For some stroke patients, home-based video game therapy may be just as effective as other popular forms of in-person physical therapy, according to new research.
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Our EHR allows us to populate why patients self-discharge and when we reviewed the data, we clearly identified that "Feeling better" was one of the main reasons patients discontinue care. Patients feeling better is a good thing, right? Yes! But if they don't complete their care, and they are only symptomatically better, but not functionally better, then their condition may return.
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A team of Stanford Medicine-based surgeons has paired up with a UC-Santa Cruz "Serious game" developer and assistant professor, Edward Melcer, PhD, to create a game-based online platform for assessing surgical decision making. The patient's vital signs are displayed overhead. A medical chart provides a brief synopsis of the patient's signs and symptoms.
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