... identify factors associated with PTSD
symptoms in patients following critical illness requiring
mechanical ventilation.
Methods Forty-three patients who were mechanically ventilated
in the medical and ...
Paul Beeson Faculty Scholar Award from the Alliance for Aging
Research and of a K23 from the National Institutes of Health (AG01023-
0 1A1 ).
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The authors wish to gratefully ... analysis
Categorical variables are presented as values (percentage)
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wer...
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Background
Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin (SCCS) is one of the
most common cancers around the word [1,2], with an
increasing incidence at a rapid rate among Caucasians in
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