(Abstracted from BMC Womens Health 2022;22(1):19) Previous studies indicate that lesbian and bisexual (LB) females are more likely to be obese than straight females. Little is known, however, about whether provider diagnosis recommendation for weight management vary across these populations.

Abstract Background It is understood that older persons undergoing surgery benefit from Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), however these services remain limited in Ireland. Latest guidelines recommend all patients over 65 should be screened for frailty and receive a CGA if identified. Our pilot service was to implement this on our acute surgical in-patient ward. Methods Baseline data gat...

Introduction: Breastfeeding is the responsibility of a woman who has baby. The decision Indonesian Ministry Health assign exclusive breastfeeding was given for 6 months and continues until 2 years old. Until now in Indonesia there are still many women have not to their babies. failure give caused by several factors, one which husband's support mother's attitude. Objective: To determine relation...

Background: Gynaecological surgeries refer to surgery on the female reproductive system. Woman may undergo a Gynaecological surgery for different reasons, including; Uterine prolapse, Cancer of the uterus, cervix, or ovaries, Endometriosis, Bleeding, Adenomyosis etc.Gynaecological surgeries includes procedures such as hysterectomy, oopherectomy, salphingectomy, myomectomy, ovarin cystectomy, et...

Background and objectives: There are several ways to assess patient satisfaction, as it is a standard indicator of the quality care provided. The aim this study was evaluate whether abbreviation fasting with 200 ml CHO, intake same beverage in PACU, return oral feeding ward, postoperative analgesia can improve comfort satisfaction anesthesia elderly patients. hip femur fracture. Methods: A retr...

From the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Department of Pharmacology, and Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, the Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, the Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194223, Russia, the Department of Medical Ch...

We investigated the incidence of cases of nosocomial pathogens and risk factors in an intensive treatment unit ward to determine if the number of cases is dependent on location of patients and the colonization/infection history of the ward. A clustering approach method was developed to investigate the patterns of spread of cases through time for five microorganisms [methicillin-resistant Staphy...