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Myocardial tissue embolism due to gunshot wound is a very rare event, as only a few cases of myocardial tissue embolization, occurring after cardiac surgery or myocardial infarction, have been reported. According to this study's referenced report from forensic autopsy, one case of myocardial tissue emboli to the lung h…

Stakeholders from healthy corner store programs in the San Francisco Bay Area convened in November 2015 to discuss the future of programmatic and collaborative efforts. This study's objective, to gather and synthesize the types of evaluation tools used in the 9-county region, was identified as one of several priorities…

AIM: This study's aim was to determine the prevalence of health literacy education in nursing programs. Health literacy content and teaching strategies were also explored. BACKGROUND: Over 75 million Americans have low health literacy, a problem that can cause negative health outcomes. Knowledge about health literacy…

A larger distribution of left-handedness in the population of Autism Spectrum Disorder has been repeatedly reported. Despite of this, the sample sizes in the individual study's are too small for any generalization to be made. Using both description-based and citation-based searches, the present review combines the indi…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Intrapartum (IP) nurses make decisions driven by beliefs. This study's purpose was to develop an instrument measuring birth beliefs of the IP nurse related to birth practice. METHODS: The theory of planned behavior guided the development process, providing a connection between beliefs and pract…

The study's aim was to construct and validate a diabetes mellitus knowledge questionnaire in Bahasa Malaysia for Orang Asli (OA-DKQ). The questionnaire was administered to; case (Orang Asli) and control (administrative staff) groups at baseline and retested two weeks later. The Cronbach's Alpha was used to determine in…

When consumers select new doctors, they often have limited information beyond their own prior experience and the recommendations of family and friends. Physicians, when making referrals to specialists, can also find themselves armed with inadequate data. With more people turning to the Internet as a source of health ca…

New guidelines recommend different influenza vaccination timing for different subpopulations due to the limited availability of flu shots (FS). This study's objectives are to develop a theoretical model to demonstrate why some individuals choose to receive an early FS while others choose a late FS and to empirically ex…

Standardized testing has shown that juvenile delinquents have a high incidence of communication problems; however, discourse analyses have failed to confirm pragmatic deficits. This study's purpose was to explore, using qualitative procedures, the pragmatic awareness of female juvenile delinquents concerning conversati…

When used with more orthodox survey or interview techniques, surrogate measures can enhance a study's credibility. Presented is a case report which illustrates the viability of using a surrogate measure to cross-validate self-reports of alcohol consumption by members of a fraternity at a large Midwestern university. As…

The Pain Disability Index (PDI) was developed as a self-report measure of general and domain-specific, pain-related disability. This study's purpose was twofold: (1) to assess construct validity of the scale relative to other measures of pain-related disability and psychologic distress and (2) to assess the strength of…

A search of the literature revealed a dearth of research on hospital ward-based practitioners' opinions/perceptions towards nursing models. This is surprising considering that such frameworks are being introduced into patient care settings on an international basis. As part of a larger investigation pertaining to model…

Delusional visitors to the White House or other government offices (often seeking a personal audience with the President) are interviewed by the Secret Service and then sent to Saint Elizabeths Hospital if they are considered mentally ill and potentially dangerous to themselves or others. A review of the demographic ch…

Eighty-one outpatients with diagnosed multiple sclerosis were studied in an effort to examine the relative contributions of physical health status, life stress, duration of illness, age, sex, marital status, and social class on various aspects of personal and interpersonal functioning. Stepwise multiple regression anal…

From the data collected during this 4-month investigation of 37 skilled nursing facility (SNF) patients, one may conclude that using automatic stop-order policies for PRN medications is effective in controlling and eliminating unnecessary medications that are not being used by nursing home patients. PRN medications wer…

This study assessed whether multimodal pain modalities are effective at decreasing narcotic utilization following ankle fracture surgery. A retrospective chart review of opioid-naive patients aged 18 - 65 undergoing ankle fracture surgery was performed. Patients were prescribed a multimodal pain regimen of acetaminophe…

BACKGROUND: Technology is revolutionizing healthcare, making it more connected, efficient, and patient-centric. Smart healthcare tools like wearables and mobile health applications empower individuals to manage their health proactively. By leveraging these technologies, individuals can monitor chronic conditions like h…

PURPOSE: Based on a potential shared pathophysiology tied to mast cell activity and neurogenic inflammation that may link pruritus and chronic cough (CC), this study, leveraging thedatabase, examines the association between the two conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A nested case-control comparison was used to examine…

This secondary analysis used data collected for the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging from 2006 to 2018 to examine changes in life satisfaction among middle-aged adults living alone in South Korea. Individuals who were over 45 years of age, lived alone at the time of the first data collection wave, and responded at le…

Studies on pedestrian deaths and injuries at the urban level in Africa mostly provide overall aggregated figures and do not examine variation in the sub-urban units. Using cluster analysis, this study sought to determine if the observed pattern in the distribution of pedestrian injuries and deaths among parishes in Kam…