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ContextPeople bereaved from COVID-19 report higher levels of grief than people natural causes. The full impact this onslaught will not be known for some time. Ensuring high-quality bereavement care in the context presents unprecedented challenges to end-of-life care.ObjectivesWe aimed determine how psychological symptoms explain functional impairment.MethodsA sample through (N = 307) United Sta...

BACKGROUND Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a concern of contemporary military deployments. Whether milder TBI leads to enduring impairment remains controversial. AIMS To determine the influence of deployment TBI, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms on neuropsychological and functional outcomes. METHOD A sample of 760 US Army soldiers were assessed pre- and post...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prognostic value of domain-specific cognitive abilities in acute stroke with respect to long-term cognitive and functional outcome in addition to neurologic and demographic predictors. METHODS The authors evaluated 168 patients within the first 3 weeks after first-ever stroke. The prevalence of neuropsychological impairment was calculated vs 75 matched healthy contro...

In 43 patients left ventricular micromanometry and cineangiography were performed preoperatively and and 20 months after aortic valve replacement. A score of left ventricular functional impairment, derived from 5 to 8 haemodynamic variables, was calculated as: number of pathological indices x 100/total number of determined indices. Preoperatively the score of left ventricular functional impairm...