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From:Contemporary Drug Problems (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWith the increasing prevalence of crack use in Canada in the previous decade, crack pipe sharing has emerged as a public health concern, implicated in the transmission of blood- and saliva-borne infections. Drawing on...
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From:Canadian Urological Association Journal (Vol. 9, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWith the observed trend toward the greater use of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in the management of urinary stone disease, the importance of preoperative risk assessment and estimation of treatment success has...
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From:Mental Health Practice (Vol. 14, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSummary It is widely accepted that most adult mental health difficulties originate in childhood so it is essential that they are detected and treated early to prevent them from becoming more serious later in life....
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From:Cardiology Research and PracticePeer-ReviewedThis study evaluated whether statin therapy changed a diagnostic validity of lipid and inflammatory markers in ischemic heart disease (IHD) patients. Levels of lipids, lipoproteins, apolipoproteins, inflammatory...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 18, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSummary This article argues that the number of deaths caused by venous thromboembolism (VTE) can be reduced if all patients in emergency departments are assessed to identify those who are most at risk of developing...
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From:Cancer Nursing Practice (Vol. 8, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAN INNOVATIVE cancer nurse has developed two assessment tools to help nurses choose the most appropriate device to deliver medication directly to a patient's veins. The venous assessment tool (VAT) and deciding on...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 117, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Biomass smoke is an important source of particulate matter (PM), and much remains to be discovered with respect to the human health effects associated with this specific PM source. Exposure to biomass smoke...
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From:Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Maurizio Pompili [[dagger]] 1 , Zoltán Rihmer 2 , Marco Innamorati 3 , David Lester 4 , Paolo Girardi 5 , Roberto Tatarelli 6 Keywords: bipolar disorder; risk factors; suicide; therapy Bipolar...
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From:Medical Decision Making (Vol. 28, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Michael Siegrist, PhD (Institute for Environmental Decisions, Consumer Behavior, Zurich, Switzerland, msiegrist@ethz.ch); Pascale Orlow, MSc (Institute for Environmental Decisions, Consumer Behavior, Zurich,...
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From:Practice Nursehe DoH is evaluating a new scoring system1 that could give practice nurses a more accurate measure of how many UK adults are at risk of developing heart disease and which adults would most benefit from treatment. The...
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From:Emergency Medicine Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAims: The aim of the study was to assess the validity of a modified risk assessment tool in patients presenting to the emergency department with symptoms and signs suggestive of a DVT. Methods: Consecutive patients...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 81, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedHealth impact assessment (HIA) attempts an extremely difficult task. It tries not only to project the impacts of policies, programmes and developments on public health but to influence the political decision-making...
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From:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Vol. 61, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To measure the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and high-risk behaviors among heterosexuals in alcoholism treatment, comparing two cross-sectional surveys completed 2 to 3 years...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 320, Issue 7236) Peer-ReviewedThat lipid lowering with statins benefits even those at low risk of coronary heart disease is no longer open to question. The challenge now is for clinicians to strike a balance between what is desirable, affordable,...
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From:Science (Vol. 240, Issue 4852) Peer-ReviewedHeterosexual AIDS: Setting the Odds Norman Hearst and Stephen Hulley of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California in San Francisco recently performed a series of calculations that have...
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From:Health and Social Work (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article tests the hypothesis that psychiatric inpatients at high risk for presenting difficulties in aftercare planning can be accurately identified on admission to an inpatient unit. A 16-item high-risk screening...
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From:Age and Ageing (Vol. 25, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWe have examined the role of socio-demographic variables, cognitive and affective functioning, and personality in discrepancies between performance-based and self-report measures within three domains of physical...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective. The goal of this study was to develop unbiased risk-assessment models to be used for paying health plans on the basis of enrollee health status and use propensity. We explored the risk structure of adult...
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From:African Journal of Medical and Health Sciences (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Enajite. Okaka, Bibiana. Eiya, Afeaje. Olokor, Ikponmwosa. Iyawe, Chimezie. Okwuonu, Oluseyi. Adejumo, Odigie. Ojeh-Oziegbe, Frank. Imarhiagbe, Evelyn. Unuigbe Background: The incidence and prevalence of...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 81, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Health impact assessment (HIA) and comparative risk assessment (CRA) are important tools with which governments and communities can compare and integrate different sources of information about various health...