107 (76%) of admitted POLST DNR patients had a DNR code status for the majority of their admission. 59 (58%) of the limited and 29 (60%) of the CMO patients were admitted to the ICU. Acknowledgment of a pre-injury POLST or code status was explicitly documented in 110 cases (57%)...
Palliative care can often be provided for the dying patients and alleviating pain to provide comfort for the dying has always been the priority. “Palliative care focuses on relieving the symptoms, particularly the pain, of incurable illness.” (Palliative Care) But, in relieving pain through the...
and patients to ensure that relevant health outcomes are captured [7,8,9], the technology fits within the healthcare systems, and is adequate and durable for the users [3].Validation of ePROs may be important, depending on the degree of modifications made when converting from PROs to ePROs ...
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Individuals without the disorder possess on average 2 repeats with some individuals having up to 19, while patients with ALS or FTLD may present with up to 5000 repeats2–7. Three main disease mechanisms have been proposed to date: C9ORF72 haploinsufficiency, RNA toxicity, and accumulation of ...
However, monotherapy as a treatment for hypertension can successfully reduce blood pressure in few patients. Therefore, the majority will necessitate treatment with two or more drugs to reach normal levels. The main aim of using combination therapy is to utilize the various mechanisms of action, ...
The investigators did not include cardiac arrests for patients with do-not-resuscitate orders in the number of patients who survived a cardiac arrest. However, incomplete data made it impossible to exclude all patients with DNR orders from the total number of cardiac arrests, so the correlation be...
Hospitalized subjects' mean length of stay was 4.9 days, and the mean rate of hospitalizations for all subjects was 174 per 1000 resident years. In 85% of all hospitalizations, patients were transferred because the nursing home could not control suffering. In 15% of hospitalizations (n = 4),...
The goal of the present study was to develop a reliable ex vivo bioassay for analysis of the Pgp-inhibiting activity of chemosensitizer-containing patient serum. The fluorescent Pgp substrates daunorubicin (DNR) and rhodamine 123 (R123) were used as probes for Pgp function. The 8226/DOX6 human...