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patients with manifest cardiovascular disease.The concepts and elements determining quality of care at the End of Life may vary across professional groups but there is consensus that high-quality care at the End of Life is beneficial for the patient, families, health systems and society at large. This scoping review aimed to elucidate gaps in the delivery of this specific type of care in older people from the clinicians' perspective, and to identify potential solutions to both improve this care and promote work satisfaction by the involved clinicians. Twelve studies published since 2010 with data from 18 countries identified four major gaps (1) Core clinical competencies; (2) Shared decision-making; (3) Health care system, environmental context, and resources; and (4) Organisational leadership, culture and legislation. Multiple suggestions for staff communications training, multidisciplinary mentoring, and advance care planning alignment with patient wishes were identified. However, a clear picture arose of consistently unmet needs that have been previously highlighted in research for more than a decade. This indicates poor uptake of previous recommendations and highlights the difficulties in changing the service culture to ensure provision of optimal services at the End of Life. Future investigations on the reasons for poor uptake and identification of effective approaches to execute the agreed recommendations are warranted.
Prolonged treatment of insomnia using benzodiazepine (BZD) receptor agonists, including BZD and non-BZD hypnotic drugs, can cause drug dependence, tolerance, abuse and other adverse events. These side effects are more common and/or severe in older adults taking different hypnotic drugs concomitantly. Therefore, a single prescription is limited to 30 daily doses for most BZD receptor agonists and restrictions apply to the prescription of more than three types of hypnotic drugs in Japan. Little is known, however, about the real-world prescribing pattern of hypnotic drugs in Japan.

We analysed prescribing patterns for hypnotic drugs in Japan to evaluate whether real-world use differs from guideline recommendations.

In this nationwide, retrospective, longitudinal, observational study, we analysed the types of hypnotic drugs prescribed, duration of medication and treatment setting in a subset of hospitals in Japan using a hospital-based administrative claims database (Medical Data Vision). Patients initiatinon.
Benzodiazepine receptor agonists were the most common hypnotic drugs prescribed as the first drug to patients in Japan. Further education and awareness may be needed on the risk of complications and adverse events associated with these therapies. The duration of BZD receptor agonist use was shorter than for the MRA and ORA, in accordance with prescribing guidelines. Long-term use and co-prescribing of hypnotic drugs were also uncommon.Hemorrhagic stroke accounts for a significant proportion of mortality and confers a poor quality of life with high dependency among survivors. Surgical evacuation of hematoma has the advantage of rapidly controlling the increased intracranial pressure, halting the ongoing herniation syndrome, and mitigating the secondary cascades of events mediated by the inflammatory and blood degradation products. The advantage is hindered by the concurrent insult to the healthy brain tissue while passing through the normal brain tissue. Therefore, minimally invasive approaches to evacuate the hematoma are employed, but the need for an expensive surgical armamentarium and the expert multidisciplinary team is the bottleneck for their application, particularly in low-income nations. We herein performed a study upon the role of mini craniotomy open surgical method of evacuating hematoma in selected patients with supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage. We found a significant reduction in the surgery length, minimized risk of post-surgery complications, shortened intensive care unit stay, and reduced mortality compared to the full-fledged craniotomy and endoscopy-guided surgery. There is a need for a large-scale randomized multicenter prospective study to verify the advantages of minimally invasive approaches in the management of symptomatic supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhages.We investigated the impact of parathyroidectomy on sleep quality in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). Selleck Tween 80 Thirty consecutive patients with pHPT were enrolled in the study within 1 year. pHPT was diagnosed by typical symptoms accompanied by an elevated level of parathormone. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used for the evaluation of sleep 1 day before and 6 months after parathyroidectomy. The mean total PSQI score was elevated to 6.8 ± 0.6 points before surgery, which was in the pathological cut-off of greater than ≥5, indicating impaired sleep quality. After parathyroidectomy, the total score declined insignificantly, amounting to 5.6 ± 0.4 (p > 0.05). Nevertheless, the number of patients with a score of ≥5 before surgery decreased from 21 (70%) to 16 (53%) after surgery. There also was a significant improvement in sleep latency (p = 0.05) and sleep efficiency (p = 0.02) domains of PSQI. We conclude that 70% of patients with untreated pHPT suffered from sleep disorders that improved after parathyroidectomy. The clinical consequence is that patients with pHPT should be questioned about having sleep disorders, which might influence the decision-making concerning parathyroidectomy. With the relation reversed, patients without pHPT but suffering from sleep disturbance should be tested for pHPT.This study aims to define the quality of life (QoL) of patients who had undergone laparoscopic pyeloplasty due to ureteropelvic junction obstruction. The QoL was investigated in 26 patients after pyeloplasty, on average, at a 7.5-year follow-up. The operation was performed in a single center between 2002 and 2009 and its effectiveness was confirmed by diuretic renography. The QoL was assessed using the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire. Additionally, we used an own questionnaire, created for this study, specifically assessing the health-related quality of life after pyeloplasty. Overall, 96% of patients were satisfied with the surgical procedure and all would agree to have another pyeloplasty procedure if needed. In one case, dissatisfaction was caused by persisting postoperative pain. All patients but one, dissatisfied due to persisting pain, reported that the postoperative pain intensity was not a problem that would impact the QoL or professional activity. We conclude that laparoscopic pyeloplasty did not adversely affect the patients' QoL, which might stem from beneficial functional outcomes making the patients satisfied with treatment results.
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