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Top killers
In healthcare, the tendency is more on managing events after they happen rather than adopting a proactive approach to prevention. This is a major reason why the number of CVD patients continues to increase each year and why cardiovascular disease continues to be one of the leading causes of death and disability. Approximately 17.7 million people...
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A systems perspective on collaborative care delivery
For collaborative care delivery to be a driver of healthcare transformation, we need to think differently about how we design and manage healthcare delivery. Healthcare systems are undergoing transformation in order to meet the ever-changing needs of modern healthcare delivery. Our ageing population and increased prevalence of chronic disease...
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Medical errors: is prevention possible?
How the Patient Safety Movement is striving for zero preventable deaths by 2020 A patient death is distressing enough, but when the cause is a lack of hospital safety culture and it could have been prevented, healthcare needs to act. Now. A health crisis across the globe is claiming over 4.8 million lives every year. It’s devastating...
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Rising multimorbidity in our ageing world
Mapping the landscape of ageing for more effective healthcare How can the spatial sciences contribute to streamlined healthcare by addressing multi-morbidity in ageing populations across the globe? The global population is ageing. This is not only a general demographic pattern but one with a variety of unique trajectories by country...
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Chronic Inequities: The top killer of women in Europe?
Women are underrepresented throughout the health policy continuum from research to access and appropriate healthcare. How can this imbalance be addressed? What is killing women in Europe today? The list includes cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory disease, which account for nearly four-fifths of women's (and men’s) deaths on...
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What is the future of breast cancer screening?
Αdvances in technology and the advent of precision medicine point to a move away from ‘one size fits all’ breast cancer screening. Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cause of death from cancer in women worldwide and the second leading cause of death from cancer in women in developed countries (Ferlay et al. 2014a; 2014b). Breast...
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Separate and concentrate― a sustainable business model for general hospitals?
Reducing management complexity in patient care. Research shows how to optimise and streamline care in the hospital setting by separating patients into routine and complex groups. After years of medical progress, we are now facing the age of precision medicine in which new technologies allow for effective care tailored to the individual...
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Obstacles to establishing competence in radiology
Competence in radiology: difficult to define, more difficult to establish. Since the publication of McClelland's 1973 work (McClelland 1973), it is assumed that knowledge does not always imply better performance in the profession, and that competence is a complex concept, in which many factors are involved (Mendiratta-Lala et al....
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Aiming to heal 80 percent more hearts through the power of partnership
As a leading center in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, Oslo University Hospital, in Norway is acutely aware of the increasing number of lives that are being impacted by atrial fibrillation. Dr. Erik Kongsgård, Head of Electrophysiology at the hospital, shared, “we are the only public center in the south of Norway, with approximately 2.8...
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