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Mechanical Ventilation & Survival in Advanced Dementia Patients

Jun 27, 2022

Although the association of Medicare Advantage (MA) with low-value care among hospitalized patients was unknown, it is caring for a growing share of traditional Medicare (TM) patients. For a study, re...

Patient-Reported Outcomes During Checkpoint Inhibition

Jun 27, 2022

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are acclaimed for producing long-lasting anti-tumor responses, but they also generate immune-related adverse events (irAEs), which can range in severity and have an ...

Sufficient Death Preparedness: Mental Health, QOL, & EOL Care

Jun 27, 2022

Patients can improve the quality of their dying by preparing for the end of life and their impending death. For a study, researchers sought to determine the never-before-seen relationships between can...

Off-label Prescribing of Transmucosal Immediate-Release Fentanyl (TIRF)

Jun 27, 2022

Opioid misuse and opioid-related consequences, including fatalities, are extensively established in the United States. Opioid consumption, particularly fentanyl, has been growing throughout the Europe...

Physical Separation for Hospice Patients & Families amid COVID-19

Jun 27, 2022

During the early COVID-19 epidemic, many hospice patients were physically segregated from family members and healthcare staff. Researchers sought to evaluate the lived experience of physical separatio...

Similarity of HIV Symptom Clusters With Symptom Occurrence & Distress

Jun 16, 2022

Despite advances in antiretroviral treatment, people living with HIV infection (PLWH) in the United States continue to have a high symptom load. For a study, researchers sought to determine if the qua...

Palliative Care, Patient-Reported Measures, & Outcomes in Cirrhotic Hospitalized Patients

Jun 16, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to determine the link between palliative care (PC), patient-reported variables (quality of life and functional status), and outcomes. They conducted a prospective cohor...

Cancer Pain Self-Management: A Review & Conceptual Analysis

May 31, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to enhance the conceptual and practical definitions of the term "self-management of cancer pain" in the concept analysis article by identifying associated antecedents, ...

Fast-Track Orthopedic Procedures: Analgesia to Traditional IVPCA

May 31, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to see if intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IVPCA) in a fast-track joint replacement program was linked to more perioperative opioid intake and a longer stay in...

The Effect of Parental Presence on Pain Levels of Children During Invasive Procedures

May 31, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to determine how the presence of a parent affected the level of a child's suffering during invasive treatments. The systematic review began in July 2019 and was updated...

Patient Pain Experiences & the Emergency Department (ED) Encounter

May 31, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to look into the perceptions and experiences of emergency department (ED) patients about pain and emergency care to help build future psychosocial interventions that ba...

Pain Interference: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery

May 31, 2022

Post-operative discomfort was one of the most serious issues faced by patients with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. For a study, researchers sought to determine how post-operative pain interfere...

The Impact of Preoperative Distress: PePS Intervention

May 31, 2022

Active psychosocial therapies for chronic postsurgical pain have shown promise. Preoperatively disturbed (elevated depressed symptoms, anxious symptoms, or pain catastrophizing) and non-distressed par...

(Fibro Friends): Validation of an Educational Program to Promote Health in Fibromyalgia.

May 16, 2022

Health education is one of the main items to enable the promotion of health for individuals with fibromyalgia (FM) in Primary Health Care (PHC) in Brazil. The purpose of this study was to validate a m...

Epidemiologic analysis of 8000 acute vertebral fractures: evolution of treatment and complications at 10-year follow-up.

May 16, 2022

This is a retrospective cohort study.This study aims to determine the proportional incidence, clinical characteristics, treatment patterns with complications and changes in treatment of vertebral frac...

Drugs Recommended in Adult Rheumatic Diseases, But Considered for Off-Label Use in Argentina.

May 16, 2022

Off-label (OL) drug use is the prescription of a drug for indications other than those authorised in its technical datasheet. The objective of this study was to identify drugs recommended in rheumatol...

Comparisons between ankle distraction arthroplasty and supramalleolar osteotomy for treatment of post-traumatic varus ankle osteoarthritis.

May 16, 2022

Ankle distraction arthroplasty and supramalleolar osteotomy were both options for post-traumatic varus ankle arthritis (VAA), but their comparative effectiveness was scarcely reported. This study aime...

Structural imaging studies of patients with chronic pain: an anatomic likelihood estimate meta-analysis.

May 16, 2022

Neuroimaging is a powerful tool to investigate potential associations between chronic pain and brain structure. However, the proliferation of studies across diverse chronic pain syndromes and heteroge...

LRP4 is required for the olfactory association task in the piriform cortex.

May 09, 2022

Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 4 (LRP4) plays a critical role in the central nervous system (CNS), including hippocampal synaptic plasticity, maintenance of excitatory synaptic trans...

Microfluidic-assisted electrospinning, an alternative to coaxial, as a controlled dual drug release system to treat inflammatory arthritic diseases.

May 09, 2022

Inflammatory arthritic diseases are characterized by a persistent inflammation of the synovial tissues where tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) pro-inflammatory cytokines are...

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