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February 5
Mortality salience and morality: Thinking about death makes people less utilitarian. |
Trémoličre B, Neys WD, Bonnefon JF. |
Impact of Thinking about Death on Moral Decision-Making Background: Dual-process theory posits that moral judgments involve both automatic emotional (intuitive) and more controlled cognitive (utilit... |
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Clinically employed opioid analgesics produce antinociception via ě-ä opioid receptor heteromers in rhesus monkeys. |
Yekkirala AS, Banks ML, Lunzer MM, Negus SS, Rice KC, Portoghese PS. |
Mechanisms of Opioid-Induced Analgesia Background: Three types of opioid receptor mediate antinociception: mu, kappa, and delta; scientists believe that morphine, methadone, and fentanyl bind select... |
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Use of the Medicare posthospitalization skilled nursing benefit in the last 6 months of life. |
Aragon K, Covinsky K, Miao Y, Boscardin WJ, Flint L, Smith AK. |
Use of the Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Benefit in Last 6 Months of Life Background: Medicare regulations prohibit concurrent enrollment for the same diagnosis in the Medicare skilled nursing f... |
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Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in older people: A meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials. |
Gould RL, Coulson MC, Howard RJ. |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depressed Older People Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects many older people-up to 9% of community dwellers,1 42% in residential care,2 and 28% hospit... |
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Children's positive dispositional attributes, parents' empathic responses, and children's responses to painful pediatric oncology treatment procedures. |
Harper FW, Penner LA, Peterson A, Albrecht TL, Taub J. |
Influences on Children's Responses to Painful Pediatric Oncology Treatments Background: Children's experiences of treatment-related pain and distress vary significantly across individuals.1 Do child... |
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Drug interactions in dying patients: A retrospective analysis of hospice inpatients in Germany. |
Frechen S, Zoeller A, Ruberg K, Voltz R, Gaertner J. |
Drug-Drug Interactions in Dying Patients Background: Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) have been studied in various populations but not among imminently dying patients in the last days of life. What is ... |
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