misinterpreted as pathological, contributing to inaccurate diagnoses and unnecessary surgery. The primary aim of this study was to det...

A case of acute rheumatic fever with new criteria, a disease that needs to be considered

Introduction: Acute rheumatic fever is an autoimmune disease that mainly affects the large joints. Early treatment of a throat infection following group A streptococcus prevents of acute rheumatic fever. Given the low prevalence of the disease, especially in a situation where there is excessive use of antibiotics in Iran, this study intends to report a patient with Acute rheumatic fever with mi...

Can we prevent acute kidney injury?

OBJECTIVE To review the literature on prevention of acute kidney injury (AKI). DATA SOURCE MEDLINE- and PubMed-based review of literature published from 1965 to 2007. CONCLUSIONS AKI is very common among critically ill patients. Even mild forms of AKI have significant attributable mortality. Hence, it is imperative that every effort to prevent AKI be made in clinical practice. However, ther...

Can Male Fertility Be Improved Prior to Assisted Reproduction through The Control of Uncommonly Considered Factors?