Potentially Inappropriate Medication at a Private Hospital

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Abstract The use of certain medications in geriatrics when potential risks outweigh the potential benefit and an effective alternative is available is called as Potentially Inappropriate medication. Because geriatrics are more sensitive towards adverse effects of medications. Beers criteria which is updated and reviewed by American Geriatric society list out 53 medications/therapeutic classes of drugs to be avoided in geriatrics. Methodology: A prospective observational study was ...

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The Mental Health and Addiction Service Development Plan

02 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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The Mental Health and Addiction Service Development Plan In the National context of Mental Health in New Zealand during 1800 and 1900, almost 50% of people living in New Zealand are experiencing of some form of Mental Illness. The first lunatic asylum opened in New Zealand on 1854 is in Karori, Wellington. A mentally ill person is being held in the prison at first because there ...

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Dendrophthoe Petandra L. Miq.'s Progesterone-Like Effect

02 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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ABSTRACT The in-vivo study on healthy adult female rat were known that extract methanol of Dendrophthoe Petandra L. Miq by intramuscular injection (w/v) at dose 100 mg/kg body weight for four days (s.d.d.) can be produce progesterone hormone two times more than usual levels. That phenomenon apparently indicates that plant as an Indonesia namely Benalu duku were probably consist of steroid with carbon bonding substances at ...

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Ethical Review Process: a Case Study

02 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Ethical review of Case Study 2. Analysis of case study 2: Study design: This study aims to assess the following primary objectives: Maternal and infant feeding practices. Nutrition advice to Caucasian low-income post-partum women that receive Healthy Start vouchers Nutrition advice to general population of Pakistani women. However, it also aims to assess other secondary objectives including: Dietary intakes of Caucasian low-income post-partum ...

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Quality and Performance Management Methods in Healthcare

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Teams and Team Building In the long-term health care industry, ongoing improvement is vital to quality patient medical attention. To achieve this goal of value improvement, a long-term health facility needs to make use of the learning, abilities, encounters, and points of view of an extensive variety of people; aka brainstorming. A quality improvement (QI) project requires critical thinking, numerous choices, and successful arrangements that ...

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Endotracheal Intubation to Supraglottic Airway Device

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Discussion Response 1 "Much debate has occurred recently about high failure rates and adverse effects associated with pre-hospital paramedic endotracheal intubation. Should ETT be removed entirely and replaced with supraglottic airways?" Maintaining an airway in a safe and effective manner is critical in pre-hospital management of the patient in respiratory distress. The debate regarding the most appropriate device to manage this situation in the pre-hospital ...

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Treatments for Patients with Prostate Cancer

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE CANCER TO ACHIEVE A BIOCHEMICAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL Mariam O. Akinwale   MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE AMERICAS Mentor: Dr. Akintola Odutola Manuscript word count: 4205 HYPOTHESIS: In the treatment of aggressive and metastatic prostate cancer, patients who undergo radical prostatectomy with additional radiation therapy and/or hormonal therapy have less recurrence rate in comparison to those who receive radical prostatectomy ...

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Suprascapular Neuropathy in Overhead Athletes

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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SUPRASCAPULAR NEUROPATHY IN OVERHEAD ATHLETES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON AETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OPTIONS Surya.P, Pankhania. R, Funk.L ABSTRACT Suprascapular neuropathy is often overlooked as a cause for shoulder pain in overhead athletes. However, with recent advancements in the understanding of the condition as well as its treatment methods, suprascapular neuropathy is now diagnosed more frequently. Consistent overhead activities, rotator cuff tear and direct compression of ...

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Impact of Medication Therapy on Diabetes

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For Doctors and Patients Studies show that intensive medication therapy to control glucose levels may not be the most effective treatment approach for type 2 diabetes. Insulin therapy results in weight gain, which can be excessive, worsening cardiovascular risk profile. Reversing Heart Disease Excess caloric consumption causes the buildup of cholesterol and plaque inside of the blood vessels. Lowering your cholesterol with cholesterol-lowering drugs does ...

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Attitudes of Health Care Providers to Persons with HIV/AIDS

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Attitudes of Health Care Providers to Persons Living With HIV/AIDS in Lagos State, Nigeria Sylvia Bolanle Adebajo1, Abisola O Bamgbala1 and Muriel A Oyediran2   ABSTRACT This study was conducted to examine the knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of nurses and laboratory technologists towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) and the factors responsible for these attitudes. Information was elicited from 254 randomly selected nurses and laboratory technologists from 15 government ...

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Spearmint: Analgesic, Anti-Inflammatory and Antipyretic

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Review: Yousuf, P. (2013). Analgesic, Anti-Inflammatory and Antipyretic Effect of Mentha spicata (Spearmint). British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research,3(4), 854-864. doi:10.9734/bjpr/2013/4640 Mentha spicata (Spearmint) is often used as an alternative treatment for inflammation, fever, and pain relief.  All of these problems can present symptoms such as cramps, headache, joint stiffness, and general aches and pains.  Inflammation, pain and fever can all be treated with over the ...

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Development of Parkinson's Disease Research

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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The Descendants In the spring of 1988, neurologist Larry Golbe at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey conducted a routine examination of a 48-year-old man David. David was diagnosed with PD ten years earlier. A few weeks after the meeting, David died. After the funeral, David's brother Frank came to see Golbe, as he was concerned that he also might have PD. ...

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UK Guidelines for Eye Screening

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DOES THE UK CURRENTLY SCREEN THE POPULATION FOR APPROPRIATE EYE CONDITIONS? WHAT IS SCREENING? Screening is a way of identifying those individuals who are at a higher risk of developing a certain health problem; this allows them to have appropriate early treatment and information in order to prevent further deterioration. There are many different screening programmes which are offered by the NHS, for example, Screening ...

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Patient Case Study of Knee Injury

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Short case description: 25 years old, female injured her right knee during basketball game. She left playing, required little assistance to get her car. PCP evaluated her, gave her non-steroidal anti-inflammatory with P.T referral. Brief summary of patient history: injury occurred when she planted her right leg and rotated to the right to evade a defender. She denied hearing a pop, she reported immediate pain ...

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Child Language Disorder Factors and Treatments

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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What is Language Disorder? Difficulties associated with communication can be identified as language disorder. Child language disorder can be classified by language production skills that are lower than the age-appropriate level, which can be seen if the child is behind their peers in their progress of language skills. A language disorder is defined as the inability to utilise words to express thoughts (expressive language) and/or ...

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Infectious Complications of Kidney Transplantation

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Introduction: Infections that develop after transplantation may be life-threatening and may affect outcomes. Infection follows cardiovascular disease as the second most common cause of death with a functioning graft in kidney transplant recipients. Post-transplant infections develop in approximately 40% of recipients within the first year in spite of prophylaxis. Both the type and occurrence of infections in the immunocompromised transplant recipient follow a timetable pattern. ...

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Effects of Honey as a Treatment for Acne

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Kanuka Randomised Controlled Trial Critical Appraisal Acne, a common inflammatory cutaneous disease, with a recent analysis reporting an 85% prevalence in those aged between 12 and 24 years of age in the USA. A new treatment option could prove successful if alongside being efficacious avoids the many shortcomings of current treatment options e.g. antibiotics, hormone-therapy etc. These treatment options are ineffective in some sufferers, thus ...

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Standard American Diet Versus a Nutritarian Diet

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Essential Nutrients Macronutrients - include carbohydrates, proteins, and fat; they supply the calories to our body for energy and growth. Micronutrients - include vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals; they do not contain calories but are essential for health and growth. They are found in whole foods, vegetables, beans, berries, and seeds. Standard American Diet In the standard American diet (SAD) about 85 percent of ...

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Analysis of China's Healthcare Systems

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China went through a drastic change in 1978 from communism to a better economic change by Deng Xiaoping. He ushered china into new era. Even though he made huge reforms economically, China was lacking any significant reforms in medical systems. China prior to 1978 had a centralized medical system. Now its split between private and public services. China's public healthcare is inconsistent. The developed and ...

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Causes and Symptoms of Asthma

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Introduction Asthma is the most common chronic disease in Ireland. Ireland has the fourth highest commonness of asthma in the world. Asthma is a serious condition. One in five children in Ireland is having Asthma. About 30 per cent of age under-fives has had at least one attack of wheezing. This means lots of parents have been told that their child has asthma. Most often ...

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Evidence Based Mental Health Nursing

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Introduction This report will focus on the assessment and care planning for an individual using the mental health services. Evidence based approach will be deploy in order to be able to record, review and monitor the progress of the service user. Evidence-based practice is a structured and systematic approach to using research based knowledge of effectiveness to inform practice (Olfson, 2009). Knowledge includes formal information ...

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Patient Satisfaction in Chamber Setting

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Patient Satisfaction in Chamber Setting in Bangladesh measured by Patient-Doctor Relationship Questionnaire (PDRQ-9 Bangla) Abstract Background: Assessment of patient satisfaction is crucial but there is significant lagging in this sector. Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of health care quality as well as a predictor of treatment adherence. The Good patient-doctor relationship is considered as an integral part of the patient satisfaction. In Bangladesh, this ...

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Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening

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Cystic fibrosis is a common autosomal recessive genetic disorder1. This means that to have cystic fibrosis, a person must have inherited a defective gene from each of his or her parents2. This gene is located on chromosome seven2. Absence or mutation in this particular gene results in worse performance or absence of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator2. This is most commonly found in Europe, ...

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Hospital Expansion Analysis

31 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Case Study 1: The Case for Open Heart Surgery at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital- Chemplavil Brief Introduction: Cabarrus Memorial Hospital (CMH) is a large, public hospital located in North Carolina, that prides itself in cultivating a never wavering commitment to its community. Having first opened in 1935, over time CMH has found powerful allies in both Mr. Cannon, owner of Cannon Mills with considerable political ...

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Nature of Cortical Bone

25 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Nature of cortical bone from the millimeter to Nano-meter scale: Likewise, with every organic tissue, cortical bone has a various leveled structure. This implies cortical bone contains a wide range of structures that exist on many levels of scale. The various leveled association of cortical bone is characterized in the table below: Cortical bone structural organization: Level ...

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L/S Treatment for HCV Infection in Egypt

25 Jul 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Table of Contents: Abstract Introduction Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Bibliography Appendix   Objective. To determine cost effectiveness of adopting L/S versus PEG-R for treatment of HCV infection in Egypt's National HCV Program. Methods. Markov model was used to assess health states, associated quality of life, and cost impact for patients age 40 in moderate health using lifetime horizon. Cost-effectiveness was measured through incremental ...

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A Web-Based application for Patients and Caregivers

05 Sep 2017

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1. The Reminiscence system Based on our findings in the pilot study (Sarne-Fleischmann and Tractinsky, 2008), a new Flash web-based application was developed to enable independent use and administration for both patients and caregivers by including two main components in the structure. The front-end component supports the patient’s interaction with the system during the therapeutic sessions. The back-end component facilitates the addition, update, and management of ...

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Impacts of the Protected Disclosures Act 2000 on Nurses

05 Sep 2017

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This essay will explore the Protected Disclosures Act, 2000, specifically how it impacts nurses. Aligning the Act with the Code of Conduct will show its importance to nursing overall. The Act will be explained in terms of general content, and purpose including a brief background to serve as a rationale. The essay will touch on moral context, the role of the Ombudsmen, explore how the Act ...

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Ergonomic Factors in Workplace Accidents

05 Sep 2017

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Critically evaluate the ergonomic factors that may lead to incidents or accidents in the workplace environment. You should make reference to relevant examples where appropriate. It is essential that you research the current scientific literature on this subject and that you use this literature to support your critical discussion throughout. Introduction Ergonomics (Ahonen, M., Launis, M., & Kuorinka, T.,1989) is a branch of engineering ...

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The Impact of School-Based Health Promotion

05 Sep 2017

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Keywords: systematic review Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine effectiveness and influence of Public health campaigns and health information centers in schools. The impact of the public health promotion in schools required an in depth research in which the aim was to investigate how the public health promotion can affect the lifestyle of children which is a life saving factor and due to ...

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New Drug Application of Paclitaxel: Results & Discussion

05 Sep 2017

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The present research work is an attempt made to design and development of a new drug application for of Paclitaxel sustained release microspheres by using ionic Gelation and solvent evaporation methods is to achieve first order to improve bioavailability and reduce side effects of paclitaxel. For this purpose different polymers like HPMC K100, EUDRAGIT RS100, ETHYL CELLULOSE, and in combination were used. Based on the above ...

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Job Description: Operations Manager in Echocardiography Lab

05 Sep 2017

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Based on the week 1 final project paper, the position for this assignment is the Operations Manager for the Echocardiography Lab. Job descriptions identify the key tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a position. They detail what, why, where, and how responsibilities are done (Flynn, Mathis, Jackson, & Langan, 2006, p. 102). The general summary within a job description is a brief statement of general responsibilities and ...

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Literature Review: Access to Care for Addicts

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Hettema, J., & Sorensen, J. L. (2009). Access to Care for Methadone Maintenance patients in the United States. International Journal Mental Health Addiction. 7 (3) 468-474. DOI:10.1007/s11469-9204-6 This paper was presented to increase the awareness of individual with Opiates treatment programed Dependency are denied access to residential treatment. Although, Methadone Maintenance Therapy has been proven to reduce illicit drug use, improve psychosocial functioning, ability to ...

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Overview of Bones in the Human Body

15 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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The skull is the top of the skeleton and consists of the cranium and mandible. The cranial part of the skull is composed of separate bones united at immobile joints called sutures. These sutures are held by sutural ligaments. The skull is made of compact bone, covered with periosteum, and a layer of diploe. The mandible is connected to the cranium ...

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Crohn's Disease: Treatment, Causes and Symptoms

14 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Introduction   As part of this communications portfolio is to discuss, explore and compile a report on a topic of our choice. This report will be about Crohn's Disease. Terms of Reference In this report research was carried out on Crohn's Disease. This report will explore and explain what the: Definition of Crohn's Disease is. Types of Crohn's Disease. Causes of Crohn's Disease ...

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Factors Impacting on Cardiovascular Surgery

14 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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STUDY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES The goals of this study are to explore the different factors affecting cardiovascular surgery and the manufacture of cardiovascular devices, as well as to quantify the market for various segments of the cardiovascular device market. Cardiac surgery is increasing globally, with the contribution of macroeconomic factors such as aging populations, increasing rates of obesity, poor nutrition and other health stressors. In ...

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Study on Minority Status Stress and Psychological Distress

14 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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PAGE SUMMARY Recent findings show that some high-achieving individuals are unable to accept their success. These individuals have feelings of inadequacies that are pervasive and persist regardless of how successful they become. Impostor syndrome/feelings is the feeling of internalized chronic self-doubt and intellectual fraudulence that causes individuals to feel as though they are not successful or competent. Impostor syndrome/feelings were originally researched in White, middle ...

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Treatment of Rituximab in Pemphigus Vulgaris Patients

14 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Part 3: Clinical Research 2 INTRODUCTION Pemphigus is the name of a group of life-threatening blistering diseases of the skin and mucous membranes. The base of treatment for this disease is corticosteroids; however, recently, new drugs, such as rituximab, have been verified for more severe forms of it. In the author's previously unpublished study, the effect of rituximab on variation in the laboratory indices of ...

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Facilitating Change in Health and Social Care Management

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Summary There needs to be a summary of the major points, conclusions, and recommendations. It needs to be short as it is a general overview of the report. Some people will read the summary and only skim the report, so make sure you include all the relevant information. It would be best to write this last so you will include everything, even the points ...

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Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Drugs

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Characteristics and risk factors of Cardiovascular Drugs induced Adverse Drug Reactions: Hospital based Active Surveillance Study. Abstract: Background: Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) is one of the major drug-related problems in hospitalized patients. Several studies report the incidence various from 10 - 50% of all hospital admissions due to ADRs and no recent data available on the safety of cardiovascular drug from India. Aim: This study ...

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Insulin and Predicting Clinical Outcome

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A. To identify predicting clinical outcome: Predicting clinical outcome in patients with incessant hepatitis C is testing. We utilized the hepatitis C long-term treatment against cirrhosis trial database to create two models, utilizing pattern estimations of routinely accessible research facility tests together with changes in these qualities amid follow-up to foresee clinical decompensation and liver-related demise transplant in patients with cutting edge hepatitis ...

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Nursing Retention in South Africa

14 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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2nd Paper - Quantitative Research Title Mokoka,K.E., Ehlers, V.J. & Oosthuizen, M.J. (2011). Factors influencing the retention of registered nurses in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. Curationis, 34(1), 9. Retrieved from http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/curationis. v34i1.16 Introduction South African Nursing Council has predicted a critical nursing staff shortage within the country in the near future. This phenomena occurred as the number of nurse graduates has reduced ...

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Evaluation of Public Health Agenda in Community: Obesity

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Module Title: Promoting the Public Health of Populations in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Module Code: SHN3048 Critical evaluation of the current public health agenda in relation to a health need identified within a community profile.   The purpose of this assignment is to critically analyse the current public health agenda in relation to a health need identified through use of community profiling. This paper ...

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Proposal for Health Promotion Framework

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Topic: Alcohol The purpose is to propose a health promotion framework Background of the program: Alcohol is one of the topics covered by the health promotion agency. The health promotion agency runs programs like "no beersies", "say yeah, nah", "levy on alcohol" ,"don't know? don't drink".these programs have recognized the adverse effects on consumption of alcohol and therefore promote reduction or complete stoppage on its ...

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Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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Health Promotion is the process of motivating people and empowering communities to adapt lifestyle and behavioural changes to improve their health. This process involves various interventions to reach individuals, high-risk groups, communities, health sectors and law makers to engage in adapting behaviours relative to improved health and wellness. Disease Prevention concentrates on ways or strategies to lessen the risk of growing continual illnesses and other ...

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Responsibilities as a Student Radiographer in Patient Care

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Introduction Radiography is the fulcrum around which the rest of medicine revolves. Its significance in healthcare means thatin order for radiographers and student radiographers to deliver good service, they must take a number of precautions to ensure that the high standards in this profession are met. This assignment will emphasise key responsibilities of a student radiographer in respect to patient care. It will summarise and ...

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Geoffrey Keynes' Research on Cancer Treatment

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In God We Trust. All Others Must Have Data Radical surgery had undergone an astonishing boom in the 1950s and 1960s. William Halsted had become the patron saint of cancer surgery in the United States. But at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, a doctor named Geoffrey Keynes was not convinced. In August 1924, Keynes examined a patient with breast cancer. Rather than reaching indiscriminately for ...

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Severe Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia in Pregnancy

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Severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in pregnancy: Disparities in healthcare system between low and high income countries Introduction To create achievement in this modern era of society,reproductive health of women has an unlimited impacttowards national, international and global health concerns. Among them, severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia areglobal health problems which contribute towards increased postpartum psychosis,increasedlifelong hypertension and other health related issues which inflatesthe percentage towards 2-8% ...

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Health Disparities in African Americans

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Despite the continuous improvement and attention to the entire health of Americans, the African Americans are prone to more chronic health problem as compared to other races. The disparities are multi-variant and are contributed by numerous issues such as the social, economic status and the lifestyle behaviors. The heart and cancer disease are the major leading causes of death among the African Americans aged from ...

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Use of ICTs in Healthcare Delivery Systems

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Literature identifies the growing innovation and use of ICT devices within the healthcare delivery system. However, there is a lack of exploratory qualitative research to investigate into the perspectives and experiences of patients that use ICT devices/tools for home care. Therefore, this research project suggests the qualitative method to investigate into this phenomena. Keywords: ICT, healthcare, technology, innovation   NO CPT The use of "information ...

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Gender Variation of Health Awareness of Adolescents in India

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Evaluation of gender variation in health awareness of Adolescent age groups in rural India Introduction World Health Organization (WHO) defines adolescence as the period between 10 and 19 years of age. During this period, they have to face a lot of changes which may include physical, mental, emotional or psychological changes. Yet they are the once whose health is neglected the most, especially that of ...

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The High-Protein, Low-Carb Diet: An Analysis

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High-Protein, Low-Carb Counterattack Carbohydrate-restrictive or ketogenic diets that are rich in animal products can help some people to lose weight because they offer some short-term improvement in glucose control. But because these diets are too rich in animal products, they incur significant risks such as cancer, heart disease, and kidney disease. They are especially dangerous for diabetics because a meat-based diet increases the risks of ...

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Secondary Malignancies in Pediatric Population

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Secondary malignancies in pediatric population: a case series and literature review Introduction Advances in medical care therapies and early diagnosis has fulfilled the hope for normal life expectancy in many cancerous patients with a 5 year survival rate for at least 75% in childhood (1). Although expecting 70% long-term survive in children with diagnosed cancer, 60-70% of them will develop a consequential disability by the ...

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Interventions to Prevent Fall - Research Results

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Data Analysis and Findings Part 1 - Demographic Profile Table1. Age Distribution Age Range F % 26-30 3 30 31-35 3 30 36-40 1 10 41-45 0 ...

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Article Review of Health Disparities Research

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ARTICLE ONE (1) REVIEW Purpose This paper is a personal subjective review of the article "Perspective: Challenges to Using a Business Case for Addressing Health Disparities",[1] further referenced herein as 'the literature'. Definition Health disparity is defined as "the difference in health among different populations"[2] Discussion In our textbook, McKenzie and Pinger describe differential gaps between individuals as the cause for health disparities. To expand ...

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Handwashing Practices among Health Workers

11 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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BACKGROUND Hand washing or hand hygiene is the process of cleaning one's hands with or without the use of water or another liquid, or with the use of soap for the purpose of removing soil, dirt, and/or microorganisms. Handwashing involves five simple and effective steps; Wet, Lather, Scrub, Rinse and Dry. Regular handwashing, particularly before and after certain activities, is one of the best ways ...

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Management of Health and Social Care Financial Issues

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Explain how financial shortfalls can be managed. If a health and social care organisation faces financial shortfalls I could handle the situation by; Cash flow: In the effectiveness management of the cash flow process we can sell some assets that are not in use so that the organisation can get some cash in order to run the business. The organisation could also take ...

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Investigation of Sphincter Muscle Complex

11 Aug 2017 05 Sep 2017

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Abstract Background: The exact anus reconstruction is the critical in patients with imperforate anus which is related to the correct diagnosis of sphincter complex. Objectives: The aim of this study is exact investigation of the prineal region for ultrasound detection of place and pathway of sphincter muscle complex. Patients and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed at Mashhad medical university during 2016. Transperineal sonography was done in ten ...

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Effects of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes (APO)

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Specific Aims Adverse perinatal outcomes (APO) include infant's birth defects, maternal pregnant and obstetric complications. Birth defects, including major congenital malformation (MCM) and minor anomaly (MA), become the leading causes of infant morbidity, mortality, and years of potential life lost in the United States.1 Low birth weight (LBW), abnormal condition of new born (ACNB), preterm birth, and Developmental Delay or Disability (DDD) are also birth ...

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Brain Swelling in Pediatric Cerebral Malaria

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1.5T MRI to Investigate Potential Etiologies of Brain Swelling in Pediatric Cerebral Malaria Abbreviations: Red Blood Cell (RBC) Parts per billion (ppb) Cerebral malaria (CM) Blood brain barrier (BBB) Abstract Objective: Cerebral malaria (CM) remains a common cause of death in African children. The pathologic hallmark of pediatric CM is sequestration of parasitized red blood cells in the cerebral microvasculature. Recent Malawi-based research utilizing ...

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Intervention to Reduce Progression of Diabetes

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Developing an Intervention to Reduce Progression and the Development of Complications from Diabetes Mellitus in Adults in Glasgow. Introduction Type 2 diabetes is a serious medical condition that is increasingly prevalent in developed countries (International Diabetes Federation, 2013) and the most common variants of the condition are Types I and II. Type I patients have a deficiency in their pancreatic beta cells which leaves them ...

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Case Study: Knee Injury Treatment

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Short case summary: 25 years old, female injured her right knee during basketball game. PCP evaluated her, gave her non-steroidal anti-inflammatory with P.T referral. Patient came 2 days after injury, with knee swelling and locking. . Patient pain and mechanism of injury are consistent with a medial meniscus injury. Diagnostic test: McMurray's test, was Positive with palpable click. Reliability of McMurray's test: Evans ET. al1 ...

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Achieving Access to Healthcare for All Americans

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Introduction/Background Access to healthcare is one of the major issues facing Americans today. The United States is considered by many to be the greatest nation in the world with great wealth and opportunity for its citizens. However, despite many Americans having access to our advance healthcare system and technology, a significant percentage of our citizens face barriers that prevent them from obtaining basic healthcare services. ...

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Cause of the Difference between West and East Eating Habit

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The Cause of the Difference between West and East Eating Habit  1. Introduction Why people distinguish calling between Western and Eastern or Eastern and Western.  There are many reasons, maybe it is because that it is divided by ocean which people cannot easily cross.  In the other word, East countries and West countries were not easily connected until some point in the past. In that ...

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Helicobacter Pylori Treatment and Rosacea

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Running title: Helicobacter Pylori Treatment and Rosacea Parviz Saleh1, Mohammad Naghavi-Behzad2, Hamdieh Herizchi3, Fatemeh Mokhtari3, Mohammad Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari2 , Reza Piri4* 1- Chronic Kidney Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2- Students' Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 3-Department of dermatology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 4- Medical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical ...

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Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma

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Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma and its paraneoplastic manifestations: Review Abstract: Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma (FDCS) is a rare neoplasm arising from dendritic cells. The paraneoplastic phenomena are an underreported aspect of FDCS. Here we present a case report of FDCS presenting with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and have done a detailed review of all its paraneoplastic manifestations. Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma (FDCS) is a rare malignancy, which ...

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Association of Lipid Profile in Pregnancy with Pre-eclampsia

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Association of Lipid Profile in Pregnancy with Pre-eclampsia, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Preterm delivery Babita Ghodke*,1, Raghuram Puskuru2, Varshil Mehta3, Kunal Bhuta4 1Associate Professor, 2Senior Resident, 3Intern, 4Junior Resident Department of Medicine, MGM Medical College, Navi Mumbai, India. Abstract Introduction: During last two trimesters of pregnancy, glucose is spared (for the foetus) while the concentration of fatty acids in plasma increases which can create complications ...

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Planning a Health Promotion Campaign

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Planning a health promotion campaign Now that you have given the community health nurses enough information on health promotion, plan a health promotion campaign they can be implement in their local communities. Scenario 2 - Nutrition education in schools You want to introduce better nutrition education into all schools in your district, possibly followed by a more general Health Promoting Schools project. How will you ...

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Integrated Occupational Therapy Practice Case Study

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Introduction This report will focus on the occupational therapy (OT) process for Meera (Appendix A), a 56-year-old woman with a left cerebral vascular accident (CVA). Stroke is the death of brain cells due to the lack of oxygen (Bartels et al. 2016).It can either present as haemorrhagic or ischaemic in nature. Risk factors of CVA include hypertension and hypercholesterolemia which Meera has. Stroke may lead ...

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Theories of How Individuals Interact in Groups in HSC

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2.1 Write an assay explaining theories of how individuals interact in groups, particularly applying them to teams that work in your Health and Social Care setting. The relationship between classical Grounded Theory (Glaser, 1978; Glaser & Strauss, 1967) and the interpretive tradition of Symbolic Interactionism is strong and historical. Although this relationship has been discussed in previous publications as a "given" limited literature has explained ...

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Management of Mandibular Condylar Fractures (MCF)

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Summary This paper reviews the literature of evidence based studies and textbooks on the management of mandibular condylar fractures (MCF). It also provides a brief outline of the signs and symptoms as well as the classification system of MCF. Optimal management of MCF is a controversial topic and there is also no consensus on its associated classification system. Overview The mandibular condyle is an articular ...

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Relationship Between Health Status and Systemic Inflammation

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Participants The Tianjin Chronic Low-grade Systemic Inflammation and Health (TCLSIH or TCLSIHealth) cohort study is a observational study was based on annual health examinations conducted in Tianjin Medical University General Hospital Health Management Center in Tianjin, China[13, 14], and focused on the relationship between chronic low-grade systemic inflammation and the health status. Participants, who had received health examinations, including medical examinations, such as blood tests, ...

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Prevention of Gastrointestinal Cancer - Dietary Changes

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Discuss how dietary modification represents a platform for the prevention of gastrointestinal cancer Abstract Gastric cancer provides a good alternative to show the association of pathogenesis in the gastrointestinal tract and dietary modification. High salt intake and n-nitroso compounds have been identified in having a very strong relationship in the promotion of gastric cancer. The synergy between Helicobacter pylori and these dietary modifications elevates the ...

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High-Dose Chemotherapies (HDC) and STAMP as Cancer Treatment

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STAMP Since the 1960s, high-dose chemotherapies (HDC) had been successful in curing acute leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, but not that successful in curing solid tumors such as lung cancer and breast cancer. Chemotherapists were now wondering whether by increasing the power of the dosage, they could make HDC effective for treating solid cancer. But for most chemotherapy drugs, the dose limit depended on the bone ...

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Introduction to the Id and the Superego

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  The topic of discussion today was Understanding Our Own Defences. Since the lesson, I have been researching this subject and learned that it was Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) who first began to write about the mechanisms our brain uses to stop us from feeling anxiety, guilt or hurt. Freud believed that our psyche, which is not our physical brain, more our personality and ...

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Leadership Competencies: Garbage Can Model

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There are two major decision making models. The garbage can decision making model is reality based, and intended to extend the understanding of organizational decision making by accentuating a time-based context (the situation at one point in time) and accepting chaos as reality. This is typical decision making in the emergency room of a hospital; the expertise of the medical team is vital. Rational (willful ...

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Importance of Personal Hygiene in a Pharmacy Workplace

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Maintaining a comfortable environment in which all employees can work in is an importantpoor hygiene from employees can affect the overall performance of a team or impact on their colleagues and other people, particularly patients, with whom an individual comes in to contact. Keeping clean is essential for good health; poor hygiene can cause skin complaints, unpleasant smells and bacterial or parasitic infections; poor dental care ...

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Can Calcium Help with Weight Loss and Maintenance?

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As we all know, calcium plays an important role in the protection and production of the body's teeth and bones. An important question, we as nutritionists are wondering is, can calcium help with weight maintenance, weight loss, and obesity? We looked at several studies based on this question. The first study looked at the effects of weight, loss of a high-calcium energy, reduced diet on ...

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Role of Medicinal Plants for Health

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General The use of natural products with therapeutic properties is as ancient as human civilization. For a very long time, mineral, plant and animal products were the main sources of drugs [1].The use of complementary medicine to alleviate and improve health conditions is increasing in developed countries [2]. New medicinal plants from different parts of the world are being investigated with this purpose in ...

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Socio-economic Influences on Health

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Scenario You are employed by the Public Health England as an assistant to the regional Public health officer in UK. Your manager has asked you to produce a report on why the life expectancy of individuals in the Midlands is lower than the London. Your report should cover AC 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 (Evidence type-Report) AC 1.1 Explain the effects of socio-economic influences on health. ...

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Impact of Canine Intervention on Rabies

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Problem Rabies-is a fatal viral disease that causes inflammation of the nervous system, caught from bites or scratches of rabid animals, most commonly domestic-dogs (>95%).[1] Immediate treatment of infected humans with four doses post-exposure prophylaxis decreases chance of developing severe infection, but this is often prevented by availability and awareness of treatment in low-income settings. Canine-vaccination provides broader benefits for disease-control reducing cases in dogs, ...

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Septic Shock: Acute Generalised Exanthematous Pustulosis

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An illusion of Septic Shock: Acute Generalised Exanthematous Pustulosis with Multi organ Dysfunction Acute Generalised Exanthematous Pustulosis (AGEP) is a rare cutaneous eruption, most often caused by commonly used antibiotics. It is characterized by an acute onset of non-follicular sterile pustular rash and erythema within hours or days of drug exposure and usually resolves spontaneously within 1-2 ...

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MALDI-TOF Advantages and Disadvantages

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Abstract Rapid diagnosis of microbial pathogens or infections in clinical laboratories is decisive to guarantee accurate therapy and efficient patient care. Although the conventional method, which is mostly based on biochemical testings and long incubation procedures, are precise and sensitive; they are rather slow. Until recently, matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) has emerged as a powerful technique for identification of microorganisms in clinical microbiology. ...

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Practices of Lifestyle Modification Regarding T2DM

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Chapter 5 - Discussion, Recommendation & Conclusion 5.1 Introduction Most studies on the KAP on diabetes both in developing and developed countries targeted patients with diabetes. (Ben Abdelaziz, Thabet, Soltane, Gaha K, Gaha R, et al., 2007). Unlike these, this study targeted the general population. Therefore adequate comparative data is lacking for the study and the discussion is based on knowledge, attitudes and practices of ...

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Nonsurgical Endodontic Management Case Study

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Introduction The main aim of any endodontic treatment is to thoroughly debride and disinfect the root canal system followed by the contouring of root canal walls and apical tip, for the purpose of sealing the root canal completely with a condensed, inert filling material. Failure to acknowledge the presence of an additional root canal during an endodontic treatment is amongst the major causes of an ...

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Management of Childhood Psoriasis with Acitretin

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Abstract: Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin which can occur at any age-group. Psoriasis in childhood is not uncommon and has genetic susceptibility but usually an environmental trigger such as infection is thought to initiate the disease process. Childhood psoriasis has profound effects on both physical and psychosocial health of the patient. Treatment of mild psoriasis can be done with topical therapies ...

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Ethics of Freezing and Buying Eggs

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$15,000 baby is a very interesting case to consider for me, I have a lot of personal feelings on this and I am going to try and set aside some of them in order to have a fresh perspective, I do however, see myself being very bias on this topic to begin with so I apologize ahead of time and also you may learn some ...

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Automatic Quantification of the Myocardial Extracellular

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Automatic Quantification of the Myocardial Extracellular Volume by Cardiac Computed Tomography: Synthetic ECV by CCT Thomas A Treibel, MBBS1,2, Marianna Fontana, PhD,1,2, Jennifer A Steeden PhD2,3, Arthur Nasis, MD1, Jason Yeung, MBBS4, Steven K White, BSc, MBChB1,2, Sri Sivarajan4, Shonit Punwani, PhD4, Francesca Pugliese, PhD1, Stuart A Taylor, MD4, James C Moon, MD1,2, Steve Bandula, PhD4 1Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK. 2Institute of ...

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Impact of Current Lifestyle Choice on Healthcare Services

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2.3 Impact of current lifestyle choices on future needs for health and social care services According to the medical dictionary, Lifestyle is defined as ''The constellation of habitual activities unique to a person, which lend consistency to activities, behaviour, manners of coping, motivation, and thought processes, and defines the way in which he/she lives; lifestyle activities include diet, level of physical activity, substance abuse, ...

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Analysis of the Use of Clinical Audits in Healthcare

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Introduction The quality of health care system is important to patients and the Government. High level of quality patient care is the ultimate aim in current health care practices. Service providers wish to deliver quality health care. Patients are the appropriate authority to determine whether the experience of health care is good. Effectiveness of care pertains to treatment and support and helps us to judge ...

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Managing Human Resources in Health and Social Care

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4.1 Explanation of theories of leadership that apply to the Health and Social Care workplace. There are four key theories of leadership that have recently replaced the traditional hierarchical-based leadership seen within the NHS. These four key domains of leadership are relational, personal, contextual and technical all of which can be applied to the nursing home setting. Relational leadership promotes organisational and individual change, ...

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Impact of Health and Safety Practices in Healthcare Work

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Introduction The cases study focuses on the failings in a private hospital due to the non-compliance of health and safety that led to the death of one staff and seriously injuring another. These failings have led to negative impacts on the employees who were affected, the family members and friends of those who affected and the organisation who failed to comply with the health and ...

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Case Study on Adolescent Depression

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This case study concerns a teenage service user whom we shall refer to using a pseudo name, Katie, to maintain confidentiality in line with the Nursing & Midwifery Council Code of Conduct (NMC, 2015). Katie suffers from a comorbidity of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) and depression, and the focus of case study is on thedepression component. Managing and treating depression has proved to be sometimes ...

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Effects of Nutribullet Processing on Glycemic Response

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The major results from the present study show that processing a variety of fruits with the Nutribullet has had beneficial effects on the postprandial glycemic response in healthy subjects. We observed that after the ingestion of the Nutribullet mixed fruit treatment, on average the subject's maximum glycemic increment was only 0.4mmol/L, in comparison to the maximum increment of 1.3mmol/L after the ingestion of whole mixed ...

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Endodontic Surgery (Apicoectomy)

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In this modern times patient increasingly wish to preserve their natural dentition and often reluctant to get there teeth extracted . Endodontic surgery (apicoectomy) is the treatment performed on the root apices of an infected tooth, and its resection and removal of pathological tissues around the apices followed by placement of a filling (retrofilling) to seal the root end. Endodontic surgery offers patient a second ...

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VarPhen: Web Based Tool for Genotype-phenotype Association

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Elsayed Hegazy1, Mahmoud Elhefnawi1, 2 1Nile University, Giza, 12588, Egypt. 2National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt. Abstract Personalized medicine and the highly attention of next generation sequencing increase the demand of turning the genotype data into meaningful phenotype data. VarPhen is a web based tool used to do such thing. It's written in C# code it's based on using RefSeq SNPs ID as a genotype ...

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Radiographic Quality of Root Canal Treatments

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Title: Radiographic quality of root canal treatments performed by undergraduate dental students Authors: Masoud Saatchi1, Golshan Mohammadi2, Armita Vali Sichani3 Dental Research Center, Department of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Isfahan, Iran. School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Isfahan, Iran. Department of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Isfahan, Iran. Summary: The ...

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Disadvantaged Health Status of Indigenous People

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Why are indigenous people in Australia still disadvantaged with regard to health and community services? "The status of Indigenous health in contemporary Australia is a result of historic factors as well as contemporary socio-economic issues" (Hampton & Toombs, 2013, p. 1). The deficient health stature of Indigenous Australians is a contemporary consequence of their historical treatment as Australia's traditional owners and as of a ...

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Preventing Vomiting in Children Undergoing Tonsillectomy

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Efficacy of Preoperative Administration of Metoclopramide and Dexamethasone in Preventing Vomiting in Children Undergoing Tonsillectomy Shatha Abutineh Ph., Ola Samawi Ph., Lana Mattar Ph., Dr. Osama Al-Elwan, Dr. Basem Al-Kousheh Abstract Objective: To carry out a comparative study between metoclopramide and dexamethasone to find out its effect by the way of preoperative administration on the rate of postoperative emesis in children who undergoing tonsillectomy. Patients ...

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Management of Melanoma Brain Metastases (MBM)

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Abstract: Melanoma is the third most common cause of brain metastases, after lung and breast cancer. Common clinical manifestations include headache, neurologic deficits, cognitive impairment and seizures. The management of melanoma brain metastases (MBM) can be broadly divided into symptom control and therapeutic strategies. Supportive treatment includes corticosteroids to reduce peritumoral edema, antiepileptics for seizure control and medications to preserve cognitive function. Until recently the ...

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