Purpose: In surgical patients, 2% to 5% contract surgical site infections resulting in use of broad spectrum antibiotics. In order to prevent emergence of serious infections as a result of surgery, antimicrobial stewardship teams implement antibiotic ...
E. Hernandez+6 more
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Liquidity Constraints and Demand for Healthcare: Evidence from Danish Welfare Recipients [PDF]
Are low-income individuals relying on government transfers liquidity constrained by the end of the month to a degree that they postpone medical treatment? I investigate this question using Danish administrative data comprising the universe of welfare recipients and the filling of all prescription drugs. I find that on transfer income payday, recipients
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Evaluasi Penggunaan Antibiotika Profilaksis Pada Pasien Seksio Sesarea Di Rumah Bersalin Daerah (Rbd) Panti Nugroho Purbalingga Tahun 2009 [PDF]
Caesareansection is a technique to born of fetus by opening the abdominal wall and uterine wall. In application, caesarean section requires antibiotic prophylaxis which given to patients who undergo surgery before the infection is happend, or the ...
Hapsari, I. (Indri)+2 more
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Lycium barbarum glycopeptide (LBGP), which is further extracted from Lycium barbarum polysaccharides, exhibits significant protective effects against neomycin‐induced hearing dysfunction including oxidative stress in cochlea and loss of key cells in cochlea.
Yunhao Wu+12 more
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Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester+16 more
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Resistance Maintained in Digital Organisms despite Guanine/Cytosine-Based Fitness Cost and Extended De-Selection: Implications to Microbial Antibiotics Resistance [PDF]
Antibiotics resistance has caused much complication in the treatment of diseases, where the pathogen is no longer susceptible to specific antibiotics and the use of such antibiotics are no longer effective for treatment. A recent study that utilizes digital organisms suggests that complete elimination of specific antibiotic resistance is unlikely after
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Prophylaxis and antibiotic therapy in management protocols of patients treated with oral and intravenous bisphosphonates [PDF]
Osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) linked to bisphosphonate treatment has specific characteristics that render its therapeutic management challenging for clinicians.
Bermúdez Bejarano, Elena Beatriz+6 more
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In this study, saponin‐coated silica@gold nanocarriers responsive to NIR radiation is developed to enhance intratympanic drug delivery for cisplatin‐induced hearing loss (CIHL) treatment. The biocompatibility and oto‐protective properties are validated both in vitro and in vivo.
Rawand A. Mustafa+6 more
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Colonic Submucosa Targeted Delivery of Probiotic and Rhein for Ulcerative Colitis Treatment
A novel orally drug‐probiotic co‐delivery system designated as Rh‐YBS for UC treatment, which highlights three innovations: (i) YPs involves colonic submucosa delivery via M cells; (ii) Rh (drug) promotes the colonization and growth of BS (probiotic) in the colon.
Lingqiang Li+21 more
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Antibiotic prophylaxis during extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy in the prevention of urinary tract infections in patients with sterile urine before the procedure [PDF]
Introduction: There are controversies in the literature regarding the need and the duration of antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), who had a negative urine culture before the operation.
Balmehd, M.+3 more
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