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Cureus
December 2024
Department of Biological Science and Nursing, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, JPN.
Purpose: Postoperative thirst is common and distressing to patients, as is pain and nausea. The causes of postoperative thirst are complex and include factors like preoperative fasting, perioperative fluid loss, and certain anesthesia medications. Effective care for postoperative thirst has been shown in post-anesthesia care units (PACUs), but many Japanese hospitals lack PACUs or do not address thirst in their PACUs.
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December 2024
Internal Medicine Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare, life-threatening syndrome of excessive immune activation, leading to severe inflammation and organ damage. While more common in infants, HLH can occur at any age and is often triggered by infections such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). In this case, a 38-year-old man presented with a three-week history of fevers, night sweats, poor appetite, and severe anemia.
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December 2024
Department of Nursing, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, the Netherlands.
As migrant populations age, the care system is confronted with the question how to respond to care needs of an increasingly diverse population of older adults. We used qualitative intersectional analysis to examine differential preferences and experiences with care at the end of life of twenty-five patients and their relatives from Suriname, Morocco and Turkey living in The Netherlands. Our analysis focused on the question how - in light of impairment - ethnicity, religion and gender intersect to create differences in social position that shape preferences and experiences related to three main themes: place of care at the end of life; discussing prognosis, advance care, and end-of-life care; and, end-of-life decision-making.
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May 2024
Centre for Health Informatics, Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Objective: Investigate whether routinely collected electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) add prognostic value to clinical and tumour characteristics for adults with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving immunotherapy.
Methods And Analysis: We retrospectively analysed data from adults with advanced NSCLC commencing immunotherapy between April 2019 and June 2022. Prognostic factors were ePROMs on quality of life (EuroQoL five-dimension five-level (EQ-5D-5L); EuroQoL Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-VAS)) and symptoms (patient-reported version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events v5.
Public Health Pract (Oxf)
June 2025
Research Center for Social Determinants of Health, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.
Objectives: Early detection and management of malnutrition is essential for the general health and well-being of the elderly. Various studies have reported different types of malnutrition prevalence in the elderly. the present study was aimed to determine the prevalence of malnutrition in the world' elderly through conducting a systematic review study and meta-analysis.
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