Study Suggests Staggered Radiologist Work Shifts Improve Patient Care
A study in the September issue of the IJournal of the American College of Radiology/I says that implementation of staggered radiologist work shifts can expedite the communication of urgent findings and improve patient care.
Radiology practice in the United States is moving toward 24/7 coverage, in which it has maximized coverage for imaging such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) interpretation either by utilizing on-call radiologists ...
A 5-year cumulative risk of bowel surgery is significantly lower than reported in recent studies, a new multi-center study of 854 children with Crohn's disease revealed.
The findings of the study, led by Hasbro Children's Hospital, also indicate that children diagnosed between ages 13 and 16 had an increased risk of bowel surgery, and that a common treatment that begins at diagnosis, immunomodulator therapy, did not alter the risk of surgery. The study is published ...
Accepted measures of well-being show that human welfare is on average improving globally, both in poor countries and rich ones despite it being accepted that global degradation of ecosystems is threatens it.
A team of authors writing in the September issue of IBioScience/I dissects explanations for this "environmentalist's paradox." Noting that understanding the paradox is "critical to guiding future management of ecosystem services," Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne and ...
Eearing a pair of high-heeled Jimmy Choos may be painful for your ankles, but it has emerged that habitual stiletto wearers feel discomfort while walking flat footed.
In a study, Marco Narici from Manchester Metropolitan University and Robert Csapo, from the University of Vienna, Austria, compared two groups of women - one regular high-heel wearers and another who didn't.
Csapo and Olivier Seynnes, another researcher, then compared ...
