29 research outputs found
Longevity of Oncidium varicosum (Orchidaceae) inflorescences treated with 1-methylciclopropene
Prevalence of Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED): an international flash mob study
Introduction
Current emergency care systems are not optimized to respond to multiple and complex problems associated with frailty. Services may require reconfiguration to effectively deliver comprehensive frailty care, yet its prevalence and variation are poorly understood. This study primarily determined the prevalence of frailty among older people attending emergency care.
Methods
This cross-sectional study used a flash mob approach to collect observational European emergency care data over a 24-h period (04 July 2023). Sites were identified through the European Task Force for Geriatric Emergency Medicine collaboration and social media. Data were collected for all individuals aged 65 + who attended emergency care, and for all adults aged 18 + at a subset of sites. Variables included demographics, Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), vital signs, and disposition. European and national frailty prevalence was determined with proportions with each CFS level and with dichotomized CFS 5 + (mild or more severe frailty).
Results
Sixty-two sites in fourteen European countries recruited five thousand seven hundred eighty-five individuals. 40% of 3479 older people had at least mild frailty, with countries ranging from 26 to 51%. They had median age 77 (IQR, 13) years and 53% were female. Across 22 sites observing all adult attenders, older people living with frailty comprised 14%.
Conclusion
40% of older people using European emergency care had CFS 5 + . Frailty prevalence varied widely among European care systems. These differences likely reflected entrance selection and provide windows of opportunity for system configuration and workforce planning
Studies in the Adsorption of Arylamides of 2-Hy droxy-3-Naphthoic Acid and Related Compounds by Cellulosic Fibers
Dynamics and chemistry of dissolved organic carbon in Precambrian Shield catchments and an impounded wetland
Animal concepts : content and discontent
The psychology of human concepts is concerned with the structure of concepts such as FISH, PERSON, LIKES and so on. The stock of concepts that we are assumed to have corresponds rather directly to the stock of predicates of natural language. The nature of this relationship between human concepts and natural language is central to research on animal concepts, since, unless there is some way of understanding concepts that is independent of their connection with natural language, nonlinguistic animals cannot have concepts