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Reducing healthcare conflict: outcomes from using the conflict management framework

Objective To test a new conflict management framework (CMF) to help staff identify and de-escalate conflict between staff and patients/families. Design Before/after study that reports staff quality of ...
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Deficits in attention, motor control, and perception: a brief review

The concept of DAMP (deficits in attention, motor control, and perception) has been in clinical use in Scandinavia for about 20 years. DAMP is diagnosed on the basis of concomitant attention ...
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Use of captopril in paediatric congestive cardiac failure: early effects on blood pressure and renal function

Correspondence to Dr EA Orchard, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, John Radcliffe Hospital, 38 Chalfont Roadm, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; elizabethorchard{at}hotmail.com If you wish to reuse any or all of ...
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Short versus long duration of antibiotic therapy for bacterial meningitis: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials in children

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of short-course antibiotic therapy for bacterial meningitis, by performing a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCT). Review methods: ...
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Kangaroo mother care for the prevention of neonatal hypothermia: a randomised controlled trial in term neonates

Objective To test the hypothesis that kangaroo mother care (KMC) initiated either at birth or at 1 hour after birth reduces moderate or severe hypothermia in term neonates at (A) 1 hour after birth ...