Dibao-Dina, Clarisse Léger, Julie Ettori-Ajasse, Isabelle Boivin, Estelle Chambe, Juliette Abou-Mrad-Fricquegnon, Karim Sun, Sophie Jego, Maeva Motte, Baptiste Chiron, Benoit
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BMJ Open
Objectives The first COVID-19 lockdown led to a significantly reduced access to healthcare, which may have increased decompensations in frail patients with chronic diseases, especially older patients living with a chronic cardiovascular disease (CVD) or a mental health disorder (MHD). The objective of COVIQuest was to evaluate whether a general pra...
Savadjian, André J Taicher, Brad M La, Jong Ok Podgoreanu, Mihai Miller, Timothy E McCartney, Sharon Raghunathan, Karthik Shah, Nirav Mamoun, Negmeldeen
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BMJ open quality
Albumin continues to be used routinely by cardiac anaesthesiologists perioperatively despite lack of evidence for improved outcomes. The Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG) data ranked our institution as one of the highest intraoperative albumin users during cardiac surgery. Therefore, we designed a quality improvement project (QIP) to ...
Lobo, Eunice Mahapatra, Sandeep Babu, Giridhara Rathnaiah van Schayck, Onno CP Srinivas, Prashanth Nuggehalli Mukherjee, Debarati
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BMJ Open
Introduction Responsive caregiving (RC) leads to positive outcomes in children, including secure attachment with caregivers, emotional regulation, positive social interactions and cognitive development. Through our scoping review, we aim to summarise the practices and outcomes of RC in diverse caregiver and child populations from 0 to 8 years. Meth...
Bhanot, Kunal Gough, A Bennett Britton, T
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BMJ military health
Carter, Andrew Joseph Raffoul, Jad Lane, Linden LeSage, Leah Langenhorst, Shelley Smolin, Matthew Dempsey, Michael Hughes, David Gleason, Michael Weiss, Steven
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Open heart
Cardiogenic shock (CS) complicates 5%-15% of cases of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with inpatient mortality greater than 40%. The implementation of standardised protocols may improve clinical outcomes in patients with AMI-CS. The Durango model is a prospective single-centre registry designed to enable early identification of patients with STEM...
Robinson, Laura A Colin, C R Smith, K S Greene, M W Frugé, A D
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BMJ military health
Military veterans are at greater risk for chronic medical conditions, many of which are associated with greater body mass index (BMI). Detrimental changes to diet and physical activity (PA) levels after separation from military service contribute to this disparity which may be mitigated by nutrition education (NE) during service. We conducted a sur...
Hasan, Babar S Hoodbhoy, Zahra Khan, Amna Nogueira, Mariana Bijnens, Bart Chowdhury, Devyani
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BMJ paediatrics open
Timely identification of at-risk neonates (ARNs) in the community is essential to reduce mortality in low-resource settings. Tools such as American Academy of Pediatrics pulse oximetry (POx) and WHO Young Infants Clinical Signs (WHOS) have high specificity but low sensitivity to identify ARNs. Our aim was assessing the value of POx and WHOS indepen...
Caldas, Mônica M Costa Esteves, William Antonio M Nascimento, Bruno R Hung, Judy Levine, Robert Silva, Vicente Resende Castro, Marildes Luiza Chavez, Luz Marina Tacuri Silva, José Luiz Padilha da Mello, Luana Aguiar
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Open heart
A substantial proportion of patients with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) have tricuspid regurgitation (TR). This study aimed to identify the impact of functional TR on clinical outcomes and predictors of progression in a large population of patients with RHD. A total of 645 patients with RHD were enrolled, mean age of 47±12 years, 85% female. Functi...
Wang, Naigeng Hao, Jianhong Zhang, Jie Du, Jing Luo, Zhenguo
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BMJ Open
Objectives This study aimed to explore the incidence and risk factors for emergence agitation (EA) in elderly patients who underwent total joint arthroplasty (TJA) under general anaesthesia, and to assess their predictive values. Design Single-centre retrospective cohort study. Setting A 1600-bed general tertiary hospital in China. Participants Thi...
Xie, Yunyun He, Wenjun Wan, Yuting Luo, Huanyuan Cai, Yiyuan Gong, Wenjie Liu, Siyuan Zhong, Dongmei Hu, Wenping Zhang, Lanping
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BMJ Open
Introduction As direct-to-consumer teleconsultation (hereafter referred to as ‘teleconsultation’) has gained popularity, an increasing number of patients have been leaving online reviews of their teleconsultation experiences. These reviews can help guide patients in identifying doctors for teleconsultation. However, few studies have examined the va...
