Internal medicine journal
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Despite diversity initiatives, inequities persist in medicine with negative implications for the workforce and patients. Little is known about workplace inequity in nephrology. ⋯ Inequity, particularly driven by gender and race, is common for nephrology health professionals in Australia and New Zealand and impacts career progression.
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Internal medicine journal · Nov 2022
Clinical evaluation of the national hospital acquired complication program.
The national hospital-acquired complication programme captures complications arising from patient-related and hospital-related factors, but the proportion of the two is unclear. ⋯ Prevalence of HAC events was higher than expected, but PPV for healthcare errors was low, suggesting provision of care is a less common cause of HAC events than patient factors. HAC may be an indicator of hospital admission complexity rather than HAC.
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Internal medicine journal · Nov 2022
Administration of pharmacological sleep aids prior to, during and following critical illness.
Sleep in the intensive care unit (ICU) is frequently disturbed and this may have a detrimental effect on recovery. ⋯ Pharmacological sleep aids are administered frequently in the ICU with administration increasing substantially after ICU discharge.