Effects of host age and density on the performance of Apanteles hemara (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a larval endoparasitoi...
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Associations of potentially inappropriate medication use with four year survival of an inception cohort of nursing home ...
Background: Survival in older adults has a high variability. The possible association of length of survival with potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use remains unclear. Aim: To examine the four-year survival rate, the prevalence of polypharmacy and PIM use at admission, and the association between the two, in an inception cohort of newly ad...
Growth regulation in amphibian pathogenic chytrid fungi by the quorum sensing metabolite tryptophol
Amphibians face many threats leading to declines and extinctions, but the chytrid fungal skin pathogens Batrachochytriurn dendrobatidis (Bd) and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) have been identified as the causative factors leading to one of the greatest disease-driven losses of amphibian biodiversity worldwide. Infection may lead to differ...
Using the Biocheck.UGent™ scoring tool in Irish farrow-to-finish pig farms : assessing biosecurity and its relation to p...
Background: Biosecurity is one of the main factors affecting disease occurrence and antimicrobial use, and it is associated with performance in pig production. However, the importance of specific measures could vary depending on the (national) context. The aim of this study was to describe the biosecurity status in a cohort of Irish pig farms, to i...
Entrenamiento de intervalos de alta intensidad (HIIT) en adultos mayores: una revisión sistemática
Durante los últimos años el entrenamiento interválico de alta intensidad (HIIT) ha aparecido como alternativa saludable a nivel cardiaco, muscular y adiposo en diferentes colectivos. Pese a ser un tema frecuentemente tratado en la actualidad, no existe a día de hoy un consenso claro sobre su utilidad y aplicación en el colectivo de los adultos mayo...
Accurate prediction of blood culture outcome in the intensive care unit using long short-term memory neural networks
Introduction: Blood cultures are often performed in the intensive care unit (ICU) to detect bloodstream infections and identify pathogen type, further guiding treatment. Early detection is essential, as a bloodstream infection can give cause to sepsis, a severe immune response associated with an increased risk of organ failure and death. Problem st...
Monitoring health inequalities when the socio-economic composition changes : are the slope and relative indices of inequ...
Background. The slope (SII) and relative (RII) indices of inequality are commonly recommended to monitor health inequality policies. As an upwards shift of the educational level distribution (ELD) can be part of those policies, we examine how such a shift affects the SII, the RII and the population attributable fraction (PAF). Methods. We simulated...
Hemodynamic changes in ALPPS influence liver regeneration and function : results from a prospective study
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Background: Excessive increase of portal flow and pressure following extended hepatectomy have been associated to insufficient growth or function of the future liver remnant (FLR), with the risk of post-hepatectomy liver failure (PHLF). We prospectively assess the influence of liver hemodynamics on FLR regeneration and function in Associating Liver...
Systematic review: Association between the patient–nurse ratio and nurse outcomes in acute care hospitals
Aims: To evaluate and summarize current evidence on the relationship between the patient-nurse ratio staffing method and nurse employee outcomes. Background: Evidence-based decision-making linking nurse staffing with staff-related outcomes is a much needed research area. Although multiple studies have investigated this phenomenon, the evidence is m...
Part II: Minimum Quality Threshold in Preclinical Sepsis Studies (MQTiPSS) for types of infections and organ dysfunction...
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Although the clinical definitions of sepsis and recommended treatments are regularly updated, a systematic review has not been done for preclinical models. To address this deficit, a Wiggers-Bernard Conference on preclinical sepsis modeling reviewed the 260 most highly cited papers between 2003 and 2012 using sepsis models to create a series of rec...
