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Psychol Rep
January 2025
Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.
Technology advances lead to a high prevalence of cyber dating abuse among youth. Previous studies had demonstrated its detrimental outcomes and predictors, but neglected the characters in Eastern countries. Therefore, exploring the comprehensive mechanisms of cyber dating abuse in different cultures and mitigating it are necessary.
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January 2025
Chia-Jung Chan, MS, RN, is Head Nurse, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Yeu-Hui Chuang, PhD, RN, is Professor, School of Nursing, College of Nursing, Taipei Medical University, and Researcher, Research Center in Nursing Clinical Practice, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University; Tsai-Wei Huang, PhD, RN, is Professor, School of Nursing, College of Nursing. Taipei Medical University, and Researcher, Research Center in Nursing Clinical Practice, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University; Made Satya Nugraha Gautama, S.Kep, Ns, is Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, Bali, Indonesia.
Objective: To investigate the incidence of skin changes at life's end (SCALE) among hospice patients and identify associated factors.
Methods: The authors conducted a retrospective chart review of demographic data, medical history, Braden Scale assessment scores, Charlson Comorbidity Index, symptom records, and medical treatments of patients admitted to a local teaching hospital's hospice unit between May 2019 and April 2021.
Results: Most (79%) of the 300 hospice patients included in the study had cancer.
Clin Infect Dis
January 2025
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Maryland; Baltimore, MD.
Background: Clinicians often start unnecessarily broad-spectrum empiric Gram-negative antibiotics out of the concern that delaying effective therapy could lead to a worse clinical outcome. This study examined the consequences of delayed initiation of broad-spectrum Gram-negative antibiotics.
Methods: In a retrospective cohort of adult inpatients from 928 US hospitals, we compared clinical outcomes after (1) empiric narrow-spectrum antibiotics escalated to broad-spectrum antibiotics (delayed broad-spectrum therapy, DBT) and (2) empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics continued for at least 5 days (early broad-spectrum therapy, EBT) using Win Ratios.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
January 2025
Medical Group Population Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Background And Purpose: Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on certain characteristics. Discrimination in health care can impede access to quality care for patients and lead to poor health outcomes. This study aimed to investigate factors, including race and ethnicity, associated with discrimination in health care in the United States.
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January 2025
Clínica Originare, Medicina Reprodutiva, São Paulo, Brazil.
Endometriosis is a chronic disease that affects around 10% of reproductive age women worldwide and a common cause of infertility. One of its manifestations is ovarian endometriomas, which are present in 17-44% of endometriosis patients. Endometriomas can impair fertility by mechanical stretching and local inflammation, promoting oxidative stress in the surrounding ovarian cortex that could lead to apoptosis and necrosis of early follicles.
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