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Only 13 (9.70%) of the 134 smokers were already receiving treatment. This program enabled providers to feel more comfortable discussing the implications of smoking, advising smokers to quit, providing education materials, and offering referral services at the appropriate stage of readiness for behavior change.Scant evidence exists regarding use of tranexamic acid (TXA) in high-risk obstetrics. The aim of this review was to evaluate the efficacy of prophylactic TXA in high-risk patients for postpartum hemorrhage. The review was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. Only studies examining the effects of TXA compared with placebo in mitigating postpartum hemorrhage were included. The primary outcomes were blood loss intraoperatively and postoperatively. The secondary outcomes were the frequency of additional uterotonic therapy and postoperative hemoglobin concentration. Three trials consisting of 203 patients were included. Compared with placebo, there was a low quality of evidence that TXA may reduce blood loss intraoperatively (mean difference, -361.41; 95% CI, -573.13 to -149.69; P = .0008) and postoperatively (mean difference, -177.95; 95% CI, -296,65 to -59.25; P = .003). We also found a moderate quality of evidence that TXA decreased the number of uterotonic agents used (risk ratio, 0.26; 85% CI, 0.16 to 0.41; P less then .00001) but did not affect postoperative hemoglobin level (mean difference, 0.41; 95% CI, -0.08 to 0.90; P = .10). Prophylactic TXA may decrease blood loss and reduce the number of rescue uterotonics in high-risk patients undergoing cesarean delivery.Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is an unpleasant complication following anesthesia and surgical procedures experienced by both adults and children. Compared with adults, children are 2 times more likely to experience PONV. Many studies have identified and independently validated risk factors associated with the development of PONV in the pediatric population. Chief among these are patient age greater than 3 years, surgical duration greater than 30 minutes, surgical type, and a history of PONV. The purpose of this evidence-based practice change was to investigate if preoperative documentation of a patient's PONV history will lower PONV rates postoperatively. A PONV history assessment tab was created to aid in the documentation of the patient's PONV history, and a retrospective chart review was conducted 2 months before and 2 months after the practice change. A total of 2,279 preintervention cases were compared with 2,006 postintervention cases. Rates of PONV dropped 22%, from 153 preintervention cases to 120 postintervention cases, demonstrating a significant (P = .0043) decrease in PONV rates following a patient's reported history of PONV. Documentation of a patient's PONV history preoperatively led to a decrease in postoperative rates of PONV.Objective The aims of this study were to (1) identify the characteristics of patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) who do not attend their hospital liver clinic appointments; and (2) raise awareness among general practitioners (GP) of alternative pathways to care for CHB in order to prevent long-term complications of CHB (liver cancer and cirrhosis). Methods This prospective study was conducted between May 2018 and January 2019 at one site of a tertiary referral hospital in western Melbourne. selleckchem Patients with minimal liver complications who did not attend their first two initial appointments were included in the study, in addition to referring GPs of new CHB patients to the liver clinic who had minimal liver complications (characterised by minimal fibrosis ( less then 7kPa)) and no liver comorbidities (including cirrhosis and/or hepatocellular carcinoma). GPs of patients who failed to attend the liver clinic as a new patient were sent an alternative discharge letter that included information on alternative pat attendance rates. Although this particular intervention to engage GPs in collaborative care had limited results, it is clear that management of CHB by GPs, transparency in wait lists and adequate resourcing of specialist services would help alleviate the referral burden on hospitals. What are the implications for practitioners? GPs should be aware that waiting lists for liver clinic appointments can be extensive in public hospital settings due to the high referral burden and limited resources of these services. Alternative pathways to care, such as GPs trained to prescribe Schedule 100 drugs, are an effective means of alleviating this burden while also ensuring CHB patients are seen in a timely manner and receive routine monitoring.[Erratum to BMB Reports 2018; 51(6) 265-273, PMID 29661268] The BMB Reports would like to correct in the Figure 2 of BMB Rep. 51(6) 265-273 titled "Degradation or aggregation the ramifications of post-translational modifications on tau." The original version of this article unfortunately contained typographical errors in the Figure 2. This article has been updated to correct thses errors (red squares) in Figure 2.BACKGROUND We investigated health-related quality of life (HrQoL) in Filipino people undergoing TB treatment, and whether HrQoL was negatively impacted by comorbidity with undernutrition, diabetes (DM) and anaemia.METHODS Adult participants were enrolled in public facilities in Metro Manila (three sites) and Negros Occidental (two sites). Multivariate linear regression was used to model the four correlated domain scores from a WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire (physical, psychological, social, environmental). A forward-stepwise approach was used to select a final multivariable model with inclusion based on global tests of significance at P less then 0.1.RESULTS In 446 people on drug-susceptible TB treatment, DM and moderate/severe anaemia were not associated with HrQoL. After adjustment for age, sex, education, food insecurity, treatment adherence, inflammation, Category I or II TB treatment, treatment phase, current side effects and inhibited ability to work, moderate/severe undernutrition (body mass index less then 17 kg/m²) was associated with lower HrQoL (P = 0.