Published in International nursing review
In this indefinite pandemic situation, roles of nurses have been most illuminated by the public, but the nurses may soon start experiencing burnout. This paper highlights roles of nurses in COVID care in Korea and nursing strategies for the post-COVID era. As we are the frontline advocators of the public, when we develop strategies for their health...
Published in Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
To determine individual responses to ibuprofen gel or capsaicin cream for painful, radiographic knee OA using a series of n-of-1 trials. Twenty-two participants were allocated 5% ibuprofen gel (A) and 0.025% capsaicin cream (B) in random sequence (AB or BA). Patients underwent up to 3 treatment cycles, each comprising one treatment for 4 weeks, an ...
Published in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
Amyloid accumulation, the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, may predispose some older adults to depression and cognitive decline. Deposition of amyloid also occurs prior to the development of cognitive decline. It is unclear whether amyloid influences antidepressant outcomes in cognitively intact depressed elders. A pharmacoimaging tria...
Published in Clinical EEG and neuroscience
The aim of the current study was to investigate a possible relationship between electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) seizure adequacy parameters and clinical outcome as well as differences between ECT responders and nonresponders in terms of ECT seizure parameters in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. First and last ECT ...
Published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
There is a lack of useful biomarkers for predicting the efficacy of anti–programmed death-1 (PD-1) therapy for advanced gastric and colorectal cancer. To address this issue, in this study we investigated the correlation between inflammatory marker expression and survival in patients with advanced gastric and colorectal cancer. Data for 111 patients...
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to assess the impact of a more detailed classification of response on survival. BACKGROUND: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves functional status and outcomes in selected populations with heart failure (HF). However, approximately 30% of patients do not improve with CRT by various metrics, and they are tra...
Published in Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy
Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the utility of 18fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in the diagnosis, staging, restaging, and treatment response of childhood malignancies. Methods: This study included 52 patients (32 boys, 20 girls) who were referred to our clinic between...
Published in Sādhanā
This paper deals with development of structural equation models for two wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) processes so as to investigate and estimate their machining performance along with identification of the most significant input parameters influencing the operational achievement of the said processes. These models also search out the ...
Published in Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Here, we present an overview of how a tertiary hospital responded to maintain necessary activities and protect patients and staff from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. Gil Medical Center, a tertiary hospital in Incheon, has operated a special response team since January 21, 2020. All visitors were assessed for body temperature and respi...
Namen raziskave je bil preveriti vplive jezdečeve telesne mase, izkušenj in spola na odziv fizioloških, hematoloških in biokemijskih parametrov lipicanskega konja pred in po zmerni fizični aktivnosti. Za poskus smo uporabili 6 konj lipicanske pasme, ki sta jih v 30-minutnem delovnem testu (10 min korak, 10 min kas in 10 min galop) jezdila dva jezde...
