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Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-year-old Hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate fossils in several African archaeological assemblages demonstrate a significant level of ...
Agness Gidna   +17 more
core   +5 more sources

National Disability Insurance Scheme and Quality of Life Among Carers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia: A Thematic Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
wiley   +1 more source

Transcultural nursing: a qualitative analysis of nursing students’ experiences in a multicultural context in North-Eastern Namibia

open access: yesBMC Nursing
Background Culture is a fundamental concept in healthcare settings due to the reason that care provided to patients is holistic and encompasses their perspectives on health, which are greatly influenced by the patients’ cultures.
Vistolina Nuuyoma   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toward Automated Early Sepsis Alerting: Identifying Infection Patients from Nursing Notes [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
Severe sepsis and septic shock are conditions that affect millions of patients and have close to 50% mortality rate. Early identification of at-risk patients significantly improves outcomes. Electronic surveillance tools have been developed to monitor structured Electronic Medical Records and automatically recognize early signs of sepsis. However, many
arxiv  

Building Babies - Chapter 16 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In contrast to birds, male mammals rarely help to raise the offspring. Of all mammals, only among rodents, carnivores, and primates, males are sometimes intensively engaged in providing infant care (Kleiman and Malcolm 1981).
A Fuentes   +150 more
core   +2 more sources

Alzheimer's Association clinical practice guideline for the Diagnostic Evaluation, Testing, Counseling, and Disclosure of Suspected Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (DETeCD‐ADRD): Executive summary of recommendations for primary care

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia, EarlyView.
Abstract US clinical practice guidelines for the diagnostic evaluation of cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) or AD and related dementias (ADRD) are decades old and aimed at specialists. This evidence‐based guideline was developed to empower all—including primary care—clinicians to implement a structured approach for evaluating a ...
Alireza Atri   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The burden of care and its correlates in family caregivers of breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy in Sari, Iran, in 2020

open access: yesJournal of Current Oncology and Medical Sciences, 2021
Introduction: Caring for patients with cancer can often give rise to numerous physical and mental health problems or even exacerbate them among family caregivers.
Mehrooz Alishah Nasibeh   +4 more
doaj  

Which activities threaten independent living of elderly when becoming problematic : inspiration for meaningful service robot functionality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Purpose: In light of the increasing elderly population and the growing demand for home care, the potential of robot support is given increasing attention. In this paper, an inventory of activities was made that threaten independent living of elderly when
Black BS   +27 more
core   +3 more sources

Charge de travail du personnel infirmier dans les h{ô}pitaux -{é}tude bibliographique [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
For decades, hospital services have been faced with the challenge of ensuring quality care for patients despite the pressures on staff due to workload overload. Nursing staff are particularly affected by this reality, with a patient/nursing staff ratio so imbalanced that it directly affects the quality of care and the well-being of nurses. This article
arxiv  

The NNN Formalization: Review and Development of Guideline Specification in the Care Domain [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2014
Due to an ageing society, it can be expected that less nursing personnel will be responsible for an increasing number of patients in the future. One way to address this challenge is to provide system-based support for nursing personnel in creating, executing, and adapting patient care processes.
arxiv  

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