407 research outputs found
Leadership and End-of-Life Planning Among Elderly Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease
More than 8-million people in the United States possess no kidney function. The purpose of this quantitative casual-comparative research study is to examine the relationship between ethnicity status of African American and European American patients suffering from end-stage renal disease, and advanced care planning and end-of-life decision-making among patients who are 55 years of age and older. The health belief model is the selected explanatory framework used to examine (a) whether ethnicity status is a significant predictor of whether decedents had written end-of-life care instructions, (b) whether ethnicity status is a significant predictor of whether treatment decisions were made, and (c) whether ethnicity status is a predictor of whether patients 55 years of age and older were able to participate in these decisions during the final days of life. The quantitative causal-comparative research design utilized a secondary data set with 4,172 European Americans, of whom 1,010 (24.2%) died from kidney disease, and 1,013 African American in the sample with 289 (28.6%) who died from kidney disease. The logistic regression resulted in the rejection of the null hypothesis for each of the three research questions. The study results may be used by executive leaders to understand factors of patient safety, value-based care, medical technology, health care resources for family, and caregivers that ultimately increase the quality of life of the patient and care needs at the end of life
The interaction of streptokinase.plasminogen activator complex, tissue-type plasminogen activator, urokinase and their acylated derivatives with fibrin and cyanogen bromide digest of fibrinogen. Relationship to fibrinolytic potency in vitro
Effects of cyclic AMP, glucocorticoids and insulin on the activities of phosphatidate phosphohydrolase, tyrosine aminotransferase and glycerol kinase in isolated rat hepatocytes in relation to the control of triacylglycerol synthesis and gluconeogenesis
Retinoblastoma incidence and sunlight exposure
To evaluate positive findings from an earlier report, we studied the relation between retinoblastoma incidence and ultraviolet (UV-B) radiation levels in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) programme areas of the USA using weighted regression, as well as in international data after adjusting for race, economic development, and climate. The association was not statistically significant within the USA (P> 0.20). At an international level, the relation was significant overall and after adjusting for economic development, but it was not significant after adjusting for race and tropical climate, suggesting that environmental factors other than UV-B may be responsible for the geographic patterns of retinoblastoma. © 2000 Cancer Research Campaig
Interactions of insulin, glucagon and dexamethasone in controlling the activity of glycerol phosphate acyltransferase and the activity and subcellular distribution of phosphatidate phosphohydrolase in cultured rat hepatocytes
Kinetic studies on the interaction of streptokinase and other plasminogen activators with plasminogen and fibrin
Modulation of TEL transcription activity by interaction with the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UBC9
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