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CA-125 requisition pattern in a tertiary care hospital in central India and necessary modifications

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2017
Background: Utility of CA-125 is not limited to being tumour marker for only epithelial ovarian carcinoma but it has also been found to be elevated in various other benign and malignant conditions.
Dnyanesh B Amle
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Health and access to care for undocumented migrants living in the European Union: a scoping review. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Literature on health and access to care of undocumented migrants in the European Union (EU) is limited and heterogeneous in focus and quality.
Howard, Natasha, Wolffers, Ivan, Woodward, Aniek   +2 more
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A study of medication errors in a tertiary care hospital

Perspectives in Clinical Research, 2016
Objective: To determine the nature and types of medication errors (MEs), to evaluate occurrence of drug-drug interactions (DDIs), and assess rationality of prescription orders in a tertiary care teaching hospital.
N. Patel, M. Desai, Samdih Shah, P. Patel, A. Gandhi   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Scrub Typhus in a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India.

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2016
Scrub typhus, a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi, has become endemic in many parts of India. We studied the clinical profile of this infection in 228 patients that reported to this tertiary care center from July 2013 to ...
N. Sharma, M. Biswal, Abhay Kumar, K. Zaman, Sanjay Jain, A. Bhalla   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relational use of an electronic quality of life and practice support system in hospital palliative consult care: a pilot study [PDF]

, 2018
Objectives: This study is part of an overarching research initiative on the development and integration of an electronic Quality of Life and Practice Support System (QPSS) that uses patient-reported outcome and experience measures in clinical practice.
Krawczyk, Marian, Sawatzky, Richard
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Susceptibility pattern of enterococci at tertiary care hospital

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2017
The study was aimed to characterize enterococci from various clinical specimens, to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern, and to explore the association between virulence factors and antimicrobial resistance. A total of 283 clinical enterococcal isolates were speciated and subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
Umesh, Sadhana Sachan, Preeti Chaturvedi, Tripta Kaur, Mukesh Kumar, Vinita Rawat   +5 more
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Maternal Phenotype, Infant Size and Breast Milk Composition in Women Living With HIV

Maternal and Child Nutrition
The impact of maternal factors on the size of HIV‐exposed‐uninfected (HEU) infants and breast milk composition is poorly understood. Anthropometry, bio‐electrical impedance, haemoglobin and HIV viral load data of women living with HIV (WLWH) and without ...
Marlene Gilfillan, Friedeburg. A. M. Wenhold, Helen Mulol, Ute. D. Feucht   +3 more
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Interhospital transfer handoff practices among US tertiary care centers: A descriptive survey.

Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2016
BACKGROUND Interhospital transfer is an understudied area within transitions of care. The process by which hospitals accept and transfer patients is not well described. National trends and best practices are unclear.
Dana J Herrigel, M. Carroll, Christine Fanning, M. Steinberg, A. Parikh, Michael Usher   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dynamics of Anidulafungin use in a Tertiary Care Hospital

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH, 2014
Dear Editor, Fungal agents have been reported to be more frequently responsible from health care associated infections in recent years [1]. New antifungal agents for invasive fungal infections are introduced to market and we wanted to evaluate our dynamics in use of one of them, the anidulafungin use in our patients with suspected invasive fungal ...
Yilmaz, Gülruhsar, KOÇAK TUFAN, ZELİHA, Tasyaran, Mehmet A., Guner, Rahmet, Guven, Tumer   +4 more
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Are physicians in primary health care able to recognize pulmonary fibrosis?

European Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2017
Background: The early diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has become increasingly important due to evolving treatment options. IPF patients experience a significant delay in receiving an accurate diagnosis, thus delayed access to tertiary ...
Minna Purokivi, Ulla Hodgson, Marjukka Myllärniemi, Eija-Riitta Salomaa, Riitta Kaarteenaho   +4 more
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