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CT scanning: patterns of use and dose
CT scanning is a relatively high-dose procedure. In spite of the use of magnetic resonance imaging, with faster CT scanners and helical techniques CT is becoming more common. Th...
Simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System
Objectives To validate a simplified version of the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System, the TISS-28, and to determine the association of TISS-28 with the time spent on score...
The Factor Structure and Factor Stability of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in Patients with Cancer
An exploratory factor analysis of the HAD was carried out in 568 cancer patients. Two distinct, but correlated, factors emerged which corresponded to the questionnaire's anxiety...
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 ...
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...