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In the majority of cases, thenumber of members and their occupation are an exact replica ofthe structure of the committees required by law. Consistent withprevious surveys, our data also shows that the main task of ethicscommittees in hospitals was an analysis of research protocols,thus ...
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transplant patients should receive immunoglobulin within 6 days of exposure [164]. In most cases patients with exposure who do not have evidence of immunity will be asked to quarantine with monitoring for symptoms for
as shown in Table1. Inconsistencies between hospital database-derived BMI and MUST score were identified in three cases (3/430 = 0.7%) and were corrected accordingly. Three percent of patients had a low BMI (<18.5 kg/m2) and 37% had a BMI within the normal range (18.5–24....
Patients having received both neoadjuvant and adjuvant (=postneoadjuvant) chemotherapy were subsumed as neoadjuvant (because NACT was the primary therapy intention in these cases). The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Heidelberg and was conducted in accordance with the ...
1 With a total of over 92 million cases and close to 2 million reported deaths in 219 countries,2 the COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on public health in general and on the wellbeing of health care workers. Indeed, professionals working in hospitals are among the most ...
Most cases of death occurred in the first 2 weeks following ICU admission (ESM, Figure S2). At 6-month follow-up, neurological outcome (mRS) was evaluated in 1747 patients. Among survivors, 967 (55%) had poor neurological outcome. Table 1 Baseline patients’ characteristics, comorbidities, ...
In other literature, cases of population-capacity misalignment comparable to the first theme have been described in qualitative work47,48,49. Kreindler et al., highlight the complexities faced by hospital managers in Canada when patients have significant co-occurring needs, such as dementia and ...
In-hospital recurrence occurred in 58 cases (5.68%), primarily during the first five days of hospitalization. In-hospital recurrence significantly prolonged the hospital stay (P < 0.001), and the in-hospital mortality was also significantly increased (P = 0.006). The independent risk ...