Venter, Bonnie Ruck Keene, Alexander Cronin, Antonia J
Published in
Journal of medical ethics
In February 2022, the Court of Protection was faced with the question of whether a kidney transplant was in the best interests of William Verden. The case highlighted the legal, ethical and clinical complexities of treating potential kidney transplant patients with impaired decision-making. Above all, it exposed the potential risk of discrimination...
langill, jennifer c. Crossland, Mary Elias, Marlene Vinceti, Barbara Paez Valencia, Ana Maria Traoré, Alain Traoré, Daouda
Within the global literature on ecological restoration, a subset of literature examines the relationship between smallholder land restoration and rural outmigration. However, intrahousehold dynamics surrounding the outmigration of one or more household members and the capacity of the household to undertake land restoration activities are often over...
Yang, Qing Zhao, Yangqing
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
Within the context of professional football, we examined the impact of the interim game state on risk-taking and performance during a dynamic tournament. This study used 9,256 segments from the top five European football leagues as samples. These segments were derived from 1,826 games played during the 2017–2018 season. Poisson regression was emplo...
Cléradin, Clémentine Bescond-Michel, Zoé Latil, Gérard Fourcassié, Vincent
Transport tasks are simple tasks whose cost can be easily measured and that are thus well suited to test optimality hypotheses. Here we focus on a particular type of transport that occur when ants are clearing obstacles from their subterranean galleries. In the laboratory we studied how they extract an object from a gallery of various inclinations....
Listl, S Baltussen, R Carrasco-Labra, A Carrer, F C Lavis, J N
Published in
Journal of dental research
Despite a clear need for improvement in oral health systems, progress in oral health systems transformation has been slow. Substantial gaps persist in leveraging evidence and stakeholder values for collective problem solving. To truly enable evidence-informed oral health policy making, substantial "know-how" and "know-do" gaps still need to be over...
Yang, Xi Chen, ChaoQun Geng, Kun Jia, Xuedong Si, FangYing Lu, XiaoJing Zhang, Wan Du, Shuzhang Zhang, Xiaojian Guo, Wenzhi
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BMJ open
Intensive care unit (ICU) dying patients are the most important source of organ donation. This study explores the reasons affecting organ donation in the Chinese sociocultural context from the perspectives of coordinators and physicians, and further seeks countermeasures to alleviate the shortage of organs. Semistructured interviews conducted in a ...
Pradhan, Jasmin Harding, Andrew M Taylor, Simone E Lam, Que
Published in
Internal medicine journal
Hyperkalaemia is managed in the emergency department (ED) following measurement of potassium results by blood gas analysers (BGA) or laboratory analysers (LAB). To determine the prevalence of clinically significant differences between BGA and LAB potassium results and the impact on ED hyperkalaemia management. Retrospective analysis of time-matched...
Lojszczyk, Alicja Wilson, Rhonda Wood, Jessica Hutton, Alison
Published in
Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction Recreational drug use by emerging adults has been identified as an increasingly normalized trend in social contexts. It has been documented that the consumption of these substances regularly occurs at music festivals, raves, nightlife and party settings. While it is known that emerging adults participate in these risk-taking behaviors,...
Mahlich, Jörg Riou, Sybille Verry, Matthieu
Published in
Frontiers in Medicine
When assessing the value of new drugs regulatory authorities across the world frequently make different decisions even though their decisions are based on the same evidence package. In this perspective we argue that even in today’s world regulatory and medical decision making is framed by conflicting philosophical schools of thought, namely the lib...
Then, Shih Ning Duffy, Julia Bigby, Christine Sinclair, Craig Wiesel, Ilan Carney, Terry Douglas, Jacinta
Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has been instrumental in driving the development of the concept and practice of supported decision making. An important feature has been the development of “supported decision making pilots.” This paper identifies, describes and analyses pilot programmes providin...
