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‘A DRPU involves interaction with a device or object that is in direct or indirect contact with skin, or implanted under the skin, causing focal and localised forces that deform the localised and...
A joint leg ulcer service project was undertaken by the TV and vascular surgery units for 3 months (December 2018–February 2019) with the aim of streamlining the service for patients with longstanding...
A risk assessment was developed considering the increased demand for MAbs, the complexity of the preparation (powder formulations, multiple dilutions, and so on), the potential toxicity of the drug...
Between 1 November 2016 and 31 December 2017, cGvHD patients attending for ECP were supplied with a handheld peak flow meter (Mini-Wright, Clement Clarke), educated on how to accurately perform peak...
Alcohol is a teratogen that has a toxic effect on the developing fetus (BMA, 2007a). FASD is seen as a non-diagnostic umbrella term (Riley et al, 2011; Nash and Davies, 2017; Blagg and Tulich, 2018)...
Psoriasis is a complex disease with numerous risk factors and a multifactorial inheritance pattern. Approximately one-third of affected patients have a first-degree relative with the disorder,...
‘To live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life … [including] access, on an equal basis with others, … to information and communications, including information and communications...
An initial search of two databases, CINAHL and PubMed, sourced 309 articles. Keywords included ‘delirium’, ‘acute confusion’, ‘intervention’, ‘nurs*, ‘patient’’, ‘preoperative’, ‘intraoperative’...
The wide variation in malignant ulcers adds to the complexity of establishing a clinical diagnosis. As such, a methodological approach to skin ulcers can provide clues suggestive of a malignant...
‘Role pressures associated with membership in one organization are in conflict with pressures restricting from membership in other groups.’ .