Search Tag: Risk

IMAGING Management

We-need-better-communication-of-imaging-risks

2021 15 Oct

Patients want to be informed of the risks associated with imaging but frequently are not.  A University of Pisa research team concluded this after surveying radiology patients undergoing exams at Italian hospitals (Bastiani et al. 2021; Stewart and Smith-Bindman 2021) .   Medical imaging has become vital for diagnosing and managing many diseases....Read more

IMAGING Management

Patient-doctor-talk-to-me-about-benefits-and-risks

2021 08 Mar

Communication is crucial to patient-centred care as research literature shows. The fundamental question of how, what, when and who are more crucial than ever before in patient-doctor communication.  By and large, technology has empowered patients to become informed and take ownership of their health data. Information can be shared faster, but the human...Read more

Executive Health Management

Hypertension-prevention-is-better-than-cure

2019 26 Aug

How can we get the most common, costly, and modifiable cardiovascular risk factor under control?     Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death with an upward trend beyond 30% and a tripling in costs between 2010 and 2030, placing a significant economic burden on public healthcare services. 1,2,3 The most common risk factor...Read more

Health Management

Risk-and-permission-the-core-of-good-leadership-for-the-modern-day

2018 21 Aug

Roderick Millar shares his innovative approach to leadership, which balances devolved decision-making and retaining overall control. The world is awash with leadership advice, and research from countless business schools and consultants frequently lists out the key characteristics of good leaders. These tend to fall into two categories:...Read more

IT Management

Gdpr-risk-and-accountability

2018 20 Jun

What could the new data protection law mean for health sector leaders? The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Directly binding and applicable in all EU states, the GDPR aims to protect the data and privacy of the European population by giving...Read more

Executive Health Management

General-data-protection-regulation-and-healthcare

2018 23 May

What could the new data protection law mean for health sector leaders? The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Directly binding and applicable in all EU states, the GDPR aims to protect the data and privacy of the European population by giving...Read more

Health Management

Risk-danger

2017 19 Sep

Without risk there is no progress or development. But risk, as with any professional action, needs to be identified and managed if its potential is to be harnessed optimally. A strong position on risk management is essential in today’s rapidly-changing healthcare world to avoid danger; danger in cyber security, danger in staff care and, critically,...Read more

Health Management

What-could-possibly-go-wrong-thinking-about-the-risks-and-benefits-of-medical-treatments

2017 19 Sep

How much do clinicians—and patients—really know about the likely outcomes of the decisions they make, and how can we help them know more? Should I start taking statins? Should I go for a breast cancer or prostate cancer screening test? Or even just should I take another ibuprofen for my backache—that headline about them potentially causing...Read more

Health Management

Improving-risk-literacy

2017 19 Sep

Developing risk literacy could greatly benefit healthcare   What research is undertaken at the Harding Center for Risk Literacy?   Our goal is to help people in their struggle to understand and assess risks and to facilitate better risk-related decisions. Our primary focus has been on healthcare where transparent risk communication can...Read more

Health Management

Infographic-risk

2017 19 Sep

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IMAGING Management

Study-false-positive-mammograms-may-point-to-increased-breast-cancer-risk

2015 08 Dec

A new study has found that women with a history of a false-positive mammogram result may be at increased risk of developing breast cancer for up to 10 years after the false-positive result. The study, by Louise M. Henderson, PhD, assistant professor of radiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and colleagues is published in...Read more

IT Management

When-analytics-doesn-t-show-the-real-picture

2014 28 Jul

Recent changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are intended to further strengthen efforts to improve patient care in the U.S. As a result, hospitals in the country are required to be paid based on how much they improved their patients' health and not on the number of tests and procedures performed. Some data brokers or vendors...Read more

IMAGING Management

Radiation-risks-in-paediatric-ct-an-evaluation

2014 16 May

An online survey of members of a national Canadian PEM physician association was conducted to gauge possible malignancy risks from diagnostic tests that are conducted on children in the emergency department. The study was specifically related to head computed tomography (CT).     There is no doubt that CT is one of the most important diagnostic...Read more

ICU Management

Isicem-2014-astute-medical-to-host-acute-kidney-injury-symposium

2014 18 Mar

Event Highlights Routine Use of The NephroCheck ® Test For AKI Risk Assessment Millions of hospitalised patients are affected by acute kidney injury (AKI) globally each year, making this a significant health threat.  An educational symposium being held on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 12:30 local time during the 34th International Symposium...Read more

Executive Health Management

Death-by-chocolate-added-sugar-increases-risk-of-cardiovascular-disease

2014 04 Feb

According to a new study published by JAMA Internal Medicine the consumption of added sugar, which as per definition is added during the processing or preparing of foods, not naturally occurring as in fruits and fruit juices, is associated with increased risk for death from cardiovascular disease (CVD).   Many US adults consume...Read more

IMAGING Management

Cancer-risk-from-radiation-exposure-from-ct-scans

2013 10 Jun

According to a study of seven U.S. healthcare systems, the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head, abdomen/pelvis, chest or spine, in children younger than age 14 more than doubled from 1996 to 2005, and this associated radiation is projected to potentially increase the risk of radiation-induced cancer in these children in the future, according...Read more

IMAGING Management

Ct-scans-in-childhood-and-adolescence-do-increase-cancer-risk

2013 24 May

Young people who undergo CT scans are 24 percent more likely to develop cancer compared with those who do not, a study published on bmj.com suggests. 

However, the absolute excess for all cancers combined was low, at 9.38 for every 100,000 person years of follow-up.  The increasing use of CT scans has brought concerns about possible cancer risks,...Read more

IMAGING Management

Risk-factors-for-adverse-reactions-to-ct-contrast-agents

2013 10 Apr

Japanese researchers have created a scoring rule to predict adverse reactions to contrast agents used in computed tomography. The study is published online in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.  This was a retrospective cohort study of all adult patients undergoing contrast enhanced CT scan for 7 years. The subjects were randomly divided...Read more

IMAGING Management

Risk-management-in-mri

2013 15 Mar

Risk management in MRI is, like the imaging technique itself, a multilayered problem. If we take into account an MRI superconducting magnet (the majority of installed equipment), four components of the device may cause a risk to the patient, staff, or both: the magnet (main magnetic field), the cryostat (liquid helium), the magnetic field gradients...Read more

IMAGING Management

Communicating-ct-risks-to-patients

2013 06 Mar

In a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Tanner J. Caverly, M.D., of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, and colleagues report the findings of a survey of patients undergoing outpatient computed tomography (CT) at the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center.   271 patients completed the survey, which examined...Read more