OBJECTIVES The aim was to describe the strengths and weaknesses, from team member perspectives, of working with the Global Trigger Tool (GTT) method of retrospective record review to identify adverse events causing patient harm. DESIGN A qualitative, descriptive approach with focus group interviews using content analysis. SETTING 5 Swedish hospitals in 2011. PARTICIPANTS 5 GTT teams, with...

OBJECTIVE To propose new cutoffs in plasma glucose levels in screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in the first trimester of pregnancy. METHODS A 50-gram oral glucose challenge test (GCT) was performed in 1,716 singleton pregnancies at 6-14 weeks' gestation. In those with a positive GCT, a 100-gram glucose tolerance test (GTT) was carried out. The GCT and as necessary...

Nurses must deliver infusions as prescribed since too slow or fast a dose could be deleterious to patients. experience challenges with infusion calculations, making them vulnerable errors. The research team examined drop factor and calculation discrepancies among nurses in southern Nigeria. Five university teaching hospitals were involved this cross-sectional study conducted 2019. To establish ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS In capsule endoscopy (CE), the capsule does not always reach the cecum within its battery life, which may reduce its diagnostic yield. We evaluated the effect of mosapride citrate, a 5-hydroxytryptamine-4 agonist that increases gastrointestinal motility, on CE completion. METHODS In a retrospective study, we performed univariate and multivariate analyses for 232 CE procedures ...

BACKGROUND Dabigatran is an alternative to warfarin (WF) for the thromboprophylaxis of stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). The advantage of dabigatran over WF is that monitoring is not required; however, a method to monitor the effect and the safety of dabigatran is not currently available. The Global Thrombosis Test (GTT) is a novel method to assess both clot forma...

Oral glucose tolerance test (GTT) has been the common feature of several of our previous studies (Sahi et al. 1985; Siddhu et al. 1986; Sud et al. 1988 a, b), frequently the same volunteer has participated in more than one study. We observed considerable intra-individual variation in the postprandial glycemic response. On analysing part of our data, we observed a mean coefficient of variation o...

OBJECTIVE To assess the performance characteristics of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Global Trigger Tool (GTT) to determine its reliability for tracking local and national adverse event rates. DATA SOURCES Primary data from 2008 chart reviews. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study in a stratified random sample of 10 North Carolina hospitals. Hospital-based (internal) and contract re...

Objective: To determine the efficacy of direct germ tube method in early detections of candida albicans. Introduction: Blood stream infections (BSIs) caused by Candida species are on the increase and associated with high mortality rates, which are due in part to delay in the administration of appropriate antifungal therapy. Earlier identification of yeast isolates from blood cultures may improv...

In this study, we determined the molecular mechanism of γ-tocotrienol (GTT) in preventing cellular aging by focusing on its anti-apoptotic effect in stress-induced premature senescence (SIPS) model of human diploid fibroblasts (HDFs). Results obtained showed that SIPS exhibited senescent-phenotypic characteristic, increased expression of senescence-associated β-galactosidase (SA β-gal) and prom...

Much is understood of how quantitative aspects of image structure are measured by VI simple cells, but less about how qualitative structure is determined from these measurements. We review Geometric Texton Theory (GTT) that aims to describe this step from quantitative to qualitative. GTT proposes that qualitative feature categories arise through consideration of the maximum likelihood (ML) expl...