Publications by authors named "Julie Sage"
Article Synopsis
- Foetuses are very sensitive to radiation, so doctors need to be careful when doing medical procedures on pregnant women.
- A group called EURADOS looked into how different hospitals manage pregnant patients and found many different opinions and methods about how to measure the radiation their babies might get.
- They discovered that even though there are old guidelines for radiation protection, they are out of date and need to be updated to better protect babies in the womb.
Purposes: The introduction of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) into the French breast cancer screening program is forecast by the authorities. The aim of the present study was to evaluate image quality phantoms to be used as internal quality controls.
Methods: Seven breast phantoms dedicated to quality control in mammography were evaluated on reconstructed DBT images: ACR Model 015, BR3D, DBT QC model 021, Mam/Digi-EPQC, MTM100, TOMOMAM® and TOMOPHAN®.
Aims: Since cyclic effects on experimental pain response in women with temporomandibular disorders (TMD) have not been adequately studied, the aim of this study was to assess variations in experimental pain response at 4 phases of the menstrual cycle.
Methods: Eighteen normally cycling women with TMD, 25 women with TMD and taking oral contraceptives (OC), 25 normally cycling pain-free controls, and 26 pain-free controls taking OC underwent 3 experimental pain procedures at 4 phases during each of 3 menstrual cycles. These procedures included algometer palpations at fixed amounts of pressure and pressure pain thresholds at several body sites, and an ischemic arm pain task.
Objective: Patients with temporomandibular pain disorders (TMD) have greater experimental pain perception when compared with pain-free controls. Common psychological features of TMD include somatization and depression. The impact of depression on experimental pain perception has received considerable attention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study examined rates of interest in creating psychiatric advance directives among individuals at risk of psychiatric crises in which these directives might be used and variables associated with interest in the directives.
Methods: The participants were 303 adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses who were receiving community mental health services and who had experienced at least two psychiatric crises in the previous two years. Case managers introduced the concepts of the directives and assessed participants' interest.