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Avoiding burnout in new doctors: sleep, supervision and teams 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
What started out as important, meaningful and challenging work becomes unpleasant, unfulfilling and meaningless. Energy turns into exhaustion, involvement turns into cynicism, and efficacy turns into ...
Residency schedule, burnout and patient care among first-year residents 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Background The 2011 US Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates reaffirm the need to design residency schedules to augment patient safety and minimise resident fatigue. ...
Dermatological manifestations and relationship to outcomes of patients admitted to a medical intensive care unit: a study from a tertiary care hospita... 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Aim To determine the prevalence of dermatological manifestations in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and assess its impact on outcomes. Methods This was a prospective cohort study of 1013 ICU pat...
Immunosuppressive therapy in adults with aplastic anaemia: single-institution experience from India 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Objective To determine overall survival and factors predicting survival after immunosuppressive therapy in patients with acquired aplastic anaemia. Design Retrospective. Setting Tertiary care hos...
Republished: Novel insights into immune and inflammatory responses to respiratory viruses 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Viral lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) can lead to severe disease at all ages, but with the exception of influenza vaccination, prevention is not available for most respiratory viruses, hence,...
Republished: Obesity and colorectal cancer 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Excess body weight, as defined by the body mass index (BMI), has been associated with several diseases and includes subjects who are overweight (BMI≥25–29.9 kg/m2) or obese (BMI≥30 kg/m2). Overweight ...
Is it ok 2 txt? Reaching out to adolescents about sexual and reproductive health 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
As the number of adolescents in the population is growing, it is even more important that healthcare practitioners are provided with the tools and resources that can best educate and connect with thos...
The nocebo effect: patient expectations and medication side effects 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Expectation of treatment side effects is consistently linked with those symptoms being realised. Patient expectations, including those generated by the informed consent process, can have a large influ...
Macrodystrophia lipomatosa; local gigantism 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Introduction Macrodystrophia lipomatosa (ML) is an uncommon congenital type of localised gigantism that can involve the digits, or whole extremity, that was first described by Feriz in 1925. 1 – 3 Ra...
First Australians 16 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
I recently returned from my first visit to Australia. I spent 2 weeks in New South Wales and Canberra, running workshops in clinical supervision. Inevitably, I noted some differences between the Austr...
