This study explored how pre-service teachers integrated literacy in middle level social studies. This study was conducted in the context of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and their focus on disciplinary literacy, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Standards and their focus on rich clinical experiences, and concepts of interdisciplinary and integrated curric...

Coercion in psychiatry and the fight against forced treatment are two of the main topics in the mental health service user/psychiatric survivor movement worldwide. At the same time, our own user-led or survivor-controlled research in this field is almost nonexistent. This chapter explores some of the structural obstacles to including service user/survivor perspectives in psychiatric research on...

INTRODUCTION Self-report instruments such as the Impact of Cancer (IOC) are designed to measure quality of life (QOL) impacts that cancer survivors attribute to their cancer experience. Generalizability of QOL findings across distinct diagnostic categories of survivors is untested. We compare measurement of the impact of cancer using the IOC instrument in breast cancer (BC) survivors (n = 1,188...

INTRODUCTION Reversible myocardial depression occurs early in severe sepsis and septic shock. The question of whether or not early ventricular depression or dilatation is associated with lower mortality in these patients remains controversial. Most studies on this topic were small in size and hence lacked statistical power to answer the question. This meta-analysis attempted to answer the quest...

Background: Liver cirrhosis (LC) is still being important public health concern, due to the rising of global incidence and mortality. There risk progression in LC patients acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) with high complication short-term mortality rate. It needs rapid simpler predictor immediate accurate triage patient. The aim this study review systematically role PWR predict ACLF patien...

The rapid growth of very elderly populations requires accurate population estimates up to the highest ages. However, it is recognised that estimates derived from census counts are often unreliable. Methods that make use of death data have not previously been evaluated for Australia and New Zealand. The aim was to evaluate a number of nearly-extinct cohort methods for producing very elderly popu...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To evaluate the impact on mortality of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) treatment of rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 100 RA-ILD patients who visited our tertiary care medical center between 2004 and 2011, identified those treated with an anti-TNF agent, divided patients into non...