Safety in health care today: more than just freedom from errors and accidents?

Dementia Care: More Than Just Prescription Drugs.

In this issue of American Family Physician, Dr. Epperly and colleagues review therapies for managing the cognitive and functional symptoms of Alzheimer disease.1 Although the review discusses nonpharmacologic therapies, it focuses primarily on medications that are widely used in practice. Indeed, prescriptions for medications to treat cognitive impairment have increased worldwide as much as six...

PDB_REDO: constructive validation, more than just looking for errors

Developments of the PDB_REDO procedure that combine re-refinement and rebuilding within a unique decision-making framework to improve structures in the PDB are presented. PDB_REDO uses a variety of existing and custom-built software modules to choose an optimal refinement protocol (e.g. anisotropic, isotropic or overall B-factor refinement, TLS model) and to optimize the geometry versus data-re...

[The quality and safety of intensive care medicine in Spain. More than just words].

Int ensive care medicine aims t o of f er cr i t ical pat ient s qual it y medical care adj ust ed t o t heir needs, and in t he safest way possible. This specialized f ield of medical care const i t ut es one of t he main el ement s of al l modern heal t hcare syst ems, represent ing a resource t hat i s increasingly in demand, and which impl ies import ant sanitary costs. In the United States...

Professional errors and patient safety in intensive cardiac care unit:

Abstract Introduction: Use of progressive technology, clinical skills and caring methods appropriate to critical situations of patient in intensive Cardiac Care Unit is probably related to professional errors and disorder in patient safety. There is a little data about this subject. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore professional errors and patient safety in Cardiac Care Unit. Meth...

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