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Analysis of survival after initiation of continuous renal replacement therapy...
Abstract Background No study has specifically investigated the duration of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in patients who experienced acute kidney injury during... -
Knowledge of obstetric danger signs and associated factors among pregnant wom...
Abstract Background Knowledge of danger signs of obstetric complications is first step in the appropriate and timely referral to essential obstetric care. Although women’s... -
Prevalence and characteristics of older adults with a persistent death wish w...
Abstract Background Some older persons develop a persistent death wish without being severely ill, often referred to as “completed life” or “tiredness of life”. In the... -
Exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) decreases neutrophil migration resp...
Abstract Objective Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant and a known immune suppressant in humans and experimental animal models. Studies on... -
Access and utilization of maternal healthcare in a rural district in the fore...
Abstract Background Poor maternal health delivery in developing countries results in more than half a million maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth or within a few weeks... -
Increasing trends in incidence of preterm birth among 2.5 million newborns in...
Abstract Background The incidence of preterm birth (PTB, -
Outcomes in randomised controlled trials in prevention and management of cari...
Abstract Background Inconsistent outcome reporting is one significant hurdle to combining results from trials into systematic reviews. Core outcome sets (COS) can reduce this... -
The influence of hospital accreditation: a longitudinal assessment of organis...
Abstract Background A growing body of evidence supports the link between hospital organisational culture and health outcomes. Organisational culture is thus an essential... -
Impact of snus use in teenage boys on tobacco use in young adulthood; a cohor...
Abstract Background As smoking rates decreased, the use of Swedish snus (smokeless tobacco) concordantly increased in Norway. The role of snus as possible contributor to the... -
Pleural effusion from intrathoracic migration of a ventriculo-peritoneal shun...
Abstract Background Pleural effusion is a rare complication of ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunting and its diagnosis is difficult in patients with... -
Sepsis at ICU admission does not decrease 30-day survival in very old patient...
Abstract Background The number of intensive care patients aged ≥ 80 years (Very old Intensive Care Patients; VIPs) is growing. VIPs have high mortality and morbidity and the... -
Co-producing public involvement training with members of the public and resea...
Plain english summary Members of the public share their views with researchers to improve health and social care research. Lay assessing is one way of doing this. This is where... -
Probiotics may not prevent the deterioration of necrotizing enterocolitis fro...
Abstract Background Probiotic therapy can reduce the incidence of NEC. Therapeutic use of probiotics after NEC diagnosis reduces the severity of NEC in preterm infants or... -
Efficient production of extracellular pullulanase in Bacillus subtilis ATCC60...
Abstract Background Bacillus subtilis has been widely used as a host for heterologous protein expression in food industry. B. subtilis ATCC6051 is an alternative expression host... -
Appendectomy, cholecystectomy and diagnostic laparoscopy conducted before pre...
Abstract Background Non-obstetric surgery conducted during pregnancy may increase the risk of adverse birth outcomes like small for gestational age, preterm birth, and... -
The association between physical activity and health-related quality of life ...
Abstract Background The quality of life for breast cancer survivors has become increasingly important because of their high survival rate and prolonged life expectancy. The... -
Systematic review of the relationships between sleep duration and health indi...
Abstract Background The objective of this systematic review was to examine for the first time the associations between sleep duration and a broad range of health indicators in... -
Incidence and diagnosis of Acute kidney injury in hospitalized adult patients...
Abstract Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) places a heavy burden on the healthcare system in China and is usually misdiagnosed. However, there are limited studies that have... -
Corneal biomechanical properties after SMILE versus FLEX, LASIK, LASEK, or PR...
Abstract Background The aim of this study was to compare the postoperative corneal biomechanical properties between small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) and other corneal... -
Respiration activity monitoring system for any individual well of a 48-well m...
Abstract Background Small-scale micro-bioreactors have become the cultivation vessel of choice during the first steps of bioprocess development. They combine high cultivation...
