Older people, medication usage and long-term care pharmacists: a retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To investigate the impact of the presence of a pharmacist on medication usage in long-term care facilities.

Methods: The study followed a retrospective cohort design, with a sample of patients aged ≥65 years admitted to three long-term care facilities over 30 months. Data on age, gender, type of stay, the presence or absence of a pharmacist and pharmacotherapeutic profile at admission and discharge were obtained for study patients.

Materials to Be Used in Future Magnetic Confinement Fusion Reactors: A Review.

This paper presents the roadmap of the main materials to be used for ITER and DEMO class reactors as well as an overview of the most relevant innovations that have been made in recent years. The main idea in the EUROfusion development program for the FW (first wall) is the use of low-activation materials. Thus far, several candidates have been proposed: RAFM and ODS steels, SiC/SiC ceramic composites and vanadium alloys.

Short- and long-term outcomes of percutaneous cholecystostomy in an Australian population.

Background: Percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) is a well-recognized management option for the treatment of acute cholecystitis (AC) in high-risk patients. Patient characteristics, efficacy and particularly the longer-term outcomes for patients having PC across the Hunter New England Local Health District were analysed.

Methods: A retrospective audit from January 2013 to September 2017 was undertaken.

Reset Controller Design Based on Error Minimization for a Lane Change Maneuver.

An intelligent vehicle must face a wide variety of situations ranging from safe and comfortable to more aggressive ones. Smooth maneuvers are adequately addressed by means of linear control, whereas more aggressive maneuvers are tackled by nonlinear techniques. Likewise, there exist intermediate scenarios where the required responses are smooth but constrained in some way (rise time, settling time, overshoot).

Long-term results of breast conservation and immediate volume replacement with myocutaneous latissimus dorsi flap.

Background: Published long-term outcomes of oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery are scarce and, specifically, aesthetic outcomes assessed with an objective method have not previously been published.

Methods: A cohort of 41 patients treated with a quadrantectomny and immediate reconstruction using a myocutaneous latissimus dorsi flap were analyzed and their aesthetic outcomes were evaluated objectively by BCCT.core software.

Recovery in viscid line fibers.

The development of a reliable procedure for removing the viscous coating of viscid silk has allowed the accurate characterization of the tensile behavior of clean flagelliform silk (i.e., silk of the flagelliform gland without the viscous coating synthetised in the aggregate gland).

Genetic diversity of wine Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains in an experimental winery from Galicia (NW Spain).

Genetic diversity of wine Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains involved in spontaneous fermentations was studied by analysis of mitochondrial DNA restriction patterns. Yeasts were isolated at different stages of fermentations with must from three different white grapevine varieties, Albariño, Godello and Treixadura, which are autochthonous from Galicia. Nineteen different patterns out of a total of 446 strains analysed were identified, but only a few of them appeared at high frequency and therefore were able to lead the fermentation process.

[Assessment of home parenteral nutrition programme in terminal oncological patients].

Background And Goals: The assessment of the acceptance of the diets served at the hospital allows the introduction of adjustments to improve the quality of the service provided to hospitalized patients by preventing the complications derived from incorrect nutrition and enhancing their stay in hospital. The goal of the present study was to analyze the acceptance of the menus offered by the Hospital's catering service.

Scope Of The Study: Menus provided by the catering service of the "Sant Joan de Reus" University Hospital.

Effect of sucrose ester addition on nucleation and growth behavior of milk fat-sunflower oil blends.

The effects of addition of the sucrose esters (SE) P-1670, P-170, and S-170 to a high-melting fraction of milk fat (HMF) and its blends with sunflower oil (SFO) on nucleation and growth were studied by laser polarized light turbidimetry and polarized light microscopy (PLM). The three SE delayed nucleation of HMF at the temperatures selected. P-1670 did not modify average crystal size after 3 h at crystallization temperature (T(c)) or crystal size distribution and modified crystallization kinetics only slightly.

Surgical treatment of laryngotracheal stenosis: a review of 60 cases.

Management of laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS) remains one of the most challenging problems facing the otolaryngologist. The key to success is to obtain adequate rigid circular support with normal mucosal lining. Sixty patients with LTS were surgically treated in our institution over a 20-year period.