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This study's aim was to define the clinical manifestations and long-term outcome of pediatric patients living at altitude with isolated pulmonary artery (PA) of ductal origin (IPADO). This was a retrospective cohort study of 17 consecutive cases of IPADO at a single center. All patients lived at modest altitude (median…

This study aimed to evaluate whether subjective assessments of unmet need may complement conventional methods of measuring socioeconomic inequity in health care utilization. This study draws on the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey to develop a conceptual framework for understanding how unmet need arises, to empiri…

STUDY OBJECTIVES: The odds of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are significantly improved by the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but many cardiac arrest victims do not receive it. The existing literature remains equivocal as to why people are unwilling to perform traditional CPR.…

BACKGROUND: Ischemic time is a major determinant of infarct size in ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Emphasis is placed on reducing the door-to-reperfusion therapy time component, whereas the symptom-to-door time is often overlooked. OBJECTIVES: To correlate the symptom-to-door time with left ventri…

OBJECTIVE: To measure the prevalence and determinants of blood-borne virus (BBV) transmission in ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users (IDUs). METHODS: The study was conducted in Melbourne, Australia, in 2003. It was a cross-sectional design with participants recruited from street-based illicit drug markets predomina…

OBJECT: This retrospective study was designed to determine whether side of approach during instrumented, one- or two-level primary anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) affects the incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury diagnosed by observation of the vocal cords (OVC). METHODS: Records of all pa…

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and health beliefs on their behavior and their actual usage of safety measures while handling cytotoxic drugs in their daily work surroundings. The Health Belief Model (HBM) and its extensive form, the Protection Motivation Theo…

The Women Helping to Empower and Enhance Lives (WHEEL) Project focused on female sexual partners of injection drug users (i.d.u.s). It was conducted in five sites, three within and two outside the continental United States. The study's two main intervention goals were to (a) reduce HIV-related sexual risk behaviors and…

This pilot study's objective was to determine the effectiveness of postpartum education received by midwifery clients at the University of New Mexico Hospital. The authors of the study randomized 100 women following delivery to two groups. Group one, n = 55, received written postpartum instructions only. Group two, n =…

BACKGROUND: Acute urticaria (AU), characterized by sudden skin wheals, has been associated with various triggers. While chronic urticaria's cardiovascular comorbidities have been studied, AU's associations remain largely unexplored. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify prevalent cardiovascular comorbidities in AU p…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence, mean age, and association of prevalence and age of lumbar internal disc disruption (IDD), facet joint pain (FJP), sacroiliac joint pain (SIJP), spinal and pelvic insufficiency fractures, interspinous ligament injury/Baastrup's Disease, and soft tiss…

INTRODUCTION: In this research, our primary objective was to explore the correlation between basal ganglia dopaminergic neurotransmission, assessed using 123I-FP-CIT (DAT-SPECT), and finger movements abnormalities in patients with essential tremor (ET) and Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS: We enrolled 16 patients wit…

BACKGROUND: High blood pressure (BP) is becoming increasingly common among young adults, with university students representing a particularly vulnerable group, posing a growing public health challenge worldwide. The study explores the relationship between BMI and demographic characteristics related to elevated BP in th…

AIM: To explore the experiences and perspectives of older adults with chronic conditions on a Community-based e-Health Program. METHODS: Using a descriptive qualitative design, seven focus group discussions were conducted after completion of the Community-based e-Health Program. RESULTS: Four overarching themes and t…

Based on the social exchange theory, this paper explores the indirect impact of high-commitment work systems on employees' unethical pro-organizational behavior. Through the analysis of multisource data from 139 companies (including 139 human resource managers and 966 employees), a multilevel structuring equation model…

Acute pancreatitis (AP) remains a challenging clinical condition with limited therapeutic options and high mortality rates in severe cases. Traditional anti-inflammatory approaches have shown disappointing results in clinical trials, highlighting the urgent need for novel therapeutic strategies targeting the underlying…

Staphylococcus aureus a natural inhabitant of nasopharyngeal tract survives in the host as biofilms. In the present study S. aureus ATCC12600 grown under anaerobic conditions showed biofilm units of 0.086 as compared to 0.07 when this pathogen grown in aerobic conditions with elevated lactate formation and the same was…

The aerial parts of the species Ageratina pichinchensis, popularly known as "axihuitl", have been empirically used in Mexico for wound-healing purposes. The evaluation of an extract from A. pichinchensis (in an in vivo model) demonstrated its capacity to reduce, in a significant manner, the time required for wound heal…

OBJECTIVE: To determine if playing music would affect novice surgical trainees' ability to perform a complex surgical task. BACKGROUND: The effect of music in the operating room (OR) is controversial. Some studies from the anesthesiology literature suggest that OR music is distracting and should be banned. Other nonbl…