Nocardiosis has been reported increasingly in recent two decades, probably due to improvement in isolation of the organism and increased burden of immune compromised patients. Nocardia occasionally has been reported in healthy people. A case series of definitive Nocardiosis (2002 to 2010), clinical characteristics, underlying diseases, immune status and in-patient outcome were studied in a tert...

BACKGROUND Erysipelas is a common infection that often recurs, but the impact of specific risk factors for reoccurrence remains elusive. In the present study we aimed at clarifying predisposing conditions for reoccurrence. METHODS Medical records were reviewed from all patients ≥18 years of age diagnosed with erysipelas at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Skåne University Hospital, Sw...

OBJECTIVES To understand whether aviation-derived human factors training is acceptable and useful to healthcare professionals. To understand whether and how healthcare professionals have been able to implement human factors approaches to patient safety in their own area of clinical practice. METHODS Qualitative, longitudinal study using semi-structured interviews and focus groups, of a multip...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The goal of the present study was to examine a series of putative risk factors of poststroke dementia (PSD), especially those factors usually associated with cerebrovascular disease and degenerative dementia, in a series of 251 consecutive unselected stroke patients. METHODS A standard protocol was prospectively applied at admission and 3 months after stroke; this proto...

With modern medical technology, it is now possible to sustain life for prolonged periods in critically ill patients, even when there is no reasonable hope of improvement or achieving the goals of therapy. Such futile and medically inappropriate interventions may violate both the ethical and medical precepts generally accepted by patients, families, and physicians. In this study, we sought to de...

Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterised by loss of bone mass and microarchitectural integrity that lead to increased bone fragility and risk of fracture.' Its natural history is one of slow, progressive bone loss that often remains asymptomatic and undiagnosed for many years. Only when a substantial amount of bone has been lost do the characteristic low trauma fractures occur....

Differences in nontreatment-related covariates ("prognostic factors") often account for differences between treatments in clinical cancer trials. This is true even in randomized trials in which the number of patients randomized is less than 200. Hence analysis of prognostic factors is crucial in historically controlled and small randomized trials. However, it is known that factors found prognos...

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a cancer originating from the neoplastic transformation of the biliary epithelium, is characterized by a progressive increase in incidence and prevalence. A number of risk factors have been identified including primary sclerosing cholangitis, liver fluke infestation, and hepatolithiasis. More recently, hepatitis viruses (HCV, HBV) have been taken into consideration as ...

background: clinical reasoning is generally defined as the numerous modes of thinking that guide clinical practice but little is known about the factors affecting how occupational therapists manage the decision-making process. the aim of this qualitative study was to explore the factors influencing the clinical reasoning of occupational therapists. methods: twelve occupational therapy practitio...