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Among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on hemodialysis, death from withdrawal from life-sustaining dialysis is increasingly common. The present study's objective was to examine depression as a potential risk factor for hemodialysis withdrawal. Two hundred forty ESRD hemodialysis (133 male and 107 female) patient…

PURPOSE: This study's purpose was to better understand existing measures of quality of life in dementia residents of long-term care facilities. DESIGN AND METHODS: We gathered data from 421 residents in 45 facilities. Analyses determined the psychometric properties of each measure, estimated the relationship between m…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The American Board of Family Practice In-training Examination (ABFP ITE) is a cognitive examination similar in content to the ABFP Certification Examination (CE). The ABFP ITE is widely used in family medicine residency programs. It was originally developed and intended to be used for assessm…

This study's goals were (a) to provide convergent validity for the Anticipated Life History measure (ALH), an instrument prompting participants to describe their future life course from their 21st birthday until their death, and (b) to assess the impact of early experience and early memories on the ALH. The ALH narrati…

Knowledge is limited about adolescents' decision making regarding their assumption of diabetes management from parents. This study's purpose was to identify adolescents' perceived benefits and barriers about this process. Sixteen adolescents with type 1 diabetes were interviewed. Questions were adapted from the Janis a…

This study's objective was to develop a methodology to apply pharmacoepidemiological research toward understanding and improving psychotropic drug use among children enrolled in Medicaid. Using Kansas Medicaid data for 1995-1996, we summarized drug claims, diagnoses, and demographics for children under 20 who received…

Recently, leukotrienes have been implicated in the mediation of bronchoconstriction and inflammatory changes in asthma. Leukotriene levels have also been shown to be elevated in patients with asthma as well as in those with sinonasal polyposis and sinusitis. The leukotriene synthesis inhibitor zileuton and the leukotri…

Forty-nine patients with Type I diabetes mellitus were assessed to examine the relationship between lifetime prevalence of psychiatric illness and retinopathy severity. The subjects with a history of psychiatric illness had significantly worse retinopathy than the subjects without psychiatric illness. Eighty-nine perce…

Relationships between qualities of the perceived social environment and children's adjustment were examined in 30 second- to fourth-grade classrooms. Based on Moos' conceptual framework, social environment was assessed from both teachers' and children's perspectives. There was little agreement between the two views. Ni…

Two analytical techniques are applied to a household survey of Rhode Island residents to develop the concept of an affiliation with medical care provider. A modification of a deviant case analysis is used to examine those people who are extreme in terms of the numbers of affiliations that they have with medical care pr…

BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) treatment is challenging due to limited and often unsatisfactory therapy options. Scrambler therapy (ST) is gaining interest as treatment option with promising initial results. However, further evaluation is needed to confirm its effectiveness. PURPOSE: The…

Breastfeeding as an important key to sustainable development strategies is the best nutrition for ensuring healthy growth and development in the first 1,000 days of life.The current systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to evaluate the correlation between marital relationship satisfaction and breastfeeding…

BACKGROUND: Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) and distal femoral replacement (DFR) have been utilized in the management of periprosthetic distal femur fractures. At present, much of the literature has been limited to small retrospective series. The purpose of the current investigation was to present the resul…

PURPOSE: An essential yet oft-neglected step in cost evaluations is the selection of resources (ingredients) to include in cost estimates. The ingredients that most influence the cost of physician continuous professional development (CPD) are unknown, as are the relative costs of instructional modalities. This study's…

The study's aim was to retrospectively evaluate the surveillance history of Barrett's esophagus (BE) patients with endoscopically treated early neoplasia. All BE patients endoscopically treated for early cancer (EC) or high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia (HGIN) in a lesion or mass between 1998 and 2005 were included.…

BACKGROUND: Healthcare accreditation standards are advocated as an important means of improving clinical practice and organisational performance. Standard development agencies have documented methodologies to promote open, transparent, inclusive development processes where standards are developed by members. They asser…

Microdosing is the practice of regularly using low doses of psychedelic drugs. Anecdotal reports suggest that microdosing enhances well-being and cognition; however, such accounts are potentially biased by the placebo effect. This study used a 'self-blinding' citizen science initiative, where participants were given on…

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer's global burden prompts a comprehensive understanding of patient experiences surrounding surgical interventions. Social media platforms serve as a new potential avenue for analysis, reflecting patients' coping mechanisms and support-seeking behaviors. OBJECTIVE: This study's objective is to f…

INTRODUCTION: Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) is a public health problem that harms patients' outcomes and healthcare costs, especially in susceptible populations such as patients with cancer. Overall, systematic queries about etiology, risks, and epidemiology are explained by data from observati…

African foods have socio-cultural significance that extends through migration, tourism, and marriage. Africans travel and integrate within the continent through intermarriages. There are over a thousand cultural aspects that differ such as language, food, dressing, beliefs and customs. Food is one of the cultural aspec…