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Transitional care teams have been shown to improve patient safety. We describe a novel transitional care team with a clinical pharmacist as team leader initiated amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The program focused on Veterans with 2 planned transitions of care: hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) and from SNF to home. Ninety older Veterans were enrolled, and 79 medication errors and 80 appointment errors were identified. We conclude that a pharmacist-led program can improve safety in patients with 2 planned transitions of care.
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Presents a poem about regret, hospice, medical students, and learning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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This case reinforces the need to consider infectious disease as a possible cause of constipation for a patient on opioids.
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The 2D shape of the lumbar spine in the sagittal plane can be determined from lordosis angles measured between the corresponding end-plates of the vertebral bodies or by using an active shape model (ASM) of the vertebral body outline. The ASM was previously shown to be a more efficient and reliable method, but its accuracy has not been assessed. The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of an ASM for characterising lumbar spine shape and compare this to conventional measurements. Images of 25 different lumbar spine shapes were generated and measured, using both methods, by three independent observers. The accuracy of the ASM, determined from lordosis angles predicted by the model, was found to be better than conventional measurements.
