AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To consider the validity and reliability of risk assessment scales for pressure ulcers. BACKGROUND Pressure ulcers are a major problem worldwide. They cause morbidity and lead to mortality. Risk assessment scales have been available for nearly 50 years, but there is insufficient evidence to state with any certainty that they are useful. DESIGN A literature review and com...

Background: Malnutrition is a serious and lasting burden worldwide. Woman, infants, children, adolescents are at particular risk of malnutrition. Prevalence malnutrition children under 5 years in 2020 was 45 million were estimated to be wasted, 38.9 overweight or obese. Around 45% deaths among old related undernutrition, especially low- middle-income countries. Children with kidney disease fact...

Background The incidence of pressure injury/ulcers is persistent despite multiple prevention strategies in hospitals across the globe. Current standard injury/ulcer care supported by subjective skin tissue assessments, risk assessment tools and clinical judgement ineffective consistent prevention. Aim A pragmatic study, aligning with SQUIRE guidelines, was conducted at Chelsea Westminster to me...

objective: bone marrow transplantation is considered one of the main procedures used in the treatment of both malignant and non-malignant diseases. psychological factors after bone marrow transplantation have an important role in the survival of the patients undergoing this procedure. method: in the present study, some parameters including depression, anxiety and cognition were assessed during ...

data envelopment analysis (dea) models with interval inputs and outputs have been rarely discussed in dea literature. this paper, using the enhanced russell measurement proposes an extended model which permits the presence of interval scale variables which can take both negative and positive values. the model is compared with most well-known dea models of which include the ccr model, the bcc mo...

background: this study aimed to assess the effectiveness of topiramate, a glutamate-modulating agent, in patients with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) as an adjunct to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (sris). materials and methods: thirty-eight patients with refractory ocd, were randomly assigned to receive topiramate or placebo. this study was designed as a 12-week, double...

in the present study an attempt has been made to use a non-parametric method data envelopment analysis (dea) for assessing source-wise and operation-wise the technical efficiency (te) and return-to-scale (rts) for paddy production in four zones of the state of punjab, india. the results were then compared to corresponding ones already obtained from a parametric method (cobb-douglas production f...