Oral health and oral care in patients in a surgical context: A quantitative study comparing patients' and nurses' assessments.

Aims: To investigate fundamental care delivery regarding oral care in a surgical context, and to compare patients' self-reported oral health with registered nurse assessments.

Design: A descriptive and comparative study, with a consecutive selection.

Methods: A patient oral health rating tool, including questions about performed oral care, was distributed to patients (n = 50), at four surgical wards in Sweden.

Effects of access to feed, water, and a competitive exclusion product in the hatcher on some immune traits and gut development in broiler chickens.

1. This study evaluated the effect of access to feed, water, and the competitive exclusion (CE) product Broilact®, administered in the hatcher, on broiler performance, caecal microbiota development, organ development, intestinal morphology, serum levels of IgY and vaccine-induced antibody responses.2.

Age-related changes in the shell gland and duodenum in relation to shell quality and bone strength in commercial laying hen hybrids.

Background: During the production period of laying hens, the number of cracked eggshells increases and the skeleton becomes brittle. Both these problems are related to ageing of the hen and cause economic problems for egg producers and impaired animal welfare. This study investigated key factors in the shell gland and duodenum related to eggshell quality and bone strength in laying hens during the production period.

Significant variations in the seroprevalence of C6 ELISA antibodies in a highly endemic area for Lyme borreliosis: evaluation of age, sex and seasonal differences.

The purpose of this study was to assess the seroprevalence of C6 ELISA antibodies in healthy blood donors in Kalmar County, Sweden, in relation to age, sex and time of year (peak season vs off season). In addition, we wanted to assess serological status over time in a group of C6 ELISA seropositive blood donors. Sera were collected from 273 (131 women, 142 men) blood donors in autumn 2011 and 300 (144 women, 156 men) in winter 2014.

Exogenous estradiol improves shell strength in laying hens at the end of the laying period.

Background: Cracked shells, due to age related reduction of shell quality, are a costly problem for the industry. Parallel to reduced shell quality the skeleton becomes brittle resulting in bone fractures. Calcium, a main prerequisite for both eggshell and bone, is regulated by estrogen in a complex manner.

Effects of phytoestrogen supplementation in the feed on the shell gland of laying hens at the end of the laying period.

Shell quality decreases as laying hens age and the aim of present study was to investigate how a supplement of daidzein, a natural phytoestrogen in soya, affects key factors in the shell gland and eggshell quality in late-stage laying hens. Hybrids of Lohmann Selected Leghorn (LSL) and Lohmann Brown (LB), received either a daidzein diet (50 mg/kg feed) or a control diet from 60 to 72 weeks of age. Both the total number of capillaries and capillaries with carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity were higher in the LSL hybrid than in the LB.

A comparative study of three methods to evaluate an intervention to improve empirical antibiotic therapy for acute bacterial infections in hospitalized patients.

Background: In order to limit the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, standardized empirical therapy against acute bacterial infections has been advocated.

Methods: Guidelines for acute bacterial infections recommending increased usage of benzylpenicillin and restricted use of fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins have been implemented in Kalmar County, Sweden. We evaluated this strategy by recording therapy in patients with bacteraemia, antibiotic requisition, and point prevalence surveys prior to this intervention and at 6 and 12 months after.

Factors associated with parental use of restrictive feeding practices to control their children's food intake.

There is a critical need to identify risk factors that make parents more likely to restrict their child's food intake. Child weight and ethnicity, parent weight, parent body dissatisfaction, and parent concern of child weight were examined as correlates of parent use of restrictive feeding practices in a diverse sample of 191 youth (ages 7-17). Participants attending a pediatric outpatient visit completed the Child Feeding Questionnaire (parent feeding practices and beliefs), the Figure Rating Scale (body dissatisfaction) and a demographic form.

A nosocomial outbreak of Candida parapsilosis in southern Sweden verified by genotyping.

In a haematology ward, Candida parapsilosis was found in blood cultures from 4 patients within a month. As C. parapsilosis is known to have a restricted genetic diversity, a combined methodological approach was adopted to establish a possible epidemiological relationship among the isolates (n = 9).

Barriers in the help-seeking process: a multiple-case study of early-onset dysthymia in Sweden.

The aim of this study was to investigate barriers to diagnosis and adequate treatment of patients with early-onset dysthymia by studying how understandings of illness by patients and providers have evolved and how treatments have been negotiated over time. A theory-testing and explorative multiple-case study design was used with developmental cognitive theory as framework. Data pertaining 10 non-remission dysthymic patients were analyzed using five sources: 1) case records, 2) interviews, 3) self-report questionnaires, 4) observations, and 5) life-charting, eliciting life events, course and treatments.

C6-peptide serology as diagnostic tool in neuroborreliosis.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of borrelia serology (Quick ELISA C6 Borrelia assay kit) as a diagnostic tool in cases of suspected neuroborreliosis. A retrospective patient material consisting of 124 paired serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples with a positive anti-borrelia antibody index (AI) using the IDEIA Lyme Neuroborreliosis test was compared with 124 AI-negative matched control subjects. The patients were divided into four groups based on presence of pleocytosis and age above or below 12 years.

Long-term outcome of patients with dysthymia and panic disorder: a naturalistic 9-year follow-up study.

The highly prevalent psychiatric disorders dysthymia and panic disorder have often a chronic or recurrent course with superimposed major depression. The prominent comorbidity between these diagnoses constitutes a confounding factor in the study of long-term outcome. We performed a 9-year follow-up of 38 patients with "pure" diagnoses, i.

Violence and threats of violence within psychiatric care--a comparison of staff and patient experience of the same incident.

This study compared staff members' and psychotic patients' experiences of one and the same violent incident. The staff exposed to the violence completed the Staff Observation Aggression Scale (SOAS). The patients who had exhibited the violent behaviour were interviewed prior to discharge from the ward.

Effect of citalopram treatment on relationship between platelet serotonin functions and the Karolinska scales of personality in panic patients.

Using the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP), we investigated the effect of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor citalopram on personality traits and the relationship between personality traits and peripheral indexes for central serotonergic function in patients with panic disorder at baseline and after 6 months of treatment. The degree of anxiety and depression was assessed using the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Clinical Anxiety Scale, and the Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale. A reduction in anxiety and depression scores of 75% was observed after treatment in two thirds of the patients.

Incidents of violence in psychiatric inpatient care.

During a period of 18 months a systematic inventory of aggressive incidents was made on two psychosis wards at the psychiatric department of Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. The Staff Observation Aggression Scale (SOAS) for recording and assessing aggressive incidents was used. Staff subjected to violence or threat of violence was interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire.

[Medical revision a way to treat blindness when it comes to home defects. Report from the first scrutiny of psychiatric care].

Results from medical revision of eight psychiatric clinics show that the points of view of "outsiders" can be of help to improve routines and procedures.

The effect of citalopram treatment on platelet serotonin function in panic disorders.

We investigated the effect of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) citalopram after 6-8 weeks and 6 months of treatment on clinical and peripheral indexes for central serotonergic function: platelet [14C]serotonin uptake and [3H]paroxetine- and [3H]LSD-binding to platelets membranes in 33 patients with panic disorder. Basal data from patients were compared with data from a control material consisting of 33 healthy volunteers. Bmax for platelet [3H]paroxetine binding was significantly lower in patients than in controls.