Remote consultations: review of guiding themes for equitable and effective delivery.

The global coronavirus disease (COVID) -19 pandemic has led to a rapid transformation in the ways in which outpatient care is delivered. The need to minimise the risk of viral infection and transmission through social distancing resulted in the widespread adoption of remote consultations, traditional face-to-face appointments ceasing almost overnight in many specialties. The transition to remote consultations had taken place far faster than anticipated and under crisis conditions.

Effects of yoga on anxiety and depression for high risk mothers on hospital bedrest.

Background: and purpose: In recent years, yoga practitioners have joined forces with medical programs to approach patients' well-being holistically. This study is a randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of a specialized adapted yoga program on anxiety and depression for high-risk expectant mothers on bedrest in a hospital setting.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-nine pregnant subjects on physician ordered hospitalized bedrest were randomized into two groups: receiving biweekly yoga sessions (intervention group) or receiving no yoga (control group).

Assessing health-related quality of life in heart failure patients attending an outpatient clinic: a pragmatic approach.

Aims: Improving quality of life (QoL) in heart failure patients is a key management objective. Validated health-related QoL (HR-QoL) measurement tools have been incorporated into clinical trials but not routinely into daily practice. The aims of this study were to investigate the acceptability and feasibility of implementing validated HR-QoL instruments into heart failure clinics and to examine the impact of patient characteristics on HR-QoL.

Crisis averted: How consumers experienced a police and clinical early response (PACER) unit responding to a mental health crisis.

When mental health crisis situations in the community are poorly handled, it can result in physical and emotional injuries. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the experiences and opinions of consumers about the way police and mental health services worked together, specifically via the Alfred Police and Clinical Early Response (A-PACER) model, to assist people experiencing a mental health crisis. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 mental health consumers who had direct contact with the A-PACER team between June 2013 and March 2015.

The role of adjuvant radiation therapy for resected stage III thymoma: a population-based study.

Background: Because of the rarity of the disease and long survival of most patients, the role of adjuvant radiation therapy in patients with surgically resected stage III thymoma is unclear, and few prospective studies are available. The objective was to evaluate the impact of postoperative radiation therapy after resection of stage III thymoma.

Methods: The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database was queried for all patients with stage III thymoma who underwent surgical therapy and survived more than 30 days after diagnosis.

Thymomas and extrathymic cancers.

Background: Patients with thymoma may have a predisposition toward extrathymic neoplasia. To understand the lifetime risk and incidence of extrathymic neoplasia in patients with thymoma, we evaluated extrathymic neoplasms diagnosed either before or after the diagnosis of thymoma.

Methods: We queried the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer database and identified patients with thymoma and extrathymic neoplasms.

Stomatal index responses of Agrostis canina to CO2 and sulphur dioxide: implications for palaeo-[CO2] using the stomatal proxy.

• Stomatal index values of fossil plants are widely used in reconstructing palaeo-[CO(2)]. This depends upon the assumption that the stomatal index is determined by the atmospheric concentration of CO(2) ([CO(2)]). This study investigates whether fumigation with, and resistance to, sulphur dioxide (SO(2)) induces a reduction in the stomatal index that may affect stomatal reconstructions of palaeo-[CO(2)] coinciding with episodes of global-scale volcanism.