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Until now, services have been poorly coordinated and individual practitioners unsupported.
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PMID: 21843120
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To describe how Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS) chronic disease (CD) item claims vary by sociodemographic and health characteristics in people with heart disease, asthma or diabetes.
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PMID: 21843123
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It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that nutrition intervention, including nutritional counseling by a registered dietitian (RD), is an essential component of team treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other eating disorders (EDs) durin...
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PMID: 21802573
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Patients with an abdominal catastrophe are in urgent need of early, interdisciplinary medical help. The treatment plan should be based on medical priorities and clear leadership. First priority should be given to achieve optimal oxygenation of blood and stabilization of circulation during all treatme...
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PMID: 21796602
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The objective of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate an end-of-life (terminal) care pathway and associated infrastructure suitable for Australian residential aged care facilities that improves resident and health system outcomes. The residential aged care end-of-life care pathway was de...
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PMID: 21871198
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Perioperative risk in vascular medicine is particularly high due to the increased prevalence of cardiovascular comorbidity. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance that during periprocedural management the patient remains in good general condition and that the patient is mobilized as soon as possib...
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PMID: 21780051
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This article reports the use of an expert panel to perform content validation of an experimental assessment process for the safety of assistive technology (AT) adopted by farmers with disabilities. The validation process was conducted by a panel of six experts experienced in the subject matter, i.e.,...
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PMID: 21919319
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This exploratory study set out to identify how communities in the Tufts University Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) catchment area define health-related research priority areas.
Three focus groups comprising community stakeholders were conducted in thre...
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PMID: 21707945
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Hip fractures associated with underlying osteoporosis result in significant morbidity and mortality in elderly patients and increase the risk for future fractures. Several underlying modifiable contributors may be identified, while osteoporosis itself is amenable to a number of effective treatments....
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PMID: 21531228
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We reviewed 114 consecutive patients with CRT implanted from 2005 through 2009 who received usual care after implantation or underwent protocol-driven CRT care after implantation. Preimplantation characteristics in patients receiving usual versus protocol-driven care were similar in left ventricular...
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PMID: 21550578
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The objective was to assess the surgical results in complex middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms.
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PMID: 21487768
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In German nursing homes dementia care is gaining increasing relevance. Dementia care is known to bear the high risk of a substantial occupational burden among nursing staff. Within this context, the "nurses' satisfaction with the care for residents with dementia" is investigated. Secondary data of th...
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PMID: 21480173
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Our objective was to evaluate the management of patients with intracranial DAVFs treated in our institution to identify the parameters that may help guide the long-term management of these lesions....
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PMID: 21424601
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The objectives of perioperative treatments in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are to reduce the risk of recurrence, by the early destruction of micrometastases. Data from the literature have been used to precise their indications and modalities. However, for each patient, the decision of a periope...
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PMID: 21420825
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To evaluate the impact of a mental health elective on pharmacy students' perceptions and stigmatizing views of mental illness.
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PMID: 21519423
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Biological therapies targeted at bronchial cancer have a mode of action different from that of the various types of chemotherapies and are therefore associated with different types of toxicity. EGFR inhibitors cause mainly cutaneous toxicity, which can be controlled by cyclin and local care. Antiangi...
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PMID: 21392933
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Chronic rhinitis (CR) affects large populations worldwide, diagnosed in 40% of the population and is often associated with co-morbidities, such as asthma, sinusitis, rhinoconjunctivitis cognitive dysfunction, and leads to loss of work and school days. Recently, global clinical guidelines were propose...
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PMID: 21574365
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We are able to decrease the risks by identifying the patient- and procedure-related factors. The educated patient is a good indicator of paravasation in case he or she can cooperate and call the nurse. When the patient is unable to cooperate, the risks of extravasation is higher and closer nursing s...
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PMID: 21617786
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We will present the course of treatment of an adolescent girl with psychotic symptoms, within the clinical diagnosis of Organic delusional disorder, who had a considerable weight gain after one year of olanzapine treatment....
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PMID: 21448109
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We are presenting a case of a female patient who has been treated for schizophrenia for a number of years. The treatment was mostly ambulatory (i.e. the patient was hospitalized twice) and consisted of first-generation antipsychotics. During the past two years, for reasons unknown, the patient stopp...
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PMID: 21448107
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In Canada, more than 70% of new cases of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection per year involve injection drug users (IDUs) and, currently, there is no consensus on how to offer them medical care.
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PMID: 21499577
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The unsolicited and systematic evaluation of positive blood cultures (pBC) after laboratory report by a single infectious disease specialist (IDS) was evaluated during one year, using a computer-generated alert by the laboratory. The main objectives of IDS counselling were to improve antibiotic use f...
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PMID: 21376508
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Gastric cancer is a global phenomenon and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The highest rates of gastric cancer are seen in Asia and parts of Eastern Europe. In Western countries, the incidence of gastric cancer has declined over the last several decades. At the same tim...
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PMID: 21372770
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Sorafenib is a multikinase inhibitor approved for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. Associated short-term cutaneous adverse events are well known. Regarding long-term adverse events, keratoacanthoma has been reported more recently and, more rarely, invasive squamous...
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PMID: 21333823
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Epilepsy in children is characterized by the occurring on a developing brain. There are many different types of epilepsy. Make an accurate diagnosis permits to explain the disease, to choose the treatment and to explain the prognosis. The side effects of antiepileptic drugs should be precisely monito...
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PMID: 21242052
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We see fewer severe complications, but they still occur. Due to anatomical proximity of the orbit and intracranial structures a localized spread of the infection is especially unfortunate and potentially dangerous. We present a case report (with pan sinusitis and grave local complications) from the...
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PMID: 21233887
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Refractory suffering of terminally ill people may be physical (pain, dyspnea, vomiting...) or existential (spiritual sufferings, anxiousness...). End-of-life decisions are often around ethics. Decision making near the end of life consists in witholding and withdrawing life-support treatment and presc...
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PMID: 21227630
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Marfan syndrome is a disorder of the connective tissue that is inherited in an autosomal-dominant fashion and that is caused by mutations in the gene coding for fibrillin-1, FBN1. Although complications of the syndrome may involve the eye, the lung and the skeleton, the high mortalit...
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PMID: 21942965
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We identified adult ambulatory visits for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/asthma, low back pain, diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease/congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and depression. We calculated the time spent by specialists in direct and indirect care for established...
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PMID: 20966777
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Discipline-specific Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) Consultative Groups have recognized several cross-cutting issues that must be addressed to prevent repetition of some of the mistakes of past malaria elimination campaigns in future programs. Integrated research is required to develop a...
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PMID: 21283603
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Continued progress in language and learning disabilities (LDs) research requires a renewed focused on issues of etiology. Genetics research forms a central tenet of such an agenda and is critical in clarifying relationships among oral language development, acquisition of literacy and mathematics, exe...
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PMID: 21229298
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We discuss how study designs can focus on establishing internal validity or applicability and how the choice of focus affects the study design.
This review argues that managers should routinely incorporate simple evaluation designs into program implementation to assess and increase the impact of the...
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PMID: 21130349
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