Feeding Tubes Help Or Harm In Advanced Dementia?
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- 20/04/2009
Poor food intake is common in individuals with dementia for a variety of reasons. In advanced dementia, health care providers might intervene...
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Scientists Discover Gene Responsible for Brain's Aging
Will scientists one day be able to slow the aging of the brain and prevent diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's? Perhaps -- at least once the genetic coding associated with neuronal degeneration has been unraveled. According to a new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience, a research team from the Université de Montréal, Maisonneuve-Rosemont...
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Predicting Risk of Stroke From One's Genetic Blueprint
A new statistical model could be used to predict an individual's lifetime risk of stroke, finds a study from the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP). Using genetic information from 569 hospital patients, the researchers showed that their predictive model could estimate an individual's overall risk of cardioembolic stroke -- the most common...
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Cost-Effectiveness of Providing Quality ICU Care to Elderly Patients
The Aging Population Creates an Ever-Increasing Demand for Quality Healthcare, Which has its Effect on Critical Care Services as Well. Limiting Care to the Elderly Would Raise Ethical Issues – so, it is Best to First Explore Whether Quality ICU Care is Cost-Effective or not? It is well known by clinicians that both expenditures on intensive care...
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A Matter of Cost or of Effectiveness?
In this article, we will firstly present the case of two patients for whom, despite similar medical conditions, different therapies were advised, to highlight the inequality in access to medical technologies in Europe. Then, we will look at the matter of cost-effectiveness – are patients being differently treated in the same cases, due to financial...
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Measuring Quality of Life
Patients developing critical illness have been associated with substantial attributable mortality rates. However, it may drastically impact quality of life (QOL) as well. Therefore, intensivists should also be concerned with health status and functioning after discharge of the critical care department. In this overview, the impact of critical illness...
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: What Every Manager Needs to Know
Author Associate Hospital Director Teknon Medical Center Barcelona, Spain [email protected] also: Adjunct Assistant Professor Boston University School of Medicine Boston, US A The fundamental principle of economic analysis is that choices have to be made between alternative uses of resources, as there is a...
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How to Save Lives and Influence People
Dr. Peter Pronovost, Medical Director at the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Professor in the Department of Anaesthesiology/ Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine and ICU Management Editorial Board Member explains to Sherry Scharff how one simple strategy has not only saved patients and improved safety...
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Euroanaesthesia Meeting: Milan, Italy June 6th - 9th, 2009
For the first time in 2009, the Euroanaesthesia congress will be held in Milan, Italy, at the Milano Convention Centre (MIC). This meeting, the largest anaesthesiology congress in Europe, will again have a large programme of intensive care topics. It will be organised once more under the leadership of Professor Gernot Marx, recently appointed to the...
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Stroke Patient's Own Stem Cells Used In Trial For First Time
- ICU
- 16/04/2009
Roland "Bud" Henrich, 61, was transferred to Memorial Hermann
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