Module 17 2024

03/12/2024

Level of evidence - Catheter

• Primary user-typically nursing staff • No real investigation into if this was accurate • Evidence came from existing audits and service evaluations published as conference abstracts and posters • Non comparative studies • Despite the existence of multiple comparators • Some of the historically existing comparators obsolete due to changes in practice • Outcomes • A mixture of objective and subjective measurements (i.e.. pain, user satisfaction) • Methodological quality assessment difficult

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Examples of technologies

A device to secure central venous catheters

Non invasive coronary artery disease detection

Imaging Technologies for detecting liver disease

Precision medicine - Genomics Proteomics Big Data technologies

Digital Health Technologies - Apps

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