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Veterans and Homelessness [PDF]

, 2009
[Excerpt] The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan brought renewed attention to the needs of veterans, including the needs of homeless veterans. Homeless veterans initially came to the country’s attention in the 1970s and 1980s, when homelessness generally was ...
Perl, Libby
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Clinical endpoints in pragmatic heart failure trials: From data collection to clinical endpoint classification

ESC Heart Failure, EarlyView.
Abstract Clinical endpoint classification (CEC)—that is, evaluation of clinical events using pre‐defined criteria—is commonly conducted in clinical trial operations to ensure systematic and consistent assessment of endpoints needed to assess the intervention's safety and efficacy.
Veraprapas Kittipibul, Harriette G.C. Van Spall, William Schuyler Jones, Marat Fudim, Robert J. Mentz, Kevin Anstrom, Bertram Pitt, Patrice Desvigne‐Nickens, Jerome L. Fleg, Camilla Hage, Stefan James, Claes Held, Lars Lund, Adam DeVore   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospice Palliative Home Care in Canada: A Progress Report [PDF]

, 2008
This report is a snapshot of hospice palliative home care services available to Canadians in 2008. The information refers only to hospice palliative care services provided in the home.
Jean Bacon
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Socioeconomic determinants of vaccination against pneumococcus in 763 945 patients with heart failure

ESC Heart Failure, EarlyView.
Respiratory infections heighten risks for heart failure (HF) patients, yet 2020 data from France show low vaccination rates: 12.6% for pneumococcus and 63.1% for influenza. Using logistic regression on 763,945 HF patients, older age, female sex, and social deprivation were associated with lower pneumococcus vaccination, despite frequent healthcare ...
F. Roubille, B. Wyplosz, J. Fernandes, B. Grenier, F. Raguideau, E. Blanc, G. Goussiaume   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adverse events in veterans affairs inpatient psychiatric units: Staff perspectives on contributing and protective factors. [PDF]

, 2017
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to identify risk factors and protective factors in hospital-based mental health settings in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), with the goal of informing interventions to improve care of persons with serious mental ...
Cullen, Sara W., Frasso, Rosemary, Hermann, Richard C., Marcus, Steven C., True, Gala   +4 more
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Acute hospitalizations and outcomes in Veterans Affairs Hospitals 2011 to 2017

Medicine
Hospitals within the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system exhibited growing use of observation care. It is unknown how this affected VA hospital performance since observation care is not included in acute inpatient measures. To examine changes in VA hospitalization outcomes and whether it was affected by shifting acute inpatient care to observation
Jean Yoon, Ciaran S. Phibbs, Michael K. Ong, Megan E. Vanneman, Kenneth W. Kizer, Adam Chow, Andrew Redd, Hao Jiang, Yue Zhang   +8 more
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Association of Evidence-Based Care Processes With Mortality in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia at Veterans Health Administration Hospitals, 2003-2014

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2017
Michihiko Goto, M. Schweizer, M. Vaughan-Sarrazin, E. Perencevich, D. Livorsi, D. Diekema, K. Richardson, Brice F. Beck, Bruce H. Alexander, Michael Ohl   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

End‐organ protective effect of serelaxin in patients hospitalized for heart failure: Results of the biomarker substudy of Relaxin in Acute Heart Failure‐2 (RELAX‐AHF‐2)

European Journal of Heart Failure, EarlyView.
End‐organ protective effect of serelaxin in patients with acute heart failure. CV, cardiovascular; HF, heart failure; NT‐proBNP, N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide. Abstract Aims Serelaxin is recombinant human relaxin‐2, a hormone responsible for haemodynamic adaptations and organ protection in pregnancy.
Adriaan A. Voors, Marco Metra, Douwe Postmus, Barry H. Greenberg, Gadi Cotter, Beth A. Davison, Iris E. Beldhuis, G. Michael Felker, Gerasimos Filippatos, Peter S. Pang, Piotr Ponikowski, Claudio Gimpelewicz, John R. Teerlink   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Massive hemorrhage after inspection bronchoscopy for carcinoid tumor

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018
Carcinoid tumor is a neuroendocrine tumor that can arise in the bronchial tree and can be hypervascular. Here we describe a case of bronchial carcinoid tumor in a 34-year-old previously healthy male who presented with hemoptysis and right lung mass ...
Mirna Ayache, MD, MPH, Christopher Donatelli, MD, Kara Roncin, MD, Kianoush AnsariGilani, MD, Michael Yang, MD, Jihane Faress, MD, Catalina Teba, MD   +6 more
doaj  

Special Libraries, October 1950 [PDF]

, 1950
Volume 41, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1950/1007/thumbnail ...
Special Libraries Association
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