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Objective
Obesity is a highly stigmatized disease, and despite the understanding of the processes involved, negative language reinforcing outdated views of obesity persists within the scientific literature. This is the first study, to the authors' knowledge, to determine how widespread stigmatizing language is within publications on obesity and examine its impact on patients.
Methods
Two standard...
The intraoperative assessment of adequacy of syndesmotic reduction is challenging. The aim of this study was to develop a radiographic measure based on the lateral ankle view to assess both the normal and abnormal relationship between the tibia and fibula after simulated syndesmotic malreduction and to evaluate the effect on commonly used mortise measurements.Mortise and talar dome lateral radiographs...
A single dose of glucocorticoid can cause hyperglycaemia. Hyperglycaemia is associated with poor outcomes in all surgical specialties. Dexamethasone is widely used to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting. We aimed to assess how many individuals were given dexamethasone as part of their general anaesthetic regimen, and how many had a subsequent capillary blood glucose concentration measured during...
Traumatic brain injury is common. Guidelines from the Brain Trauma Foundation and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network recommend that patients with suspected severe traumatic brain injury should be treated in centres with neurosurgical expertise. Scotland does not have a framework for the delivery of trauma care. The aim of this study was to examine the demographic characteristics of incidents...
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