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End-of-Life Practices in the Intensive Care Unit: The Importance of Geography, Religion, Religious Affiliation, and Culture

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2014
End-of-life decisions are made daily in intensive care units worldwide. There are numerous factors affecting these decisions, including geographical location as well as religion and attitudes of caregivers, patients, and families.
Marc Romain, Charles L. Sprung
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Reframing Trisomy 13 and 18 Care: Moving Beyond the Myth of “Incompatibility With Life” in a South African and Low‐and Middle‐Income Country Context

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trisomy 13 (T13) and trisomy 18 (T18) have historically been described as “lethal” or “incompatible with life,” contributing to diagnosis‐based limitations of care. Contemporary evidence demonstrates greater heterogeneity in survival and outcomes than previously recognized, including among selected children receiving intensive care or cardiac ...
H. L. Malherbe, M. Araujo, L. Balimba, J. A. Joshi, P. Makhetha, M. Meiring, M. T. Mpe, D. Reddy, B. Shingwenyana, J. C. Carey   +9 more
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Public Attitudes Toward Compassionate Release of Older People From Prison: Findings From a National Survey in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Natasha Ginnivan, Amanuel Kidane Hagos, Tony Butler   +3 more
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Archaeological Prospectivity and Terrace Morphometry Using Open Geospatial Data: A Reproducible GIS–Machine‐Learning Workflow for the Cuyes River Valley, Ecuador

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study develops and evaluates a reproducible archaeological prospectivity workflow for data‐scarce tropical landscapes by integrating restricted legacy archaeological documentation with openly accessible environmental geospatial datasets.
Julio Guerra, Israel Benavides, Marcelo Muñoz   +2 more
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Oregon's withholding tax: the law and related forms

, 1955
"Prepared specially for State Withholding Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, June 6 - 8 1955."--Title PageTitle from PDF title page (viewed on July 11, 2017).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon ...

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Finding a way through the ethical and legal maze : withdrawing medical treatment and euthanasia [PDF]

, 2005
This article examines Finnis' and Keown's claim that the intention/foresight distinction should be used as the basis for the lawfulness of withholding and withdrawing medical treatment, rather than the act/omission distinction which is currently used.
McGee, Andrew
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Synovial Tissue‐Guided Interleukin‐17A Inhibition for Refractory Arthritis in a Patient With Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Arthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Objective The objective of this study was to characterize the clinical, immunologic, and synovial tissue features of a patient with a systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) who carries a novel heterozygous STAT5B loss‐of‐function variant (p.Gln139Ter) and whose arthritis responded markedly to interleukin‐17A (IL‐17A) inhibition.
Indira Sriram, Tomohiro Kawabe, Hitoshi Irabu, Mariana Correia Marques, Clara Lin, Alisa Gaskell, Jun Inamo, Michael R. Clay, Roselyn Fierkens, Robert C. Fuhlbrigge, Jeremy D. Prager, Norman R. Friedman, Sarah A. Gitomer, Michael J. Ombrello, Kentaro Yomogida   +14 more
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Predictors and outcomes of withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units in Singapore: a multicentre observational study

Journal of Intensive Care
Background Clinical practice guidelines on limitation of life-sustaining treatments (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU), in the form of withholding or withdrawal of LST, state that there is no ethical difference between the two.
Clare Fong, Wern Lunn Kueh, Sennen Jin Wen Lew, Benjamin Choon Heng Ho, Yu-Lin Wong, Yie Hui Lau, Yew Woon Chia, Hui Ling Tan, Ying Hao Christopher Seet, Wen Ting Siow, Graeme MacLaren, Rohit Agrawal, Tian Jin Lim, Shir Lynn Lim, Toon Wei Lim, Vui Kian Ho, Chai Rick Soh, Duu Wen Sewa, Chian Min Loo, Faheem Ahmed Khan, Chee Keat Tan, Roshni Sadashiv Gokhale, Chuin Siau, Noelle Louise Siew Hua Lim, Chik-Foo Yim, Jonathen Venkatachalam, Kumaresh Venkatesan, Naville Chi Hock Chia, Mei Fong Liew, Guihong Li, Li Li, Su Mon Myat, Zena Zena, Shuling Zhuo, Ling Ling Yueh, Caroline Shu Fang Tan, Jing Ma, Siew Lian Yeo, Yiong Huak Chan, Jason Phua, for SICM-NICER group   +40 more
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Crop Regulation in Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) through Induced Water Stress and Ethrel Application

International Journal of Bio-Resource and Stress Management, 2021
The present investigation was carried out at ICAR-CIAH, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India during 2017 to 2019 to regulate crop production in pomegranate at the desired period with higher number of bisexual flower for higher quality fruit yield and to minimize ...
R. Kumar, P. L. Saroj, B. D. Sharma
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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