Publications by authors named "Sharran Burney"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to analyze death rates among nursing home residents over a year and improve the CHESS scale for better risk categorization.
- Using data from over a million residents in Canada and the US, the researchers developed the DeathRisk-NH scale based on predictors identified through logistic regression.
- Findings showed a significant increase in death rates from 10.5% at 3 months to 30.7% at 12 months, highlighting the necessity of the DeathRisk-NH tool for effective patient care planning and monitoring.
Objectives: Examine cognitive changes over time among nursing home residents and develop a risk model for identifying predictors of cognitive decline.
Design: Using secondary analysis design with Minimum Data Set data, cognitive status was based on the Cognitive Performance Scale (CPS).
Setting And Participants: Baseline and 7 quarterly follow-up analyses of US and Canadian interRAI data (N = 1,257,832) were completed.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic required clinicians to care for a disease with evolving characteristics while also adhering to care changes (e.g., physical distancing practices) that might lead to diagnostic errors (DEs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe vasoocclusive crisis is the major clinical feature of sickle cell anemia, which is believed to be initiated or sustained by sickle (SS) red blood cell (RBC) adhesion to the vascular wall. SS RBCs, but not unaffected (AA) RBCs, adhere avidly to multiple components of the vascular wall, including laminin. Here we report a novel role for epinephrine and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in the regulation of human SS RBC adhesiveness via the laminin receptor, basal cell adhesion molecule/Lutheran (BCAM/Lu).
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