Maternal Attachment
Abstract To determine whether present hospital practices may affect later maternal behavior, we placed 28 primiparous women in two study groups shortly after delivery of normal ...
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Mental illness in general health care : an international study
Partial table of contents: The Background and Rationale of the WHO Collaborative Sudy on 'Psychological Problems in General Health Care' (T. ?st?n & N. Sartiorius). Methods of t...
Wheezing, asthma, and pulmonary dysfunction 10 years after infection with respiratory syncytial virus in infancy.
Of the 180 children admitted to hospitals in Tyneside in the first year of life with proved respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract infection, 130 were seen for revi...
Implementation of a bundle of quality indicators for the early management of severe sepsis and septic shock is associated with decreased mortality*
Implementation of a severe sepsis bundle using a quality improvement feedback to modify physician behavior in the emergency department setting was feasible and was associated wi...
Clinical Features and Short-term Outcomes of 102 Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China
Abstract Background In December 2019, a series of pneumonia cases of unknown cause emerged in Wuhan, Hubei, China. In this study, we investigate the clinical and laboratory feat...
Gender-Related Differences in Acute Aortic Dissection
Background— Few data exist on gender-related differences in clinical presentation, diagnostic findings, management, and outcomes in acute aortic dissection (AAD). Methods and Re...
Consistency of the burnout construct across occupations
Abstract This study assessed the extent to which a recently developed measure of burnout extended the concept of burnout as developed among human service providers to people in ...
Prosthetic valve endocarditis.
Fifty-three (3.6%; actuarially 4.1% at 48 months) of 1465 consecutive in-hospital survivors of valve replacement from 1975 to July 1979 (aortic, mitral, or aortic and mitral, on...
The Importance of Co-existent Disease in the Occurrence of Postoperative Complications and One-Year Recovery in Patients Undergoing Total Hip Replacement
Co-existent or comorbid diseases are appreciated as prognostic factors in studies of quality and effectiveness of care when mortality is the end point. The need to measure and a...
Snoring as a risk factor for ischaemic heart disease and stroke in men.
The association of snoring with ischaemic heart disease and stroke was studied prospectively in 4388 men aged 40-69. The men were asked, in a questionnaire sent to them, whether...
Comorbidities, complications, and coding bias. Does the number of diagnosis codes matter in predicting in-hospital mortality?
Bias against coding of chronic or comorbid conditions on the computerized discharge abstracts of patients who die best explains these results. Efforts to improve diagnosis codin...