Articles: ninos.
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Multicenter Study
Differences between dedicated and not dedicated hospice physicians in symptoms and signs improvement among advanced cancer patients.
The hospice and palliative care can improve the symptoms and signs of terminal cancer patients. The purposes of this study are how to improve terminally ill cancer patients' symptoms and signs and how the dedicated palliative care service effects on these improvements. From January 2017 to March 2019, among 919 terminally ill cancer patients admitted to the palliative care units in 11 hospitals of South Korea, we analyzed 334 patients with prospective cohort method and categorized them into non-dedicated hospice care group of 234 and dedicated hospice care group of 100. ⋯ Compared to non-dedicated care group, the odds ratio for more than 2 symptoms or signs was 1.78 (95% confidence interval, 1.05-3.02) in the dedicated care group after adjusting confounding variables. In conclusion, terminally ill cancer patients who received palliative or hospice service showed significant improvement in symptoms and signs. And, family doctors (dedicated hospice physician group) performed better than oncologists (non-dedicated physician group).
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Effects of rational emotive psychotherapy consort on business education students' perception about image of technical vocational education and training in South-East Nigeria.
We determined the effects of rational-emotive psychotherapy on the perception of Business Education Students about TVET Image. Negative perception about TVET by youths, parents and the society has made TVET programs unattractive, uninteresting, less productive and by extension created an unhealthy organizational climate. Improving participants' perception will assist them to mitigate the effect of irrational beliefs, emotional distress, strengthening their psychosocial wellbeing and occupational health. ⋯ It was concluded that the REBT-oriented therapy helped to improve the emotional distress, irrational beliefs, and poor perception of the Business Education students who perceived TVET programs as an inferior and low-esteemed profession.
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Multicenter Study
Creation of a linked cohort of children and their parents in a large, national electronic health record dataset.
To examine which parental health care and health factors are most strongly associated with a child's receipt of recommended care we must be able to link children to their parents in electronic health record data. Yet, there is not an easy way to link these data. To identify a national cohort of children that link to at least one parent in the same electronic health record dataset and describe their demographics. ⋯ Most families consisted of only one linked child (61%). We were able to link 33% of children to a parent in electronic health record data from a large network of community health centers across the United States. Further analyses utilizing these linkages will allow examination of the multi-level factors that impact a child's receipt of recommended health care.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Resuming anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation experiencing intracranial hemorrhage.
Globally, 32% to 70% patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are prescribed oral anticoagulants (OACs) with warfarin for stroke prevention. However, patients with AF on OACs may experience intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), which presents a treatment dilemma. We therefore investigated whether resuming OACs in these patients is beneficial. ⋯ No difference in recurrent ICH was noted between the 2 groups. In conclusion, in patients with AF on OACs with ICH, resuming anticoagulant use was associated with significantly lower risks of composite outcomes of mortality/IS/SE and IS/SE than patients who discontinued OACs. No difference in recurrent ICH was observed between the 2 groups.
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Multicenter Study
Gait characteristics during crossing over obstacle in patients with glaucoma using insole foot pressure.
Glaucoma, is the most common cause of irreversible visual deficits, presents as an injury to the optic nerve and it is mainly associated with elevated intraocular pressure. The main symptom of glaucoma is a reduction of the visual field, which is usually a source of complaint at the advanced stage of disease. Because of visual deficit, gait dysfunctions, including low gait speed and increased bumping into objects, postural sway, and falling are occurred. Many studies have used stopwatch or motion-sensing devices to report on gait function following glaucoma. However, there are few reports on gait dysfunction assessed by examining foot pressure. This study investigated gait ability following glaucoma according to different gait conditions by assessing foot pressure. ⋯ We demonstrated that glaucoma patients selected the gait strategy such as lower gait function in both gait conditions particularly, slower gait speed and cadence and longer gait cycle and stance time, as determined by examining foot pressure. We believe that our results could help to improve the quality of life of patients with glaucoma.