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Evidence based or person centered? An ontological debate [PDF]
Evidence based medicine (EBM) is under critical debate, and person centered healthcare (PCH) has been proposed as an improvement. But is PCH offered as a supplement or as a replacement of EBM? Prima facie PCH only concerns the practice of medicine, while
Anjum, Rani Lill
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Getting off the carousel : Exploring the wicked problem of curriculum reform [PDF]
Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank all participants in this study. Our thanks to the School of Medicine where this study was undertaken for supporting LH’s doctoral research program.
Cleland, Jennifer +2 more
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The extraordinary increase in life-expectancy that occurred early in this century has been attributed largely to non-medical factors. Life-expectancy has continued to rise, and medical care can now be shown to make substantial contributions. Three of the seven years' increase in life expectancy since 1950 can be attributed to medical care. Medical care
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Medicinal plants used in the management of diabetes mellitus 2015 [PDF]
Diabetes mellitus is one of the common endocrine disorders prevalent in almost all of the countries. This chronic pathology is characterized by hyperglycemia caused by defective insulin action, insulin secretion, or the combination of both.
Ashafa, Anofi O. T. +5 more
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Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India [PDF]
Since the nineteenth century, Tamil Brahmans have been very well represented in the educated professions, especially law and administration, medicine, engineering and nowadays, information technology.
Fuller, C. J., Narasimhan, Haripriya
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Background Dyspnea is one of the common symptoms patients present to the emergency department (ED). The broad spectrum of differentials often requires laboratory and radiological testing in addition to clinical evaluation, causing unnecessary delay ...
Himanshi Baid +9 more
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Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis is a rare endocrine emergency that manifests as acute onset muscle weakness and hypokalaemia secondary to thyrotoxicosis. It mainly occurs due to rapid and dramatic intracellular shift of potassium resulting in hypokalaemia ...
Tejaswee Banavathu +5 more
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Are all competencies equal in the eyes of residents? A multicenter study of emergency medicine residents’ interest in feedback [PDF]
Introduction: Feedback, particularly real-time feedback, is critical to resident education. The emergency medicine (EM) milestones were developed in 2012 to enhance resident assessment and many programs utilize them to provide focused resident feedback.
Bentley, Suzanne +6 more
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Background: Small vessel disease (SVD) is a common brain disease causing about 40% of all dementias and about 25% of ischemic strokes, which makes important the study of its pathophysiology and the search for its biomarkers.
Dmitrii N. Khutorov +3 more
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Mapping the teaching of aquatic animal veterinary medicine in the European Union and European Free Trade Area [PDF]
Aquatic animal production is the fastest growing food sector globally. Aquaculture and fisheries are very dynamic sectors in the EU and the number of ornamental aquarium pets is increasing. Veterinarians have a fundamental role to play by ensuring health
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