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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"acute conditions"”.
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Management of patients on chemotherapeutic treatment for advanced cancer with acute conditions in the Emergency Department
… treatment for advanced cancer presenting with acute conditions?” The research objectives were to explore the factors that influence clinical decision-making and nursing care provision to this group of patients. A qualitative, exploratory study was undertaken. A voluntary, purposive sample of 5 …
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Microfluidic and electronic detection of protein biomarkers
… take days to deliver results. However, to manage acute conditions such as sepsis, rapid results are desired to ensure timely diagnosis and treatment. In contrast, point-of-care testing has shown great promise for rapid results through the use of miniaturized and inexpensive devices in …
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The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Race on Functional Limitations and Self-Reported Health in Old Age
… to suffer from non-life threatening chronic conditions and men more likely to suffer from acute conditions. Health pathways, or the processes to good or poor health, are shaped by race, SES, and sex. This study focuses on the race and SES literature, framing race and SES inequalities within a …
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O efeito antioxidante da quercetina em doenças crônicas não transmissíveis : uma revisão de literatura.
… envisioned, seeking greater attention to chronic conditions of morbidities when compared to acute conditions. This of NCDs consists in cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, liver and kidney damage, among others. They are from multifactorial etiology …
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Developing an evidenced based undergraduate otolaryngology curriculum
… management for both common and life threatening acute conditions and be able to take an appropriate history and perform an appropriate examination for the majority of otolaryngology clinical conditions but manage only a select few. The survey indicated that the region in which a doctor works does …
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Home-Based Rehabilitation and its Impact on Hospital Utilization
… from hospital inpatient units, assessed as non-acute for clinical and service needs and required more home making support and assistance with activities of daily living. Almost one quarter of the total sample returned to hospital. Visits to emergency departments accounted for the greater part of …
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Self-Reported Antenatal Medicines Use Among Women Living with and Without HIV in Western Cape, South Africa: A Sub-Analysis of the B Positive Cohort Study
… women may be taking medication for chronic or acute conditions before they recognize that they are pregnant. This study compared the self-reported pattern of medicine use during the course of pregnancy in a cohort of pregnant women either living with or without HIV; seeking care at Gugulethu …
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Territories of scarcity and creativity: a critical view of informal settlements and emerging tactics under conditions of scarcity in Nairobi, Kenya and Quito, Ecuador
… is constructed in informal settlements and how conditions emerging within its limits gives way to particular socio-spatial phenomena and influence the emergence of self-organisation and creative strategies from a non-expert perspective. At the same time, this thesis deconstructs these emerging …
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The effect of alcohol intoxication on haemodynamic physiology of acute cardiac tamponade
… to Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Unit with acute cardiac tamponade due to penetrating chest injury, those who were intoxicated fared the same as their sober counterparts. Although more patients in the intoxicated group were "moribund" or "in extremis" on admission, this did not lead to a …
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An exploratory study of the use of complementary and alternative medicine for osteoarthritis
… setting. Results: (1) Most commonly encountered conditions were chronic diseases. Medical and non-medical acupuncturists practised very different forms of acupuncture particularly in terms of diagnostic techniques used and theoretical underpinning. Homeopathic practitioners used individualised …
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Respiratory diseases, as affecting the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces serving in France and United Kingdom: an analysis of the histories of 2433 men boarded as unfit for further service, June 1916 to December 1918
… a large number. #5.The improvement under changed conditions was rapid,and to avoid the stigma of Tubercle, the class of Chronic Pulmonary Disease Indeterminate was instituted.Men with the lesser apical changes were included in this class. #6.Comparison of histories as provided in Board Papers …