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The role of imaging in 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19).
Wenjing Yang, Arlene Sirajuddin, Xiaochun Zhang, Guanshu Liu, Zhongzhao Teng, Shihua Zhao, Minjie Lu
May 17, 2020
Almost the entire world, not only China, is currently experiencing the outbreak of a novel coronavirus that causes respiratory disease, severe pneumonia, and even death. The outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December of 2019...
A person-centred approach in nursing
Anette Alvariza, Maja Holm, Inger Benkel, Maria Norinder, Gail Ewing, Gunn Grande, Cecilia Håkanson, Joakim Öhlen, Kristofer Årestedt
Apr 17, 2019
PURPOSE: The Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) was developed for use among family caregivers in palliative care for assessment of their support needs. The purpose of this study was to translate and evaluate the...
Family caregivers Instrument development nursing Palliative Care Reliability VALIDITY Adult Aged Aged 80 and over Caregivers Family Female Humans Male Middle Aged Needs Assessment Nursing Staff hospital Palliative Care Patient-Centered Care Psychometrics Quality of life Reproducibility of Results Sweden Translations United Kingdom
The burden of traumatic brain injury from low-energy falls among patients from 18 countries in the CENTER-TBI Registry
Fiona E Lecky, Olubukola Otesile, Carl Marincowitz, Marek Majdan, Daan Nieboer, Hester F Lingsma, Marc Maegele, Giuseppe Citerio, Nino Stocchetti, Ewout W Steyerberg, David K Menon, Andrew IR Maas, CENTER-TBI Participants and Investigators
Oct 26, 2021
Epidemiological study of snake bite cases in Government General Hospital, Guntur.
Introduction: India is estimated to have the highest snakebite mortality in the world. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates place the number of bites to be 83,000 per annum with 11,000 deaths. Material & Methods: It was...
Published by: IJHS Medical Association
Adherence to anti diabetic medication among patients attending Government General Hospital, Guntur.
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a major public health problem in India and the prevalence ever increasing, the need for adherence to medication is vital in management and prevention of complications. Material & Methods...
Published by: IJHS Medical Association
The application of an age adjusted D-dimer threshold to rule out suspected venous thromboembolism (VTE) in an emergency department setting
BACKGROUND: Venous Thromboembolic disease (VTE) poses a diagnostic challenge for clinicians in acute care. Over reliance on reference standard investigations can lead to over treatment and potential harm. We sought to evaluate...
RApid Primary care Initiation of Drug treatment for Transient Ischaemic Attack (RAPID-TIA)
Duncan Edwards, Kate Fletcher, Rachel Deller, Richard McManus, Daniel Lasserson, Matthew Giles, Don Sims, John Norrie, Graham McGuire, Simon Cohn, Fiona Whittle, Vikki Hobbs, Christopher Weir, Jonathan Mant
Jul 17, 2013
Antihypertensive Agents Aspirin Cardiovascular Agents Clinical Protocols Dipyridamole Drug Administration Schedule Drug Therapy Combination Emergency Service hospital England Feasibility Studies General Practice Humans Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors Ischemic Attack Transient Pilot Projects Primary Health Care Referral and Consultation Research Design Secondary Prevention Simvastatin Time Factors Treatment Outcome
The role of the GP in managing suspected transient ischaemic attack
Anaesthesia in Ethiopia
Tom Bashford
Jun 12, 2018
The improvement of surgical and anaesthetic safety in low-resource settings is hampered by a lack of reliable information on the current provision of these services. Ethiopia is one of the world's poorest countries and, despite...
anaesthesia Ethiopia SURGERY Anesthesia Anesthesia General Anesthesia Obstetrical Anesthesia Spinal Anesthesiology Anesthetics Attitude of Health Personnel Child Delivery of Health Care Education Medical Continuing Equipment and Supplies hospital Ethiopia Female Health Care Surveys Humans Pregnancy Safety Surveys and Questionnaires
Are inequalities in cancer diagnosis through emergency presentation narrowing, widening or remaining unchanged? Longitudinal analysis of English population-based data 2006-2013.
Annie Herbert, Gary A Abel, Sam Winters, Sean McPhail, Lucy Elliss-Brookes, Georgios Lyratzopoulos
Dec 03, 2018
Early PREdiction of sepsis using leukocyte surface biomarkers
Manu Shankar-Hari, Deepankar Datta, Julie Wilson, Valentina Assi, Jacqueline Stephen, Christopher J Weir, Jillian Rennie, Jean Antonelli, Anthony Bateman, Jennifer M Felton, Noel Warner, Kevin Judge, Jim Keenan, Alice Wang, Tony Burpee, Alun K Brown, Sion M Lewis, Tracey Mare, Alistair I Roy, John Wright, Gillian Hulme, Ian Dimmick, Alasdair Gray, Adriano G Rossi, A John Simpson, Andrew Conway Morris, Timothy S Walsh
Nov 21, 2018
biomarker risk prediction cohort study Infection Mortality Sepsis Adult Aged Aged 80 and over Antigens CD Biomarkers Cohort Studies Emergency Service hospital Female HLA-DR Antigens Humans Intensive Care Units Leukocytes Logistic Models Male Middle Aged Predictive Value of Tests Reproducibility of Results Sepsis
Clinical frailty adds to acute illness severity in predicting mortality in hospitalized older adults
Frail Elderly hospital medicine Mortality Patient acuity Survival Analysis Acute Disease Aged Aged 80 and over Emergency Service hospital England Female Frail Elderly Geriatric Assessment Hospital Mortality Humans Length of Stay Male Proportional Hazards Models Retrospective Studies Severity of Illness Index
Prevalence of Acute Cardiac and Renal Complications in Poorly Controlled Diabetics among Inpatients of Govt. General Hospital, Guntur.
T. V. Adi Seshu Babu , Uday Shankar Sanakayala, Krishna Teja, Shilpa reddy and Vasanthi
Apr 05, 2015
Background: The prevalence of chronic complications of diabetes, microvascular complications such as diabetic nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy and macrovascular complications like coronary heart disease, peripheral arterial...
Published by: IJHS Medical Association
Methodology for Whole-Genome Sequencing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates in a Routine Hospital Microbiology Laboratory.
Kathy E Raven, Beth Blane, Danielle Leek, Carol Churcher, Paula Kokko-Gonzales, Dhamayanthi Pugazhendhi, Louise Fraser, Jason Betley, Julian Parkhill, Sharon J Peacock
Mar 26, 2019
There is growing evidence for the value of bacterial whole-genome sequencing in hospital outbreak investigations. Our aim was to develop methods that support efficient and accurate low-throughput clinical sequencing of...
Monitoring indirect impact of COVID-19 pandemic on services for cardiovascular diseases in the UK.
Simon Ball, Amitava Banerjee, Colin Berry, Jonathan R Boyle, Benjamin Bray, William Bradlow, Afzal Chaudhry, Rikki Crawley, John Danesh, Alastair Denniston, Florian Falter, Jonine D Figueroa, Christopher Hall, Harry Hemingway, Emily Jefferson, Tom Johnson, Graham King, Kuan Ken Lee, Paul McKean, Suzanne Mason, Nicholas L Mills, Ewen Pearson, Munir Pirmohamed, Michael TC Poon, Rouven Priedon, Anoop Shah, Reecha Sofat, Jonathan AC Sterne, Fiona E Strachan, Cathie LM Sudlow, Zsolt Szarka, William Whiteley, Michael Wyatt, CVD-COVID-UK Consortium
Dec 14, 2020
OBJECTIVE: To monitor hospital activity for presentation, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19) pandemic to inform on indirect effects. METHODS: Retrospective serial cross-sectional study in...
aortic and arterial disease EPIDEMIOLOGY global health care delivery health care delivery Heart Disease covid-19 Cardiology Service hospital Cardiovascular Diseases Cross-Sectional Studies Delivery of Health Care Integrated Emergency Service hospital Health Services Needs and Demand Humans Needs Assessment Patient Admission Retrospective Studies Time Factors United Kingdom
WSES-AAST guidelines
Belinda De Simone, Justin Davies, Elie Chouillard, Salomone Di Saverio, Frank Hoentjen, Antonio Tarasconi, Massimo Sartelli, Walter L Biffl, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Massimo Chiarugi, Nicola de'Angelis, Ernest E Moore, Yoram Kluger, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Boris Sakakushev, Raul Coimbra, Valerio Celentano, Imtiaz Wani, Tadeja Pintar, Gabriele Sganga, Isidoro Di Carlo, Dario Tartaglia, Manos Pikoulis, Maurizio Cardi, Marc A De Moya, Ari Leppaniemi, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Vanni Agnoletti, Gilberto Poggioli, Paolo Carcoforo, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Fausto Catena
Jun 11, 2021
BACKGROUND: Despite the current therapeutic options for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, surgery is still frequently required in the emergency setting, although the number of cases performed seems to have decreased...
Population trends in emergency cancer diagnoses
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of cancer through an emergency presentation is associated with worse clinical and patient experience outcomes. The proportion of patients with cancer who are diagnosed through emergency presentations has...
Persistent inequalities in unplanned hospitalisation among colon cancer patients across critical phases of their care pathway, England, 2011-13.
BACKGROUND: Reducing hospital emergency admissions is a key target for all modern health systems. METHODS: We analysed colon cancer patients diagnosed in 2011-13 in England. We screened their individual Hospital Episode...
SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid immunoassay for diagnosis of COVID-19 in the emergency department.
Martin Möckel, Victor M Corman, Miriam S Stegemann, Jörg Hofmann, Angela Stein, Terry C Jones, Petra Gastmeier, Joachim Seybold, Ralf Offermann, Ulrike Bachmann, Tobias Lindner, Wolfgang Bauer, Christian Drosten, Alexander Rosen, Rajan Somasundaram
Mar 01, 2021
BACKGROUND: In the emergency department (ED) setting, rapid testing for SARS-CoV-2 is likely associated with advantages to patients and healthcare workers, for example, enabling early but rationale use of limited isolation...
Epidemiological study of snake bite cases in Government General Hospital, Guntur.
Introduction: India is estimated to have the highest snakebite mortality in the world. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates place the number of bites to be 83,000 per annum with 11,000 deaths. Material & Methods: It was...
Published by: IJHS Medical Association
Obstacles to implementation of an intervention to improve surgical services in an Ethiopian hospital
Ethiopia partnership Patient Safety Quality Improvement SURGERY Delivery of Health Care Ethiopia Hospitalization Hospitals Humans International Cooperation leadership Longitudinal Studies Patient Safety qualitative research Quality Improvement Surgery Department hospital Surgical Procedures Operative
Effectiveness of a quality improvement collaborative in reducing time to surgery for patients requiring emergency cholecystectomy.
JR Bamber, TJ Stephens, DA Cromwell, E Duncan, GP Martin, NF Quiney, JF Abercrombie, IJ Beckingham, Cholecystectomy Quality Improvement Collaborative
Oct 11, 2019
BACKGROUND: Acute gallstone disease is a high-volume emergency general surgery presentation with wide variations in the quality of care provided across the UK. This controlled cohort evaluation assessed whether participation in...
Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department
L Iyadurai, SE Blackwell, R Meiser-Stedman, PC Watson, MB Bonsall, JR Geddes, AC Nobre, EA Holmes
Mar 29, 2018
After psychological trauma, recurrent intrusive visual memories may be distressing and disruptive. Preventive interventions post trauma are lacking. Here we test a behavioural intervention after real-life trauma derived from...
Physical activity and all-cause mortality across levels of overall and abdominal adiposity in European men and women
Ulf Ekelund, Heather A Ward, Teresa Norat, Jian'an Luan, Anne M May, Elisabete Weiderpass, Stephen J Sharp, Kim Overvad, Jane Nautrup Østergaard, Anne Tjønneland, Nina Føns Johnsen, Sylvie Mesrine, Agnès Fournier, Guy Fagherazzi, Antonia Trichopoulou, Pagona Lagiou, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Kuanrong Li, Rudolf Kaaks, Pietro Ferrari, Idlir Licaj, Mazda Jenab, Manuela Bergmann, Heiner Boeing, Domenico Palli, Sabina Sieri, Salvatore Panico, Rosario Tumino, Paolo Vineis, Petra H Peeters, Evelyn Monnikhof, H Bas Bueno-De-Mesquita, J Ramón Quirós, Antonio Agudo, María-José Sánchez, José María Huerta, Eva Ardanaz, Larraitz Arriola, Bo Hedblad, Elisabet Wirfält, Malin Sund, Mattias Johansson, Timothy J Key, Ruth C Travis, Kay-Tee Khaw, Søren Brage, Nicholas J Wareham, Elio Riboli
Mar 10, 2015
cohort study EPIDEMIOLOGY Exercise Mortality obesity physical activity population attributable fraction Abdominal Fat Adiposity Adult Body Mass Index Cohort Studies Europe Female Follow-Up Studies Hospitals University Humans Male Middle Aged Mortality Motor Activity obesity Abdominal Outpatient Clinics hospital Proportional Hazards Models Prospective Studies Risk Factors Self Report Sex Characteristics Waist Circumference
The social networks of hospital staff
Claire Blacklock, Amy Darwin, Mike English, Jacob McKnight, Lisa Hinton, Elinor Harriss, Geoff Wong
Jul 14, 2022
OBJECTIVES: The social ties people have with one another are known to influence behaviour, and how information is accessed and interpreted. It is unclear, however, how the social networks that exist in multi-professional health...
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