University of Southern Indiana Evansville, IN

This article aims to enlarge the current knowledge base and to illustrate some issues encountered when recruiting bereaved informal caregivers as participants for a ques-

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To improve the management of adult non-traumatic patients presenting with a disorder of consciousness or coma in our hospital, an interdisciplinary expert panel developed a new

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introduced to categorize the severity of cardiac injury in severe head trauma; it is a simple score based on serum troponin elevation, abnormal echocardiographic findings,

Self-Observation, Experience Sampling and Concept Mapping provided validity that the taxonomy items were actual activities that chaplains perform in their spiritual care..

, 2014] and ablation [Fawcett and Hoos, 2016], allowing the configura- tor to focus on the most important parameters; and (iii) auto- matically select between pre-configured