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The prevalence, incidence, and correlates of fecal incontinence among older people residing in care homes: a systematic review
(2019-08)Objective: Older people resident in care homes often rely on staff for support relating to their activities of daily living, including intimate care such as continence care. Managing fecal incontinence can be challenging ... -
Preventing acute gut wall damage in infectious diarrhoeas with glycosylated dendrimers
(2012-09-01)Intestinal pathogens use the host's excessive inflammatory cytokine response, designed to eliminate dangerous bacteria, to disrupt epithelial gut wall integrity and promote their tissue invasion. We sought to develop a ... -
Preventing and lessening exacerbations of asthma in school-age children associated with a new term (PLEASANT) : Study protocol for a cluster randomised control trial
(2013-09-16)Background: Within the UK, during September, there is a pronounced increase in the number of unscheduled medical contacts by school-aged children (4-16 years) with asthma. It is thought that that this might be caused by ... -
Preventing and managing falls among people with mental health problems
(2012-07-12)Background: Falls are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in older people and these risks are exacerbated by mental health conditions such as depression and dementia. Previous reviews have focused on people with ... -
Preventing falls among older people with mental health problems : a systematic review
(2014-02-19)Falls are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in older people and the risk of falling is exacerbated by mental health conditions. Existing reviews have focused on people with dementia and cognitive impairment, but ... -
Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance
(2020-07)As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have introduced steps such as spatial distancing and "staying at home" to curb its spread and impact. The fear resulting from the disease, the 'lockdown' situation, ... -
Preventing teenage pregnancy : Evidence from systematic reviews
(2007)We have recently undertaken an update of the review of reviews (Evidence briefing 2003) on behalf of NICE and in this chapter we briefly summarise the findings of the first review, report in more detail on the results of ... -
Prevention is Better Than Cure: Cardio-Metabolic Responses to Montmorency Tart Cherry Supplementation With and Without Exercise
(2019-09-03)Globally, cardio-metabolic diseases and their associated complications are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity, and also the single largest contributor to health care expenditure (World Health Organisation, 2017). ... -
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Price-Setting in Business-to-Business Markets
(2007-09)Although cost-plus pricing is often used in B2B markets it has the serious drawback that it ignores both customer price sensitivity and potential competitor action. Most B2B markets are oligopolies so that there is an ... -
Pricing Decisions and Competitive Conduct Across Manufacturing Sectors: Evidence from 19 European Union Manufacturing Industries
(2019-09)This paper investigates the pricing decisions across the manufacturing sectors of 19 EU countries over 1995–2014. The markup formulation of De Loecker and Warzynski (Am Econ Rev 102(6):2437–2471, 2012) is employed in order ... -
Pricing Decisions and Market Power in the UK Electricity Market: A VECM Approach
(2017-09-01)This paper examines the influence of market power in the formation of retail and wholesale electricity prices in the UK over 1998–2012 on the basis of Vector Error Correction model (VECM). Market power is measured as the ... -
Pricing decisions, competition and liquidity constraints: Evidence from the UK wholesale and retail food, beverages and tobacco sector
(2020-02-27)Purpose: This study investigates the pricing decisions of the UK wholesale and retail food, beverages and tobacco sector over 2007–2016 using 19 four-digit level NACE Rev.2 classification industries. Design/methodology/approach: ... -
The primacy model: A new model of immediate serial recall
(1998-10)A new model of immediate serial recall is presented: the primacy model. The primacy model stores order information by means of the assumption that the strength of activation of successive list items decreases across list ... -
Primal impression and enactive perception
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Primary care and dementia: 1 : diagnosis, screening and disclosure
(2009)Objectives: To write a narrative review of the roles of primary care practitioners in caring for people with dementia in the community. Methods: The systematic review carried out for the NICE/SCIE Guidelines was updated ... -
Primary care and dementia: 2. long-term care at home: psychosocial interventions, information provision, carer support and case management
(2010)Objective: To write a narrative review of the role of primary care physicians in the long-term care of people with dementia living at home, with a focus on psychosocial interventions, the provision of information and carer ...