Introduction: Patients with diabetes mellitus admitted to hospital with COVID-19 have poorer outcomes. However, the drivers of poorer outcomes are not fully elucidated. We performed detailed characterization of patients with COVID-19 to determine the clinical and biochemical factors that may be drivers of poorer outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Over 6000 people are on the United Kingdom organ transplant waiting list, and approximately three people die each day due to a lack of donors. Social deprivation status has been shown to affect registration. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of school level education at increasing awareness of the issues surrounding organ donation and organ donor registration, and the effect of socioeconomic deprivation and age has on these outcomes.
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August 2018
The role of patient-specific (PS) technology in total hip arthroplasty remains relatively unexplored. We asked whether PS guides: (1) Reduced average surgical errors? (2) Reduced outlier error frequencies? (3) Could predict the size of implants used? A single surgeon implanted femurs using either standard or PS guides and was blinded to the pre-operative plans. There were significant differences in median leg length errors between standard (3.
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