Risk score for two-year mortality following carotid endarterectomy performed for symptomatic stenosis.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify variables at the time of clinical presentation that place patients at higher risk for mortality following carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for symptomatic lesions. Further, this study will create a risk score for mortality within 2 years following CEA for symptomatic stenosis to help tailor future postoperative and long-term management by identifying patients who require heightened vigilance in postoperative care to facilitate survival.

Methods: The Vascular Quality Initiative CEA module was queried for procedures performed for symptomatic (within 180 days) carotid bifurcation stenosis.

Ten-year trends in clinical characteristics and outcome of children hospitalized with severe wasting or nutritional edema in Malawi (2011-2021): Declining admissions but worsened clinical profiles.

Background: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) constitutes a substantial burden in African hospitals. Despite adhering to international guidelines, high inpatient mortality rates persist and the underlying contributing factors remain poorly understood.

Objective: We evaluated the 10-year trend (2011-2021) in clinical factors and outcomes among children with severe wasting and/or nutritional edema at Malawi's largest nutritional rehabilitation unit (NRU).

Music Matters, but so Does the Outcome Measure: A Randomized Controlled Trial for an Individualized Music Intervention for People Living with Dementia.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate differential effects of an individualized music listening intervention for people living with dementia in institutional care.

Methods: Data from 118 people living with dementia, with a mean age of 84.05 years ( = 7.

Symmetrical choices and biased confidence during uncertain personality trait judgments.

While great methodological strides have been made in the area of decision making research, decisions that rely on subjective stimuli, such as personality traits, still pose a challenge for researchers, partly because it is difficult to define a standard of accuracy for such choices-they lack a "ground truth". In studies on value-based decisions, this same problem has been circumvented by comparing uncertain subjective decisions against a separately assessed judgment of value-a "standard". Here we apply this method in a task of verbal personality trait judgment, and show how a separately assessed standard judgment can be used to precisely control stimulus presentation and analyze subjective personality choices via the method of reverse correlation.