In this study, the paths between two prejudicial attitudes (authoritarianism and benevolence)
and a proxy measure of behavioral discrimination (social distance) were examined in a …

Interventions, such as the use of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) and non-invasive
ventilation (NIV), are used in the management of people with motor neurone disease …

Accelerated degradation of acetylcholine receptor (AChR) by antibody has been implicated
in the loss of receptor sites in myasthenia gravis (MG). Our clinical and experimental data …

The call for paraprofessional staff to provide case management, skills training, and other
direct care services is increasing due to budgetary constraints, managed care, and, in some …

This chapter reviews a range of common problems and their management, drawing on the
author’s clinical practice and available published evidence. Management is aimed at …

Around half the annual 600,000 deaths in England occur in hospital, with an average of 30
days spent as inpatients during the last year of life, over several admissions. 1 Forty per cent …

To implement the National End of Life Care strategy and enable more people to express and
achieve their preferences about care at the end of life, senior clinicians outside palliative …

Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection
with the most severe disease in the young and elderly. Non-pharmaceutical interventions …

Background End-of-life care is essential to medical practice. Encouraging behavioural
change in senior doctors who are trained to cure, and may see death as failure, is crucial to …

As New Zealand government organisations have been required under the Public Records
Act (2005)1 to put in place recordkeeping systems that preserve the continuation and integrity …