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Efficacy and safety of ketamine in the management of anxiety and anxiety spectrum disorders: a review of the literature.
(CNS spectrums, 2020-06)Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric conditions. Despite many proven pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments available, high rates of partial response and low rates of long-term remission ... -
Bleeding risk with ischemic stroke therapy - Reply
(JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 2012-10-03) -
Stroke center designation and mortality-reply: In reply
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Association between stroke center hospitalization for acute ischemic stroke and mortality.
(JAMA, 2011-01)Although stroke centers are widely accepted and supported, little is known about their effect on patient outcomes.To examine the association between admission to stroke centers for acute ischemic stroke and mortality.Obs... -
Effect of a Multifaceted Quality Improvement Intervention on Hospital Personnel Adherence to Performance Measures in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke in China: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
(JAMA, 2018-07)In China and other parts of the world, hospital personnel adherence to evidence-based stroke care is limited.To determine whether a multifaceted quality improvement intervention can improve hospital personnel adherence to ... -
Long-term Thromboembolic Risk in Patients With Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation.
(JAMA cardiology, 2018-05)Importance:New-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is a common complication of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. However, the long-term risk of thromboembolism in patients who develop POAF after CABG ... -
Relationship between hospital performance measures and outcomes in patients with acute ischaemic stroke: a prospective cohort study.
(BMJ open, 2018-08)OBJECTIVE:Evidence-based performance measures have been increasingly used to evaluate hospital quality of stroke care, but their impact on stroke outcomes has not been verified. We aimed to evaluate the correlations between ... -
Shock Index Predicts Patient-Related Clinical Outcomes in Stroke.
(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2018-09)Background The prognostic value of shock index ( SI ), heart rate divided by systolic blood pressure, in stroke for clinical outcomes other than mortality is not well understood. Methods and Results We examined the Get With ... -
International Comparison of Patient Characteristics and Quality of Care for Ischemic Stroke: Analysis of the China National Stroke Registry and the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines--Stroke Program.
(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2018-10)Background Adherence to evidence-based guidelines is an important quality indicator; yet, there is lack of assessment of adherence to performance measures in acute ischemic stroke for most world regions. Methods and Results ... -
A Systematic Review of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Primary Biliary Cholangitis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.
(Hepatology communications, 2020-10)Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) are associated with decreased health-related quality of life and debilitating symptoms. These experiences can be defined as patient-reported outcome ... -
A Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating the Feasibility and Adherence to an Aerobic Training Program in Healthy Individuals.
(Journal of sport rehabilitation, 2019-09)CONTEXT:Concussion management is moving from passive rest strategies to active interventions, including aerobic exercise therapy. Little information is available regarding the feasibility and adherence of these programs. ... -
Visual and oculomotor abilities predict professional baseball batting performance
(International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2020-07-03)© 2020, © 2020 Cardiff Metropolitan University. Scientists and practitioners have long debated about the specific visual skills needed to excel at hitting a pitched baseball. To advance this debate, we evaluated the relationship ... -
Intensity- and timing-dependent modulation of motion perception with transcranial magnetic stimulation of visual cortex.
(Neuropsychologia, 2020-10)Despite the widespread use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in research and clinical care, the dose-response relations and neurophysiological correlates of modulatory effects remain relatively unexplored. To fill ... -
Examining the Role of Lateral Parietal Cortex in Emotional Distancing Using TMS.
(Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2020-10)We recently proposed a neurocognitive model of distancing-an emotion regulation tactic-with a focus on the lateral parietal cortex. Although this brain area has been implicated in both cognitive control and self-projection ... -
Dynamic vision training transfers positively to batting practice performance among collegiate baseball batters
(Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2020-11-01)© 2020 Elsevier Ltd A growing body of evidence demonstrates visual, perceptual, and oculomotor abilities contribute to batting performance in baseball and there is interest in whether training such abilities can transfer ... -
Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, Elena Ferrante, and Claudio Magris: From Postmodernism to Anti-Semitism
(2020-10-01)Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard's Austrian vision an international vision. This book tells that story. -
Video capsule endoscopy for upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the emergency department: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
(The American journal of emergency medicine, 2020-06)OBJECTIVE:The assessment of the severity of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in emergency department (ED) patients is difficult to assess with commonly available diagnostic tools. Small studies have shown that video capsule ... -
Analytical performance evaluation of the Elecsys® Troponin T Gen 5 STAT assay.
(Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry, 2019-08)BACKGROUND:We report the analytical performance of the Elecsys® Troponin T Gen 5 STAT (TnT Gen 5 STAT; Roche Diagnostics) assay. METHODS:Measuring limits/ranges were determined in lithium-heparin plasma samples per Clinical ... -
The 99th percentile upper reference limit for the 5th generation cardiac troponin T assay in the United States.
(Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry, 2020-05)BACKGROUND:Determining diagnostic thresholds for cardiac troponin assays is key to interpreting their clinical performance. We describe the calculation of 99th percentile upper reference limits (URLs) for the Elecsys® Troponin ... -
Acute myocardial infarction under-diagnosis and mortality in a Tanzanian emergency department: A prospective observational study.
(American heart journal, 2020-08)BACKGROUND:Growing evidence suggests that under-diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) may be common in sub-Saharan Africa. Prospective studies of routine AMI screening among patients presenting to emergency departments ...
