Clinical prognostic factors for older people: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: To explore the accuracy and precision of prognostic tools used in older people in predicting mortality, hospitalization, and nursing home admission across different settings and timings.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective and retrospective studies.

Data Sources: A systematic search from database inception until 01st February 2023 was run in Medline, Embase, Cinhal, Cochrane Library.

Reiki intervention for supporting healthcare professional care behaviors in pediatric palliative care: A pilot study.

Objectives: Pediatric healthcare professionals (HCPs) working in a palliative setting may experience challenges during their clinical practice in addressing the complex end-of-life phase of children and their families. Nurses, especially, have a frontline role in providing assistance, thereby becoming at risk of physical and psychological burden. Pediatric psychologists have an ethical responsibility to help colleagues by proposing self-care interventions that will improve their well-being and, indirectly, the work climate.

Reliability of the posterior condylar offset.

The posterior condylar offset (PCO) has been proposed as a determinant of a postoperative range of motion after total knee arthroplasty, although there is no consensus. This study aimed to demonstrate the error introduced by forcing the femoral rotation to overlap both condyles for the "true" lateral X-ray projection for the PCO measurement. We hypothesize that the angular discrepancy between the posterior femoral cortical reference plane and the posterior condylar axis plane due to rotation invalidates the acquisition of reliable measurements on X-rays.

Patient-Specific Instrumentation Accuracy Evaluated with 3D Virtual Models.

There have been remarkable advances in knee replacement surgery over the last few decades. One of the concerns continues to be the accuracy in achieving the desired alignment. Patient-specific instrumentation (PSI) was developed to increase component placement accuracy, but the available evidence is not conclusive.

A high sample rate, wireless instrumented wheel for measuring 3D pushrim kinetics of a racing wheelchair.

In wheelchair racing, measuring pushrim kinetics such as propulsion forces and moments is paramount for improving performance and preventing injuries. However, there is currently no instrumented racing wheel that records 3D pushrim kinetics wirelessly and at a high sample rate, which is necessary for accurately analysing wheelchair racing biomechanics. In this work, we present an instrumented wheel that measures 3D kinetics at 2500 Hz.