A personality and behavioral disorder is an important and defining feature of frontal lobe dementia (FLD) or frontotemporal degeneration (FTD). The diagnosis usually depends on the progressive development of various behavioral symptoms rather than a set of neuropsychological measures. Quantification of the personality-behavior disorder is important for standardizing the diagnosis. An inventory ...

BACKGROUND Vancomycin use is considered inappropriate in most hospitals. A particular concern is the recent emergence of S. aureus with decreased susceptibility to vancomycin, making it important to reduce overall exposure to vancomycin to minimize the incidence of VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococci). The aim of this work was to analyze the use of vancomycin and the risk factors associated w...

Aim: This review aims to describe the appropriateness of surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis during last decade.
 Methodology: The included a searching web science for articles focused on “the prophylaxis”. process was conducted 29 Nov 2020 and original so were excluded.
 Results: 57 articles; 38 published after 2015 rest before 2015. Most that in showed high rate inappropriate duratio...

BACKGROUND Venous thromboembolism (VTE) exerts a considerable burden on the health care systems. Although many practice guidelines have been developed regarding prophylaxis and treatment of venous thromboembolism, there is a large gap between the recommendations and the medical practice in health care centers. In this study, we tried to assess adherence of the medical team to guidelines for ven...

BACKGROUND Inappropriate ionising medical imaging has been escalating in the last decades. This trend leads to potential damage to health and has been associated to bioethical and legal issues of patient autonomy. METHODS While the doctrine underlines the importance of using informed consent to improve patient autonomy and physician-patient communication, some researchers have argued that it ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the appropriateness of medical imaging examinations involving radiation and to estimate the effective radiation dose and costs associated. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective study. SETTING Two Spanish public tertiary hospitals. PARTICIPANTS 2022 medical imaging tests were extracted from the radiology information system in February and March of 2014. MRI and ultra...

The aim of the paper is to determine extent use strategic and decision-making analysis methods specifics barriers their practical application in process creating conceptual documents Ministry Defense Czech Republic. In qualitative research, a semi-structured questionnaire was created for purpose data collection submitted eighteen creators department's documents. obtained were evaluated by open ...

Dr. Srinivasan is a geriatric psychiatry fellow and Dr. Weinberg is Chief of Geriatrics and Extended Care at Dorn VA Medical Center; Dr. Weinberg is also Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia. A lthough behavioral symptoms associated with dementia in geriatric long-term care (LTC) residents living in nursing facilities are common, sexual inapp...

Integrating horizontal perspectives in sectoral policies is an increasingly popular way to address complex, societal problems like climate change and gender inequality. Policy evaluation can contribute policy integration by shedding light on the coherence between goals mitigation or solution of problem question – including possible synergies and/or conflicts. To denote this modality, we introdu...