Publications by authors named "Jennifer Tao"

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  • * The patient experienced symptoms like shortness of breath and palpitations, leading to a diagnosis of congestive heart failure and severe heart function reduction, with no signs of coronary artery disease found.
  • * After discontinuing the medications, the patient's heart function improved over time, indicating the importance of monitoring heart health in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases and the careful evaluation of treatment risks by physicians.
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  • * By analyzing age- and sex-specific death numbers up to August 2020, the study found 442,677 COVID-19 deaths, resulting in over 4.2 million PYLL, with significant variations among countries, particularly highlighting higher PYLL in North and South America, as well as some European nations.
  • * The study emphasizes the importance of PYLL as a tool for assessing the demographic impact of COVID-19, suggesting that ongoing monitoring can inform targeted preventive measures, especially for vulnerable age groups. *
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Care pathways for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) demonstrate improved quality and utilization outcomes. Standardizing these processes over large systems is difficult due to the variability of practice patterns and the complexity of multistep pathways. A simplified approach to this process focusing on early activity and avoidance of continuous urinary catheters was performed to overcome these perceived barriers for implementing a system-wide care pathway.

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