Publications by authors named "G Daniel Steel"
Purpose: Communication difficulties are highly prevalent in the stroke population, with implications for patient experience, safety and outcomes. This study explores the experiences of people with aphasia and family members regarding healthcare communication in acute and subacute stroke settings.
Methods And Materials: A phenomenological approach was used to understand participants' experiences.
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- Communication complexity poses challenges in evaluating and treating individuals with acquired brain injuries, often leading to assessments that overlook the dynamic nature of interactions.
- The term 'co-constructed communication' is proposed to describe assessment tasks that reflect the collaborative and evolving process of communication.
- A scoping review identified 37 studies that evaluated co-constructed communication, marking it as a distinct assessment genre for individuals with strokes and traumatic brain injuries, focusing on diverse task categories and psychometric properties.
Background: We hypothesized that parturients who had general anesthesia as the initial anesthetic technique for cesarean deliveries performed for fetal heart rate abnormalities would have a lower fetal cord blood gas pH compared to parturients who had regional anesthesia as the initial anesthetic technique.
Methods: We searched our electronic medical record for patients who had cesarean deliveries for the indication of fetal heart rate abnormalities from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2021, at our hospital. An obstetrics resident and a maternal fetal medicine physician determined if the fetal heart tracing was category 2 or 3.
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- High-intensity aphasia therapies like CIAT-Plus and M-MAT are effective but challenging to implement, so this study examined their feasibility and effectiveness at lower intensities.
- In a Phase II trial with chronic aphasia participants, both therapies were tested at a reduced intensity of 6 hours per week for 5 weeks, compared to the original higher intensity.
- Results showed high participation and completion rates, with positive effects on word retrieval and functional communication, indicating that lower intensity therapies are feasible, acceptable, and may be effective.
The global energy transition is very resource intense, and scholarship is rapidly increasing to show its impacts in various resource extraction frontiers in the global South. These emerging studies are clarifying the social and environmental impacts of extracting particular energy transition resources (ETRs). However, there is still limited attention on the cumulative socioenvironmental impacts of extracting multiple ETRs from the same region.
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