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Research suggests that the quality of care provided by family members may be influenced by the quality of relationship they have with the person living with dementia. The study investigated this in the context of assisting with daily activities. The quality of the relationship was assessed using the conceptual framework of relationship continuity/discontinuity which focuses on whether the carer experiences their relationship as continuous or discontinuous with the pre-dementia relationship.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Adv Nurs
January 2025
College of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Aims: To translate the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) into Chinese and conduct preliminarily tests of its performance in hospitalized patients with cancer.
Design: A cross-sectional validation study conducted from January to March 2024.
Methods: SPICT 2022 was translated in both directions, following the Brislin translation model, and the Chinese version culturally debugged through expert consultation and pre-testing.
J Dent Sci
January 2025
Department of Stomatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
Background/purpose: COVID-19 vaccines are supplied at no-cost to residents as a measure to prevent comorbidities, fatalities, and the increased risk of community transmission, thus protecting public health systems. However, vaccine acceptance among cancer patients remained uncertain. This study aimed to elucidate the vaccination rates among oral cancer patients at a medical center in Taiwan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPragmat Obs Res
January 2025
Global Medical Affairs, GSK Consumer Healthcare Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.
In recent years, regulatory authorities have signaled a willingness to consider real-world evidence (RWE) data to support applications for new claims and indications for pharmaceuticals. Historically, RWE studies have been the domain of prescription drugs, driven by the fact that clinical data on patients are routinely captured in medical records, claims databases, registries, etc. However, RWE reports of nonprescription drugs and supplements are relatively sparse due to methodological gaps in this area.
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March 2025
Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Institute of Health, Bule Hora University, Bule Hora, Ethiopia.
Objectives: Surgical site infections occur within 30 days of an invasive surgical procedure in the parts of the body where the surgery is performed. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, and associated risk factors of surgical site infections at Bule Hora University Teaching Hospital, Southern Ethiopia.
Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted with 183 consecutively enrolled participants between 1 January and 30 June 2023.
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