A combination of outreach methods – including texts, automated messages, and live phone calls – can significantly improve follow-up care for hard-to-reach patients after they have been discharged, according to a new nursing study from UCSF Health.

The tool provides a fast and powerful way to create models of complex genetic and metabolic data and could pave the way for personalized therapies for diseases that affect the microbiome.

About The Study: The findings of this study suggest crewmembers who did not develop optic disc edema (ODE) on flight day 30 were unlikely to develop clinically concerning ODE on flight day 150. The data suggest that optical coherence tomography imaging during spaceflight missions provides an opportunity to predict the magnitude of ODE that may develop during a longer-lasting mission. 

About The Study: Current U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines exclude two-thirds of patients, disproportionately women and never-smokers. Age-based lung cancer screening substantially improved detection, demonstrated 6-fold superior cost-effectiveness compared with existing programs, and addressed inequities. 

Older adults who develop a new geriatric syndrome — such as dehydration, delirium, or malnutrition — after major surgery face a dramatically higher risk of poor outcomes, including more complications, fewer days spent at home, and a significantly increased likelihood of dying within a year, according to findings published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS)

Human medicine, veterinary medicine and the environmental sector must work together to combat antibiotic resistance – this is not a new insight. But how often are which antibiotics used and where? And which bacteria carry which resistances? Such fundamental data must be collected across sectors and linked together in order to effectively stop the spread of resistance. This is precisely the goal of the OHIS group, in which the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is also involved. "The investigation of bacteria along the food chain and the provision of resistance data has long been one of our core tasks," says BfR President Professor Dr Andreas Hensel. “This makes it all the more important to analyse and assess our data together with data from human medicine and the environmental sector. The only way to effectively limit the spread of antibiotic resistance is to take this joint perspective.” As part of World Antibiotic Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW), the OHIS group will meet next Thursday, 20 November, for a one-day specialist event to present existing activities and strengthen further cooperation.