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Specialist valve clinic in a cardiac centre: 10-year experience

Open Heart, 2020
Aims Guidelines recommend specialist valve clinics as best practice for the assessment and conservative management of patients with heart valve disease. However, there is little guidance on how to set up and organise a clinic. The aim of this study is to
Sheila Subbiah, Ronak Rajani, Denise Parkin, Helen Rimington, Camelia Demetrescu, Anna Hayes   +5 more
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Strain-based and sex-biased differences in adrenal and pancreatic gene expression between KK/HlJ and C57BL/6 J mice

BMC Genomics, 2021
Background The ever-increasing prevalence of diabetes and associated comorbidities serves to highlight the necessity of biologically relevant small-animal models to investigate its etiology, pathology and treatment.
Angela Inglis, Rosario Ubungen, Sarah Farooq, Princess Mata, Jennifer Thiam, Soad Saleh, Sherin Shibin, Futwan A. Al-Mohanna, Kate S. Collison   +8 more
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Extended scope of nursing practice: a multicentre randomised controlled trial of appropriately trained nurses and pre-registration house officers in pre-operative assessment in elective general surgery [PDF]

, 2001
Aim/ Principal Research Question:1) To determine whether pre-operative assessment carried out by an appropriately trained nurse (ATN) is equivalent in quality to that carried out by a pre-registration house officer (PRHO).2) To assess whether pre ...
George, S., Wood, R., Kinley, H., Nicolson, P., Reilly, C., Czoski-Murray, C., Janke, E., C. Healy, H. Alhameed, H. Kinley, S. George, Thomas, E., McCabe, C., Norman, J., . Janke, N. Fernandez, Alhameed, H., Healy, C., C. Reilly, P. Nicolson, E. Thomas, National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessments, C. McCabe, J. Primrose, Read, S., J. Norman, Primrose, J., Fernandez, N., S. Read, C. Czoski-Murray, R. Wood   +30 more
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Provision of smoking cessation support for patients following a diagnosis of cancer in Ireland

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023
There is growing evidence that smoking cessation (SC) improves outcomes following diagnosis of cancer. Notwithstanding adverse outcomes, a significant number of those diagnosed with cancer continue to smoke.
P. Fitzpatrick, N. Bhardwaj, M. Masalkhi, A. Lyons, K. Frazer, A. McCann, S. Syed, V. Niranjan, C.C. Kelleher, S. Brennan, P. Kavanagh, P. Fox   +11 more
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Establishing a network of specialist Porphyria centres - effects on diagnostic activities and services

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2012
Background The porphyrias are a heterogeneous group of rare metabolic diseases. The full spectrum of porphyria diagnostics is usually performed by specialized porphyria laboratories or centres.
Tollånes Mette C, Aarsand Aasne K, Villanger Jørild Haugen, Støle Egil, Deybach Jean-Charles, Marsden Joanne, To-Figueras Jordi, Sandberg Sverre   +7 more
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Optimising the diagnosis and referral of achondroplasia in Europe: European Achondroplasia Forum best practice recommendations

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2022
Background Achondroplasia is the most common form of skeletal dysplasia, with serious comorbidities and complications that may occur from early infancy to adulthood, requiring lifelong management from a multidisciplinary team expert in the condition The ...
Valerie Cormier-Daire, Moeenaldeen AlSayed, Inês Alves, Joana Bengoa, Tawfeg Ben-Omran, Silvio Boero, Svein Fredwall, Catherine Garel, Encarna Guillen-Navarro, Melita Irving, Christian Lampe, Mohamad Maghnie, Geert Mortier, Sérgio B. Sousa, Klaus Mohnike   +14 more
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Impact of an electronic alert system for pediatric sepsis screening a tertiary hospital experience

Scientific Reports, 2022
This study aimed to assess the potential impact of implementing an electronic alert system (EAS) for systemic inflammatory syndrome (SIRS) and sepsis in pediatric patients mortality. This retrospective study had a pre and post design.
Abdullah Alturki, Ayman Al-Eyadhy, Ali Alfayez, Abdulrahman Bendahmash, Fahad Aljofan, Fawaz Alanzi, Hadeel Alsubaie, Moath Alabdulsalam, Tareq Alayed, Tariq Alofisan, Afnan Alnajem   +10 more
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Is specialist centre delivery of gastroschisis beneficial? [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1993
This study aims to establish the usefulness of delivering neonates with gastroschisis in a regional obstetric and neonatal centre without the facility of on site surgery. A retrospective analysis was performed on the notes of 43 consecutive neonates with gastroschisis referred to Birmingham Children's Hospital over a 10 year period.
G, Nicholls, V, Upadhyaya, P, Gornall, R G, Buick, J J, Corkery   +4 more
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Diversity, choice and the quasi-market: An empirical analysis of secondary education policy in England [PDF]

, 2009
This article investigates the extent to which exam performance at the end of compulsory education has been affected by three major education reforms: the introduction of a quasi-market following the Education Reform Act (1988); the specialist schools ...
Taylor, J, Steve Bradley, Bradley, S, Jim Taylor   +3 more
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Primary Lateral Sclerosis with Gaze Paralysis

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1996
Three children in a Jordanian family, with consanguinous parents, who met the Stark and Moersch (1945) criteria for the diagnosis of primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) are reported from the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, and King ...
J Gordon Millichap
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