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Continuity of care is challenging when transferring patients across palliative care settings. These transfers are common due to the complexity of palliative care, which has increased significantly since the advent of palliative care services. It is unclear how palliative care services and professionals currently collaborate and communicate to ensure the continuity of care across settings, and how patient and family members are involved.

To explore healthcare professionals' experiences regarding the communicative aspects of inter-professional collaboration and the involvement of patient and family members.

Qualitative design, including focus group discussions.

The study focused on one palliative care network in Belgium and involved all palliative care settings hospital, hospital's palliative care unit, home care, nursing home. Nine group discussions were conducted, with diverse professionals (

= 53) from different care settings.

Timely and effective inter-professional information exchange was consited palliative care in regional networks.Head injury models are notoriously time consuming and resource demanding in simulations, which prevents routine application. Here, we extend a convolutional neural network (CNN) to instantly estimate element-wise distribution of peak maximum principal strain (MPS) of the entire brain (>36 k speedup accomplished on a low-end computing platform). To achieve this, head impact rotational velocity and acceleration temporal profiles are combined into two-dimensional images to serve as CNN input for training and prediction of MPS. Compared with the directly simulated counterparts, the CNN-estimated responses (magnitude and distribution) are sufficiently accurate for 92.1% of the cases via 10-fold cross-validation using impacts drawn from the real world (n = 5661; range of peak rotational velocity in augmented data extended to 2-40 rad/sec). The success rate further improves to 97.1% for "in-range" impacts (n = 4298). When using the same CNN architecture to train (n = 3064) and test on an independent, reconstructed Nilab-biomechanics/CNN-brain-strains.Resumé L'industrie pharmaceutique a permis à de nombreux patients d'améliorer leur santé. Mais elle reste critiquée à cause d'un certain désengagement envers les maladies dans les pays en voie de développement et notamment les maladies pédiatriques. Considérant le cercle vicieux de la pauvreté et de la maladie affectant les enfants dans ces pays, il apparait primordial que les multinationales pharmaceutiques impliquent leur responsabilité à plusieurs niveaux par la mise en place d'actions concrètes pour mener plus de recherches sur les enfants, vu leurs besoins ; puis en rendant les médicaments accessibles à un plus grand nombre d'enfants.The purpose of this study was to determine if earlier age of first exposure (AFE) to football is associated with worse brain health in middle-aged men who played high school football. We assessed 123 men 35-55 years of age, who played high school football, using (1) a survey of demographic information as well as medical, sport participation, and concussion history; (2) the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8); and (3) the British Columbia Post-Concussion Symptom Inventory (BC-PSI). TGFbeta inhibitor Sixty-two (50.4%) men reported football participation starting before the age of 12 (i.e., AFE 12 years, a similar proportion of former high school football players who began playing tackle football before age 12 reported that they had been prescribed medications for mental health problems or that they had recently experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression, memory loss, chronic pain, or headaches. Moreover, there was no significant difference in their lifetime history of treatment by a mental health professional. The groups did not differ significantly on PHQ-8 (U = 1839.0, p = 0.791) or BC-PSI total scores (U = 1828.5, p = 0.751). These findings suggest that earlier AFE to football is not associated with worse brain health in middle-aged men in this sample who played high school football.

Different cannulation approaches existed for veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV ECMO). We aimed to compare the atrio-femoral (AF) and femoro-atrial (FA) configuration in terms of their flow efficiency and influence on patient outcome.

This was a single-centre, retrospective case control study. Adult patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and required VV ECMO service at Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong, from June 2015 to January 2020 were included. Data were collected from our ECMO database for comparison.

Between June 2015 and January 2020, eight patients received AF configuration and 19 patients received FA configuration. The maximum achieved flow in the AF group was significantly higher than that in the FA group (4.08 ± 0.57 L/min vs. 3.52 ± 0.58 L/min, p = 0.03). The fluid balance in first 3 days of ECMO was significantly lower in the AF group compared to that in the FA group (1.16 ± 2.71 L vs. 3.46 ± 1.97 L, p = 0.02). As well, the chance for successful awake ECMO was statistically higher in the AF group (p = 0.048).

Atrio-femoral configuration in VV ECMO was associated with a higher maximum achieved ECMO flow, less fluid gain in first 3 days of ECMO and more successful awake ECMO.

Atrio-femoral configuration in VV ECMO was associated with a higher maximum achieved ECMO flow, less fluid gain in first 3 days of ECMO and more successful awake ECMO.

Literature shows that sexual activity remains important at older age and is a valued part of life. However, little is known about the intimate partner relationships (IPR) among minority older women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The purpose of this study is to explore the effect HIV diagnosis had on the intimate partner relationships (IPR) among minority older women living with HIV (MOWH).

Qualitative descriptive study. A total of 28 MOWH (Black and Latinas) aged 50years and older participated in face to face semi-structured in-depth interviews. Interviews were analyzed using content analysis.

Three themes emerged from the analysis (a)"

that revealed sexual practices increasing the risk for HIV in their intimate relationships; (b)"

explored the consequences of HIV disclosure, and how disclosure determined the future of their intimate relationships; and (c)

described the quality of intimate partner relationships and changes after HIV diagnosis.

Results from this study contribute to understanding and increasing awareness of the effect of HIV on the intimacy of MOWH.