AIM Traumatic subdural effusion (TSE) occurs following traumatic brain injury and may be treated by either conservative methods or surgical procedure commonly according to the patients' clinical information. We aimed to compare the effective rate of effusion removal and the standardized morbidity ratio of poor prognosis of the two different treatments, and to discuss the future treatment method...

OBJECTIVE To document patients' preferred dress styles of their doctors and modes of address. DESIGN Descriptive survey. SETTING Inpatients and outpatients at a tertiary level hospital, New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS 202 inpatients and 249 outpatients, mean age 55.9 (SD 19.3) years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Ranking of patients' opinions of photographs showing doctors wearing different dress sty...

BACKGROUND Patients with diabetes and peripheral neuropathy are at higher risk for falls. People with diabetes sometimes adopt a more conservative gait pattern with decreased walking speed, widened base, and increased double support time. The purpose of this study was to use a multivariate approach to describe this conservative gait pattern. METHODS Male veterans (mean age = 67 years; SD = 9....

A computationally efficient mass-conservative transport scheme over the sphere is proposed and tested. The scheme combines a conservative finite-volume method with an efficient semi-Lagrangian scheme based on the dimension splitting ‘‘cascade’’ method. In the regions near the poles where the conservative cascade procedure breaks down, a globally conservative, but locally approximate scheme is u...

Chronic kidney disease stage 5 is a global health challenge in the context of population ageing across the world. The range of treatment options available to patients at all ages has increased and includes transplantation and dialysis. However, these options are often seen as inappropriate for older frailer patients who are now offered the option of conservative kidney management, which is pres...

Although conservative scholars may face a variety of forms of discrimination in academia and other challenges, as elaborated in the first part of this comment, they may also have a set of unique advantages that may facilitate more careful theoretical and empirical scientific work. They may be more sensitive to flawed methodologies in some areas of controversy. In such areas, these assets of con...

Traumatic pulmonary pseudocyst (TPP) is a rare complication, sometimes encountered after blunt thoracic trauma and even more rarely following penetrating injuries. It is more common among pediatric and young adult patients. Although TPP is usually benign in nature, complications associated with hemoptysis and secondary infection may develop. The treatment is conservative. In this report, we pre...