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Registered nurses increasingly work in remote care and digital interaction roles, offering flexibility and expansion of their scope of practice. These roles may expose nurses to digital compassion fatigue, a phenomenon proposed to be characterized by the negative psychological and emotional impact of caring for patients remotely through the use of technology.The first objective of this work is to propose the phenomenon of "digital compassion fatigue" as a potentially further [...]

This study evaluates the integration of electronic health records (EHRs) and natural language processing (NLP) with large language models (LLMs) to enhance healthcare data management and patient care, focusing on using advanced language models to create secure, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant synthetic patient notes for global biomedical research.

Although many aspects of nursing documentation are considered an essential part of clinical communication and care coordination, other types of nursing documentation have been implemented to meet compliance and secondary uses. Adding required documentation without carefully assessing its association with patient outcomes adds excessive documentation burden on nurses. There is a gap in the evidence of the association between additional required nursing documentation and improvements in patient outcomes.This study aimed [...]

To assess what practice-, provider-, and patient population-level predictors predict adoption of an ADHD ehealth technology in community pediatric settings, pediatric providers nationwide were recruited and offered free use of an evidence-based mental health-focused ehealth quality improvement intervention (mehealth for ADHD). Practice-, provider-, and patient population-level factors predicting provider's adoption of the intervention were studied. We hypothesized that providers who were younger, nearing recredentialing, having more patients with ADHD, working [...]

This study aimed to examine user actions within a clinical decision support (CDS) alert addressing hypertension (HTN) in chronic kidney disease (CKD).A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of a CDS alert for primary care patients with CKD and uncontrolled blood pressure included prechecked default orders for medication initiation or titration, basic metabolic panel (BMP), and nephrology electronic consult (e-consult). We examined each type of action and calculated percentages of placed and [...]

Electronic health records (EHRs) data are increasingly used for research and analysis, but there is little empirical evidence to inform how automated and manual assessments can be combined to efficiently assess data quality in large EHR repositories.

To quantify differences between (1) stratifying patients by predicted disease onset risk alone and (2) stratifying by predicted disease onset risk and severity of downstream outcomes. We perform a case study of predicting sepsis.

To measure hospital engagement in interoperable exchange of health-related social needs (HRSN) data.

Extended reality (XR) applications are gaining support as a method of reducing anxieties about medical treatments and conditions; however, their impacts on health service inequalities remain underresearched. We therefore undertook a synthesis of evidence relating to the equity implications of these types of interventions.