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Preventing, reducing, and controlling the emergence of antimicrobial-resistant organisms is a major public health challenge requiring the participation of the entire medical community and public health agencies. Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) have the potential to integrate the many and so...
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PMID: 21795728
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This statement from the American Dental Association is the first in a series offering the ADA's vision of a healthier, more productive nation, enabled by breaking down the barriers that impede or entirely prevent millions of Americans from enjoying good oral health. It is included as part of this iss...
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PMID: 21905545
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Our study showed that percentage of CD4+ T-lymphocyte values obtained from the new method correlated highly with the standard three-color and the two-color methods (r2 = 0.95 {n=52} and 0.97 {n=64}). The mean bias and percent similarity for the new method compared with the two standard methods were...
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PMID: 21980835
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Patients are harmed as a result of incidents. Both poor interdisciplinary communication and teamwork are contributing factors to such events. The principles of crisis resource management are meant to help prevent and manage difficulties and reflect both, the social-team-oriented and cognitive-individ...
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PMID: 21550548
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The author reflects on her personal experiences during the 2009 H1N1 influenza, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pandemics. The roles played by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to pregnancy-associated influenza during the 2...
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PMID: 21419383
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Recent positive clinical results in cancer immunotherapy point to the potential of immune-based strategies to provide effective treatment of a variety of cancers. In some patients, the responses to cancer immunotherapy are durable, dramatically extending survival. Extensive research...
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PMID: 21929757
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The influence of undergraduate and postgraduate training on health professionals' career choices in favour of rural and underserved communities has not been clearly demonstrated in resource-constrained settings.
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PMID: 21626978
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We conclude that in this era of healthcare accountability, managers and clinicians can use these ethical principles to drive change in the process of providing more efficient, more effective, and more patient-centered care, especially at the end of life....
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PMID: 21488560
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Currently there is no standardized procedure for recording direct care time of dementia patients in a nursing home. Recording the direct care time, however, provides an important component of both cost estimates for time-dependent reimbursement of nursing activities and for recording the degree of d...
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PMID: 20478097
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This work identifies which psychosocial, clinical and perceived health status factors predict health-resource use in Fibromyalgia (FM), considering the patients' assistance level. Participants were 315 FM patients from Primary Care (PC: n=101) and Rheumatology Services (RS: n=214). Stepwise regressi...
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PMID: 21044477
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There is an increasing need to assess the value of safety improvements to society. Concerns exist, however, as to what extent standard health economic methods appropriately reflect this value because these methods do not typically incorporate the non-health or extra-consequentialist value of avoidin...
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PMID: 20702440
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Studies suggest that acute medicine units (AMU) reduce inpatient mortality, length of stay and re-admissions and improve four-hour performance targets. Over the past decade or so, after evaluating the system in place, the Royal College of Physicians of London (RCPL) has made key recommendations for...
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PMID: 21127761
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Overall, it was observed that irrespective of the social class difference 88% participants wished to seek only expert/professional advice for the dental treatment. Unavailability of services on Sunday (63%), going to dentist only when in pain (57%), trying self care or home remedy (54%), inadequate...
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PMID: 21046907
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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is increasingly used for acute cholecystitis, in conjunction with staged bile duct interventions (BDIs). However, few studies have evaluated the impact of BDI timing on costs and clinical outcomes during hospitalization. This study assessed the effects of several ty...
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PMID: 20557412
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We classified selected counties in four types from failing (high BCMR for both groups of women) to successful (low BCMR for both). Medical resource data were from Area Resource Files. In multivariate analyses, number of physicians or hospitals, HMO penetration, and proportion of hospitals with mammo...
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PMID: 20693738
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We share our experience of using computer software (Microsoft Office Excel) to improve the planning of patient care. This technology is now widely available and we suggest that it is feasible and, indeed, particularly valuable in a resource-poor setting. We focus on the steps taken to minimize the c...
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PMID: 20223798
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We conclude that infection by transmissible P aeruginosa does not increase mortality but is associated with increased health-care and antibiotic use for patients with CF....
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PMID: 20081099
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Although significantly better than chance prediction, the ability of members of the ICU team to predict survival of trauma patients remains poor, particularly on initial evaluation. A period of clinical observation improves the accuracy. Unfortunately, experience of the observer does not seem to imp...
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PMID: 20539170
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GW impose a large health and cost burden on Australians. The national immunisation programme with the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine has the potential to greatly reduce this burden, and future research measuring its impact is keenly anticipated....
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PMID: 19965802
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We here model patient flow through the care system as a discrete time Markov chain. In order to have a more realistic representation, a nonhomogeneous model is developed which incorporates time-dependent covariates, namely a patient's present age and the present calendar year. The model presented in...
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PMID: 20629417
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Our research objective was to estimate the technical efficiency of regions in Ontario, Canada delivering home care relative to the 'best performance' frontier. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), an efficiency frontier technique, measured the technical efficiency of each geographically-defined Communit...
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PMID: 20503613
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Radiation emergencies are rather new to humankind, as compared to other types of emergencies such as earthquakes, floods, or hurricanes. Fortunately, they are rare, but because of that, planning for response to large-scale radiation emergencies is least understood. Along with the specific technical...
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PMID: 20445382
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While the results of the administration of omeprazole vs pantoprazole i.v. in patients with UGB are similar, the latter turns out to have a better cost-effectiveness profile....
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PMID: 20189198
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The aim of this work is to investigate the influence of gender on recovery after cerebral stroke.It is believed that functional outcome of cerebral stroke (CS) depends on gender. Female gender is mildly negative prognostic factor in after stroke results. Two hundred and two patients who had first is...
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PMID: 20507287
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Although many trauma centers provide excellent surgical care, little attention is paid to psychosocial needs and problems of posttrauma adaptation. Social support and resource needs have been identified as significant mediators of recovery after injuries. This article presents an overview of various...
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PMID: 20403557
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The management of patients with colorectal disease in the pediatric population is challenging. Such management is all the more challenging when facing the constraints imposed by an environment with limited clinical resources. Three types of colorectal problems are highlighted in this article: anorec...
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PMID: 20307848
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Pre-ARV adherence counseling should be improved through recruitment of counselors or multi-skilling in counseling skills for the available staff to reduce on the work load. Traditional/ spiritual healers should be integrated and supervised to offer pre-ARV care. Door step supply of cotrimoxazole usi...
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PMID: 20022131
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We conclude that even in the setting of low resource tertiary centres found in many developing countries, challenges could be overcome and standard acceptable patency rates obtained in the microsurgery laboratory ....
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PMID: 20348985
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These results indicate that the socioeconomically disadvantaged are at a significantly higher risk for infant mortality. In contrast, more public expenditure on health resources significantly reduces the risk for infant mortality. This study provides further international evidence that suggests that...
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PMID: 19886877
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Clear evidence of resource insufficiency is found. The study shows also an extensive structural imbalance. A total of 1,477,500 subjects affected by mental disorders are found in the 'unmet need' category. This group (receiving no mental health services) represents 62 per cent of people with a diagn...
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PMID: 20571178
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To investigate long-term resource consumption and clinical outcome of patients with early primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension treated with prostaglandins in clinical practice in France.
Thirty-four geographically spread specialized hospitals and private practices enrolled consecutive...
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PMID: 19661825
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I propose relying on deliberative groups to make comparisons among the pairs with respect to the relation 'is a more serious limitation on the range of objectives and good lives available to members of the population'. A ranking according to this property, is not a preference ranking, because it is...
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PMID: 19301348
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We constructed 'wealth index' as a distinct covariate to capture the households' tendency to liquidate assets when defraying necessary healthcare liabilities after exhausting cash incomes. (Current income and assets together capture the household expanded resource base). Using 98 632 household obser...
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PMID: 19405046
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I propose relying on deliberative groups to make comparisons among the pairs with respect to the relation 'is a more serious limitation on the range of objectives and good lives available to members of the population'. A ranking according to this property, is not a preference ranking, because it is...
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PMID: 19301348
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We constructed 'wealth index' as a distinct covariate to capture the households' tendency to liquidate assets when defraying necessary healthcare liabilities after exhausting cash incomes. (Current income and assets together capture the household expanded resource base). Using 98 632 household obser...
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PMID: 19405046
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I propose relying on deliberative groups to make comparisons among the pairs with respect to the relation 'is a more serious limitation on the range of objectives and good lives available to members of the population'. A ranking according to this property, is not a preference ranking, because it is...
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PMID: 19301348
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We constructed 'wealth index' as a distinct covariate to capture the households' tendency to liquidate assets when defraying necessary healthcare liabilities after exhausting cash incomes. (Current income and assets together capture the household expanded resource base). Using 98 632 household obser...
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PMID: 19405046
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I propose relying on deliberative groups to make comparisons among the pairs with respect to the relation 'is a more serious limitation on the range of objectives and good lives available to members of the population'. A ranking according to this property, is not a preference ranking, because it is...
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PMID: 19301348
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We constructed 'wealth index' as a distinct covariate to capture the households' tendency to liquidate assets when defraying necessary healthcare liabilities after exhausting cash incomes. (Current income and assets together capture the household expanded resource base). Using 98 632 household obser...
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PMID: 19405046
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I propose relying on deliberative groups to make comparisons among the pairs with respect to the relation 'is a more serious limitation on the range of objectives and good lives available to members of the population'. A ranking according to this property, is not a preference ranking, because it is...
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PMID: 19301348
PDF is available here.
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We constructed 'wealth index' as a distinct covariate to capture the households' tendency to liquidate assets when defraying necessary healthcare liabilities after exhausting cash incomes. (Current income and assets together capture the household expanded resource base). Using 98 632 household obser...
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PMID: 19405046
PDF is available here.
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I propose relying on deliberative groups to make comparisons among the pairs with respect to the relation 'is a more serious limitation on the range of objectives and good lives available to members of the population'. A ranking according to this property, is not a preference ranking, because it is...
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PMID: 19301348
PDF is available here.
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We constructed 'wealth index' as a distinct covariate to capture the households' tendency to liquidate assets when defraying necessary healthcare liabilities after exhausting cash incomes. (Current income and assets together capture the household expanded resource base). Using 98 632 household obser...
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PMID: 19405046
PDF is available here.
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I propose relying on deliberative groups to make comparisons among the pairs with respect to the relation 'is a more serious limitation on the range of objectives and good lives available to members of the population'. A ranking according to this property, is not a preference ranking, because it is...
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PMID: 19301348
PDF is available here.
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We constructed 'wealth index' as a distinct covariate to capture the households' tendency to liquidate assets when defraying necessary healthcare liabilities after exhausting cash incomes. (Current income and assets together capture the household expanded resource base). Using 98 632 household obser...
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PMID: 19405046
PDF is available here.