Global ETD Search
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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"treatment delays"”.
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Improving outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease using national registers and platelet function testing
… exposures and their outcomes (clopidogrel pre-treatment, 5 different anti-platelet protocols, ticagrelor pre-treatment and treatment delays to PCI). Two papers involved evaluation of interventions: platelet function testing in patients with clopidogrel and clinical evaluation of bivalirudin …
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Low Temperature Induced Signaling and Molecular Responses in Tomato
… cDNA sequence (named dcr) was cloned. Chilling treatment delays the endogenous rhythm of dcr transcripts and that may also associate with interfering specific protein phosphorylation states.
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Factors Influencing Quality of Emergency Department Nurse Shift Handover
… with adverse outcomes such as incorrect treatment, delays in diagnosis, increased length of stay, and both nurse and patient dissatisfaction. Despite an increase in the amount of handover related literature, little is known about factors that influence quality of nurse-to-nurse shift …
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Factors Influencing the Decision and Ability to Seek Health Services Among HIV/AIDS Patients in Tanzania
<p>Understanding the barriers to treatment for individuals with HIV/AIDS in developing countries could have a major impact on their ability to seek healthcare services. The purpose of this study is to quantitatively analyze the effect of daily activities and structural factors, which act as …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… manner, identify contributing factors in sepsis treatment delays, and ensure that the sepsis process map is reflective of the hospital policy.</p> <p> The Clinical Nurse Leader students under the direction of the Sepsis Committee Director developed a Sepsis Screening Observation Checklist to …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… nursing knowledge regarding sepsis criteria, treatment, and hospital protocol. A root cause analysis was used to identify any discrepancies in compliance with completing the sepsis screening in a timely manner, expose contributing factors in sepsis treatment delays, and ensure the sepsis …
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Exploring the complex relationships between pre-existing conditions (comorbidities) and cancer treatments and outcomes
… conditions (comorbidities) and cancer treatments and outcomes, including survival, mortality, quality of life, resource use and costs. Methods: Systematic reviews synthesised evidence from high-income countries for associations between comorbidity and differences in gastric, …
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The host response to cancer and cancer-associated cachexia
… and the consequent poor tolerance/response to treatment, cachexia is a major global public health burden. In the first chapter of my thesis, I analyse the usage of ketogenic diets (KD) containing high levels of fats as adjuvant therapies in end-stages of cancer that are associated with …
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Estradiol exerts activational and organizational control over the expression of daily and circadian activity rhythms in mice
… across the dark phase compared to control treatment, delays the time of peak activity (acrophase), reduces the phase angle of activity onset, and dampens the behavioral response elicited by a pulse of light administered in the early subjective night, though these effects are mediated by …
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Potential of metabolic MRI to address unmet clinical needs in localised renal cancer.
… This has implications for management, causing treatment delays in case of malignancy, or overtreatment in of benign renal masses. Also, early-stage renal cancer has excellent survival, but this drops rapidly in later stages. In Chapter 1 I review the current clinical guidelines, identify the …