HIGH TECH AND HIGH TOUCH: RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES FOR ENROLLING AFRICAN AMERICAN STROKE SURVIVORS IN COMMUNITY BASED INTERVENTION UNDER NURSE GUIDANCE AFTER STROKE (CINGS) TRIAL

Background: Substantial effort has been undertaken to improve the recruitment and retention of participants in stroke trials.African Americans are disproportionately under-represented in stroke clinical trials as well as clinical trials for other chronic disease conditions.To circumvent barriers to recruitment, clinical trial recruitment strategies

In this report, we discuss the postoperative protocol for patients undergoing lymphaticovenous anastomosis (LVA) in our unit.Immediately after LVA, the Shooting Waistcoats incision site is closed over a small Penrose drain and a simple gauze dressing is applied without compression.In the first 5 days, ambulation is allowed, but limb elevation is ac

Church history is dead, long live historical theology! This restatement of the monarchical law of le mort saisit le vif is at once a statement of irreparable discontinuity and assumed continuity.The old monarch is no more, yet a new and different monarch ascends Globe to fill the same vacant throne.This is the paradox of church history becoming his

Observations on the Indian Spiny-tailed Lizard Saara hardwickii (Gray, 1827) were undertaken in Tal Chhapar Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India during the monsoons (July) following quadrat sampling that was time-constrained.The study revealed that the area is one of the preferable habitats for the species.A population analysis showed that the rela

Climate change is likely to increase both the extent of seasonal weather variation and the magnitude of extreme weather events.The food security of those living in poorer countries and in poorer communities will be disproportionately affected by this change in weather patterns.We explored how the heterogeneity that exists within the Rama Indigenous