A win for the patient: Direct patient notification improves treatment rates of active Helicobacter pylori infection

Selvaratnam, Sriharan; Yeoh, Joey; Hsiang, John; Patrick, Amanda R.

doi:10.4066/amj.2014.2132

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“…Interventions such as supplementing patients with written discharge instructions (ie, a computer-generated endoscopy report that summarizes the results and plans for follow-up) were shown to be helpful for recall and compliance with care, obviating the need for a telephone call 24 hours after EGD. [28][29][30][31][32] Endoscopy practices should have established protocols in place to ensure adequate communication of EGD findings and how results are relayed to their patients.…”

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Interventions to improve the performance of upper GI endoscopy quality indicators

Bazerbachi¹,

Panganamamula²,

Nieto³

et al. 2022

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

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confidence: 99%

Interventions to improve the performance of upper GI endoscopy quality indicators

Bazerbachi¹,

Panganamamula²,

Nieto³

et al. 2022

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

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Communication and management of incidental pathology in 1,214 consecutive appendicectomies; a cohort study

Kinnear¹,

Heijkoop²,

Bramwell³

et al. 2019

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Vaccine againstHelicobacter pylori: Inevitable approach

Abadi

2016

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Over three decades have passed since the discovery of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), and yet many questions about its treatment remain unanswered. For example, there is no certainty regarding continued use of current antibiotic therapy against H. pylori. The bad news is that even combined regimens are also unable to eradicate bacterial colonization. The worst problem with H. pylori chemotherapy is that even if we identify the most successful regimen, it cannot eliminate the risk of re-infection. This problem is further complicated by the fact that clinicians have no information as to whether probiotics are useful or not. Moreover, to date, we have no large scale produced vaccine effective against H. pylori. Due to the relatively rapid and abundant dissemination of guidelines globally reported concerning management of gastric cancer prevention and therapeutic regimens, clinicians may choose a vaccine as better effective weapon against H. pylori. Therefore, a radical shift in adopted strategies is needed to guide ultimate decisions regarding H. pylori management. In light of failures in vaccine projects, we should identify better vaccine design targeting conserved/essential genes. The unique character and persistence of H. pylori pose obstacles to making an effective vaccine. Preferably, in developing countries, the best reasonable and logical approach is to recommend prophylactic H. pylori vaccine among children as an obligatory national program to limit primary colonization. Trying to produce a therapeutic vaccine would be postponed until later. In reality, we should not forget to prescribe narrow spectrum antibiotics. In the current review, I draw a route to define the best adopted strategy against this rogue bacterium.

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A win for the patient: Direct patient notification improves treatment rates of active Helicobacter pylori infection

Abstract: Direct patient notification using a standardised letter is a simple and economical strategy that significantly improves the timely initiation of eradication therapy for active H. pylori infection. This has since been integrated into standard practice at our District Health Board (DHB).

Cited by 3 publications

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Interventions to improve the performance of upper GI endoscopy quality indicators

Interventions to improve the performance of upper GI endoscopy quality indicators

Communication and management of incidental pathology in 1,214 consecutive appendicectomies; a cohort study

Vaccine againstHelicobacter pylori: Inevitable approach

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