Publications by authors named "T kot"

Introduction: We present a relationship-centred shared-decision-making (RCSDM) process model to explicate factors that shape decision-making processes during physical medicine and rehabilitation (PMR) encounters among patients, their care partners and practitioners. Existing shared decision-making (SDM) models fall short in addressing the everyday decisions routinely made regarding persons with chronic disabilities who require high levels of support, their care partners and rehabilitation practitioners. In PMR, these everyday decisions are small scale, immediate and in service to a larger therapeutic goal.

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  • - The study aimed to distinguish significant improvements or deteriorations in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) after severe brain injuries from normal variations, using data from a trial with 180 participants.
  • - Researchers utilized the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) scores, transformed them into a 0-100 scale for better accuracy, and calculated various indices to assess both group-level and individual-level clinical changes.
  • - The findings were then used to analyze the impact of different treatments (amantadine hydrochloride vs. placebo) on patients' consciousness levels, determining how many participants exhibited changes beyond mere measurement error.
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Introduction: Previous research involving diabetes mellitus (DM), glycemic control, and complications in orthopaedic patients has primarily focused on elective procedures. The purpose of this study was to evaluate hemoglobin A1c (A1c) as a predictor of postoperative surgical site infection (SSI) in patients with orthopaedic trauma.

Methods: Patients aged 18 years or older treated surgically for an acute fracture by a fellowship-trained orthopaedic trauma surgeon at a single academic tertiary referral center with a laboratory value for A1c available within 3 months of their surgery were identified retrospectively.

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  • Sunlight helps our skin make vitamin D through UVB radiation, but some places don't get enough UVB in winter, which can affect brain health.
  • A study looked at 6,972 people with bipolar I disorder from over 70 countries to see if not getting enough UVB was related to when they first had symptoms.
  • The results suggested that people in areas with less UVB tended to show symptoms of bipolar disorder about 1.66 years earlier, but more research is needed to understand the role of vitamin D and UVB in this condition.
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