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Climate‐related exposures and seizures in children: A systematic review

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Climate‐related exposures, including air pollution, temperature extremes, humidity, and atmospheric conditions, are increasingly recognized as potential seizure triggers. As climate change intensifies, understanding the environmental contributors to pediatric seizure risk has important implications for anticipatory guidance and ...
Caroline Sarpy, Yoon Sik Jung, Carol Mita, Xingyan Wang, Phillip L. Pearl, Maitreyi Mazumdar   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operating in perpetual motion? Coping with the dark side of global boundary spanning

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper explores how individuals experience and cope with the demands of global boundary spanning in multinational enterprises (MNEs). We foreground temporary colocation as a modality through which mobile global boundary spanners repeatedly traverse multiple boundaries, triggering intense demands with adverse consequences ...
Kieran M. Conroy, Anthony McDonnell, Stefan Jooss   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community First Responders’ role in the current and future rural health and care workforce: a mixed-methods study

Health and Social Care Delivery Research
Background Community First Responders are trained volunteers dispatched by ambulance services to potentially life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrest in the first vital minutes to provide care until highly skilled ambulance staff arrive ...
Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Gupteswar Patel, Vanessa Botan, Murray D Smith, Viet-Hai Phung, Julie Pattinson, Ian Trueman, Colin Ridyard, Mehrshad Parvin Hosseini, Zahid Asghar, Roderick Orner, Amanda Brewster, Pauline Mountain, Elise Rowan, Robert Spaight   +14 more
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Identifying Avoidable Emergency Department Visits and the Potential Role of Community Health Centers in Northern Italy: A Retrospective Observational Study

Health Care Science, EarlyView.
Using data from an Italian emergency department (ED), ED visits preventable through integrated community care models (community health centers) were identified. ED visits were classified based on presenting symptoms, comorbidities, medication use, and age.
Silvia Caristia, Isabella Santomauro, Erika Bassi, Laura Ferraris, Alberto Dal Molin, Fabrizio Faggiano   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling Uncertainty for the Double Standard Model Using a Fuzzy Inference System

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018
This paper studies the issue of uncertainty in the ambulance location problem to cover the maximum number of demand points in a city. The work is based on the double standard model (DSM), a popular coverage model where two radii are considered to cover a
Noelia Torres, Leonardo Trujillo, Yazmin Maldonado   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Appropriateness of transport of children via emergency medical service providers according to the decision-maker on referred hospitals [PDF]

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, 2017
Purpose We aimed to investigate the appropriateness of transport of children via emergency medical service providers (EMSP) according to the decision-maker on referred hospitals (EMSP [EMSP group] vs. guardians [user group]).
Hohyun Jeong, Myeong Il Cha, Si Young Jung, Joohyun Suh   +3 more
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Inclusion of Refugees Into National Health Systems: Enablers, Barriers and Lessons From Six Country Case Studies

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global refugee population has nearly doubled in the last decade, and many of these populations face chronic displacement, often in neighbouring countries with limited resources. Emergency, short‐term responses are being transitioned to longer term approaches, including a focus on inclusion through coverage in national health systems ...
Sophie Witter, Alastair Ager, Karin Diaconu, Zahid Ali Memon, Ben Ngoye, Natasha Palmer, Marcia Vera‐Espinoza, Amina Olabi, Hussam Rekani, Hassan Ould Moctar, Ricardo Chuquimia, Chitalu Miriam Chama‐Chiliba, Ibrahim Bou‐Orm, Maria Paola Bertone   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Atención prehospitalaria de urgencias en el Distrito Federal: las oportunidades del sistema de salud Prehospital emergency care in Mexico City: the opportunities of the healthcare system

Salud Pública de México, 2005
Las lesiones de tráfico no-intencionales a escala global causan 1.2 millones de muertes cada año, afectan a personas en edad productiva y son eventos potencialmente prevenibles.
Luis M Pinet
doaj  

Health System Resilience and Afghan Refugee Health in Pakistan: An Exploratory Study of Challenges and Pathways to Inclusion

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pakistan has hosted Afghan refugees for more than four decades, in one of the world's most protracted displacements of people. Afghan refugees receive health services through United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and non‐governmental organisation (NGO) supported programmes alongside public sector facilities at every tier.
Zahid Ali Memon, Asma Ummad, Amina Olabi, Natasha Palmer, Sophie Witter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospital Volume and Operative Mortality in Pancreaticoduodenectomy and Hepatectomy: Analysis of the National Clinical Database in Japan

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Purpose This study evaluated the association between institutional advanced hepatobiliary‐pancreatic (HBP) surgical volume and operative mortality for pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) and advanced hepatectomy using data from the Japanese National Clinical Database.
Yoshitaro Shindo, Hideki Endo, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hidenori Takahashi, Shigeru Marubashi, Atsushi Nanashima, Itaru Endo, Hideki Ueno, Ken Shirabe, Masafumi Nakamura, Hiroaki Nagano, Masayuki Ohtsuka   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source