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Attitudes towards mental health problems scale: Confirmatory factor analysis and validation in the Portuguese population
(2016)Several studies about stigmatization and shame toward mental health problems have contributed to minimizing the impact of these negative attitudes on people diagnosed with mental illnesses, on their families and on their ... -
Atypical presentation of sacrococcygeal pilonidal disease: presentation and surgical management.
(2020-09)Sacrococcygeal pilonidal disease presentation varies greatly between being asymptomatic, acute abscess and chronic sinus. Acute abscess constitutes almost half of the initial presentation of such disease. To our best ... -
Atypical Processing of Gaze Cues and Faces Explains Comorbidity between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
(2017)This study investigated the neurobiological basis of comorbidity between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We compared children with ASD, ADHD or ADHD+ASD and typically ... -
An audit investigating BMI and the prevalence of obesity in orthognathic patients: Are we putting patients at risk?
(2017-12)Introduction: The obese surgical patient presents a number of potential complications to surgeons and anaesthetists alike. We know that currently very few maxillofacial units in the country have a specific protocol in place ... -
Audit of airway assessment and documentation for emergency patients at the Royal Derby Hospital
(2016-06)Various methods of airway assessment exist in order to enable prediction of the difficult airway, be it difficult direct laryngoscopy, difficult intubation or difficult mask ventilation [1]. It is recognised that one method ... -
Audit of care in patients who sustained rib fractures against a simple scoring system
(2014-01)It is essential that patients who have sustained rib fractures receive an appropriate level of care (as defined by the Intensive Care Society levels 0- 31). This is because of the high mortality in patients who acquire ... -
Audit of discharges from a regional service in the United Kingdom.
(2014)Aim As early intervention in psychosis (EI) continues to develop, clinical governance maintains an important role in the 'real world' analysis of services. This paper details an audit of all discharges from a regional ... -
Audit of emergency laparotomy undertaken at the royal derby hospital compared to the results of the UK emergency laparotomy network; do we meet the optimum standards of care?
(2014-11)Introduction: To compare our performance locally at The Royal Derby Hospital against the recently published National Emergency Laparotomy Audit by the Emergency Laparotomy Network. Methods: Prospective data were collected ... -
Audit of epidural use in patients attending with rib fractures at the Royal Derby Hospital
(2015)Aims: Chest trauma leading to rib fractures is a well-known cause of significant morbidity and mortality, often from respiratory complications. Patients over the age of 65 with multiple fractures are at higher risk for ... -
Audit of Pectoralis (PECS) and Serratus Anterior Plane (SAP) blocks for breast surgery
(2017-04)Introduction The principal objective of the audit is to -"Improve the quality of care delivered to the patient by minimising the opioid consumption intra and postop and to reduce the complication from opioids." Materials ... -
An audit of the effectiveness of PCSK9 inhibition in reducing cholesterol in patients attending lipid clinics
(2017)Introduction: Evolocumab and alirocumab are monoclonal antibodies that inhibit PCSK-9 and reduce LDl-C. This audit assessed the effectiveness of PCSK9 inhibitor administration in patients attending lipid clinics at regional ... -
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(2020-01)We agree with Rosansky and Thamer1 that creatinine methodology is a critical component of glomerular filtration rate estimation. We can reconfirm that in our study, we used the same internationally standardized enzymatic ... -
Autoimmune pancreatitis presenting as a pancreatic mass mimicking malignancy
(2011-04)Autoimmune pancreatitis is a rare cause of chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic mass. We describe a case of focal autoimmune pancreatitis in a 51-year-old man presenting with obstructive jaundice and pancreatic mass, mimicking ... -
Axillary conservation in early breast cancer.
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Axillary Surgery Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy - Multidisciplinary Guidance From the Association of Breast Surgery, Faculty of Clinical Oncology of the Royal College of Radiologists, UK Breast Cancer Group, National Coordinating Committee for Breast Pathology and British Society of Breast Radiology.
(2019-06)AIMS: These multidisciplinary guidelines aim to provide clinically helpful, evidence-based recommendations on the surgical management of the axilla in patients who have received neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast ... -
Axillary treatment for patients with early breast cancer and lymph node metastasis: systematic review protocol.
(2013-01)BACKGROUND: For patients with early breast cancer and lymph node metastasis, axillary treatment is widely recommended. This is either surgical removal of the axillary lymph nodes, or axillary radiotherapy. The rationale ... -
Axillary tumour burden in women with a fine-needle aspiration/core biopsy-proven positive node on ultrasonography compared to women with a positive sentinel node.
(2017-10)BACKGROUND: The sensitivity of axillary ultrasonography (AUS) has increased in recent years, enabling detection of even low-volume axillary nodal metastases. The aim here was to evaluate the axillary tumour burden in women ... -
Axillary tumour burden in women with one abnormal node on ultrasound compared to women with multiple abnormal nodes.
(2018-01)AIM: To determine if the number of abnormal nodes seen on preoperative axillaryultrasound (AUS) is a predictor of the number of positive nodes at histology for women with needle-biopsy-proven positive nodes. MATERIALS AND ...
