Using Shock Index as a Predictor of ICU Readmission: A Quality Iimprovement Project [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Adverse events will occur in one-third of patients discharged from the intensivecare unit (ICU) and evidence shows that ICU readmissions increase a patient’s length of stay,mortality, hospital costs, and nosocomial infections, as well as ...
Sykes, Melissa
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Limited effect of patient and disease characteristics on compliance with hospital antimicrobial guidelines [PDF]
, 2005 Objective: Physicians frequently deviate from guidelines that promote prudent use of antimicrobials. We explored to what extent patient and disease characteristics were associated with compliance with guideline recommendations for three common infections.
A Alvarez +36 more
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Cognitive functioning, clinical profile and life events in young adults addicted to drugs. Does being a girl make a difference? [PDF]
, 2017 Objective: Gender features play a fundamental role as risk factors in drug addiction, entailing differences in vulnerability, onset, drug use and clinical trajectories.
Alessandra Simonelli +5 more
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Post-traumatic stress symptoms in 223 childhood cancer survivors: incidence, severity and predictive risk factors [PDF]
, 2016 With modern therapies and supportive care, survival rates of childhood cancer have increased considerably. However, there are long-term psychological sequelae of these treatments that may not manifest until pediatric survivors are into adulthood.
Basso, Giuseppe +3 more
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Dissociation and interpersonal autonomic physiology in psychotherapy research: an integrative view encompassing psychodynamic and neuroscience theoretical frameworks [PDF]
, 2016 Interpersonal autonomic physiology is an interdisciplinary research field, assessing the relational interdependence of two (or more) interacting individual both at the behavioral and psychophysiological levels.
Benelli, Enrico +3 more
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Dissociation and pain perception : an experimental investigation [PDF]
, 2006 textDissociative symptoms and abnormalities in pain perception have been associated with a range of disorders. We tested whether experimentally induced increases in state dissociation would cause an analgesic response, and whether this effect would be ...
Horowitz, Jonathan David
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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2017 Introduction:Â Rapid acute physiology score (RAPS) and rapid emergency medicine score (REMS) are two physiologic models for measuring injury severity in emergency settings. The present study was designed to compare the two models in outcome prediction of
Babak Nakhjavan-Shahraki +9 more
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Full-body CT scan in Polytrauma Diagnosis. Analysis of Ten Years’ Experience
Креативная хирургия и онкология, 2020 Introduction. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the entire body has become a standard practice for the diagnosis of patients with polytrauma in many trauma centres. Purpose: evaluation of diagnostic potential of full-body CT for patients with polytrauma.
I. F. Gareev +2 more
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Stable sulforaphane protects against gait anomalies and modifies bone microarchitecture in the spontaneous STR/Ort model of osteoarthritis [PDF]
, 2017 Osteoarthritis (OA), affecting joints and bone, causes physical gait disability with huge socio-economic burden; treatment remains palliative. Roles for antioxidants in protecting against such chronic disorders have been examined previously. Sulforaphane
Ahmed Aljazzar +73 more
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Bicycle helmet use and non-use - recently published research [PDF]
, 2012 Bicycle traumata are very common and especially neurologic complications lead to disability and death in all stages of the life. This review assembles the most recent findings concerning research in the field of bicycle traumata combined with the factor ...
Groneberg, Jan David Alexander +3 more
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