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Stair falls: caregiver’s “missed step� as a source of childhood fractures
(2014-01)Background The purpose of this study was to describe fractures sustained by children and to analyze the associated costs when a caretaker falls down stairs while holding a child. Materials and methods Between 2004 ... -
Standardized Documentation of Oral Nutrition Supplements in the Electronic Medical Record
(2019-04-22)Malnutrition is a significant problem in hospitalized patients and a major cause for poor patient outcomes including: increased length of stay, readmission rates, hospital costs, and mortality. Methods to improve the ... -
Standardized Parenteral Nutrition in the Very Low Birth Weight Infant: A Systematic Literature Review
(2015-11-11)Nutrition of the premature infant has been gaining importance as evidence emerges that early support in the critical period plays an important role in the long-term health and neurodevelopment of very low birth weight ... -
Standardized Postpartum Depression Screening of NICU Mothers
(2019-12-04)The purpose of this QI project was to determine the feasibility of instituting a standardized postpartum depression screening guideline in the NICU. A draft guideline was developed that instructed medical providers to ... -
Standardizing Operating Room to Post Anesthesia Care Unit Patient Handover with SBAR: A Quality Improvement Project
(2021-12-07)Miscommunication between health care providers has been linked to adverse patient outcomes. The implementation of a standardized patient handover tool is supported by regulatory standards of care and promotes improved ... -
Standardizing Patient Handoff from the Emergency Department to the Stepdown Inpatient Unit
(2019-07-11)The standardization of the patient handoff has become more imperative with the ever-increasing implementation of the electronic health record. An area especially vulnerable for patient handoff failure is from the Emergency ... -
Statins induce lethal effects in acute myeloblastic lymphoma cells within 72 hours
(East Carolina University, 2008-02)HMG-CoA Reductase inhibitors (statins) induce apoptosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells in vitro; however, the concentrations associated with cell death in AML cells are higher than those clinically tolerated during ... -
Stay Healthy with holiday advice
(2020-12-02)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is navigating how to stay healthy throughout the holiday season. -
Steer children toward water and milk consumption
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Stereotypes of Stutterers and Nonstutterers in Three Rural Communities in Newfoundland
(East Carolina University, 1993-12)The existence of a negative stereotype of stutterers among residents of three Small, rural communities in Newfoundland, Canada was investigated. Members of these communities (n=106) completed a 25 item semantic differential ... -
Stimulation of glucose uptake by insulin-like growth factor II in human muscle is not mediated by the insulin-like growth factor II/mannose 6-phosphate receptor.
(East Carolina University, 1994-06-15)Although the growth-promoting effects of insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) have been intensively studied, the acute actions of this hormone on glucose metabolism have been less well evaluated, especially in skeletal ... -
Stop wasting food and money by safely storing leftovers
(2022-01-05)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is about how to make good use of leftovers without getting food poisoning. -
Strain-Dependent Variation in Acute Ischemic Muscle Injury
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Streamlining Communication of STOP-Bang Questionnaire Results
(2022-04-18)The anesthesia, sedation, and analgesia patients receive in the perioperative setting can negatively affect adults with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (Erwin et al., 2019). Preoperative screening and detection of undiagnosed ...