BACKGROUND: Health professionals and medical students have knowledge gaps about the law that governs end-of-life decision-making. There is a lack of dedicated training on end-of-life law and corresponding research on the impact of this type of training.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of online training modules on key concepts of end-of-life law on...
Published in Endocrine
There are conflicting reports on the factors that increase the likelihood of patients dying from follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC). Therefore, it is critical to identify risk factors of patients with FTC. This study aimed to identify the factors that increase the risk of death of patients with FTC and help clinicians make better treatment and foll...
Published in Journal of epidemiology and global health
Lung cancer and liver cancer are the leading and third causes of cancer death, respectively. Both lung and liver cancer are with clear major risk factors. A thorough understanding of their burdens in the context of globalization, especially the convergences and variations among WHO regions, is useful in precision cancer prevention worldwide and und...
Peer reviewed: True / Funder: NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East of England (NIHR ARC EoE) / Funder: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research / BACKGROUND: The prescribing of injectable end-of-life anticipatory medications ahead of possible need is recommended best practice. The financial costs of these m...
Published in iScience
Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) at low residual inflammatory risk are often overlooked in research and practice. This study examined the associations between fourteen inflammatory indicators and all-cause mortality in 5,339 CAD patients with baseline high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP)
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by decreased systolic function and dilation of one or both ventricles, often leading to heart failure or sudden death. Two 10-month-old sibling Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers (NSDTR) died acutely with evidence of dilated cardiomyopathy with myocardial fibrosis. Association analysis using two cases ...
Published in Journal of nephrology
Experimental data support the involvement of complement in the pathogenesis of antineutrophil antibody associated vasculitis, and clinical studies describe a more severe disease phenotype in patients with antineutrophil antibody associated vasculitis and complement activation. In the present study, we looked for an association between circulating s...
Published in Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology
Stress can have adverse impacts on health, particularly when it is chronic or resulting from major adverse events. Our study investigated whether relatively common adverse events in older individuals were associated with an increased risk of death, as well as cause-specific death and potential gender differences. Participants were 12896 community-d...
editorial reviewed / Post-Mao Chinese State capitalism, through its complex politico-institutional configurations, has produced extraordinarily efficient processes of extraction of rural migrant workers’ labor value. Starting with the 1993 Zhili factory blaze in South China in which 84 female migrant workers, locked in their workshop, were burnt al...
Published in Journal of medical ethics
Smith argues that death caused by transplant surgery will not harm permanently unconscious patients, because they will not suffer a setback to their interests in the context of donation. Therefore, so the argument goes, the dead donor rule can be abandoned, because requiring a death declaration before procurement does not protect any relevant inter...
