Myth Busters Research Articles

Technology Myth Busters for Nurse Leaders.

Technology is frequently viewed as a barrier to workflow and efficiency rather than as a tool that can be used to improve the quality of our care, increase efficiency, or enhance patient outcomes. However, when technology is applied effectively, nurse leaders can leverage tools such as clinical decision support to avoid errors, inform decision making, and boost provider and patient satisfaction. These topics were discussed at the AONE annual meeting in a preconference session. In this article, AONE session leaders detail ways to ensure that information technology is a valuable tool-and not an obstacle-for effective nursing practice.

An audit of chronic oedema within the care home setting.

This articles outlines the important issue of chronic oedema, its definition and the physiology of the three main categories. The care delivered in the care home (nursing) sector was the subject of a printed questionnaire and the results are presented here. They are discussed and the implications for practice and an evidenced-based approach to care delivery are considered. Several conclusions can be drawn from this study but would be strengthened by a larger study. Care for patients with chronic oedema could be enhanced and this would improve clinical outcomes; significantly fewer patients would need to be referred for GP management if an appropriate and timely first-line treatment was agreed and provided by nursing staff. An educational resource should be developed, including: a resource folder; e-learning, patient information, and a patient leg exercise regime; a crib sheet and myth buster information; and clinical competencies. A further study would be required to confirm whether fewer patients experienced falls or presented with chronic oedema when lower leg swelling was managed.

E‐cigarettes: making healthcare professionals myth busters

Electronic cigarettes (e‐cigarettes) have an important role in helping many people to stop smoking, but widespread myths and misconceptions remain about their safety. Public Health England's recent evidence review aims to help healthcare professionals dispel some of these myths.

Journal myth buster: 10 reasons why you should submit to our journals

Journal myth buster: 10 reasons why you should submit to our journals

Technology assessment as a myth buster: deconstructing myths around emerging technologies

ABSTRACTResponsible Research and Innovation requires the debating of emerging technologies ‘upstream’. In discussions on radically novel technologies, comparisons with older technologies are often drawn. This leads to a transfer of assigned properties in the creation of rhetoric so that the new technology appears as a derivative of the older. Sometimes, several comparator technologies are at hand which may give the new technology a different image. Depending on the choices taken in rhetoric creation, a group of actors may acquire advantages over other groups, thereby establishing power relations and sometimes deciding the fate of the technology in question. In this paper, we analyse these processes through a ‘hermeneutic’ upstream technology assessment (TA) lens, while applying Roland Barthes’ concept of myths creation. Using the case examples of synthetic biology and neuro-enhancement, we highlight the importance of the role of comparators and the multilayered character of myths. The potential role of TA as a ‘myth buster’ may render another task of TA, namely, stimulating a public debate, more difficult because the issue at stake may appear less salient.

Painkillers relieve zebrafish larvae discomfort.

Lynne Sneddon is a myth buster. Having debunked the fisherman's legend that fish don't feel pain, Sneddon, from the University of Liverpool, UK, has become a leading figure in the movement to reduce, replace and refine the use of animals in scientific research. Uncomfortable with the increasing use of adult fish in pain research, Sneddon and Javier Lopez-Luna decided to test whether tiny zebrafish larvae feel pain. ‘Previous studies have identified multiple subtypes of nociceptors [pain receptors] in zebrafish…even as early as a few days post-fertilization’, the team says. Could they replace the adult fish that are used in research with larvae that are a matter of days old? Only if they could prove that the fish respond to pain and any discomfort could be relieved.Lopez-Luna and Sneddon exposed 5-day-post-fertilization zebrafish embryos to dilute concentrations of acetic acid and citric acid, both of which are known to irritate adult fish, and tracked the larvae's activity with software produced by Qussay Al-Jubouri and Waleed Al-Nuaimy. Analysing the minute fish's motion, Lopez-Luna and Sneddon noticed that the larvae became less active in the two most dilute concentrations of acetic acid (0.01 and 0.1%). However, the most concentrated acetic acid (0.25%) and all three concentrations of citric acid (0.1, 1 and 5%) stimulated the fish to swim harder and farther, possibly in a bid to escape the uncomfortable sensation. But when Lopez-Luna administered pain relief to the disturbed fish larvae – in the form of aspirin, morphine and lidocaine – their discomfort appeared to be relieved and their behaviour returned to normal.Having confirmed that larval fish are capable of experiencing pain and benefit from pain relief, Sneddon and Lopez-Luna recommend, ‘Larval zebrafish can be used as a model for the study of pain and nociception’, sparing many of the adult fish that are currently used in toxicity tests.

Statistics Myth Busters: Dispelling Common Misperceptions Held by Readers of the Biomedical Literature.

Proficiency in research design and statistical analysis is crucial to the success of a clinical pharmacist. However, new pharmacy graduates and residents may not have received adequate training and education in these areas. During the authors' tenure as clinical pharmacists, several statistical "myths" were consistently maintained by residents and new clinical practitioners. The purpose of this narrative review is to discuss and dispel several of these statistical fallacies. The myths discussed involve 3 common areas of consideration when evaluating any clinical study: assessing the risk of bias from confounding (propensity score analysis and multivariable modeling), interpretation of the main study findings ( P values and hypothesis testing), and secondary evaluations (subgroup analyses). Literature examples are used to illustrate each of the topics. The authors hope that the discussion will augment each pharmacist's knowledge of medical literature interpretation leading to improvements in patient care, education of future residents, and personal research endeavors.

Martyrdom's would-be myth buster.

Lankford overgeneralizes individual psychology from limited, fragmentary and doubtful materials, and underplays strategic, ideological, and group dynamical factors. His speculative claims manifest a form of fundamental attribution error: the tendency-especially evident in popular attachment to moral presumptions of individual responsibility and volition-to overestimate effects of personality and underestimate situational effects in explaining social behavior. The book's appeal may owe more to ideological preference than to interests of science or national security.

Controversies in Pediatric Anesthesia: Myth Busters to the Rescue

No other journal can match Anesthesia & Analgesia for its original and significant contributions to the anesthesiology field. Each monthly issue features peer-reviewed articles reporting on the latest advances in drugs, preoperative preparation, patient monitoring, pain management, pathophysiology, and many other timely topics. Backed by internationally-known authorities who serve on the Editorial Board and as Section Editors, Anesthesia &Analgesia is your gateway to everything that is happening in anesthesia and 14 related subspecialties: Analgesia; Ambulatory Anesthesia; Anesthetic Pharmacology; Cardiovascular Anesthesia; Critical Care and Trauma; Economics, Education, and Policy; Neurosurgical Anesthesia; Obstetric Anesthesia; Pain Mechanisms; Pain Medicine; Pediatric Anesthesia; Regional Anesthesia; Patient Safety; and Technology, Computing and Simulation.

Myth Busters: 10 Things You Don't Know That You Think You Know About Launching a Career at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution

Faculty face special challenges in establishing and sustaining successful teaching and research careers at predominantly undergraduate institutions. One of the challenges in competing for a faculty position at a PUI is understanding the nature of faculty expectations and workload, and avoiding stereotypes when applying. In this session, ten “myths” concerning faculty careers at a PUI will be used as a springboard for discussion to help participants better understand the PUI career environment, and help participants increase their marketability to PUIs. Topics to be discussed will include professional training, faculty workload and expectations, and adapting research to the PUI environment.

Interprofessional Team Members’ Roles and Responsibilities: Myth Busters

Interprofessional Team Members’ Roles and Responsibilities: Myth Busters

59 Myth Buster: Does Homogeneous Racial Donor/Recipient Match Improve Outcome after Heart Transplantation?

59 Myth Buster: Does Homogeneous Racial Donor/Recipient Match Improve Outcome after Heart Transplantation?

ADHD: The Facts Mark Selikowitz ADHD: The Facts Oxford University Press Second edition £12.99192pp97801995650300199565031

This updated edition is primarily aimed at parents but equally gives professionals a useful guide to this condition. Causes, diagnosis, conventional and unconventional treatments are covered as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adulthood. It is well set out and includes key points at the beginning of chapters as well as vignettes of particular cases to illustrate the content of the section and a myth buster at the end.

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