Association between Disaster Knowledge Level and the First Step of Stockpiling Food for a Disaster.

This study clarifies the association between disaster knowledge levels and beginning to stockpile food at home as a disaster preparedness. This survey was conducted between 18-20 December 2019 using a self-administered web-based questionnaire. The participants were recruited from panel members of an online survey company.

Interprofessional Education to Address Substance Use among Adults with Persistent Pain: A Pre-Post Program Evaluation.

Background: Substance use disorders (SUDs) are highly prevalent among adults with persistent pain. Yet, standard competencies for integrating pain and SUD content are lacking across health science student curricula. Additionally, pharmacotherapies to treat SUDs are underutilized.

Association between personality traits and food stockpiling for disaster.

This study investigated the association between personality traits and food stockpiling for disasters in predicted high-risk areas of food shortages due to the Nankai Trough Earthquake. This survey was conducted between December 18 and 20, 2019, using a web-based questionnaire. The participants were 1,200 individuals registered with an online survey company.

Association between Health Practice and Food Stockpiling for Disaster.

In this study investigated the association between health practices and food stockpiling for disasters in predicted areas with a high risk of food shortage due to the Nankai Trough earthquake. A survey was conducted during 18-20 December 2019 using a self-administered web-based questionnaire. In total, 1200 individuals registered with an online survey company participated in the study.

Interprofessional education on opioid use and pain identifies team-based learning needs.

Background: An interprofessional education (IPE) activity was designed for health professional students in pharmacy, medicine, nursing, social work, and addiction studies. The goals were to practice team-based collaboration for patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic pain and to evaluate student responses to the activity.

Interprofessional Education Activity: Student teams were guided through an unfolding patient case that included evaluating the patient's history, screening tool results, morphine equivalent dose, prescription monitoring program report, and videos of a patient-provider interaction.

Antioxidant Capacity of Tempura Deep-Fried Products Prepared Using Barley, Buckwheat, and Job's Tears Flours.

Tempura is a dish of battered and deep-fried foods, and wheat flour is typically used; however, barley, buckwheat, and Job's tears have an antioxidant capacity. This study investigated whether replacing wheat flour with flours from these three crops in tempura affects the antioxidant capacity and deterioration of frying oil. Radical scavenging activity and polyphenol content of tempura were measured by chemiluminescence-based assay and the Folin-Denis method, respectively.

Hospice Core Professions' Views on Interdisciplinary Teams: A Qualitative Investigation.

The hospice interdisciplinary team (IDT) has been recognized as an ideal model for interprofessional collaboration. To address the manner in which interdisciplinary practices are perceived by team members, this study explored profession-based similarities and differences in perceptions among the four core hospice IDT members (physicians, nurses, social workers, and spiritual care providers) as well as experiences on the IDT. Semistructured interviews with 20 hospice professionals, 5 from each profession, were completed.

National Guard service members' perceptions of informal and formal supports: an exploratory study.

Much of the research on military families has focused on active duty service members. Little is known about informal and formal supports that National Guard service members use. Using an ecological systems perspective, this exploratory pilot study assessed awareness, access, use, satisfaction, and perceptions of effectiveness of informal and formal supports in a small group of National Guard service members.

Dynamic eye socket reconstruction after extensive resection of midfacial malignancies: preliminary results using temporalis transfer.

The functional and esthetic results of reconstructive surgery after extended total maxillectomy or extended orbital exenteration greatly depend on the quality of the orbital reconstruction. We developed dynamic eye socket reconstruction using temporalis transfer to achieve good orbital reconstruction, and examined the usefulness of our technique. Five patients (three men and two women, aged 44-72 years) who underwent extensive resection of midfacial malignancies were treated with dynamic eye socket reconstruction using temporalis transfer.

Similarities and differences in perspectives on interdisciplinary collaboration among hospice team members.

This study surveyed 4 core hospice professionals (physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains) on their perceived level of interdisciplinary collaboration, the influences of interdisciplinary collaboration, and job satisfaction to determine potential similarities and differences based on profession and various demographic characteristics of the members or member hospices. Analysis found that there are overall no differences based on demographic characteristics. Differences between professions, while few, were largely in the area of perceptions on relationships between members of the hospice team.

Dynamic eye socket reconstruction after extended total maxillectomy using temporalis transfer.

The functional and cosmetic results of the reconstructive surgery after extended total maxillectomy greatly depend on the quality of the orbital reconstruction. In order to achieve good orbital reconstruction, we developed the dynamic eye socket reconstruction using temporalis transfer. In this report, I will present the details of the technique, including tips and innovations for dynamic eye socket reconstruction.

Are children's grief camps effective?

Bereavement camps are one form of popular grief intervention for children. A review of the existing literature on child bereavement camps was conducted to examine effectiveness of these camps. An initial database search led to 187 entries.

Linearity condition for orbital energies in density functional theory (III): benchmark of total energies.

This study presents a numerical assessment of total energy related physical quantities estimated using the orbital-specific (OS) global and range-separated hybrid functionals, designed to satisfy the linearity condition for orbital energies (LCOE). The numerical assessment demonstrates that accurate evaluation of the reaction energies, reaction barrier, and dissociation curve can be achieved via the OS hybrid functional, for systems in which self-interaction is expected to be dominant. Therefore, the LCOE offers an accurate description of orbital energies as well as total energies for self-interaction dominant systems.

[Effectiveness of steroids for the rash side effect of pemetrexed].

Rash is a common side effect of pemetrexed(PEM). In clinical trials overseas, patients were prescribed with dexamethasone(DEX), as a prevention against skin rash. Four mg of DEX was orally administered twice daily on the day prior to, day of,and day after the infusion of pemetrexed.

Psycho-oncological aspect of surgery in palliative care: our satisfactory experience using a V-Y island flap.

Conclusions: Our reconstruction method using a V-Y island flap was minimally invasive and yielded a satisfactory esthetic result without impairing the patient's postoperative quality of life (QOL).

Objective: Malignant skin tumors of the head and neck often affect the patient's appearance and QOL. Therefore, surgery for terminally staged patients with malignant skin tumors may be a treatment of choice for surgeons in a palliative care team to improve and sustain the patient's QOL.

Impact of visceral fat on laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy.

Background: Obesity is known to be a preoperative risk factor for gastric cancer surgery. However, the influence of obesity on laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) remains controversial. In the present study, we evaluated several obesity parameters and investigated the influence of obesity on the surgical outcomes of LADG for gastric cancer.

Preoperative assessment of perigastric vascular anatomy by multidetector computed tomography angiogram for laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy.

Purpose: We aimed at investigating the efficacy of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) angiogram reconstructed using the maximum intensity projection (MIP) technique for the assessment of perigastric vascular anatomy before laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy (LAG) for gastric cancer.

Methods: Seventy-one patients who underwent LAG were enrolled in the study. Contrast-enhanced scans of the portal venous phase were performed by a MDCT scanner.

Looking within and reaching out: bereavement counselor perceptions of grieving adults with ID.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the grief and loss experience of adults with ID through the eyes of 18 hospice-affiliated bereavement counselors. The data included interviews with hospice affiliated counselors who had provided grief counseling to adults with ID. The interview data were analyzed using grounded theory.

Linearity condition for orbital energies in density functional theory: construction of orbital-specific hybrid functional.

This study proposes a novel approach to construct the orbital-specific (OS) hybrid exchange-correlation functional by imposing the linearity condition: ∂(2)E/∂f(i)(2)|(0≤f(i)≤1) = ∂ɛ(i)/∂f(i)|(0≤f(i)≤1) = 0, where E, ε(i), and f(i) represent the total energy, orbital energy, and occupation number of the ith orbital. The OS hybrid exchange-correlation functional, of which the OS Hartree-Fock exchange (HFx) portion is determined by the linearity condition, reasonably reproduces the ionization potentials not only from valence orbitals but also from core ones in a sense of Koopmans' theorem. The obtained short-range HFx portions are consistent with the parameters empirically determined in core-valence-Rydberg-Becke-3-parameter-Lee-Yang-Parr hybrid functional [Nakata et al.

[A short-term outcome of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for early gastric cancer].

In this study, we investigated a short-term outcome of 56 cases of ESD for early gastric cancer performed in our department concerning the tumor diameter within or over 20 mm. Seventeen lesions were larger than 21 mm (large group), and 39 lesions were within 20 mm (indication group). There was no significant difference in the background factors between the two groups.

Subdural hematoma associated with dural metastasis of gastric carcinoma: report of two cases.

We treated two cases of a subdural hematoma associated with dural metastasis of gastric cancer, from which both patients died. Case 1: A 60-year-old female patient was hospitalized with a diagnosis of type 4 gastric cancer of the antrum. The patient suddenly collapsed, and, subsequently, left hemiplegia and a depressed level of consciousness were noted.

Pulmonary and deep vein thrombosis in a young patient with protein S deficiency: report of a case.

A 27-year-old man, who was diagnosed as having familial protein S deficiency, developed deep vein thrombosis complicated with pulmonary thromboembolism. Anticoagulant therapy and thrombolytic therapy were commenced after the insertion of a temporary inferior vena cava filter (t-IVC-f). However, on day 5 after t-IVC-f insertion, IVC venography showed filter thrombosis.

Low-dose chemotherapy with leucovorin plus 5-fluorouracil for colorectal cancer can maintain host immunity.

Background: Anticancer drugs may frequently show host immunosuppression. Low-dose chemotherapy has been used for unresectable cancer as a tumor dormancy therapy, and it has been reported that the patients treated this way demonstrated favorable survival without toxicity. In this study, host immunity before and after a low-dose leucovorin plus 5-fluorouracil regimen (low-dose LV/5-FU) and S-1 plus irinotecan regimen (S-1/CPT-11) was compared to assess whether low-dose chemotherapy can maintain host immunity.