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We particularly study the indicator of biological samples nonconformities and we report 2009 results to the nurses' team managers to find solutions for quality of care to the patient....
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PMID: 21659057
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We describe and summarize publicly available records that could be used to study the public health impact of practices associated with land application in North Carolina....
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PMID: 21721493
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Since 1995, registered nurses and midwives have been obliged to develop and maintain a professional portfolio of evidence reflecting the learning activities that they have undertaken and how these have informed and influenced their practice. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that rather then...
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PMID: 21079561
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To assess the burden and factors associated with highway work-zone (HWZ) crashes.
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PMID: 20974619
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G Carretero,
L Puig,
L Dehesa,
J M Carrascosa,
M Ribera,
M Sánchez-Regaña,
E Daudén,
D Vidal,
M Alsina,
C Muñoz-Santos,
J L López-Estebaranz,
J Notario,
C Ferrandiz,
F Vanaclocha,
M García-Bustinduy,
R Taberner,
I Belinchón,
J Sánchez-Carazo,
J C Moreno and
Grupo de Psoriasis de la AEDV
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We considered it of interest to develop guidelines for using methotrexate in the management of psoriasis with a view to ensuring the safe and proper use of this drug in the management of psoriasis. This document was developed by consensus among members of the Psoriasis Group of the Spanish Academy o...
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PMID: 20858386
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Rodolfo P Moreno,
Juan C Vassallo,
Silvia S Sáenz,
Ana C Blanco,
Daniel Allende,
José L Araguas,
Santiago Ayala Torales,
Edgardo Banille,
Amanda M Berrueta,
Patricia Capocasa,
César G Caprotta,
Guillermo E Moreno,
Hilda S Pérez,
Liliana Porta,
Gabriela Rodríguez and
Marcelo Rojo
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Most common etiologies of PCR were hypoxia and shock. Most children received drugs. The drugs most used were the association adrenaline-bicarbonate and adrenaline alone. The chances of recovery were not favorable when CPR was conducted for over sixty minutes or more than six doses of adrenaline were...
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PMID: 20544136
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Data on antimicrobial use play a key role in the development of policies for the containment of antimicrobial resistance. On-farm data could provide a detailed overview of the antimicrobial use, but technical and methodological aspects of data collection and interpretation, as well as data quality n...
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PMID: 20381180
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We demonstrated that session-RPE may be considered as a viable method to asses TL without the use of more sophisticated tools (i.e., HR monitors). The session-RPE method enabled the detection of periodization patterns in weekly planning in elite professional basketball during the crucial part of the...
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PMID: 20386474
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The aim of this paper is to describe patterns of referral to inpatient rehabilitation in rural NSW. Archival records of referrals to one rural speciality medical rehabilitation service during 2004 and 2005 were analysed using descriptive statistics displayed using tables and graphs. Seventy-six refe...
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PMID: 20497734
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We developed a computer-aided post-entry standardization method using a disease name dictionary based on International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 classifications. We also developed an anonymous linkage system by using an encryption code generated from a combination of hash values and stream...
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PMID: 20699602
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Interactive Television (ITV), the synchronous DL system examined, was considered effective for delivering education to learners if similar performance outcomes were the evaluation criteria....
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PMID: 20359418
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Our goal was to develop a health literacy organizational assessment tool for health plans that could be used as a benchmark and encourage further work. The existing tool consists of six evaluation areas: (1) information for members/navigation; (2) member services/communication; (3) web navigation; (...
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PMID: 20845196
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Heavy indebtedness complicates the treatment of addictive diseases and other health problems. We describe the mistakes of the patients with heavy debts, and offer a simple instrument to enable better coping with these problems.
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PMID: 20429351
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We examined the accuracy of external cause-of-injury codes (E-codes) in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) administrative data for a population of injured patients. Chart notes and E-codes were extracted for 566 patients treated at any one of four VHA Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center sites between...
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PMID: 21110244
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Thalidomide, once withdrawn because of its teratogenicity, has now been re-launched worldwide. In Japan, thalidomide has been imported by individual doctors since around the year 2000. In October 2008, it was approved for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) by the Ministry of Health, Labour and W...
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PMID: 20000865
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This study compares belt use in police reports with NASS-CDS investigator-determined belt use. The NASS-CDS cases were analyzed by severity of occupant injury and the crash type.
1993-2007 NASS-CDS was analyzed for occupant injury severity and crash type. Light vehicl...
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PMID: 19746306
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All health care regulators and nursing employers should be aware of the association between a history of criminal conviction and the likelihood of committing a violation that requires state nursing board disciplinary action....
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PMID: 19240497
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The purpose of this study was to implement the Nursing Care Systematization--Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem (SAE)--with Wanda Aguiar Horta's Theory of Basic Human Necessities and the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association's (NANDA) Nursing Diagnosis as its references. The...
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PMID: 19437854
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Previous success, i.e., performance in the preceding bout and total number of wins and losses, was predictive of victory. Clarification of this effect was sought in examining whether the prior performance against a particular opponent or in a common location would be predictive of a victory in a bou...
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PMID: 19425455
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We experimentally demonstrate a causal link between recordkeeping and reciprocal exchange. Recordkeeping improves memory of past interactions in a complex exchange environment, which promotes reputation formation and decision coordination. Economies with recordkeeping exhibit a beneficially altered...
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PMID: 19147843
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A facility-based approach is a potential tool for conducting a national maternal mortality audit in a developing country like Lebanon. Computerized medical records and mandatory participation of hospitals are prerequisites for success. This would require the government to develop a cohesive national...
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PMID: 19900073
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One hundred and twenty four patients were studied. Of these, 59.7% experienced a mild decrease of hemoglobin levels (< 2g/dl) whereas 21.8% presented a more severe reduction (> 2g/dl). These decreases were correlated with the blood volume withdrawn and number of phlebotomies performed (r= 0.557, p <...
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PMID: 20038382
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The purpose of this article is to introduce recent insights into methodological problems of medical diagnosis in history, historical denotations, and interpretation of historical disease nomenclature (causes of death) in the 19th century related to tuberculosis mortality in Austria. Comparing and di...
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PMID: 19591389
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We will be able to keep ourselves ahead of this condition in order to improve the health of our fellow patients in Puerto Rico and the rest of the world....
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PMID: 20120982
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We found three data fields of potential interest. First, although every state included residence of mother at time of delivery on the birth certificate, only four states collected information on how long the mother had lived there. This item may be useful in that it could be used to assess and reduc...
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PMID: 19894425
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The use of the Social Security number (SSN) has expanded significantly since its inception in 1936. Created merely to keep track of the earnings history of U.S. workers for Social Security entitlement and benefit computation purposes, it has come to be used as a nearly universal identifier. Assigned...
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PMID: 19697506
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Pediatrics (123 Suppl 2)supplement 2009
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The public sector plays an important role in promoting child health information technology. Public sector support is essential in 5 main aspects of child health information technology, namely, data standards, pediatric functions in health information systems, privacy policies, research and implement...
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PMID: 19088229
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Of the 1156 slides, 32 slides (2.8%) were disparate. Aside from differences regarding intraepidermal neoplasia, the concordance rate was 99.7%. LIMITATIONS: This study represents data collected at a single institution in the United States alone. CONCLUSION: There was statistically significant concor...
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PMID: 19103361
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The implementation of a structured protocol for collecting the anthropometrical and biochemical parameters implicating a multidisciplinary hospital team enables identifying those patients in whom appropriate nutritional support may improve their prognosis during hospital stay....
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PMID: 19593488
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A complex badging process to create a culture of safety in a medical center is described by the author. Badging is not only used to control access by employees, but non-employees--medical students, vendors, contractors, volunteers, etc.--are subjected to similar processing procedures before they can...
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PMID: 19323244
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