Simple/Care
Scenario based outdoor simulation in pre-hospital trauma care using a simple mannequin model
... The London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) provides a doctor/paramedic team response to major trauma patients in an urban area. The population covered is up to ten million and the service has attended over ...
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The Simple Triage Scoring System (STSS) successfully predicts mortality and critical care resource utilization in H1N1 pandemic flu: a retrospective analysis
... The Simple Triage Scoring System (STSS) (Table 1), which uses only those vital signs and patient characteris- tics that are readily available at initial presentation, was proposed in 2007 by Talmor and colleagues ...
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A simple heuristic for Internet-based evidence search in primary care: a randomized controlled trial
... As an alternative to the classical appraising mode, the McMaster Group already suggested the searching mode, which primarily uses databases of processed information for quick answers to questions arising in everyday ...
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Towards simple, rapid point of care testing for clinically important protein biomarkers of sepsis
... intensive care wards and these results demonstrate the possibility of realising such ...a simple multi-marker assay for sepsis which can assist with diagnosis, triaging and clinical management of the ...
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ICAT: a simple score predicting critical care needs after thrombolysis in stroke patients
... identified to predict critical care needs, such as SBP and NIHSS [3]. In addition, statistically significant variables from the simple logistic regression analyses were consid- ered. In multivariable ...
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Keep it Simple? Predicting Primary Health Care Costs with Measures of Morbidity and Multimorbidity
... QOF disease categories. The electronic record systems in UK general practices use Read codes to record summary clinical information on patients. It is possible to use the Read codes to construct various sets of ...
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Immediate Care Skills for Your Elective Two simple frameworks to help you wherever you are
... a simple ABCD method to avoid becoming distracted by non-life threatening ...In simple terms, the casualty should be rapidly assessed to determine if there are time critical injuries that require urgent ...
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The Surgical Nosology In Primary care Settings (SNIPS): a simple bridging classification for the interface between primary and specialist care
... SNIPS has been used in three ways to date. The first was to interrogate the BEACH data, already coded in ICPC-2 Plus terms, to describe in detail referrals to surgical specialists in a national sample [9]. The aim was to ...
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Determining the date of diagnosis – is it a simple matter? The impact of different approaches to dating diagnosis on estimates of delayed care for ovarian cancer in UK primary care
... Recent findings from three large international studies [1- 3] suggest that the UK compares poorly with other coun- tries in term of cancer survival. The reasons for this are not fully understood but may be due partly to ...
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A Simple System to Predict Mortality in Medical Intensive Care Unit
... Numerous prognostic predictive models have been developed for critically ill patients [1], and they have become useful tools in interpreting crude mortality rates, potentially allowing interhospital and international ...
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Intensive care unit depth of sleep: proof of concept of a simple electroencephalography index in the non sedated
... Critical Care of the University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands were enrolled in our ...normal care during ICU stay according to standardized ...
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Patients’ Perspectives on Services Provided by Community Pharmacies in Terms of Patients’ Perception and Satisfaction
... the simple, understandable language used by the pharmacists (72.8%), care, kindness and respect provided by pharma- cists’ communication and attitude ...
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Prevalence of Depression and Associated Factors in HIV-Positive Adults Attending an Antiretroviral Clinic in Jos, Nigeria
... a simple primary care tool such as the PHQ-9 questionnaire to screen patients in ART programmes is desirable as a routine to be incorporated in HIV care programs, this may not be entirely feasible in ...
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An integrated role-based approach for modeling, designing and implementing multi-agent systems
... To facilitate the development of multi-agent systems and improve the reusability, robustness and feasibility of these systems, we have developed a role-based agent de- velopment framework (RADE). In this paper, we ...
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Prognostic value of rise in neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in predicting the mortality in paediatric intensive care
... are simple yet useful indicators of the ongoing inflammatory process that have developed shortly before the presentation of the patient to the medical ...tailoring care to individual case based ...
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A frailty instrument for primary care: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
... Prospective validation of the DFactor. Binary logistic regression was conducted to assess whether the DFactor classes at Wave 1 significantly predicted whether or not a subject was dead by Wave 2. In the model, the ...
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PTSD following childbirth
... the care they receive, are more important in determining their trauma reaction than the type of birth or the number of ...professionals. Simple changes in maternity care during labour and birth, the ...
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Amniotic membrane allografts: development and clinical utility in ophthalmology
... Modified simple limbal epithelial transplantation using cryopreserved amniotic membrane for unilateral limbal stem cell deficiency.. Chronic Wound Care Management and Research Publish [r] ...
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Optimising laboratory monitoring of chronic conditions in primary care: a quality improvement framework
... primary care; not all of this is based on evidence or ...primary care across North Devon, and to measure and reduce the harms of unwarranted ...primary care testing rates in North Devon fell by 14% ...
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Using EMR data to evaluate a physician-developed lifestyle plan for obese patients in primary care
... A simple lifestyle and dietary intervention distributed to obese patients by a family physician in community prac- tice as part of routine clinical care was associated with significant weight loss in older ...
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