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An Ultra-Rare Disease? Where Do We Go From Here?

open access: yesTremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2013
When people are diagnosed with rare, incurable disorders, they and their families suffer both from the disease itself and from the lack of information and resources available.
Glenn Irvine, Ginger Irvine
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Who should I involve in my research and why? Patients, carers or the public?

open access: yesResearch Involvement and Engagement, 2021
Plain English summary Patient and public involvement in research helps to make it more relevant and useful to the end-users. Researchers are therefore keen to involve people but are sometimes uncertain about who to involve.
Kristina Staley   +3 more
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Beta-blokers in patients with cirrhosis and infection: don't blame too soon. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We found that PPI-users had a higher rate and BBs-users a lower rate of infections. The lower infection rate and better prognosis of BB-users can not be attributed, as suggested by Schiavon et al., to a higher proportion of variceal bleeding in this ...
LUCIDI, CRISTINA   +3 more
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Respiratory infections in nursing home residents: A retrospective analysis of characteristics and prognostic factors

open access: yesSpanish Journal of Medicine, 2022
Introduction and Objectives: Hospitalization for respiratory events is common in nursing home residents (NHR). Pneumonia in NHR has different features, is more severe, and appears in more dependent patients.
Juan M. Antón-Santos   +7 more
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The Relationship between Friendship and Social Life of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes with Depression

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction INTRODUCTION: Several studies have shown that the relationship between Diabetes and Depression is significant, but few have evaluated the relationship between this depression and patients’ social life.
V. Kourkoumpas   +4 more
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Accepting or declining dialysis: considerations taken into account by elderly patients with end-stage renal disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
BACKGROUND: Elderly patients with end-stage renal disease have to make a difficult decision whether or not to start dialysis. This study explores the considerations taken into account by these patients in decision-making regarding renal replacement ...
de Jong, P.E.   +8 more
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Giving patients choices during involuntary admission : a new intervention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: People who receive involuntary treatment are some of the most vulnerable in psychiatric services. They are more likely to have poorer social and clinical outcomes and to be disillusioned with and disengaged from care.
Burn, Erin   +3 more
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Psychosocial Need Analysis of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic pulmonary disease impacted on physical and psychosocial of the patients. However, to date, the goverment’s programs has not address the psychososial problem of the patients yet.
Hernawati, T. (Taty)   +3 more
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Dietary Behaviors Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Purpose: To describe dietary behaviors and examine relationships between selected factors and dietary behaviors among type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Method: Seventy T2DM patients from a hospital in Yogyakarta who met ...
Kritpracha, C. (Charuwan)   +2 more
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Risk scores to predict mortality 2 and 5 years after surgery for colorectal cancer in elderly patients

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2021
Background The aim of this study was to identify predictors of mortality in elderly patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery and to develop a risk score. Methods This was an observational prospective cohort study. Individuals over 80 years diagnosed
Nerea González   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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