Publications by authors named "T L Byrd"

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  • This study explores models and frameworks from various professions aimed at fostering inclusion and belonging within the field of dentistry.
  • It presents specific activities and models, drawn from disciplines like library science, medicine, nursing, dental hygiene, and social work, that can be adapted for dental practices.
  • By implementing these examples, the dental profession can address issues of access and unequal oral health outcomes effectively.
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This article represents a prologue of the discussion of the article "Models of DEIB: Part II-Exploring Models of Inclusion from other Health Professions for Dentistry". It explores existing practices and philosophies from other disciplines that could be applied toward creating environments of inclusion and belonging in dentistry. The primary focus here is to provide an opportunity for the dental profession to leverage knowledge and experiences from other health professions to enhance and expand inclusion efforts and provide enhance engagement at all levels.

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This essay looks at, and compares, by Ali Smith and by Virginia Woolf and attempts to understand the differences within both the formal and philosophical/political outlook of the two works. Presuming stream-of-consciousness as both a set of formal prosaic styles and a genre, the essay argues that the way the novels utilize formal style is indicative of their individual politics in counterintuitive ways. Furthermore, it argues that by looking at these two novels we can begin to map a lineage of queer stream-of-consciousness works and explore how those perspectives have changed over time.

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  • Researchers aimed to create an electronic tool to better identify when hospitalized patients are deteriorating clinically, predicting short-term mortality more effectively than current methods.!
  • Using data from a twelve-hospital system, they analyzed records of adult patients from 2018 to 2022 to establish a new definition of clinical deterioration based on critical events like respiratory failure and hypotension.!
  • The new definition significantly increased the likelihood of detecting deterioration 2.5 hours earlier before ICU transfer and showed a strong correlation with higher mortality rates and longer hospital stays. !
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Methicillin-resistant (MRSA) bacteremia is a serious clinical infection associated with a high risk of mortality. Dual therapy is often used in patients with persistent bacteremia. This study aimed to compare the outcomes of vancomycin or daptomycin monotherapy with those of dual therapy with ceftaroline in high-grade or persistent MRSA bacteremia.

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