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New England Journal of Medicine (365)13 2011
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We analyzed the changes in FEV(1) after administration of a bronchodilator over a 3-year period in 2163 patients. A random-coefficient model was used to evaluate possible predictors of both FEV(1) levels and their changes over time.
The mean (±SE) rate of change in FEV(1) was a decl...
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PMID: 21991892
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Because it is unusual to find sufficient evidence from RCTs to answer all key questions concerning benefit or the balance of benefits and harms, comparative effectiveness reviewers should routinely assess the appropriateness of inclusion of observational studies for questions of benefit. Furthermore...
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PMID: 21636246
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Psychiatry Research (188)3 2011
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These results however, are limited by the heterogeneity of illness severity across the groups.
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PMID: 21596442
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Functional subdivisions are proposed to exist in the gluteus medius (GM) muscle. Dysfunction of the GM, in particular its functional subdivisions, is commonly implicated in lower limb pathologies. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence examining the role of the subdivisions of the GM.
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PMID: 21576709
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Australian Critical Care (24)2 2011
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Delirium is an acute, reversible and fluctuating central nervous system dysfunction with an organic cause, and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Many recent studies have shown that delirium is highly prevalent in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) population. Despite its seriousness;...
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PMID: 21514176
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This study investigated the application of an educational health promotion program, the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSM), within three Queensland Aboriginal (Murri) communities (rural, regional and urban).
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PMID: 21717834
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New England Journal of Medicine (364)11 2011
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We used data from a large tertiary academic medical center involving 197,961 admissions and 176,696 nursing shifts of 8 hours each in 43 hospital units to examine the association between mortality and patient exposure to nursing shifts during which staffing by RNs was 8 hours or more below the staff...
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PMID: 21410372
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To examine how medically uninsured patients who receive health care at federally qualified health centers and free clinics are able to successfully self-manage diabetes compared to patients who are less successful.
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PMID: 21671529
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Leprosy Review (82)1 2011
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The objective of this study was to measure medication adherence amongst outpatients attending an urban leprosy clinic in Hyderabad, India.
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PMID: 21644474
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Psychiatry Research (187)1-2 2011
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This study aimed to investigate factors linked to perceived coercion at admission and during treatment among voluntary inpatients. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used. Two hundred seventy patients were screened for perceived coercion at admission. Those who felt coerced into admission rate...
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PMID: 21272940
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Victorian Studies (53)2 2011
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This essay uses Walter Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" (1885) to explore why certain Victorian liberals preferred to see religion as a matter of collective inheritance rather than personal belief. Recent commentators have portrayed the Protestant emphasis on individual conversion as one of the foundat...
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PMID: 21786473
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Lymphadenitis caused by nontuberculous mycobacteriae has been increasingly seen in Finland since the cessation of universal BCG vaccination in 2006. An otherwise healthy child develops a slowly growing unilateral mass in the cervicofacial region. Without treatment, the lymphadenitis suppurates and fo...
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PMID: 21695996
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Thrombosis and Haemostasis (105)1 2011
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We documented data on all performed inhibitor tests with dates as well as on clotting factor infusions of all consecutive patients who were treated in our centre between 1993 and 2006. Patients were tested every 7.1 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 6.6-7.8). A 'sustained negative inhibitor stat...
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PMID: 21057702
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Thrombosis and Haemostasis (105)1 2011
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We evaluated the effect of strenuous exercise on monocyte chemotaxis. Monocytes were isolated from blood of 13 young, healthy, sedentary individuals participating in a three-week training program which consisted of repeated exercise bouts. Monocyte chemotaxis and serological biomarkers were investig...
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PMID: 20978713
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We aimed to update our knowledge of how key quantitative parameters describing CSF dynamics may be used in diagnosis of shunt-responsive hydrocephalus and in the assessment of shunt function....
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PMID: 21208195
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The Patient- and Family-Centered Care (PFCC) method and practice has been developed over the past 4 years as a means of improving care experiences by viewing all aspects of a patient's care experience through the eyes of the patient and family. One of the most powerful components of the method, eval...
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PMID: 21157240
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Early enteral nutrition (EN) is the preferred strategy for feeding the critically ill; however, it is not always possible to initiate EN within the recommended 24 to 48 hours. When these situations arise, controversy exists whether to start feeding early via the parenteral route or to delay feeding u...
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PMID: 21378245
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Abstract Purpose. This study examined correlates of park-based physical activity (PA) among children in neighborhood parks. Design. Direct observation was used to assess PA among children. Setting. Public parks in Tampa, Florida (n = 10), and Chicago, Illinois (n = 18), from low income an...
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PMID: 21534825
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (17)1 2011
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A lack of available blood contributes to 16% of all maternal deaths in Egypt. This study aimed to assess the quality of care for obstetric emergencies in 4 general hospitals in Egypt over a 6-month period with the focus on delays in receiving care and blood bank services. Observations were made of th...
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PMID: 21735797
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Quality in primary care (19)1 2011
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Emergency medical admissions to UK hospitals have been increasing steadily over the past few decades and there are likely to be a proportion of these admissions that are avoidable. This evaluation aims to demonstrate whether a general practitioner support unit (GPSU) reduces general practitioner (GP)...
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PMID: 21703109
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British Journal for the History of Science (43)159 Pt 4 2010
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I show how the movement of things and people problematizes the notion of a single 'centre of calculation', even where a dominant figure like Réaumur was managing collections and producing authoritative texts. Réaumur was indeed managing the flow of observations, letters and specimens from his priv...
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PMID: 21553628
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Ideggyogyaszati szemle (63)11-12 2010
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An open label, national, multicenter, observational study had been conducted to evaluate of psychological general well-being in adults with therapy resistant partial epilepsy taking oxcarbazepine in Hungary. The possibility was examined to differentiate the improvement of the psychic well-being cause...
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PMID: 21413440
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Audio, Transactions of the IRE Professional Group on (123)12 Suppl 1 2010
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Comparative effectiveness research (CER) may be defined informally as an assessment of available options for treating specific medical conditions in selected groups of patients. In this context, the most prominent features of CER are the various patient populations, medical ailments, and treatment o...
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PMID: 21184862
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We addressed the representativeness of clinical trials by comparing 146 adult clinical trial participants with DSM-IV ADHD and a community sample composed of 124 adults with DSM-IV ADHD and 123 non-ADHD controls. Subjects were compared on socioeconomic status, Hollingshead occupational code, cogniti...
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PMID: 20816030
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Prospective studies on the clinical progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its relationship to caregiver burden are needed to improve illness management and use of resources.
This national, multicenter, observational study evaluated 1235 moderate to severe AD patients under routine care in Spai...
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PMID: 20849672
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Science of the Total Environment (408)23 2010
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We divide the UAE into small grid cells and use spatial-statistical methods to estimate the ambient pollutant concentrations in each cell based on the observed data. Premature deaths attributed to PM and O(3) are computed for each grid cell and then aggregated across grid cells and over a year to es...
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PMID: 20828789
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Analyst (Cambridge UK) (135)11 2010
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A novel strategy for the determination of oxalate anions was successfully established using a copper ion and pyrocatechol violet (PV) ensemble. The sensor ensemble can discriminate oxalate over other common anions including F(-), Cl(-), I(-), Br(-), HPO(4)(2-), PO(4)(3-), AcO(-), CO(3)(2-), SO(4)(2-...
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PMID: 20877823
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Psychiatry Research (188)1 2011
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We evaluated the psychopathological state of the patient group using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). The schizophrenic patients had higher scores than the control group with respect to decayed teeth (4.39 vs. 0.72), missing teeth (5.66 vs. 1.50), the DMF-T index (13.51 vs. 7.8) and...
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PMID: 21055830
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Public Health Nutrition (13)11 2010
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Some versions of restaurant menu labelling legislation do not require energy information to be posted on menus for drive-through lanes. The present study was designed to quantify the number of customers who purchase fast food through drive-in windows as a means of informing legislative labelling eff...
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PMID: 20236561
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We postulated that thermal injury induces a systemic hypercoagulable state. With Institutional Review Board approval, five patients were consented for enrollment in this case series. After obtaining informed consent, blood was drawn on hospital days 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 or until discharge if discharge...
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PMID: 20689402
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To describe maternity nurses' perspectives on how they contribute to safety during labour and birth at two urban academic medical centres in the United States.
Grounded theory: data were collected using semistructured, open-ended interviews and participant observations with registered nurses (RNs) i...
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PMID: 20142407
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To assess the frequency of clinical features of Sjogren's syndrome (SS) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) receiving treatment with disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) or naïve to treatment and the possible association with clinical, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI...
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PMID: 20809902
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Health & Place (16)5 2010
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This paper identifies factors that influence where people smoke outdoors and examines the impact of smoking on people who use outdoor public places. Direct observations of smoking at 12 outdoor public places and semi-structured interviews with 35 non-smoking and smoking adults were used to gather in...
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PMID: 20576460
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Journal of the Neurological Sciences (295)1-2 2010
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We conclude that multimodality monitoring in the perihemorrhagic penumbra is feasible. A study in a larger population is needed to clarify the relationship between PRx and ORx in ICH patients, the local metabolic effects of autoregulatory failure and its relation to brain edema formation and clinica...
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PMID: 20557898
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To observe pupil behaviour on school buses in Israel and identify hazards as a basis for improving school bus safety.
Data on student, bus driver and chaperone behaviours and on hazards associated with school buses, bus loading zones and bus stops were collected during an observational study conduct...
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PMID: 20680121
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Ideggyogyaszati szemle (63)7-8 2010
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In Stalevo tablets, used in the therapy of patients with Parkinson's disease, levodopa is combined with decarboxylase inhibitors and COMT inhibitors to provide a more steady plasma concentration of levodopa. Previously several study has shown, that the better pharmacokinetic profile decreases the fl...
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PMID: 20812452
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Visual assessment of head and neck alignment by physiotherapists is of questionable validity for identifying deviations in the order of 5 degrees from neutral. For deviations of 10 degrees in a single plane visual, observation is comparable to other clinically available tools....
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PMID: 20658928
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Australasian Psychiatry (18)4 2010
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Testable observations, thoughtfulness and humility are helpful in clinical practice....
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PMID: 20645894
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Australasian Psychiatry (18)4 2010
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to examine information regarding insane people and style of word use in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. CONCLUSION: Some of the observations about 19th century patients are not consistent with current observations. These discrepancies may have a...
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PMID: 20645892
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Academic Radiology (17)8 2010
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The average per polyp sensitivities were 60% (38%-81%) versus 71% (52%-91%) (P = .03) for single-mark and double-mark readings, respectively. The areas (95% confidence intervals) under the ROC curves were 0.76 (0.62-0.88) and 0.79 (0.58-0.96), respectively (P = NS). Specificities were similar for th...
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PMID: 20542452
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Academic Radiology (17)8 2010
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Veterinary Record (167)3 2010
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This report describes the progression in welfare standards for horses on a horse farm in the Republic of Ireland between 2007 and 2009. Visits to the farm were undertaken and information, in the form of written notes and digital recording of observations and examinations, was gathered in consultatio...
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PMID: 20643886
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this perspective is to describe the reliability and feasibility of methods such as direct observation of procedural skills and multisource feedback in assessment of the performance of radiology residents. CONCLUSION: Workplace-based assessments such as direct observation of...
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PMID: 20566775
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Intensive Care Medicine (36)7 2010
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The aim of the present study was to validate the Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II) and 3 (SAPS 3), the Mortality Probability Models III (MPM(0)-III), and the Cancer Mortality Model (CMM) in patients with cancer admitted to several intensive care units (ICU)....
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PMID: 20221751
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Intensive Care Medicine (36)7 2010
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To describe the relationship between clinical practice and national guidelines for the transfusion of red blood cells (RBCs), fresh frozen plasma (FFP), platelets, and cryoprecipitate in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units (ICUs).
Forty-seven ICUs over a 5...
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PMID: 20440603
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Environmental Research (110)5 2010
Longevity of the effectiveness of interim soil lead hazard control measures and influencing factors.
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A 7-year follow-up was conducted to determine factors associated with the longevity of interim soil lead hazard control measures that had been applied to housing in the Cleveland OH area. The approach involved (1) visual determination of the treatment integrity, (2) collection of information regardi...
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PMID: 20382381
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Annals of Internal Medicine (153)1 2010
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Total dietary fat and saturated fat intake are associated with obesity, elevated cholesterol, and heart disease. This study tested a multi-group structural equation model to explore differences in the relative influence of individual, social, and physical environment factors on dietary fat intake am...
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PMID: 20462682
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Explanations for the social gradient in health status are informed by the rare exceptions. This cross-sectional observational study examined one such exception, the "Latino paradox" by investigating the presence of a Latino advantage in oral health-related quality of life and the effect of nativity...
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PMID: 20434250
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This paper considers the role of multilingualism in health care by drawing on the results of an empirical study conducted in three public hospitals in the Western Cape, South Africa. Data were collected through questionnaires, staff and patient interviews as well as ethnographic observation. The foc...
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PMID: 20452713
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Academic Medicine (85)7 2010
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The safe transfer (handoff) of responsibility for patient care from one physician to another requires that health care facilities have rigorous sign-out systems and that physicians develop effective communication skills. In 2007 and 2008, to improve the spoken and written sign-out practices of the 2...
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PMID: 20375830
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Patient's actions were oriented to two main goals: obtaining care and preserving their sense of self and dignity. These actions shaped patients' pathways in five key ways: meeting the entry criteria for admission; presenting as a cooperative, expert patient; mobilizing social networks among health c...
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PMID: 20360145
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Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) observed during the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule [ADOS: Lord et al., 2000] were examined in a longitudinal data set of 455 toddlers and preschoolers (age 8-56 months) with clinical diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD; autis...
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PMID: 20589716
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Anesthesia & Analgesia (111)3 2010
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The presence of "at-a-glance monitoring" has implications for the design of patient monitoring displays. Displays should be developed to optimize the information obtained from brief glances at the monitor....
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PMID: 20581165
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