INTRODUCTION The objective of the present study was to compare the health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) of survivors from severe sepsis and septic shock with HR-QoL in others who survived critical illness not involving sepsis. METHODS From March 1997 to March 2001, adult patients in an eight-bed medical/surgical intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital admitted with severe sep...

BACKGROUND Demographic changes together with an increasing demand among older people for hospital beds and other health services make allocation of resources to the most efficient care level a vital issue. The aim of this trial was to study the efficacy of intermediate care at a community hospital compared to standard prolonged care at a general hospital. METHODS In a randomised controlled tr...

objective gastroenteritis has a diverse etiology; many pathogens can cause this condition. of the extraintestinal manifestations, one is convulsions, which may be  attributable to fever, type of bacteria, or electrolyte imbalance. to assess the risk of occurrence of convulsions, in this study we investigated the association between the paraclinical and clinical findings of children with gastroe...

We show that Lie group analysis yields the first integrals admitted by any system of ordinary differential equations if the method developed by Nucci (J.) is applied. As an example, we obtain the famous first integral of the Kowalevsky top.

Objective: To investigate the effect of wax therapy in pain care patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Methods: Convenience sampling method was used to select inpatients arthritis admitted rheumatology and immunology department a 3A hospital Jingzhou City. 75 from January 2021 June were selected as control group, 2022 observation group. The group given routine nursing, implemented nursing on basi...

Abstract Background: The study was established to define the prevalence of neonatal microcytosis and to estimate the incidence rate of alpha-thalassemia as its leading cause, in Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods: Overall, 800 neonates were selected from two populations of newborns and admitted neonates. Three hundred and sixty-one cord blood samples were obtained from deliveries in Ma...

Lie group analysis is a powerful tool for obtaining exact similarity solutions of nonlinear (integro-) differential equations. In order to calculate the group-invariant solutions one first has to find the full Lie point symmetry group admitted by the given (integro-)differential equations and to determine all the subgroups of this Lie group. An effective, systematic means to classify the simila...

INTRODUCTION Given the nationwide increase in emergency department (ED) visits it is of paramount importance for hospitals to find efficient ways to manage patient flow. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a significant difference in success rates, length of stay (LOS), and other demographic factors in two cohorts of patients admitted directly to an ED observation unit (...

Hospital bedding and gowns influence skin moisture, temperature, friction, and shear, which in turn may affect the development of pressure ulcers. To evaluate the effect of a new silk-like synthetic fabric on the incidence of pressure ulcers in an acute care setting, two consecutive 6-month clinical trials were conducted among 307 consecutively admitted patients in a Medical Renal Unit (August ...