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Leadership in radiography : exploring radiographers’ experiences in leadership
(2013)The roles of health professionals including radiographers, are evolving due to technological advancements, globalization, economic recession and an increased aging population. Leadership has been highlighted in literature ... -
Lifetime prevalence of exostosesin New Zealand surfers
(CSIRO Publishing on behalf of Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, 2019-04-03)INTRODUCTION: External auditory exostosis (EAE) is a benign, irreversible bony outgrowth that arises from the temporal bone. EAE projects into the external ear canal, potentially causing recurrent otitis externa and ... -
Long-term outcomes in patients with restrictive filling following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2014-03-13)This study evaluated the effect of restrictive filling pattern (RFP) on 5-year outcomes in patients following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). A hundred STEMI patients treated either by rescue or primary ... -
Lu-177: a game-changer
(2018-09)Theranostics Lu-177 : timeline Why Lu-177 is better Various Lu-177 labelled Radiopharmaceuticals in use Teaser for the future in New Zealand -
Lutetium-177-PSMA I&T for progressing metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer : a single NZ centre experience
(2020-10)Objectives Metastatic Castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) Metastatic Castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and PSMA Various PSMA ligands and radionuclidessuitable for labelling Lu177-PSMA and Mechanism ... -
A meta-analysis of echocardiographic measurements of the left heart for the development of normative reference ranges in a large international cohort: the EchoNoRMAL study
(Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology, 2014-11-18)Aim To develop age-, sex-, and ethnic-appropriate normative reference ranges for standard echocardiographic measurements of the left heart by combining echocardiographic measurements obtained from adult volunteers without ... -
A meta-analysis of the prevalence of lower limb asymptomatic bone stress injuries in athletes and military personnel
(2014)Bone stress injuries (BSI) appear to be widely accepted throughout the medical and sports world, although the importance of asymptomatic injuries remain unclear and their clinical relevance questionable. OBJECTIVES: To ... -
mHealth and big-data integration: promises for healthcare system in India
(BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and published by BMJ, 2019-08-23)BACKGROUND The use of mobile devices in health (mobile health/mHealth) coupled with related technologies promises to transform global health delivery by creating new delivery models that can be integrated with existing ... -
New Zealand consumers’ health information needs : results of an interpretive descriptive study
(Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, 2014-09)INTRODUCTION: Health literacy is linked to better health outcomes and underpins effective self-management, yet over one-and-a-half million New Zealanders are known to have poor health literacy skills. An ability to access ... -
Nuclear medicine applications in prostate cancer
(StatPearls, 2023-05-30)In recent years, the incidence of prostate cancer has been the highest ever recorded due to earlier and more accurate detection and an increase in the average lifetime. Prostate cancer is now the second most common malignancy ... -
Nuclear reactor to the hot lab : an overview of the radiochemistry of Lu-177
(2019-08-31)Objective - To understand the basic radiochemistry of Lu-177 and its application in the labelling with various ligands (i.e. DOTA, PSMA-617,PSMA-I&T) for the theranostic purposes Outline Theranostic and its current ... -
Occupants’ health and their living conditions of remote indigenous communities in New Zealand
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2020-11-11)The New Zealand Ministry of Health reported that respiratory disease affects 700,000 people, annually costs New Zealand NZ$7.05 billion, and is the third-highest cause of death. The hospitalisation rate for asthma of Maori ... -
An overview of radiochemical identity and radiochemical purity of 18F-FDG and factor affecting the RCP
(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2023-08-28)INTRODUCTION The radiopharmaceutical known as fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) is the one that is utilised most frequently in PET-CT imaging. In the first place, it is applied to the diagnosis and evaluation of various stages ... -
Predicting survival in heart failure : a risk score based on 39 372 patients from 30 studies
(Oxford University Press, 2012-10-24)Aims: Using a large international database from multiple cohort studies, the aim is to create a generalizable easily used risk score for mortality in patients with heart failure (HF). Methods and results: Using a large ... -
Progression of myocardial remodeling and mechanical and dysfunction in the spontaneously hypertensive rat
(American Physiological Society, 2012-09-21)The progression of hypertensive heart disease (HHD) to heart failure (HF) is associated with myocardial remodeling. Corresponding changes in three-dimensional organization of cardiac extracellular matrix have not been ... -
Promoting the meaningful use of health information for New Zealand consumers
(IOS Press, 2014-09)A cornerstone of ‘meaningful use’ of health information is engaging consumers and their families. Yet for consumers to be engaged requires an informed population and therefore focus on consumer’s health information needs. ... -
Radiological assessment of the carpal bones maturation and the appearance of the ossification centres among Egyptian children
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A ray of hope patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) sufferers : positive impacts of the Lu177- PSMA treatment in the advanced stage of prostate cancer
(2019-08-31)Objective To evaluate the impact/effects of Lutetium-177-PSMA based treatment in improving the quality of life in patients with advanced stage of prostate cancer (mCRPC) Methodology Epidemiology (Global ... -
Redefining normal reference ranges for echocardiography: a major new individual person data meta-analysis
(2013)Current recommended reference ranges for echocardiographic measurements may not be relevant to the diverse world population they are applied to. A new study, the echocardiographic normal reference ranges of the left heart ... -
Redefining normal reference ranges for echocardiography: a major new individual person data meta-analysis
(Oxford University Press, 2012-08-07)Current recommended reference ranges for echocardiographic measurements may not be relevant to the diverse world population they are applied to. A new study, the echocardiographic normal reference ranges of the left heart ...