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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"black patients"”.
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Tetraplegia : the psychosocial problems encountered by black patients once discharged from the hospital
… explore the psychosocial problems encountered by Black patients with tetralpegia once discharged from the hospital. Phenomenology as a research strategy was used with the aim of understanding the worldview of patients. The medical aspects of spinal cord injury were discussed, firstly with emphasis …
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Decisional Needs of African, Caribbean, and Black Patients Diagnosed with Brain-Heart Conditions
… groups, including African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) populations, face barriers to equitable brain-heart healthcare. These barriers contribute to unmet decisional needs and challenges in making informed health decisions. For my master's thesis, I aimed to investigate the decisional needs …
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Mutational analysis of the DNA mismatch repair genes, hMLH1 and hMSH2, in South African colorectal cancer patients
… cancer. In South Africa, the incidence of CRC in black patients is approximately ten fold lower than that of white South African patients. The majority of black South African CRC patients presents with tumours without macroscopic polyps. Recently five genes involved in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) …
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Relating Racial Disparities to Financial Concerns and Shared Decision Making in Opioid Prescriptions
… have previously provided evidence that Black patients receive, ceteris paribus, fewer opioid prescriptions than White patients in American hospitals, this work adds three components of analysis. First, this work adds opioid analysis for Asian and Hispanic patients, which has not been …
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Cultural variations in the presentation of depression in female patients at Valkenberg Hospital
… of depression across race groups in female patients at Valkenberg Hospital in the Western Cape. The narratives of patients' presenting complaints were obtained from the history taking notes in 46 hospital files, comprised of three sets of 15 files belonging to Black, White and Coloured …
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The Association of Socioeconomic Status with Mortality and Hospital Length of Stay in Patients with Parapneumonic Empyema
… empyema cohort was 66 years. Majority of empyema patients were age 65 or older (56%), white (75%), and insured by Medicare (61%). The poorest income quartile had the largest share of population (31%). The standardized age-specific prevalence of empyema in the NIS was 44 per 100,000 …
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Movement Before the Movement: Black Hospitals in Kansas City, 1890-1940
In the 1890s, Black physicians from the South began to move West due to westward expansion and Black population growth. The Black population in the Greater Kansas City Area expanded, creating the need for Black physicians and medical facilities. Segregation prevented Black physicians from treating …
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Inflammatory Proteins, Genetic Variation, and Environmental Influences on Health Care Associated Infection Development in Sepsis
… care associated infections (HAI) among sepsis patients during their ICU stay (up to 28 days).</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>A prospective observation study was conducted at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Medical Intensive Care Unit over an 18 month period. A total of 78 patients …
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The Survival of Traditional Healing in a Contemporary Black Community
… Ethnomedicine's resonance with a perceived black world view may derive additional elements of its appeal. The logic of the cohort's allegiance to ethnomedicine challenges the depiction of ethnomedical believers as misguided or unsophisticated. Indeed, characteristics of ethnomedicine and of …
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Identification of factors associated with and preventative strategies in diabetic nephropathy
… of death in both groups, with female diabetic patients having an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease in comparison to male diabetic and female non-diabetic people. Diabetic nephropathy accounted for 4% of deaths in diabetic people. From 220 patients referred for nephrological …
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Aspects of culture in South African psychiatry
… relationship. Ward-rounds in a facility treating Black psychiatric patients were observed over fifteen months. Black and white clinicians in these rounds were often in conflict over constructions of the concept of culture. Some appeared deeply ambivalent about cultural relativism. Psychiatric …
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Racial/Ethnic and Rural Differences in Alcohol Use, Care, and Related Outcomes among VA Patients Living with HIV
… relative to lower-risk drinkers. White patients have increased mortality risk relative to black patients at higher-risk levels of drinking, and black patients have increased mortality risk relative to white patients at lower-levels of drinking. In Aim 2, we found that patterns of alcohol …
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Factors affecting a decision on cadaveric organ donation in Black African families
Black Africans continue to be the group with low consent for cadaveric organ donation However, the number of African Black patients with organ malfunctioning or failure continues to rise. Feelings associated with death and the novelty of the concept of organ donation to Blacks hinder the process of …
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Quantifying racial disparities in end-of-life care
… can lead to suboptimal options and outcomes for patients and their families. Previous work has suggested that medical disparities can reflect higher rates of mistrust for the healthcare system among black patients. When the doctor-patient relationship lacks trust, patients may believe that …
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Disparities in Admission and Pediatric Emergency Outcomes by Race, Ethnicity, and Language.
… 31, 2019, at a freestanding pediatric ED of patients 0-21 years. Patients’ race, ethnicity, and language preference were self-reported and the main outcomes were admission to the hospital, LOS, wait times, and unexpected return ED visits. Generalized estimating equations (GEE) and Cox …
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Differences in Pediatric Unintentional Injury Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity
… of pediatric unintentional injury between patients of White, Black, and Hispanic race/ethnicity. By adjusting for age, sex, insurance status, and severity of injury, we aim to assess whether minority race/ethnicity is a predictor of poor outcomes. The primary outcome is mortality; secondary …
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Selected Nursing Interventions for noncompliant hypertensive patients
… and blood pressure of noncompliant hypertensive black patients. The dependent variables were medication compliance and diastolic blood pressure, while the independent variable was the combination of selected nursing interventions. The study was an experimental pretest-posttest control design with …
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“Of unsound mind”: a history of three Eastern Cape mental institutions, 1875-1910
… for the exclusion, regulation and control of black mental patients were expanded in these Eastern Cape institutions. The major legacy in the treatment of mental illness in the Eastern Cape was the establishment of a system of control for black patients that was to inform future policy …
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Risk Factors Associated with the Outcome of Hypertension Among Afro-Caribbean Ethnic Groups in the United Kingdom: A Systematic Review
… Hypertension prevalence among individuals of Black African or Black Caribbean heritage in the UK is markedly higher than that of the general population. Despite advancements in blood pressure management, racial and ethnic minorities continue to face significant differences in hypertension …
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Coping is Complicated: Examining the Roles of Coping Strategies and Pain Self-Efficacy for Black Veterans with Chronic Pain
Black patients with chronic pain routinely receive insufficient pain management, which contributes to myriad worse outcomes. This inadequate care stems from various factors, including systemic marginalization, provider bias, and patient-level factors. The present study focused on two patient …
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