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    • Emergency and urgent care capacity in a resource-limited setting: an assessment of health facilities in western Kenya 

      Burke, Thomas F; Hines, Rosemary; Ahn, Roy; Walters, Michelle; Young, David; Anderson, Rachel Eleanor; Tom, Sabrina M; Clark, Rachel; Obita, Walter; Nelson, Brett D (BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)
      Objective: Injuries, trauma and non-communicable diseases are responsible for a rising proportion of death and disability in low-income and middle-income countries. Delivering effective emergency and urgent healthcare for ...

    • Emergency care in 59 low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review 

      Obermeyer, Ziad; Abujaber, Samer; Makar, Maggie; Stoll, Samantha; Kayden, Stephanie R; Wallis, Lee A; Reynolds, Teri A (World Health Organization, 2015)
      Abstract Objective: To conduct a systematic review of emergency care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Methods: We searched PubMed, CINAHL and World Health Organization (WHO) databases for reports describing ...

    • Emergency department quality and safety indicators in resource-limited settings: an environmental survey 

      Aaronson, Emily L.; Marsh, Regan H.; Guha, Moytrayee; Schuur, Jeremiah D.; Rouhani, Shada A. (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015)
      Background: As global emergency care grows, practical and effective performance measures are needed to ensure high quality care. Our objective was to systematically catalog and classify metrics that have been used to measure ...

    • Emergency department rectal temperatures in over 10 years: A retrospective observational study 

      Walker, Graham A.; Runde, Daniel; Rolston, Daniel M.; Wiener, Dan; Lee, Jarone (Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 2013)
      BACKGROUND: Fever in patients can provide an important clue to the etiology of a patient's symptoms. Non-invasive temperature sites (oral, axillary, temporal) may be insensitive due to a variety of factors. This has not ...

    • Emergency Department Use and Subsequent Hospitalizations Among Members of a High-Deductible Health Plan 

      Wharam, James Franklin; Landon, Bruce Evan; Galbraith, Alison Amidei; Kleinman, Kenneth Paul; Soumerai, Stephen Bertram; Ross-Degnan, Dennis (American Medical Association (AMA), 2007)
      Context Patients evaluated at emergency departments often present with nonemergency conditions that can be treated in other clinical settings. High-deductible health plans have been promoted as a means of reducing ...

    • Emergency department visits for acute asthma by adults who ran out of their inhaled medications 

      Hasegawa, Kohei; Brenner, Barry E.; Clark, Sunday; Camargo, Carlos A. (OceanSide Publications, Inc., 2014)
      This study was designed to determine the percentage of asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits made by patients who recently ran out of their inhaled short-acting beta-agonists or inhaled corticosteroids and to ...

    • Emergency medicine and internal medicine trainees’ smartphone use in clinical settings in the United States 

      Raaum, Sonja E.; Arbelaez, Christian; Vallejo, Carlos Eduardo; Patino, Andres M.; Colbert-Getz, Jorie M.; Milne, Caroline K. (Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute, 2015-10-29)
      Purpose: Smartphone technology offers a multitude of applications (apps) that provide a wide range of functions for healthcare professionals. Medical trainees are early adopters of this technology, but how they use ...

    • Emergent Rules for Codon Choice Elucidated by Editing Rare Arginine Codons in Escherichia coli 

      Napolitano, Michael G.; Landon, Matthieu; Gregg, Christopher J.; Lajoie, Marc J.; Govindarajan, Lakshmi; Mosberg, Joshua A.; Kuznetsov, Gleb; Goodman, Daniel B.; Vargas-Rodriguez, Oscar; Isaacs, Farren J.; Söll, Dieter; Church, George (National Academy of Sciences, 2016-09-20)
      The degeneracy of the genetic code allows nucleic acids to encode amino acid identity as well as noncoding information for gene regulation and genome maintenance. The rare arginine codons AGA and AGG (AGR) present a case ...

    • Emerging Concepts: Linking Hypoxic Signaling and Cancer Metabolism 

      Lyssiotis, Costas; Heiden, M G V; Muñoz-Pinedo, C; Emerling, Brooke M. (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)

    • Emerging Evidence for MicroRNAs as Regulators of Cancer Stem Cells 

      Sethi, Aisha; Sholl, Lynette M. (Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), 2011)
      Cancer stem cells are defined as a subpopulation of cells within a tumor that are capable of self-renewal and differentiation into the heterogeneous cell lineages that comprise the tumor. Many studies indicate that cancer ...

    • The emerging genomics and systems biology research lead to systems genomics studies 

      Yang, Mary Qu; Yoshigoe, Kenji; Yang, William; Tong, Weida; Qin, Xiang; Dunker, A Keith; Chen, Zhongxue; Arbania, Hamid R; Liu, Jun S; Niemierko, Andrzej; Yang, Jack Y (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Synergistically integrating multi-layer genomic data at systems level not only can lead to deeper insights into the molecular mechanisms related to disease initiation and progression, but also can guide pathway-based ...

    • Emerging hemodynamic signatures of the right heart (Third International Right Heart Failure Summit, part 2) 

      Maron, Bradley A. (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
      Abstract Despite the importance of preserved right ventricular structure and function with respect to outcome across the spectrum of lung, cardiac, and pulmonary vascular diseases, only recently have organized efforts ...

    • Emerging insights into the molecular and cellular basis of glioblastoma 

      Dunn, Gavin P.; Rinne, Mikael L.; Wykosky, Jill; Genovese, Giannicola; Quayle, Steven N.; Dunn, Ian F.; Agarwalla, Pankaj K.; Chheda, Milan G.; Campos, Benito; Wang, Alan; Brennan, Cameron; Ligon, Keith L.; Furnari, Frank; Cavenee, Webster K.; Depinho, Ronald A.; Chin, Lynda; Hahn, William C. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2012)
      Glioblastoma is both the most common and lethal primary malignant brain tumor. Extensive multiplatform genomic characterization has provided a higher-resolution picture of the molecular alterations underlying this disease. ...

    • Emerging Knowledge of Regulatory Roles of D-Amino Acids in Bacteria 

      Cava, Felipe; Lam, Hubert; de Pedro, Miguel A.; Waldor, Matthew K (Springer Verlag, 2010)
      The D-enantiomers of amino acids have been thought to have relatively minor functions in biological processes. While L-amino acids clearly predominate in nature, D-amino acids are sometimes found in proteins that are not ...

    • Emerging nanotechnology approaches for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention 

      Mamo, Tewodros; Moseman, E Ashley; Kolishetti, Nagesh; Salvador-Morales, Carolina; Shi, Jinjun; Kuritzkes, Daniel Robert; Langer, Robert S.; Andrian, Ulrich von; Farokhzad, Omid Cameron (Future Medicine Ltd, 2010)
      Currently, there is no cure and no preventive vaccine for HIV/AIDS. Combination antiretroviral therapy has dramatically improved treatment, but it has to be taken for a lifetime, has major side effects and is ineffective ...

    • The emerging role of metabolomics in the development of biomarkers for pulmonary hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases (2013 Grover Conference series) 

      Lewis, Gregory D. (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
      Abstract The functional and prognostic significance of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is well established, yet our understanding of circulating peptides and metabolites that might mark or contribute to various forms of PH ...

    • Emi1 preferentially inhibits ubiquitin chain elongation by the anaphase promoting complex 

      Wang, Weiping; Kirschner, Marc W. (2013)
      The anaphase promoting complex (APC) is the crucial ubiquitin ligase targeting the regulatory machinery of the cell cycle. Emi1, a major modulator of APC activity, is thought to act competitively as a pseudosubstrate. We ...

    • Emotion Dysregulation and Inflammation in African-American Women with Type 2 Diabetes 

      Powers, Abigail; Michopoulos, Vasiliki; Conneely, Karen; Gluck, Rachel; Dixon, Hayley; Wilson, Joseph; Jovanovic, Tanja; Pace, Thaddeus W. W.; Umpierrez, Guillermo E.; Ressler, Kerry J.; Bradley, Bekh; Gillespie, Charles F. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)
      C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of systemic inflammation, has been associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Emotion dysregulation is a transdiagnostic risk factor for ...

    • Emotion recognition following early psychosocial deprivation 

      Nelson, Charles A.; Westerlund, Alissa; McDermott, Jennifer Martin; Zeanah, Charles H.; Fox, Nathan A. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013)
      An important function of the brain is to scan incoming sensory information for the presence of relevant signals and act on this information. For humans,the most salient signals are often social in nature, such as the ...

    • Emotional contagion for pain is intact in autism spectrum disorders 

      Hadjikhani, N; Zürcher, N R; Rogier, O; Hippolyte, L; Lemonnier, E; Ruest, T; Ward, N; Lassalle, A; Gillberg, N; Billstedt, E; Helles, A; Gillberg, C; Solomon, P; Prkachin, K M (Nature Publishing Group, 2014)
      Perceiving others in pain generally leads to empathic concern, consisting of both emotional and cognitive processes. Empathy deficits have been considered as an element contributing to social difficulties in individuals ...