I used the term 'medication(s)', but someone else suggested 'medicine(s)' as an alternative. Personally, I think it sounds worse and may be less clear, as 'medicine' can also refer to the general practice of medicine. But maybe that's just me. Is there any reason why I should pr...
Electrical cardioversion.While you are under sedation, your doctor will shock your heart with a jolt of electricity. This briefly stops your heart’s electrical activity in order to end an episode of Afib. You may require an anticoagulant in the weeks before and after the procedure. This cuts ...
DEVELOPING THE COLLABORATIVE STRATEGY: Although CareGroup's long-term plans included technological advances such as clinical order entry, computer systems in the pharmacy, dispensing stations on patient floors, and bedside bar-coding, efforts first focused on manual improvements feasible within a year's...
Long-Term Medication Behavior Self-Efficacy Scale MMAA: Medication Management Ability Assessment MMC: Medication Management Capacity MCI: Mild Cognitive Impairment MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination MTS: Medication-Transfer screen MedMaIDE: Medication Management Instrument for Deficiencies in the El...
Two longitudinal studies observed that the average age for abusing opioids was 17 years [77], and long-term misuse of opioids was associated with increased risk for substance abuse [76]. A study on the age–period–cohort analysis of nonmedical use of analgesics also revealed that the ...
Patients who have gastric bypass may be slightly more likely to remain free of obesity-related medications versus those undergoing sleeve gastrectomy, according to a study published online Jan. 12 inJAMA Surgery. Ad Ryan Howard, M.D., from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues...
treated with steroids as medication for SARS, but turned out subsequently not to have SARS, suffering from longer term effects, attributable to the effects of steroids received (if any), which may result in some degree of physical dysfunction, subject to medical proof and financial need, in cas...
As a result, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used for many real-world applications in the medical and healthcare sector. For instance, DNNs have been recently applied for solving medication classification challenges in order to distinguish between patients taking either anticonvulsant and...
The long-term impact of medications is a reminder that the medication experience is continuous and changes over time [20,34,38,42,47,71]. 3.3. Antecedents Antecedents represent the conditions that precede the medication experience, and consequences represent the outcome of having been subject to ...
The published studies provide little information on the elements of the patient system that may cause these inequities or the types of interventions that should be prioritised in order to transition toward true health equity. Only the characteristics of the patients, their caregivers and health ...