A glossary for patient care and scientific dialogue from KDIGO

Spoken Dialogue Interfaces for Patient Care

There is an increasing interest in containing the costs of healthcare without having to compromise its quality. Patient care refers to the component of healthcare that deals with patients prior to, in the initial of, and subsequent to their encounter with health professionals. Because of an aging population, and improvements in medicine, chronic illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes are a...

Glossary A glossary for social epidemiology

Why “social epidemiology”? Is not all epidemiology, after all, “social” epidemiology? In so far as people are simultaneously social and biological organisms, is any biological process ever expressed devoid of social context?—or any social process ever unmediated by the corporal reality of our profoundly generative and mortal bodies? 2 Yet, despite the seeming truism that social as well as biolo...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

a framework for guiding patient care

KDIGO guidelines for care of the kidney transplant recipient.

blockers, using adequately tested bioequivalent generics and long-term use of prednisolone. These comprehensive guidelines also identify key areas of future research highlighting the need for randomised controlled trials to determine the value of steroid avoidance, the utility of protocol biopsies, the optimal treatment of antibody-mediated rejection and interventions to improve medication adhe...