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The effect of massive transfusion protocol implementation on the survival of trauma patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Blood Transfus, 2020-03-15)
Massive transfusion protocol (MTP) has been widely adopted for the
care of bleeding trauma patients but its actual effectiveness is unclear. An earlier
meta-analysis on the implementation of MTP for injured patients from ...
Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middleincome countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020-04)
To date, dementia prediction models have been exclusively developed and tested in high-income countries
(HICs). However, most people with dementia live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where
dementia ...
Mortality Rates and Mortality Risk Factors in Older Adults with Dementia from Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The 10/66 Dementia Research Group Population-Based Cohort Study
(Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 75 (2020) 581–593, 2020-03-09)
Background: Dementia is the main cause of disability in older people living in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
Monitoring mortality rates and mortality risk factors in people with dementia (PwD) may contribute ...
Seroprevalence of specific antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 from hotspot communities in the Dominican Republic.
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020)
Seroprevalence surveys are of utmost importance to assess the proportion of a population that has developed
antibodies against a newly introduced virus and could therefore potentially exhibit immunologic protection
against ...
Applications of non-destructive techniques in the study of a Caribbean historic timber house.
(IOP Publishing, 2020)
The aims of this research is to analysis a Caribbean historic timber house using nondestructive
techniques (NDT). The high cultural and historic value that have the timber
buildings in the Caribbean and the necessity to ...
Neighbourhood environment and dementia in older people from high-, middle- and low-income countries: results from two population-based cohort
(BMC Public Health, 2020)
A growing number of studies have explored how features of the neighbourhood environment can
be related to cognitive health in later life. Yet few have focused on low- and middle-income countries and
compared the results ...
Direct healthcare costs of moderate and severe work-related injuries: estimates from the National Trauma Center of Qatar
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022-01-30)
Work-related injuries (WRIs) are recognized as a leading cause of admission to the national trauma center of Qatar. A retrospective analysis of trauma registry data and electronic medical records was conducted on a cohort ...
Neurovascular dysfunction and vascular amyloid accumulation as early events in Alzheimer's disease
(Metabolic Brain Disease, 2021-07)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is clinically characterized by a progressive loss of cognitive functions and short-term memory. AD patients present two distinctive neuropathological lesions: neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary ...
Clinical and socioenvironmental characterizations associated with the genealogical analysis of a group of Dominican patients with nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate
(Oral Science International, 2022-01)
In the Dominican Republic, there is an important number of individuals affected by nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NS CL/P); in the search for the etiology, this study sought to determine the inheritance ...
Identifying critical factors to enhance SDI performance for facilitating disaster risk management in small island developing states
(Survey Riview, 2022-01)
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are highly exposed to disaster risk events that frequently
overwhelm their capacity to generate and share spatial information to reduce human–economic
losses. The Spatial Data ...