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In-hospital Factors Associated with Supplementation among Healthy, Full-term, Breastfed Infants
… efforts. The identification of modifiable risk factors for supplementation and effective nursing care for successful breastfeeding is understudied.</p> <p>Purpose: This study aimed to better understand the obstetrical, hospital, and nursing factors associated with supplementation during the …
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Unlocking Stroke Susceptibility: A Pilot Retrospective Analysis of In-Hospital Factors and Length of Stay in Adult Patients
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background: In-hospital strokes (IHSs) represent 2% to 17% of strokes in non-stroke admissions. Hospital length of stay (LOS) for patients with an IHS adds another layer of concern. Research has yet to fully address the variations in hospital LOS associated with these occurrences …
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Use of Troponin Testing after Non-cardiac Surgery
… (2) determine the patient-, surgical-, and hospital-factors associated with post-operative troponin testing; and (3) evaluate whether high-intensity troponin testing practices at the hospital-level were associated with fewer adverse outcomes after major non-cardiac surgery. In Chapter 2, I …
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Determinants of Nonrecovery Following Hip Fracture in Older Adults: a Chronic Disease Trajectory Analysis
… characteristics, prefracture health status, hospital factors, rehabilitation features, and functional outcomes. The analysis consisted of a two-step hierarchical logistic regression model with the control variables of age, prefracture ambulation status, and prefracture cognitive status …
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Patterns of mortality in children presenting to a tertiary paediatric emergency unit in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cross sectional study
Background Pneumonia, diarrhoea and perinatal factors are the foremost killers of South African children as in other low- and middle-income countries. Poverty, poor access to care and pre-hospital care are reported major pre-hospital factors and lack of triage, poor skills, delays, poor adherence …
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Effectiveness of surgical versus conservative treatment for distal femoral growth plate fractures: a systematic review
… deformity. Secondary outcomes included patient factors such as knee range of motion, treatment factors such as loss of position of the fracture and hospital factors such as length of inpatient stay. A three-step search strategy for PubMed, Embase and Scopus databases was utilized to identify …