International journal of clinical practice
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Jun 2021
Data Privacy and Confidentiality from the Perspectives of General Public and Health Care Providers in Jordan.
To assess knowledge, attitude, and beliefs about the right to privacy and confidentiality from the viewpoints of the general public (GP) and the health system (HS) professionals in Jordan. ⋯ The general public and health system professionals in Jordan are familiar with the patients' right to privacy and confidentiality regulations. More efforts must be put in place to inform patients about their rights to privacy and confidentiality practices when they are in professional contact with their healthcare providers. In addition, rules, laws, and legal agreements must be effectively established and monitored to prevent privacy violations.
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Jun 2021
Food quality score and anthropometric status among six-year-old children: a cross-sectional study.
Weight status and growth during childhood are indicative of healthy development throughout the lifespan. It is well understood that dietary patterns and overall quality of diet can prevent disease, improve health status and optimise growth and development. The current study investigates the relationship between overall diet quality and measures of childhood development including body mass index and height-for-age in 6-year-old children. ⋯ Findings presented in this study demonstrate that FQS was significantly associated with participants characterised as severely underweight; however, FQS was not associated with other anthropometric parameters. Therefore, future well-designed cohort studies are required to address limitations of the current study.
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Jun 2021
Prognostic Value of Preoperative Inflammation Markers in Non-Muscle Invasıve Bladder Cancer.
To investigate the prediction values of the preoperative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte-monocyte ratio (LMR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), mean platelet volume (MPV) and red cell distribution width (RDW) for recurrence and progression of patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). ⋯ LMR might be an easy obtainable, non-invasive and cost-effective method for predicting recurrence of disease in patients with NMIBC.
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Jun 2021
The Prognostic Impact of Thyroid Disorders on the Clinical Severity of COVID-19: Results of Single Center Pandemic Hospital.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can cause thyroid hormonal disorders. In addition, tracheal compression by thyroid nodules can aggravate hypoxia in critically ill patients. No studies have investigated the effect of thyroid nodules on the prognosis of patients with COVID-19. In this study, we investigated the effect of thyroid hormonal disorders and thyroid nodules on the prognosis of patients with COVID-19. ⋯ Overt thyroid hormonal disorders were more common in critically ill COVID-19 patients. FT3 level at hospital admission is a potential prognostic marker of COVID-19 patients. Thyroid nodules may be associated with severe COVID-19 disease.
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Int. J. Clin. Pract. · Jun 2021
Usefulness of Novel Martin/Hopkins and Sampson Equations over Friedewald Equation in Cardiology Outpatients: A CVSCORE-TR Substudy.
The Friedewald equation (LDL-Cf) is known to produce inaccurate estimations of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) when triglycerides are high (>400 mg/dL) or LDL-C is low (<70 mg/dL). The Martin/Hopkins (LDL-Cmh) and Sampson (LDL-Cs) equations were developed to overcome these limitations, but few data are available to assess whether these equations offer incremental usefulness over LDL-Cf. Our aim was to understand whether there was any incremental usefulness of novel equations on decisions regarding patient management. ⋯ In most cardiology outpatients, the Friedewald equation has excellent agreement with the novel Martin/Hopkins and Sampson equations, and treatment decisions should not change in most patients.