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HealthDay News mdash; Hospitalized patients with chronic kidney disease CKD frequently are unaware of their condition, according to research published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.Milda R. Saunders, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Chicago, and colleagues conducted a retrospective study of 590 general medicine in-patients with CKD using ICD-9 codes for non-dialysis-dependent CKD from the first 20 stanley tumbler admission diagnoses. Awareness of CKD was defined as correct patient self-report of kidney problems.The researchers found that 32% of patients were aware of their CKD. Of 161 patients with advanced CKD, 48% of patients with stage 4 CKD estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR], 15 to 29 and 63% of patients with stage 5 CKD eGFR lt;15 , reported having CKD. After multivariable analysis, factors significantly associated with patient self-report of CKD included advanced stage of disease, other race non-white, non-African American stanley deutschland , and increasing score on the Mini-Mental State Exam. Although it increased among patients with advanced disease who would benefit from referral to multidisciplinary nephrology care, CKD awareness was still low.Further work is needed across hospitals to determinemdash;and improvemdash;CKD awareness among both patients and providers, stanley termosar the authors write.SourceSaunders, MR; Dahei Kim, S; Patel, N; et al. Journal of Hospital Medicine, volume 10, issue 9, pages 619ndash;622, September 2015; doi: 10.1002/jhm.2395. Ptii Work at Phillipston Highway Department rolling along
Chuck Kinder, a writer and teacher at the University of Pittsburgh whose party-giving and endless procrastination as a writer formed the basis of Wonder Boys, a novel by one of his students, Michael Chabon, and a later film of the same name, died May 3 at a hospital in Miami. He was 76.He had heart ailments, said his wife, Diane Cecily.For years, Kinder led the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became renowned for his generosity as a teacher and as a host whose house became the literary heart of a city he called the Paris of Appalachia. In the 1970s, he published two novels set in his native West Virginia, but for years afterward he toiled on a manuscript that grew to more than 3,000 pages and never seemed to reach a c stanley canada onclusion. Chabon, who was Kinders student in the 1980s, used him as the model for Grady Tripp, the narrator and central figure of the 1995 novel Wonder Boys. The character was played by Michael Douglas in a well-received 2000 film, directed by Curtis Hanson.The novel Kinder could not finish was called Honeymooners, which centered on his friendship in the 1970s with short-story writer Raymond Carver while they were both studying at Stanford University. By the stanley mug early 1980s, colleagues, the pub stanley mug lishing world and even Kinders students knew about the book that seemingly had no end. I remember one night being at Chucks home for an impromptu party, Chabon said in a telephone interview. I saw a light coming from his writing room, and
HealthDay News mdash; Hospitalized patients with chronic kidney disease CKD frequently are unaware of their condition, according to research published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.Milda R. Saunders, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Chicago, and colleagues conducted a retrospective study of 590 general medicine in-patients with CKD using ICD-9 codes for non-dialysis-dependent CKD from the first 20 stanley tumbler admission diagnoses. Awareness of CKD was defined as correct patient self-report of kidney problems.The researchers found that 32% of patients were aware of their CKD. Of 161 patients with advanced CKD, 48% of patients with stage 4 CKD estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR], 15 to 29 and 63% of patients with stage 5 CKD eGFR lt;15 , reported having CKD. After multivariable analysis, factors significantly associated with patient self-report of CKD included advanced stage of disease, other race non-white, non-African American stanley deutschland , and increasing score on the Mini-Mental State Exam. Although it increased among patients with advanced disease who would benefit from referral to multidisciplinary nephrology care, CKD awareness was still low.Further work is needed across hospitals to determinemdash;and improvemdash;CKD awareness among both patients and providers, stanley termosar the authors write.SourceSaunders, MR; Dahei Kim, S; Patel, N; et al. Journal of Hospital Medicine, volume 10, issue 9, pages 619ndash;622, September 2015; doi: 10.1002/jhm.2395. Ptii Work at Phillipston Highway Department rolling along
Chuck Kinder, a writer and teacher at the University of Pittsburgh whose party-giving and endless procrastination as a writer formed the basis of Wonder Boys, a novel by one of his students, Michael Chabon, and a later film of the same name, died May 3 at a hospital in Miami. He was 76.He had heart ailments, said his wife, Diane Cecily.For years, Kinder led the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became renowned for his generosity as a teacher and as a host whose house became the literary heart of a city he called the Paris of Appalachia. In the 1970s, he published two novels set in his native West Virginia, but for years afterward he toiled on a manuscript that grew to more than 3,000 pages and never seemed to reach a c stanley canada onclusion. Chabon, who was Kinders student in the 1980s, used him as the model for Grady Tripp, the narrator and central figure of the 1995 novel Wonder Boys. The character was played by Michael Douglas in a well-received 2000 film, directed by Curtis Hanson.The novel Kinder could not finish was called Honeymooners, which centered on his friendship in the 1970s with short-story writer Raymond Carver while they were both studying at Stanford University. By the stanley mug early 1980s, colleagues, the pub stanley mug lishing world and even Kinders students knew about the book that seemingly had no end. I remember one night being at Chucks home for an impromptu party, Chabon said in a telephone interview. I saw a light coming from his writing room, and
