Arch Intern Med
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Serum lipid effects of a high-monounsaturated fat diet based on macadamia nuts.
Recent studies have identified potential beneficial effects of eating nuts, most of which have substantial amounts of monounsaturated fats. Macadamia nuts are 75% fat by weight, 80% of which is monounsaturated. ⋯ The macadamia nut-based diet high in monounsaturated fat and the moderately low-fat diet both had potentially beneficial effects on cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels when compared with a typical American diet.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Handwashing compliance by health care workers: The impact of introducing an accessible, alcohol-based hand antiseptic.
Under routine hospital conditions handwashing compliance of health care workers including nurses, physicians, and others (eg, physical therapists and radiologic technicians) is unacceptably low. ⋯ Education/feedback intervention and patient awareness programs failed to improve handwashing compliance. However, introduction of easily accessible dispensers with an alcohol-based waterless handwashing antiseptic led to significantly higher handwashing rates among health care workers.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
A randomized trial of in-home visits for disability prevention in community-dwelling older people at low and high risk for nursing home admission.
In-home preventive visits with multidimensional geriatric assessments can delay the onset of disabilities in older people. ⋯ These data suggest that this intervention can reduce disabilities among elderly people at low risk but not among those at high risk for functional impairment, and that these effects are likely related to the home visitor's performance in conducting the visits.