Irish journal of medical science
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In laboratory medicine, reference intervals (RIs) are key decision support tools used to guide the clinical interpretation of numerical test results. Best practice suggests each laboratory establishes RIs in the local population prior to introducing an assay into routine clinical practice. ⋯ Normative biological intervals established in a healthy adult Irish population for 37 commonly requested biochemical/haematological parameters will be a valuable aid to result interpretation in clinical laboratories after appropriate verification in accordance with ISO 15189: 2012.
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Aim of this study is to report the trauma workload during COVID19 lockdown in a region of four million people and to compare it with the same period in 2019. ⋯ One month of lockdown showed a 68% decrease in the number of A&E visits and a 74% decrease of fractures that required surgery. Femur fracture showed the lowest decrease moving from 635 to 409 units but increasing their incidence rate (42 to 61%).
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The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated an enforced 8-week induction period (18 May to 12 July 2020) for all new interns in Ireland. These unprecedented circumstances presented a unique opportunity to assess this induction period. ⋯ The COVID-19 pandemic has inadvertently identified a model of internship induction that benefits interns, their colleagues and their patients through the production of more technically capable interns.
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Observational Study
Subjective symptoms and their association with psychiatric symptoms 3 months after ICU discharge: sub-analysis of a single-center prospective observational study.
Despite a growing volume of literature on post-intensive care syndrome, we know little about how subjective symptoms affect intensive care unit survivors in the long term. ⋯ The presence of subjective symptoms is associated with worse psychiatric symptoms (post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression) at 3 months after ICU discharge. We found insomnia was particularly strongly associated with psychiatric symptoms in our study group.
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The objective of our study is to retrospectively investigate if the HOSPITAL score, LACE index, and RAHF scale exhibit any bias based on gender and race in heart failure readmissions. ⋯ Our study demonstrated that the HOSPITAL score and the RAHF scale showed significant differences in predicting 30-day readmissions risk based on race and gender, respectively, in heart failure patients, whereas the LACE index did not show any significant difference.