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Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Bariatric Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations.
(2016-09)BACKGROUND: During the last two decades, an increasing number of bariatric surgical procedures have been performed worldwide. There is no consensus regarding optimal perioperative care in bariatric surgery. This review ... -
Guidelines for the management of iron deficiency anaemia.
(2011-10)BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2-5% of adult men and postmenopausal women in the developed world and is a common cause of referral to gastroenterologists. Gastrointestinal (GI) blood loss from colonic ... -
Guidelines for the safe practice of total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA): Joint Guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists and the Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia.
(2018-10)Guidelines are presented for safe practice in the use of intravenous drug infusions for general anaesthesia. When maintenance of general anaesthesia is by intravenous infusion, this is referred to as total intravenous ... -
Guidelines, training, audit, and quality standards in children's epilepsy services: Closing the loop.
(2014-11)There has been considerable evolution in epilepsy healthcare for children over the last decade in the United Kingdom. There has been no single explanation for this. The development of national clinical guidelines, locally ... -
H1-antihistamines for chronic spontaneous urticaria: an abridged Cochrane Systematic Review.
(2015-10)BACKGROUND: Chronic spontaneous urticaria is characterized by recurrent itchy wheals. First-line management is with H1-antihistamines. OBJECTIVE: We sought to conduct a Cochrane Review of H1-antihistamines in the treatment ... -
Hailey-Hailey Disease With Coexistent Herpes Virus Infection: Insights Into the Diagnostic Conundrum of Herpetic/Pseudoherpetic Features in Cutaneous Acantholytic Disorders.
(2018-10)The specific histopathologic diagnosis of a primary acantholytic disorder takes into account the distribution and extent of acantholysis, presence or absence of dyskeratosis, nature of the dermal inflammatory cell infiltrate, ... -
Hand Swelling due to Missed Coronal Fracture of the Body of the Hamate and Hamate-Triquetral Dislocation.
(2016-10)Post trauma hand swelling needs in-depth examination and imaging to diagnose fracture dislocations. High index of suspicion is needed to diagnose unusual pattern of fracture. Early diagnosis of hamate fracture dislocation ... -
Handheld electronic device use in patient care: the emergency department patient perspective-a cross-sectional survey.
(2020-09)BACKGROUND: Staff use of smartphones and tablets in the healthcare setting is increasingly prevalent, but little is known about whether this use is acceptable to patients. Staff are concerned that the use of handheld ... -
The handwash station: friend or fiend?
(2018-10)Handwashing is a key barrier to cross-infection performed at a handwash station (HWS, an interface between water and drainage systems). Widespread and often uncritical placement/design and use of HWSs is not without attendant ... -
Happy days
(2009)Alfonzo Tramontano became a healthcare assistant in June 1984. Twenty five years on, he has taken up post as chief nurse at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The man they call 'Fonz' reflects on how he ... -
Health Assessment Questionnaire disability progression in early rheumatoid arthritis: systematic review and analysis of two inception cohorts.
(2014-10)OBJECTIVE: The Health Assessment Questionnaire is widely used for patients with inflammatory polyarthritis (IP) and its subset, rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this study, we evaluated the progression of HAQ scores in RA (i) ... -
Health psychology attendance: A multilevel analysis of patient-level predictors and therapist effects
(2020-11)The study investigated adult outpatient Health Psychology Services appointment attendance, cancellation, and missed appointments (A/C/M). The first objective was to determine which demographic and process factors predicted ... -
Health-related utility values of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome and its predictors.
(2014-07)OBJECTIVES: EuroQoL-5 dimension (EQ-5D) is a standardised preference-based tool for measurement of health-related quality of life and EQ-5D utility values can be converted to quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) to aid ... -
Healthcare reconsultation in working-age adults following hospitalisation for community-acquired pneumonia.
(2018-02)Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with prolonged symptom persistence during recovery. However, the effect of the residual symptom load on healthcare utilisation is unknown. The aim of this study was to ... -
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Heparin for assisted reproduction: summary of a Cochrane review.
(2015-01)It is suggested that heparin given in the peri-implantation period may improve clinical outcomes in women undergoing assisted reproduction techniques (ART). This systematic review evaluates the use of heparin in subfertile ... -
Hepatitis C virus-infected patients with a persistently normal alanine aminotransferase: do they exist and is this really a group with mild disease?
(2010-01)Opinion varies on whether or not hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients with persistently normal aminotransferase (PNALT) levels represent a group with mild disease. To evaluate the risk of ALT flare and fibrosis ...
