The hazard of mortality across different levels of frailty are increased among patients with high Braden scores.

Purpose: To examine the prognostic accuracy of the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) and Braden Scale (BS) separately and combined for 90-day mortality. Furthermore, to examine the effect of frailty on mortality depending on different levels of the Braden score.

Methods: The study included acutely admitted medical patients ≥ 65 years.

Turbulence spreading by resonant wave-wave interactions: A fractional kinetics approach.

This paper is concerned with the processes of spatial propagation and penetration of turbulence from the regions where it is locally excited into initially laminar regions. The phenomenon has come to be known as "turbulence spreading" and witnessed a renewed attention in the literature recently. Here, we propose a comprehensive theory of turbulence spreading based on fractional kinetics.

Existing Data Sources in Clinical Epidemiology: Database of Community Acquired Infections Requiring Hospital Referral in Eastern Denmark (DCAIED) 2018-2021.

Infectious diseases are major health care challenges globally and a prevalent cause of admission to emergency departments. Epidemiologic characteristics and outcomes based on population level data are limited. The Database of Community Acquired Infections in Eastern Denmark (DCAIED) 2018-2021 was established with the aim to explore and estimate the population characteristics, and outcomes of patients suffering from community acquired infections at the emergency departments in the Capital Region and the Zealand Region of Denmark using data from electronic medical records.

Feasibility of Assessing Older Patients in the Acute Setting: Findings From the Copenhagen PROTECT Study.

Objectives: Older patients are typically underrepresented in clinical trials despite representing a major proportion of the patient population. We aim to describe the feasibility of performing body composition measures, physical function measures, and patient-reported questionnaires within the first 24 hours of admission in a large sample of older acutely admitted medical patients. In addition, we aim to characterize patients with missing measurements.

Triage Strategies Based on C-Reactive Protein Levels and SARS-CoV-2 Tests among Individuals Referred with Suspected COVID-19: A Prospective Cohort Study.

C-reactive protein (CRP) has prognostic value in hospitalized patients with COVID-19; the importance of CRP in pre-hospitalized patients remains to be tested. : Individuals with symptoms of COVID-19 had a SARS-CoV-2 PCR oropharyngeal swab test, and a measurement of CRP was performed at baseline, with an upper reference range of 10 mg/L. After 28 days, information about possible admissions, oxygen treatments, transfers to the ICU, or deaths was obtained from the patient files.

Self-consistent model of the plasma staircase and nonlinear Schrödinger equation with subquadratic power nonlinearity.

A new basis has been found for the theory of self-organization of transport avalanches and jet zonal flows in L-mode tokamak plasma, the so-called "plasma staircase" [Dif-Pradalier et al., Phys. Rev.

A Collaborative Deprescribing Intervention in a Subacute Medical Outpatient Clinic: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

Medication deprescribing is essential to prevent inappropriate medication use in multimorbid patients. However, experience of deprescribing in Danish Subacute Medical Outpatient Clinics (SMOCs) is limited. The objective of our pilot study was to evaluate the feasibility and sustainability of a collaborative deprescribing intervention by a pharmacist and a physician to multimorbid patients in a SMOC.

Diamond-Coated Plasma Probes for Hot and Hazardous Plasmas.

Plasma probes are simple and inexpensive diagnostic tools for fast measurements of relevant plasma parameters. While in earlier times being employed mainly in relatively cold laboratory plasmas, plasma probes are now routinely used even in toroidal magnetic fusion experiments, albeit only in the edge region, i.e.

Physical activity in people with axial spondyloarthritis and the impact of overall attitudes, barriers, and facilitators: A cross-sectional study.

Objective: To study the association between self-reported physical activity level and overall attitudes and barriers to and facilitators of physical activity in people with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), and to compare health status and quality of life (QoL) in people with different levels of physical activity.

Methods: Four hundred forty-five members of the Danish Patient Association for Axial Spondyloarthritis completed an online survey including questions on physical activity, overall attitudes, barriers, and facilitators to physical activity, health, and QoL. Nonparametric tests and logistic regression analyses were performed.

Lévy flights on a comb and the plasma staircase.

We formulate the problem of confined Lévy flight on a comb. The comb represents a sawtoothlike potential field V(x), with the asymmetric teeth favoring net transport in a preferred direction. The shape effect is modeled as a power-law dependence V(x)∝|Δx|^{n} within the sawtooth period, followed by an abrupt drop-off to zero, after which the initial power-law dependence is reset.

Co-operation of digital nonlinear equalizers and soft-decision LDPC FEC in nonlinear transmission.

We experimentally and numerically investigated the characteristics of 128 Gb/s dual polarization - quadrature phase shift keying signals received with two types of nonlinear equalizers (NLEs) followed by soft-decision (SD) low-density parity-check (LDPC) forward error correction (FEC). Successful co-operation among SD-FEC and NLEs over various nonlinear transmissions were demonstrated by optimization of parameters for NLEs.

Group education and exercise is feasible in knee and hip osteoarthritis.

Introduction: Clinical practice does not reflect current clinical guidelines recommending an early multimodal non-surgical treatment for knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA). The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of such an initiative (Good Life with osteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D) in persons with mild to moderate knee and/or hip OA-related pain.

Material And Methods: This was a pilot study with a 36-patient cohort and three-month follow-up.

Multidisciplinary team care in rehabilitation: an overview of reviews.

Objectives: To systematically investigate current scientific evidence about the effectiveness of multidisciplinary team rehabilitation for different health problems.

Data Sources: A comprehensive literature search was conducted in Cochrane, Medline, DARE, Embase, and Cinahl databases, and research from existing systematic reviews was critically appraised and summarized.

Study Selection: Using the search terms "rehabilitation", "multidisciplinary teams" or "team care", references were identified for existing studies published after 2000 that examined multidisciplinary rehabilitation team care for adults, without restrictions in terms of study population or outcomes.

A closer look at RapidArc® radiosurgery plans using very small fields.

RapidArc® has become the treatment of choice for an increasing number of treatment sites in many clinics. The extensive use of multiple subfields in RapidArc® treatments presents unique challenges, especially for small targets treated in few fractions. In this work, very small static fields and subsequently RapidArc® and conventional plans for two targets (0.

[Stem cell therapy for neurodegenerative disorders].

Intrastriatal, foetal neural transplants can ameliorate symptoms in patients with Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, although not stop the primary cell-loss. Several issues must, however, be addressed before general or extended clinical use of cell therapy in neurodegenerative diseases can become a reality. Improvements include standardized and safe master cell-lines derived from human embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells and neural stem cells.

A simplified model for nonlinear cross-phase modulation in hybrid optical coherent system.

Cross-phase modulation (XPM) has been considered as one of the ultimate obstacles for optical coherent dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. In order to facilitate the XPM analysis, a simplified model was proposed. The model reduced the distributed XPM phenomena to a lumped phase modulation.

Manipulation does not add to the effect of extension exercises in chronic low-back pain (LBP). A randomized, controlled, double blind study.

Objectives: Both exercises and manipulation are recommended as basic therapy in back diseases, while a possible synergistic effect of these treatments have not been clarified. This study was conducted to test a possible further effect of manipulation as adjunct to extension exercises for unspecific LBP.

Methods: 72 patients with chronic LBP (mean 12 months) were examined by a specialist in manual medicine, who detected localized binding between the lumbar segments.

Factors controlling the abundance and size distribution of the phototrophic ciliate Myrionecta rubra in open waters of the North Atlantic.

Myrionecta rubra, a ubiquitous planktonic ciliate, has received much attention due to its wide distribution, occurrence as a red tide organism, and unusual cryptophyte endosymbiont. Although well studied in coastal waters, M. rubra is poorly examined in the open ocean.

Three overcrowded zinc(II) complexes with potentially hexadentate polypyridyl ligands.

In each of [N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)ethane-1,2-diamine-kappa(6)N]zinc(II) bis(perchlorate) 0.67-hydrate, [Zn(C(26)H(28)N(6))](ClO(4))(2) x 0.67 H(2)O, (I), [N,N,N'-tris(2-pyridylmethyl)-N'-(2-quinolylmethyl)ethane-1,2-diamine-kappa(6)N]zinc(II) bis(perchlorate), [Zn(C(30)H(30)N(6))](ClO(4))(2), (II), and [N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-N,N'-bis(2-quinolylmethyl)ethane-1,2-diamine-kappa(6)N]zinc(II) bis(perchlorate) monohydrate, [Zn(C(34)H(32)N(6))](ClO(4))(2) x H(2)O, (III), the Zn atom is coordinated to all six N atoms of the ligand.

Heart rate variability in white-coat hypertension.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to compare heart rate variability (HRV) in patients with essential hypertension, in patients with white-coat hypertension and in normotensive control individuals, and to investigate a possible relation between HRV and vasoactive hormones.

Methods: Patients with essential hypertension (n=19, 61 years, median and interquartile range: 40-66 years), patients with white-coat hypertension (n=8, 52 years, median and interquartile range: 41-64 years) and normotensive participants (n=13, 50 years, median and interquartile range: 39-57 years) participated in the study. HRV was measured at rest in the supine position, during standing and during controlled forced breathing (respiration frequency >20/min).

Intra-observer and inter-observer agreement of the manual examination of the lumbar spine in chronic low-back pain.

Examination is a cornerstone in the manual procedures leading to mobilisation/manipulation of the low back. The observer variation of the more specific segmental tests remains to be investigated. Two skilled specialists in manual medicine examined the segmental changes in the lumbar spine.

[Ergoline-induced retroperitoneal fibrosis].

A 69-year-old man presented with anaemia, swelling of the legs and scrotum, weight gain and fatigue. MR scan and laboratory findings initiated a search for cancer, but eventually retroperitoneal fibrosis (RF) was suspected. A medical review revealed that an ergoline-based drug known to be associated with RF had been used for eight years.

Beam stabilization in the two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an attractive potential by beam splitting and radiation.

The effect of attractive linear potentials on self-focusing in-waves modeled by a nonlinear Schrödinger equation is considered. It is shown that the attractive potential can prevent both singular collapse and dispersion that are generic in the cubic Schrödinger equation in the critical dimension 2 and can lead to a stable oscillating beam. This is observed to involve a splitting of the beam into an inner part that is oscillatory and of subcritical power and an outer dispersing part.