BACKGROUND Interest in the use of digital game technologies by older adults is growing across disciplines from health and gerontology to computer science and game studies. The objective of this scoping review was to examine research evidence involving the oldest old (persons 85 years of age or greater) and digital game technology. MATERIALS AND METHODS PubMed, CINHAL, and Scopus were searched...

Prevalence rates of cognitive impairment in persons aged 75 to 85 years are in the range of 10 to 19 percent, and 20 to 47 percent after the age of 85 years. Screening for dementia in persons aged 75 years and older would therefore identify a significant number of impaired persons. When screening for dementia, group testing would be more cost-effective than individual testing. We modified the F...

Although interests in assessing the relationship between temperature and mortality have arisen due to climate change, relatively few data are available on lag structure of temperature-mortality relationship, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. This study identified the lag effects of mean temperature on mortality among age groups and death categories using polynomial distributed lag models...

BACKGROUND Several educational interventions have been designed to improve patient knowledge before and after kidney transplantation. However, evaluation of such interventions has been difficult because validated instruments to measure knowledge-based outcomes in this population have not been developed. OBJECTIVE To create a tool to measure patient knowledge of kidney transplantation and to e...

We evaluated the effectiveness of high dose rate (HDR) endobronchial irradiation for palliation of malignant airway obstruction. Between May 1989 and February 1992, 39 patients were treated in our department. Thirty-two patients (82 percent) had primary lung neoplasms and 7 (18 percent) had metastatic disease. Thirty-three patients (85 percent) had prior external irradiation (either alone or in...

Introduction: Gastroscopy is an excellent technique for investigation of upper gastrointestinal pathology. However, patients frequently request for conscious sedation as the procedure causes pain, pharyngeal reflex and nausea. Administration of conscious sedation incurs additional medical expenditure and risks. Transnasal gastroscopy, which became commercially available in 2005, does not induce...

OBJECTIVE To look for risk factors leading to birth asphyxia in new borns admitted in a tertiary care unit STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Neonatal Unit of National Institute of Child Health, Karachi from 1st January, 2001 to 31st August, 2001. PATIENTS AND METHODS Records of 235 new borns admitted with birth asphyxia during this period were analyzed. Variables studied includ...

High mammographic breast density is one of the strongest intermediate markers of breast cancer risk, and decreases in density over time have been associated with decreases in breast cancer risk. Using repeated measures of mammographic density in a cohort of high-risk women, the Women at Risk (WAR) cohort at Columbia University Medical Center (N = 2670), we examined whether changes in prediagnos...