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This quality improvement project aimed to drive large scale and sustained change to reduce the burden of chronic kidney disease in the UK. The intervention is a software program that extracts relevant biochemical data from laboratory databases which then generate graphs of estimated kidney function (eGFR) over time. Graphs showing progressive kidney disease are sent directly back to general practitioners (GPs) to alert them to rereview patient care and if necessary, refer to renal services. The aim of this evaluation study was to explain the barriers and drivers to implementation and adoption of the eGFR graph intervention. This evaluation study involved 5 of the 20 participating renal units (sites) . A developmental evaluation approach was used. Methods included collection of descriptive data about graph reporting; GP surveys (n=68); focus groups (n=4) with practices; face-to-face interviews with secondary care clinicians (n=10). Results showed the mean number of graphs reviewed per week per site was 230, taking 1 hour per week per site. Only 18.2% graphs highlighted a concerning decline in kidney function. Important enablers to sustain the intervention were low cost, easy to understand, a sense of local ownership and perceived impact. Barriers included nephrologists' perceived increase in new referrals. We concluded that developmental evaluation can explain the barriers/drivers to implementation of a national quality improvement project that involves a variety of different stakeholders. The intervention has the potential to slow down progression of kidney disease due to the eGFR prompts alerting GPs to review the patient record and take action, such as reviewing medications and referring to renal teams if progressive kidney disease had not been identified previously.
Inadequate checking of safety-critical issues can compromise care quality in general practice (GP) work settings. Adopting a systemic, methodical approach may lead to improved standardisation of processes and reliability of task performance, strengthening the safety systems concerned. This study aimed to revise, modify and test the content and relevance of a previously validated safety checklist to the current GP context.

A multimethod study was undertaken in Scottish GP involving consensus building workshops with users and 'experts' to revise checklist content; regional testing of the modified checklist and follow-up usability evaluation survey of users. Quantitative data underwent descriptive statistical analyses and selected survey free-text comments are presented.

A redesigned checklist tool consisting of eight themes (eg, medication safety) and 61 items (eg, out-of-date stock is appropriately disposed) was agreed by 53 users/experts with items reclassified as mandatory (n=25), essential (n=24) and ottish GP. Testing and evaluation demonstrated high levels of checklist content compliance and strong usability feedback, but some variation was evident indicating room for improvement in current safety-critical checking processes. The checklist should be of interest in similar GP settings internationally and to other areas of primary care practice.
A recent study on early onset Parkinson's disease (PD) revealed that NUS1 is a risk gene for PD. Clinically, essential tremor (ET) is closely related to PD. In this study, we aimed to detect NUS1 variants and assess the effect of those variants on patients with ET.

The 5 coding regions and the exon-intron boundaries of NUS1 were directly sequenced in 395 patients with ET and an equal number of healthy controls, matched for age and sex. The function of variants was assessed by pathogenic predictive software programs. Genetic analysis of variants was used to evaluate susceptibility to ET.

A total of 6 exonic variants were identified, including 3 synonymous and 3 missense variants. The non-synonymous variants were predicted to be tolerable. No variants had significant association with ET (none of the p-values were less than 0.05, using Fisher's exact test).

Our study suggested that NUS1 variants may not contribute to the risk of ET.
Our study suggested that NUS1 variants may not contribute to the risk of ET.
To determine whether speech-evoked auditory brainstem response (ABR) is more sensitive to the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) than click-evoked ABR.

Eleven previously-confirmed MS patients (8 females, 3 males) and nine controls (7 females, 2 males), matched in age and gender, participated in a repeated-measures design. Stimuli were presented monaurally to the right ear via insert earphone. All evoked potential responses were collected by a single-channel montage where three electrodes were placed on the center of the head (Cz non-inverting/ active), the ipsilateral earlobe (inverting/ reference) and the contralateral earlobe (ground). Rarefaction clicks of 0.1 ms duration were presented at rates of 13.30 and 91.1 clicks per second. Speech-evoked ABRs were obtained using the BioMARK software and the Bio-Logic Navigator PRO hardware. A synthesized /da/ syllable of 40-ms duration was presented via alternating polarity and at a rate of 10.9 stimuli per second. Stimuli were presented at 80 dB SPL. Speech-evoked ABR responses were obtained in quiet and in noise.

Conventional click ABR responses were absent more often at high presentation rates in control subjects than in MS patients. Speech-evoked ABR peak amplitudes, wave E latency and VA complex slope variables separated the MS patients from controls. Group differences were also found in speech-evoked ABR response correlations in quiet versus noise conditions.

The speech-evoked ABR is as or more sensitive to MS than conventional ABR measures without resort to simply noting missing peaks. Comparison of speech-evoked ABR responses in quiet and in noise highlight loss of neural synchrony in MS.
The speech-evoked ABR is as or more sensitive to MS than conventional ABR measures without resort to simply noting missing peaks. Comparison of speech-evoked ABR responses in quiet and in noise highlight loss of neural synchrony in MS.Because of the increase in the numbers of vehicles and drivers, traffic congestion causes anger on the road to occur frequently. In addition to the impact of personality traits, the information processing of emotional stimuli also influences drivers' behaviours. Research is needed to understand how drivers interact with anger stimuli and the differences in processing anger information between safe and dangerous drivers. This study aimed to explore the differences between safe and dangerous drivers' negativity bias towards anger and discuss the causes of dangerous driving behaviours from the perspective of information processing. In total, 34 participants were divided into a safe group and dangerous group based on their traffic violation history and driving behaviour trends. Selleckchem Erlotinib Participants completed an emotional Stroop task with event-related potential (ERP) data. The results showed that the P200 amplitudes of dangerous drivers were significantly reduced compared with those of safe drivers when processing angry and neutral faces, indicating the inadequate assessment of angry faces in early emotional processing.
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