BACKGROUND AND AIM DAMA is a result of patient dissatisfaction, which increases the rate of readmission, mortality, and complications. In this study, the causes and predictors of DAMA in Shahid Labbafinejad Hospital of Tehran were determined. METHODS The descriptive and analytical study was conducted in 2016 from the information of 1,168 hospitalized patients in the period of 2015 and the fir...

Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) can have detrimental effects on patient outcomes. Recently, the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been linked with DAMA in the mental health setting. However, PTSD as a risk factor for DAMA in surgical patients has not received much consideration, although such patients may be at risk for triggering or amplification of PTSD symptoms pe...

Translocated animals typically find themselves in a novel environment which they must establish home range manner that will maximize their fitness. We hypothesized the initial establishment of is followed by adjustments expressed as shifting, and occurs familiarity with landscape increases, until stabilized. studied process shifting 42 female Persian fallow deer ( Dama mesopotamica ) reintroduc...

Serum samples collected from Iberian red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus; n=472), fallow deer (Dama dama; n=293) and European wild boar (Sus scrofa; n=174) in Asturias, Northern Spain, from 1999 to 2005 were examined for antibodies against a reference panel of 14 Leptospira spp. serovars. Positive antibody titres at a microscopic agglutination test cut-off of 1:80 were detected against serovars...

The use of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) for biomonitoring environmental stress is limited by the lack of work on how FA in particular traits responds to specific stresses. Here, by manipulating the number of individuals in an enclosed fallow deer (Dama dama) population, we describe, for the first time, clear density dependence in the FA of juvenile jaw morphology. The impact of high population de...

Cellular and/or tissue-based products (CTPs) are emerging treatment options for chronic non-healing wounds. Dehydrated amniotic membrane allograft (DAMA) was used in 7 patients whose wounds had not responded adequately to standard and adjuvant therapies; four VLUs, 2 surgical wounds, and 1 DFU. Patients had multiple comorbidities, including 2 with autoimmune disorders (CREST syndrome and system...

BACKGROUND Discharge against Medical Advice (DAMA) is a problem for hospitals which may result in increasing readmissions, morbidities, inabilities, deaths and health care costs. This study, aimed to investigate the rate and causes of DAMA in Iranian hospitals. METHODS A systematic review and meta-analysis study was conducted in 2014. Required data were collected through searching for key wor...

The functional interactions between supraspinal p, and 8 receptors were characterized in the mouse using p, receptor-selective antagonists. The effects of pretreatment with the p, opioid antagonists, /~-funaltrexamine (/'/-FNA) and naloxonazine on the modulation of morphine antinociception by the 8 agonists [D-PenZ,D-PenS]enkephalin (DPI)PE) and [D-AlaZ,MetS]enkephalinamide (DAMA) were studied....

In this paper we propose a Directional Antenna Medium Access (DAMA) protocol and its enhanced version called EDAMA (enhanced DAMA), which takes advantage of the benefits offered by directional antennas. Both of these schemes have been inspired by the IEEE 802.11 MAC, with major enhancements including a new neighbor discovery scheme, an optimized circular directional transmission of RTS and CTS ...

In this paper we propose a Directional Antenna Medium Access (DAMA) protocol that takes advantage of the benefits offered by directional antennas and is best suited for sparsely distributed networks. A large portion of DAMA has been inspired by the IEEE 802.11 MAC, with major enhancements including a new neighbor discovery scheme, and an optimized circular directional transmission of RTS and CT...