Publications by authors named "P K Mathew"

Enteric duplication cysts and reversed intestinal rotation (RIR) are rare congenital anomalies, with their coexistence being exceptionally uncommon. We report a 4-year-old girl who presented with chronic anemia and intermittent abdominal symptoms since infancy. Detailed workup for medical causes of anemia was inconclusive.

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Aim: Injudicious usage of antibiotics has led to the emergence of antibiotic resistance which is a major health-care problem in developing countries such as India. Our aim was to show how antibiotic therapy based on serial procalcitonin (PCT) assay can help in antibiotic de-escalation in septic patients.

Materials And Methods: A pre-post interventional study was conducted among 300 septic patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU).

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The integration of digital health technologies with innovative business models became a crucial driver in the transformation of healthcare service delivery and management worldwide. As the adoption of electronic health (eHealth) solutions grows, there is increasing scholarly interest in understanding and optimizing these models. This paper reviewed the literature on eHealth business models from 1991 to 2024 through a bibliometric analysis of 1,118 documents published across 711 sources.

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Background And Objectives: The capability to cause invasive infection, multi-drug resistance, and health care-associated outbreaks of have made it a pathogen of great concern. Estimating how many patients in our intensive care unit had colonization and what characteristics put patients at risk for having spp. colonization were the primary goals of the study.

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