Background Implementation of the ruling on the Inpatient Prospective Payment System by
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has challenged nurses to focus on the prevention of …

During the winter of 1989–1990, influenza type A(H3N2) circulated widely, causing excess
morbidlty and mortality nationwide. From November through April, 1989–1990, hospitalized …

IMPLICATIONS: Assuring reliable, timely administration of prophylactic antibiotics before
elective surgery is difficult. Using an electronic documentation system and practice guidelines …

Approximately 2,700 patients are harmed by wrong-site surgery each year. The World
Health Organization created the surgical safety checklist to reduce the incidence of wrong-site …

Background The strategy of watch and wait (W&W) in patients with rectal cancer who
achieve a complete clinical response (cCR) after neoadjuvant therapy is new and offers an …

Objective: The risk for pressure ulcers is rarely identified in the perioperative period, and the
influence of this period on risk factors has not been as rigorously studied as the …

Global plate motion models provide a spatial and temporal framework for geological data and
have been effective tools for exploring processes occurring at the earth's surface. However…

Objectives: We aimed to examine the association between total number of resected nodes
and survival in patients after esophagectomy with and without nCRT. Background: Most …

Background: Very little research has been focused on the interdisciplinary staffing characteristics
of the operating room team, an essential component of providing safe patient care in a …

Purpose The objective of this study was to explore the feasibility of harmonising
performance for PET/CT systems equipped with time-of-flight (ToF) and resolution modelling/point …