EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY OF THE ADJUNCTIVE USE OF AN INTERNET-BASED SELF-MANAGEMENT INTERVENTION FOR BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN ADDITION TO CARE AS USUAL: RESULTS FROM A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Effectiveness and safety of the adjunctive use of an internet-based self-management intervention for borderline personality disorder in addition to care as usual: results from a randomised controlled trial

Importance Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder that is often inadequately treated.Objective To determine if adding a self-management intervention to care as usual (CAU) is effective and safe.Design Randomised, controlled, rater-blind trial.Duration of treatment and assessments: 12 months.Setting Secondary care, recruit

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The safety of immediate extubation, and factors associated with delayed extubation, in cardiac surgical patients receiving fast-track cardiac anesthesia: An integrative review

Background: Early extubation (EE), within 8 h of cardiac surgery, is associated with improved resource utilization.Studies have demonstrated that for patients receiving low-dose, fast-track opioid cardiac anesthesia (FTCA) protocols, EE is as safe as Digital Audio Cable conventional care.To date, it is unclear when the earliest timepoints for safe

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Harnessing the Power of Metabarcoding in the Ecological Interpretation of Plant-Pollinator DNA Data: Strategies and Consequences of Filtering Approaches

Although DNA metabarcoding of pollen mixtures has been increasingly used in the field of pollination biology, methodological and interpretation issues arise due to its high sensitivity.Filtering or maintaining false positives, contaminants, and rare taxa or molecular features could lead to different ecological results.Here, we reviewed how this cho

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