Comparison of symptoms, healthcare utilization, and treatment in diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel disorder characterized by symptoms including abdominal pain and altered bowel function. Up to 75% of individuals with IBS may be undiagnosed.
Chang, Lin, Sayuk, Gregory S, Wolf, Ray
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Improving quality of care through payment for performance: examining effects on the availability and stock-out of essential medical commodities in Tanzania. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of payment for performance (P4P) on the availability and stock-out rate of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) medical commodities in Tanzania and assess the distributional effects.
Binyaruka, Peter, Borghi, Josephine
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Epidemiology, Clinical Features, and Prescribing Patterns of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Taiwan
Background: Understanding the prescribing patterns could better inform irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) management and health policy. However, there is no study on prescribing patterns of IBS in Taiwan. This study was conducted to evaluate the epidemiology,
Yu-Tung Lai +5 more
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Phytotherapy in zoo animals [PDF]
Phytotherapy is one of the oldest medical disciplines and was traditionally based on empiricism (Reichling et al., 2008). Nowadays, its use as an additional integral component of evidence based medicine is well accepted in human medicine (Finkelmann ...
Hoby, S., Walkenhorst, M., Wenker, C.
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Bioactivity studies on Zanthoxylum budrunga wall (Rutaceae) root bark
Background The root-bark of the medicinally important plant Zanthoxylum budrunga (ZBRB) brooks a variety of uses in ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal practice in Bangladesh and thus demands biological investigation to reveal its therapeutic potentiality.
Md Khirul Islam +6 more
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Objective: To evaluate Qatari pharmacists’ prescribing, labeling, dispensing and counseling practices in response to acute community-acquired gastroenteritis. Methods: The simulated patient method was used in this study.
Ibrahim MI +3 more
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Epidemiological evaluation of cat health at a first-response animal shelter in Fukushima, following the Great East Japan Earthquakes of 2011. [PDF]
The Great East Japan Earthquakes of March 11, 2011 caused immense harm to the community and subsequent nuclear accident in Fukushima Prefecture extended the damage.
Hayama, Shinichi +3 more
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Background Despite its high incidence among children under the age of five, little is known about the burden of pediatric gastroenteritis outside the medical setting.
Howidi Mohammad +7 more
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Antidiarrheal Pill in the Airway
Pill aspiration depicts an unusual type of foreign body aspiration necessitating a discrete diagnostic and therapeutic approach [...]
Viswesvaran, Balasubramanian +2 more
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Assessment of the storage and disposal of medicines in some homes in Jos north local government area of Plateau State, Nigeria [PDF]
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the way medicines are stored and disposed in some households in Jos North Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State, Nigeria.
Auta, Asa +3 more
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