The Consumer Fraud and Security Management Service (CFSMS) is responsible for security and safety for the 1600 hospitals and other health services of England's National Health Service (NHS). Between June 2004 and May 2005, in order to counter violence directed at nurses, other caregivers and employees, SMS provided conflict resolution training (CRT) for some 250,000 NHS healthcare workers. The survey, conducted a year after the training was completed, sought to quantify the extent to which receiving CRT improved staffers' ability to deal with verbal and physical abuse. It is reprinted with NHS permission.
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Retina
January 2025
L V Prasad Eye Institute, GMR Varalaxmi Campus, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Purpose: To study the role of intravitreal clindamycin with dexamethasone as an adjuvant to systemic co-trimoxazole and steroids in macular Toxoplasma retinochoroiditis.
Methods: Retrospective study of Toxoplasma retinochoroiditis cases from January 2014 to December 2021 treated with a combination of oral and intravitreal therapy in immunocompetent patients.
Results: 39 eyes of 39 patients were included in this study after meeting the inclusion criteria with the mean age of presentation being 25.
Radiol Phys Technol
January 2025
Department of Radiotherapy, Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, 1st Cross, Shankarapuram, Basavanagui, Bengaluru, 560004, Karnataka, India.
This study evaluates the dosimetric impact of arc simulation angular resolution in VMAT-based Single Isocentre Multiple Target (SIMT) SRS, focusing on their dependence on target size, isocentre distance, number of arcs, and arc type. A phantom study analysed angular resolution (0.5°, 1°, 2°) effects on dosimetric accuracy for PTVs of 0.
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January 2025
Department of Veterinary Parasitology and Entomology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Conflicts within the tsetse fly belt revealed a strong correlation between the dynamics of bovine trypanosomosis and the insurgency involving farmers and herders in Nigeria and parts of West Africa. This study examined the history, causes and influence of farmers-herdsmen conflicts on banditry, terrorism and food security as it relates to the epidemiology of African animal trypanosomosis (AAT). A combination of literature database searches, semi-structured questionnaires, and mathematical modeling was employed.
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January 2025
Department of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Background: Neurologic symptoms seen in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) may not be entirely caused by immunotoxicity. We aim to highlight these confounding conditions through clinical cases to encourage early recognition and management.
Methods: We describe a series of seven cases from our institution that were treated with ICI and presented with Neurologic symptoms and were diagnosed with superimposed conditions beyond immunotoxicity.
Eur Radiol
January 2025
Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medical Centre Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
Purpose: To investigate the test-retest repeatability of radiomic features in myocardial native T1 and T2 mapping.
Methods: In this prospective study, 50 healthy volunteers (29 women and 21 men, mean age 39.4 ± 13.
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