Correspondence to Dr Alison Mary Kearney, Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, ...
Aims: To investigate whether it is possible to determine the age of a bruise in a child in clinical practice by means of a systematic review. Methods: An all language literature search up to 2004.
Objective Cardiac output, a fundamental parameter of cardiovascular function, has consistently been shown to increase across healthy pregnancy; however, the time course and magnitude of adaptation ...
Objectives Patient flow and crowding are two major issues in ED service improvement. A substantial amount of literature exists on the interventions to improve patient flow and crowding, making it ...
2 Department of Medical-Diagnostic Sciences and Special Therapies, University of Padova, Padova, Italy 3 Department of Neuroradiology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy 4 Department of Clinical and ...
Objectives To assess the evidence on the impact of enhanced recovery programmes for patients undergoing elective surgery in acute hospital settings in the UK. Design Rapid evidence synthesis. Eight ...
The UK government has recently committed to adopting a new policy—dubbed ‘Martha’s Rule’—which has been characterised as providing patients the right to rapidly access a second clinical opinion in ...
Since its origins in the 1960s, tobacco control has achieved remarkable success against the scourge of tobacco-produced disease and death. Yet tobacco use, especially cigarette smoking, remains the ...
1 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of ...
Advances in the access to and in the performance of brain MRI have led to an increased detection of asymptomatic abnormalities in the brain of patients with cardiovascular diseases. These may have ...
Objective The objective of this study was to characterise the incidence rates of herpes zoster (HZ), also known as shingles, and risk of complications across the world. Design We systematically ...
Correspondence to Dr Anh Ngo, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago 60608, IL, USA; ango4{at}uic.edu Background This study examines the association between ...
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