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Ng, Colin, Kurt Magri, Ryan Giordmaina, and Duncan Whitwell. "Bilateral Total Hip and Unilateral Knee Arthroplasties in a Young Adult with Arthropathy-Associated Intestinal Epithelial Dysplasia (Tufting Enteropathy)." Case Reports in Orthopedics 2018 (October 30, 2018): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4630759.

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Intestinal epithelial dysplasia (tufting enteropathy) is an uncommon congenital disorder. Furthermore, its association with chronic inflammatory arthropathy is rarely documented in the literature. Low prevalence rates of 1 in 100,000 live births in Western Europe exist, with higher rates in North Africa and Middle Eastern countries. Malta, being a small Mediterranean island at the cusp between Europe and North Africa, has an anecdotal sevenfold prevalence rate. This is the first documented case report of a patient with both intestinal epithelial dysplasia and severe bilateral hip and knee arthropathy that required simultaneous bilateral hip followed by, after a short interval, unilateral knee arthroplasties. Our aim is to highlight the rapid progression of associated arthropathy as well as the successful treatment with joint arthroplasties in such extreme cases. Surgical treatment may be a necessity despite best medical efforts to halt the disease.
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Cuschieri, Sarah, Josanne Vassallo, Neville Calleja, Nikolai Pace, and Julian Mamo. "The Effects of Socioeconomic Determinants on Hypertension in a Cardiometabolic At-Risk European Country." International Journal of Hypertension 2017 (2017): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7107385.

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Background. A relationship has been established between socioeconomic status and hypertension. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of hypertension and to explore the links between hypertension and socioeconomic factors in the adult population of Malta. Methods. A national representative cross-sectional health examination study was performed between 2014 and 2016. Sociodemographic and medical history data was gathered by validated questionnaires while blood pressure was measured. Prevalence rates of known hypertension, newly hypertension, and global hypertension were calculated. Associations between sociodemographic characteristics and hypertension were identified through logistic regression models. Results. Hypertension contributed to 30.12% (CI 95%: 28.71–31.57) of the study population, with a male preponderance. The majority was known hypertensive (73.59% CI 95%: 71.01–76.02), with only three-quarters on medication. Multivariant analyses showed that increasing age and body mass index, male gender, and living in Gozo, Western district, and Northern Harbour district were associated with having hypertension. Conclusion. Hypertension is a problem in Malta especially in the male population and with increasing age and body mass index. Education did not exhibit any associated risk for having hypertension, which is inconsistent with the literature, while habitat localities played a role in hypertension development.
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Cleary, Brian, Maria Loane, Marie-Claude Addor, et al. "Methadone, Pierre Robin sequence and other congenital anomalies: case–control study." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 105, no. 2 (2019): 151–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-316804.

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ObjectiveMethadone is a vital treatment for women with opioid use disorder in pregnancy. Previous reports suggested an association between methadone exposure and Pierre Robin sequence (PRS), a rare craniofacial anomaly. We assessed the association between gestational methadone exposure and PRS.Design/settingThis case-malformed control study used European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies population-based registries in Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Croatia, Malta, Portugal, Germany, Wales, Norway and Spain, 1995–2011.PatientsCases included PRS based on International Classification of Disease (ICD), Ninth Edition-British Paediatric Association (BPA) code 75 603 or ICD, Tenth Edition-BPA code Q8708. Malformed controls were all non-PRS anomalies, excluding genetic conditions, among live births, fetal deaths from 20 weeks’ gestation and terminations of pregnancy for fetal anomalies. An exploratory analysis assessed the association between methadone exposure and other congenital anomalies (CAs) excluding PRS. Methadone exposure was ascertained from medical records and maternal interview.ResultsAmong 87 979 CA registrations, there were 127 methadone-exposed pregnancies and 336 PRS cases. There was an association between methadone exposure and PRS (OR adjusted for registry 12.3, 95% CI 5.7 to 26.8). In absolute terms, this association reflects a risk increase from approximately 1–12 cases per 10 000 births. A raised OR was found for cleft palate (adjusted OR 5.0, 95% CI 2.7 to 9.2).ConclusionsThese findings suggest that gestational methadone exposure is associated with PRS. The association may be explained by unmeasured confounding factors. The small increased risk of PRS in itself does not alter the risk–benefit balance for gestational methadone use. The association with cleft palate, a more common CA, should be assessed with independent data.
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Saliba-Gustafsson, Erika A., Alexandra Dunberger Hampton, Peter Zarb, Nicola Orsini, Michael A. Borg, and Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg. "Factors associated with antibiotic prescribing in patients with acute respiratory tract complaints in Malta: a 1-year repeated cross-sectional surveillance study." BMJ Open 9, no. 12 (2019): e032704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032704.

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ObjectiveTo identify factors that influence general practitioners’ (GPs’) oral antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract complaints (aRTCs) in Malta.DesignRepeated, cross-sectional surveillance.SettingMaltese general practice; both public health centres and private GP clinics.Participants30 GPs registered on the Malta Medical Council’s Specialist Register and 3 GP trainees registered data of 4831 patients of all ages suffering from any aRTC. Data were collected monthly between May 2015 and April 2016 during predetermined 1-week periods.Outcome measuresThe outcome of interest was antibiotic prescription (yes/no), defined as an oral antibiotic prescription issued for an aRTC during an in-person consultation, irrespective of the number of antibiotics given. The association between GP, practice and consultation-level factors, patient sociodemographic factors and patient health status factors, and antibiotic prescription was investigated.ResultsThe antibiotic prescription rate was 45.0%. Independent factors positively associated with antibiotic prescribing included female GP sex (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.22 to 4.26), GP age with GPs ≥60 being the most likely (OR 34.7, 95% CI 14.14 to 84.98), patient age with patients ≥65 being the most likely (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.71 to 3.18), number of signs and/or symptoms with patients having ≥4 being the most likely (OR 9.6, 95% CI 5.78 to 15.99), fever (OR 2.6, 95% CI 2.08 to 3.26), productive cough (OR 1.3, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.61), otalgia (OR 1.3, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.76), tender cervical nodes (OR 2.2, 95% CI 1.57 to 3.05), regular clients (OR 1.3, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.66), antibiotic requests (OR 4.8, 95% CI 2.52 to 8.99) and smoking (OR 1.4, 95% CI 1.13 to 1.71). Conversely, patients with non-productive cough (OR 0.3, 95% CI 0.26 to 0.41), sore throat (OR 0.6, 95% CI 0.53 to 0.78), rhinorrhoea (OR 0.3, 95% CI 0.23 to 0.36) or dyspnoea (OR 0.6, 95% CI 0.41 to 0.83) were less likely to receive an antibiotic prescription.ConclusionAntibiotic prescribing for aRTCs was high and influenced by a number of factors. Potentially inappropriate prescribing in primary care can be addressed through multifaceted interventions addressing modifiable factors associated with prescription.Trial registration numberNCT03218930
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Fsadni, C., P. Fsadni, T. Piscopo, and C. Mallia Azzopardi. "Laryngeal Leishmaniasis in Malta." Journal of Infection 54, no. 2 (2007): e61-e63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2006.04.003.

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YÜCETÜRK KURTULMUŞ, Gamze. "Malta Dili Üzerine Tarihsel Bir Bakış." Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi 58, no. 2 (2018): 1837. http://dx.doi.org/10.33171/dtcfjournal.2018.58.2.31.

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Malta, küçük bir ada ülkesi olmasına rağmen, bulunduğu konum sebebiyle çok çeşitli milletlerin izlerinin görüldüğü önemli bir tarihe ve sürekli yenilenen, biçim değiştiren bir dile sahiptir. Arapçanın bir lehçesi olan bu dil, Latin harfleriyle yazılan tek Sami dildir. Dünya genelinde Maltaca çalışmaları, özellikle son yıllarda artmaya başlamış ve bu dil üzerine konferanslar düzenlenmiş, “Malta Centre”, “International Association of Maltese Linguistics” gibi dil merkezleri/dernekler kurulmuştur. Malta, çok derin dilsel ve politik tarihe sahipken Türkiye'de sadece Malta sürgünleri ve Osmanlı Devleti'nin 1565 yılındaki kuşatması üzerine yayınlara rastlanmaktadır. Malta dili ya da edebiyatına dair neredeyse hiç çalışma bulunmamaktadır. Bu makalede, söz konusu dilin kökeni, geçirdiği evreler, edebî dilin oluşumu ve bugünkü Maltaca üzerinde durulacaktır.
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Mifsud, Matthew, George G. Buttigieg, Charles Savona-Ventura, and Simon Delicata. "Reproductive health in Malta." European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care 14, no. 4 (2009): 249–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13625180903072047.

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Grech, A. "Treating of Schizophrenia in Malta." European Psychiatry 24, S1 (2009): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(09)70494-8.

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Malta is a small country in the middle of the Mediterranean. It is a member of the European Union and has a population of around 400,000. The culture is European, and around 99% of the population is Roman Catholic. There are no studies on the prevalence of schizophrenia in the Maltese population, but it is most likely that it is about 1%. During the last few years, thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa have been arriving in Malta especially during summer. It seems that the prevalence of schizophrenia in this subgroup is more than that in the local population. Studies are needed to study this phenomenon further to see if this is the case, but they are definitely being a big burden on the local psychiatric services. The National Health Service in Malta provides all treatment for schizophrenia free of charge. The pharmacological management of schizophrenia is similar to that of other European countries. Oral atypical antipsychotics are available within the National Health Services, but depot preparations are not yet available. For admissions there is a main Psychiatric Hospital, Mount Carmel Hospital, and two units in two General Hospitals. Community services are in the process of being developed. An NGO association, the Richmond Foundation also provides community and rehabilitation services. The Maltese family is still a relatively strong unit, with a lot of support in times of help being provided by the extended family. Thus in most psychosocial interventions, the family plays a central role.
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Bangaru, Himabindu, Varun V. Gaiki, and M. V. Ranga Reddy. "Comparative study of single dose preoperative antibiotics versus both preoperative and postoperative antibiotics in laparoscopic appendicectomy for nonperforated appendicitis." International Surgery Journal 4, no. 9 (2017): 3092. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20173894.

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Background: Antibiotics are being administered both preoperatively and postoperatively even in uncomplicated nonperforated appendicitis. Studies regarding role of postoperative antibiotics in laparoscopic appendicectomy for nonperforated appendicitis are sparse. The aim of the study is therefore to study the efficacy of single dose preoperative antibiotics versus both preoperative and postoperative antibiotics in reducing surgical site infection in laparoscopic appendicectomy for uncomplicated nonperforated acute appendicitis.Methods: This is a prospective study done in general surgery department at Malla Reddy institute of medical sciences from September to April 2016.162 patients with nonperforated appendicitis were randomly allocated into two groups. 80 patients in Group A were given single dose of preoperative prophylactic antibiotics. No further antibiotics were given. 82 patients in Group B were given both preoperative and postoperative antibiotics. Postoperative surgical site infection and duration of postoperative hospital stay were compared between both groups. Statistical analysis was done using ANOVA, Fisher’s Exact test and Chi-square test wherever necessary.Results: There was no significant difference in the rate of surgical site infection in both groups. The mean duration of postoperative hospital stay was shorter in preoperative antibiotics only group (Group A). Age and gender had no significant association with surgical site infection. There was no deep incisional or organ space infection in this study.Conclusions: Single dose prophylactic antibiotics would be sufficient in cases of laparoscopic appendicectomy for simple uncomplicated nonperforated acute appendicitis. Postoperative antibiotic administration would not be necessary in these cases.
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Cordina, McElnay, and Hughes. "Societal perceptions of community pharmaceutical services in Malta." Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 23, no. 2 (1998): 115–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2710.1998.00142.x.

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Nunna, Shinjini. "Using Association Analysis for Medical Diagnoses." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/808.

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In order to fully examine the application of association analysis to medical data for the purpose of deriving medical diagnoses, we survey classical association analysis and approaches, the current challenges faced by medical association analysis and proposed solutions, and finally culminate this knowledge in a proposition for the application of medical association analysis to the identification of food intolerance. The field of classical association analysis has been well studied since its introduction in the seminal paper on market basket research in the 1990's. While the theory itself is relatively simple, the brute force approach is prohibitively expensive and thus, creative approaches utilizing various data structures and strategies must be explored for efficiency. Medical association analysis is a burgeoning field with various focuses, including diagnosis systems and gene analysis. There are a number of challenges faced in the field, primarily stemming from characteristics of analysis of complex, voluminous and high dimensional medical data. We examine the challenges faced in the pre-processing, analysis and post-processing phases, and corresponding solutions. Additionally, we survey proposed measures for ensuring the results of medical association analysis will hold up to medical diagnosis standards. Finally, we explore how medical association analysis can be utilized to identify food intolerances. The proposed analysis system is based upon a current method of diagnosis used by medical professionals, and seeks to eliminate manual analysis, while more efficiently and intelligently identifying interesting, and less obvious patterns between patients' food consumption and symptoms to propose a food intolerance diagnosis.
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Depcrynski, Amy. "Chaperone Association with Telomere Binding Proteins." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1949.

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The Hsp90 chaperone complex associates with the telomerase enzyme, facilitating the assembly of the ribonucleoprotein complex. While previous data from our laboratory indicate that Hsp90 and p23 remain stably associated with (functionally active) telomerase, more recent experiments suggest that these chaperones associate with telomeres independent of telomerase, presumably through a specific interaction with telomere binding proteins. The current study examines the novel interactions between TRF2, TRF1, TIN2 and TPP1 and molecular chaperones (Hsp90, Hsp70, p23). In vitro and in cell experiments have shown an interaction between TRF1 and TRF2 and the molecular chaperones Hsp90 and Hsp70. Inhibition of Hsp90 using drugs that specifically block ATPase activity results in an increased association of TRF1 and TRF2 with Hsp90 to presumably stabilize the telomere associated proteins to the telomere. A definitive explanation as to the mechanisms underlying the chaperone/telomere associated protein interaction has yet to be determined and further studies examining chaperones’ contribution to telomere structure and function are underway. A better understanding of the telomeric proteins and Hsp90 and their roles in nuclear events is important, as both have extremely important functions in the cell. Our current working hypothesis is that chaperone proteins associate with TRF2, TRF1, TIN2 and TPP1 to facilitate telomeric protein-protein interactions and protein-telomere binding in both cancer and normal cells. The interaction between chaperones and telomere binding proteins may eventually provide a better understanding of telomeric structure and function. Defining the mechanisms of telomeric protein regulation is important in the development of new therapeutic approaches for targeting telomeres to induce dysfunction. Clinical trials are underway employing drugs targeting Hsp90 in cancer cells and given the results here, these Hsp90 compounds likely cause telomere alterations.
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Ågren, Karolina. "Association between butyrate-producing bacteria anddiet." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-65269.

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Jones, Joseph Timothy. "The Association between Medical Marijuana Laws and Maternal Marijuana Use." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3530.

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Marijuana is the most common illicit drug that is abused by pregnant women, and recently many states have adopted various levels of relaxed marijuana policies. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a potential association between residing in a state that allows medical marijuana use and maternal marijuana usage. Grounded in the theory of planned behavior, this study evaluated the prevalence and extent of maternal marijuana use in states that allow and states that do not allow medical marijuana use using the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). It was anticipated that more lenient subjective norms toward marijuana use and increased availability would support an increase of maternal marijuana use. The 2014 NSDUH was queried and analyzed using chi-square and logistic regression. The study revealed an increase of maternal marijuana use in states where medical marijuana was allowed, but the increase was not statistically significant. An increase of heavy users was observed in states where medical marijuana was allowed (54% versus 37%). Consistent with other research findings, this study revealed that young (OR = 3.56; 95% CI: 1.379, 9.213; p = 0.009) and unmarried (OR = 6.81; 95% CI: 2.485, 18.661; p < 0.001) pregnant woman were at higher risk for past month maternal marijuana use and had similar results for past year use. The unintended consequences of increased in utero marijuana exposure and its subsequent negative public health effects have been missing from the discussion of the relaxation of statewide marijuana policies. This study will provide policy makers responsible for changing marijuana policy with useful evidence on the unintended consequences of increased maternal marijuana use in areas where medical marijuana is allowed.
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Carhart, Victoria L. "The Association of Acceptance and Avoidance with Medical Rehabilitation Outcomes." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368629429.

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Wallace, Rick L. "Rural Health Association of Tennessee." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2003. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8799.

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Link, Emma. "Genome-wide association of statin-induced myopathy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ca675486-d678-4200-8bb4-988a923e9c4c.

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Lowering LDL-cholesterol with statin therapy produces substantial reductions in cardiovascular events, and larger cholesterol reductions may produce larger benefits. Rarely, myopathy occurs with statins, especially at higher doses and in combination with certain medications. Similarly strong associations might exist between myopathy with high-dose statin regimens and genetic variants, especially those affecting blood statin levels. This study aimed to find genetic variants associated with statin-induced myopathy. A feasibility study was completed to assess whether plausible effect sizes of 5 to10-fold higher risks per genetic variants could be detected among 50-100 cases with statin-induced myopathy and to consider the best study design. A genome-wide association study was then carried out using approximately 300,000 genetic markers (and additional fine-mapping) in 85 people with definite or incipient myopathy and 90 controls, who were all taking 80mg simvastatin daily in a 12,000 participant trial of 80mg vs 20mg simvastatin daily. The cases were also compared to 2,300 additional controls who had not been exposed to intensive-dose statin therapy. Replication of the myopathy result and lipid-lowering associations were tested in a 20,000 participant trial of 40mg simvastatin daily versus placebo. The genome-wide scan yielded a single strong association (p = 4x10-9) of myopathy with the rs4363657 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) located within the SLCO1B1 gene on chromosome 12. This non-coding SNP was in nearly complete linkage disequilibrium (r2=0.97) with the non-synonymous rs4149056 SNP. The population prevalence of the rs4149056 C allele was 15%, and the odds ratio for myopathy was 4.5 (95% confidence interval 2.6 to 7.7) for each copy of the C allele and 16.9 (4.7 to 61.1) for CC vs TT homozygotes. Over 60% of these myopathy cases could be attributed to the C variant. The SLCO1B1 gene encodes the organic anion transport polypeptide OATP1B1, which has been shown to regulate hepatic uptake of statins. In literature reports, rs4149056 reduced statin transport and was associated with 37% (31% to 44%) higher systemic statin acid levels per C allele. The association of rs4149056 with myopathy was replicated in the trial of 40mg simvastatin daily, which also showed that it was associated with the cholesterol-lowering effects of simvastatin. No SNPs in any other region were clearly associated with myopathy (although comparison of the myopathy cases with the 2,300 controls identified a region of chromosome 1p12 that warrants further study). This study identified common variants in SLCO1B1 that influence the risks of statin-induced myopathy substantially. Genotyping these variants may be useful for tailoring both the statin dose and safety monitoring. More generally, such studies of the genetic determinants of serious adverse reactions with other drug classes may help to improve the balance between treatment efficacy and safety.
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Sarac, Cakil. "The Association Between Organizational Culture And Individual Factors On Medical Practice." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608501/index.pdf.

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The aim of the present research was to investigate the relationships between patient safety culture within hospitals and individual factors on medical practice among physicians. A total of 240 physicians from ten different hospitals completed the Medical Practice Questionnaire, Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, Maslach Burnout Inventory and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised- Abbreviated Form. In order to assess frequency and types of medical errors, Medical Practice Questionnaire was developed by the author. Factor analysis of this Questionnaire demonstrated the existence of four subscales named as Patient Management/Information Delivery Errors, Execution Errors, Procedure Related errors and One Source Errors. ANOVA results revealed that males conduct more Procedure Related Errors than females. In support of the hypothesis, a number of differences observed on patient safety culture between types of institutions that public hospitals received lower scores on most of the safety dimensions. Regression analysis results revealed that personality dimensions and burnout levels were significantly related to types and frequency of errors. Considering significant predictors, while the extravert participants were found to report more Patient Management/Information Delivery, Execution and Procedure Related errors, Neurotics were found to report lower levels of errors on these three dimensions. Regression analysis of burnout levels showed that depersonalization were also associated with these three error dimensions.The level of depersonalization were found to increase the frequency of Patient Management/Information Delivery, Execution and Procedure Related Errors. The research findings however, did not support the assertion in a manner that safety culture dimensions were not found to have main effects on types of errors. The limitations of the current research and implications for further research were discussed.
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Archer, Patricia Margaret Alice. "A history of the Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain 1949-1997." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311981.

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Ojo, Anna Olutoyin. "The bacteriome and metabolome of human breast milk and their association with infant growth." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31513.

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Human breast milk is a complex species-specific biological fluid universally known as the optimal postnatal source of nutrition for infants and therefore, recommended by the World Health Organization as the exclusive food for infants in the first six months of life. Despite the importance of human breast milk in infant health, study of its composition, especially the bacteriome (bacterial communities) and metabolome (complete set of metabolites), and their relationship to infant health and growth have not yet been comprehensively characterized. This is particularly true in low- and middle-income countries. We therefore conducted a cross-sectional study, nested within an existing birth cohort, the Drakenstein Child Health Study, to describe the bacteriome and metabolome of human breast milk samples collected between 6-10 weeks postpartum from lactating women living in South Africa. The determinants of these components of human breast milk and their role in infant growth were also investigated. Four commercial DNA extraction kits were compared for DNA extraction from human breast milk samples. The kit showing the best results, including quality and quantity of DNA, as well as best reproducibility, was chosen for further extractions. Using 16S rRNA gene amplicon next generation sequencing, a reproducible bioinformatics sequencing pipeline, and robust multivariate statistical analysis, we confirmed the presence of a diverse bacterial community in human breast milk and identified a core bacteriome, present in 80% of the samples. The bacteriome was shown to cluster into three different profile groups (biotypes) according to the predominant bacterial genus present. Bacterial interactions were suggested by the finding of positive correlations between the relative abundances of bacteria usually found in the oral or skin microbiota. Apart from study site (a proxy for ethnicity in this study), infant birth length and maternal age, no other associations were found between potential sociodemographic and psychosocial determinants and the composition of the human breast milk bacteriome. Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy, we quantified forty-nine metabolites in all human breast milk samples. A subset of women with low levels of lactose concentrations were identified. Low lactose was associated with an increase in metabolites associated with mixed acid fermentation and microbial dysbiosis (staphylococcal-predominant biotype). Low-lactose (vs normal lactose) human breast milk correlated with a reduced median duration of exclusive breastfeeding and reduced infant growth (reduced weight and length z-scores) during the period of exclusive breastfeeding. These results suggest that bacterial fermentation of lactose results in low-lactose breast milk, which in turn impacts on breastfeeding outcome. Taken together, the results presented in this thesis provide a better understanding of human breast milk composition among lactating mothers living in South Africa, their potential determinants and their role in infant growth. Knowledge about the composition of human breast milk may provide opportunity for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and help promote (exclusive) breastfeeding for the recommended period to improve infant health.
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Books on the topic "Medical Association of Malta"

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Association, American Medical, ed. American Medical Association complete medical encyclopedia. Random House Reference, 2003.

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German, L. J. Landmarks in medical unionism in Malta, 1937-1987. L.J. German, 1991.

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Association, British Medical, ed. The British Medical Association children's medical guide. Dorling Kindersley, 1998.

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Association, British Medical, ed. The British Medical Association illustrated medical dictionary. 2nd ed. Dorling Kindersley, 2007.

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B, Clayman Charles, and American Medical Association, eds. The American Medical Association home medical encyclopedia. Random House, 1989.

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M, Kunz Jeffrey R., and Finkel Asher J, eds. The American Medical Association family medical guide. Random House, 1987.

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Baldacchino, Carmel. Goal: The official encyclopedia and history of the Malta Football Association. PIN, Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza, 2010.

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Jacobs, Norene D. Iowa Medical Record Association guide to medical record laws. 2nd ed. The Association, 1989.

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Association of Medical Research Charities. Association of Medical Research Charities handbook. AMRC, 2000.

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Younger-Lewis, Catherine, and William James. Canadian Medical Association baby & child health. Edited by Canadian Medical Association. DK, 2005.

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Volkmar, Fred R. "American Medical Association." In Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer New York, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_1356.

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Volkmar, Fred R. "American Medical Association." In Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91280-6_1356.

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Giordano, Mara. "Linkage, Allele Sharing, and Association." In Medical Biomethods Handbook. Humana Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-870-6:205.

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Jackson, Deborah G., and J. Donald Capra. "TAP1 Allele Association with IDDM." In Medical Science Symposia Series. Springer Netherlands, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1108-9_14.

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Frezza, Eldo E. "American Medical Association (AMA) Directions." In The Moral Distress Syndrome Affecting Physicians. Productivity Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003034766-33.

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Lynch, Clove. "On-line medical terminology." In American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ata.x.16lyn.

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Taubert, Richard, Elmar Jaeckel, and Michael P. Manns. "Autoimmune Hepatitis: Pathogenesis, Association with Other Syndromes." In Encyclopedia of Medical Immunology. Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84828-0_195.

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González Davies, Maria. "Student assessment by Medical specialists." In American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ata.x.11gon.

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Reeves-Ellington, Barbara. "The pragmatics of medical translation." In American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ata.x.13ree.

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ter Wee, Marieke M., and Birgit I. Lissenberg-Witte. "Variables Influencing the Association." In A Quick Guide on How to Conduct Medical Research. Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-368-2248-0_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Medical Association of Malta"

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Berdalovic, Ivan, Lluis Simon Argemi, Roberto Cardella, et al. "MALTA: a CMOS pixel sensor with asynchronous readout for the ATLAS High-Luminosity upgrade." In 2018 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/nssmic.2018.8824349.

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Almodaifer, Ghada, Alaadin Hafez, and Hassan Mathkour. "Discovering medical association rules from medical datasets." In 2011 International Symposium on Information Technology in Medicine and Education (ITME 2011). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/itime.2011.6132053.

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Leader, J. Ken, Bin Zheng, Carl R. Fuhrman, et al. "Association between lung function and airway wall density." In SPIE Medical Imaging, edited by Xiaoping P. Hu and Anne V. Clough. SPIE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.811768.

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Castro, Marcelo A., Christopher M. Putman, and Juan R. Cebral. "Hemodynamic patterns of anterior communicating artery aneurysms: a possible association with rupture." In Medical Imaging, edited by Armando Manduca and Xiaoping P. Hu. SPIE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.709236.

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Anisafitri, Azizah, and Ernawaty. "Factors Affecting Medical Doctors in Charge (MDiC) Obedience in Filling Medical Resumes Based on the Table of Eleven (Study in Private Hospital “X”)." In Indonesian Health Economics Association. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0007030403550359.

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Zhang, Fan, Yang Song, Sidong Liu, et al. "Latent Semantic Association for Medical Image Retrieval." In 2014 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/dicta.2014.7008114.

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Zhang, G. G., C. Z. Xu, Philip C.-Y. Sheu, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi. "Parallel Association Rule Mining for Medical Applications." In Bioengineering (BIBE). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/bibe.2011.31.

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Zhang, Yuanzhe, Zhongtao Jiang, Tao Zhang, et al. "MIE: A Medical Information Extractor towards Medical Dialogues." In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.576.

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Voisin, Sophie, Frank Pinto, Songhua Xu, Garnetta Morin-Ducote, Kathy Hudson, and Georgia D. Tourassi. "Investigating the association of eye gaze pattern and diagnostic error in mammography." In SPIE Medical Imaging, edited by Craig K. Abbey and Claudia R. Mello-Thoms. SPIE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2007908.

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Abolmaesumi, Purang, and Mohammad R. Sirouspour. "Ultrasound image segmentation using an interacting multiple-model probabilistic data association filter." In Medical Imaging 2004, edited by J. Michael Fitzpatrick and Milan Sonka. SPIE, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.533706.

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Reports on the topic "Medical Association of Malta"

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Abdellatif, Omar S., and Ali Behbehani. Malta COVID-19 Governmental Response. UN Compliance Research Group, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52008/mlt0501.

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The International Health Regulations (2005) are legally binding on 196 States Parties, Including all WHO Member States. The IHR aims to keep the world informed about public health risks, through committing all signatories to cooperate together in combating any future “illness or medical condition, irrespective of origin or source, that presents or could present significant harm to humans.” Under IHR, countries agreed to strengthen their public health capacities and notify the WHO of any such illness in their populations. The WHO would be the centralized body for all countries facing a health threat, with the power to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” issue recommendations, and work with countries to tackle a crisis. Although, with the sudden and rapid spread of COVID-19 in the world, many countries varied in implementing the WHO guidelines and health recommendations. While some countries followed the WHO guidelines, others imposed travel restrictions against the WHO’s recommendations. Some refused to share their data with the organization. Others banned the export of medical equipment, even in the face of global shortages. The UN Compliance Research group will focus during the current cycle on analyzing the compliance of the WHO member states to the organizations guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Detmer, Don. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2007 Annual Symposium. Defense Technical Information Center, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada480011.

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Evuarherhe, Obaro, William Gattrell, Richard White, and Christopher Winchester. Association between professional medical writing support and the quality, ethics and timeliness of clinical trials reporting: a systematic review. Oxford PharmaGenesis, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21305/ismppeu2018.004.

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Cechinel, Clovis, and Joao Alberto Martins Rodrigues. ASSOCIATION OF DELIRIUM AND FRAGILITY IN HOSPITALIZED ELDERLY: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2021.9.0022.

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Review question / Objective: What is the relationship between delirium and frailty in hospitalized elderly people? The objective of this research is to analyze the association between frailty and delirium in hospitalized elderly people, through a systematic literature review. Condition being studied: Frailty and delirium in hospitalized aged. Information sources: A specific search strategy for the language of each database was developed using, initially, the Medical Subject Headings (MEsH) descriptor and later translated to specific descriptors (Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) and Embase Subject Headings (Emtree)). The search strategy will be applied by the researchers in the MEDLINE databases through the Pubmed Portal; Scielo; VHL; EMBASE, CINAHL, Scopus and Web of Science through the CAPES Journal Portal; CENTRAL via Cochrane.
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Burkett, Tonia. Black Women's Health: A Content Analysis of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Public Health, and the New England Journal of Medicine (1989-1998). Portland State University Library, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.3037.

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Jones, Nicole S., Jeri D. Ropero-Miller, Heather Waltke, Danielle McLeod-Henning, Danielle Weiss, and Hannah Barcus. Proceedings of the International Forensic Radiology Research Summit May 10–11, 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. RTI Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2017.cp.0005.1709.

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On May 10–11, 2016, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI; Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice of the Netherlands), the International Society for Forensic Radiology and Imaging (ISFRI), the International Association of Forensic Radiographers (IAFR), and NIJ’s Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCoE) at RTI International organized and convened the International Forensic Radiology Research Summit (IFRRS) at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. The summit assembled 40 international subject matter experts in forensic radiology, to include researchers, practitioners, government employees, and professional staff from 14 countries. The goal of this 2-day summit was to identify gaps, challenges, and research needs to produce a road map to success regarding the state of forensic radiology, including formulating a plan to address the obstacles to implementation of advanced imaging technologies in medicolegal investigations. These proceedings summarize the meeting’s important exchange of technical and operational information, ideas, and solutions for the community and other stakeholders of forensic radiology.
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Gillen, Emily, Nicole M. Coomer, Christopher Beadles, and Amy Mills. Constructing a Measure of Anesthesia Intensity Using Cross-Sectional Claims Data. RTI Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2019.mr.0040.1910.

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With intensifying emphasis on episodes of care and bundled payments for surgical admissions, anesthesia expenditures are increasingly important in assessing variation in expenditures for surgical episodes. When comparing anesthesia expenditures across surgical settings, adjustment for anesthesia case complexity and duration of anesthesia services, also known as anesthesia service intensity, is desirable. A single anesthesia intensity measure allows researchers to make more direct comparisons between anesthesia outcomes across settings and services. We describe a process for creating a claims-based anesthesia intensity measure using Medicare claims. We create the measure using two fields: base units associated with American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology codes on the anesthesia claim and time units associated with the service. We rescaled the time component of the anesthesia intensity measure to equally represent base units and time units. For illustration, we applied the measure to Medicare anesthesia expenditures stratified by rural/urban location. We found that adjustments for intensity were greater in urban settings because the level of intensity is greater. Compared with rural settings, unadjusted expenditures in urban settings are roughly 26 percent higher, whereas adjusted expenditures in urban settings are only 20 percent higher. Even absent longitudinal data, researchers can adjust anesthesia outcomes for intensity using our cross-sectional claims-based intensity method.
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