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A Situational Assessment of the Diagnostic Landscape and Organizational Readiness to Implement Next‐Generation Sequencing at Two Childhood Cancer Treatment Centers in Ghana

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has emerged as a promising approach to improve diagnostic accuracy, but its feasibility in low‐ and middle‐income countries remains unknown. This study characterized the diagnostic landscape and assessed organizational readiness for NGS implementation at two childhood cancer treatment centers in Accra ...
Melissa Carvalho, Emmanuella Amoako, Nihad Salifu, Lily Gloria Tagoe, Yaw Bediako, Michelle Hermiston, Catherine Segbefia   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Medical Utilization Patterns of Emergency Department Users

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2008
The intercategory relationship of various medical services is of importance to both health care management and policy-making. The purpose of this study was to explore the intercategory relationship of emergency medical services and other medical services
Jin-An Huang, Rhay-Hung Weng, Chi-Shiun Lai, Jer-San Hu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Malpractice Risk Assessment in Emergency Medical Services: A Field Study [PDF]

Aim: This study examined the malpractice risks in emergency medical services as assessed by emergency medical workers. Materials and Methods: This methodological, descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 447 emergency medical workers ...
Volkan Kılıç, Sedat Bostan
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Differences between the dispatch priority assessments of emergency medical dispatchers and emergency medical services: a prospective register-based study in Finland [PDF]

, 2023
Background: Responsive and efficient emergency medical services (EMS) require accurate telephone triage. In Finland, such services are provided by Emergency Response Centre Agency (ERC Agency).
Salminen, Tomi, Ekstrand, Ari, Hoppu, Sanna, Kaartinen, Kaius, Vaajanen, Verna, Setälä, Piritta, Roos, Mervi   +6 more
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Establishing an Apheresis Medicine Program in a Resource‐Constrained Setting: A 5‐Year Experience From Lagos, Nigeria

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola, Shakirat Gold‐Olufadi, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Abdullateef Ogala, Rasheed A. Balogun   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteer Responder Interventions in Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Areas

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background Patients with out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in rural areas experience longer emergency response times and have lower survival rates compared with patients in urban areas.
Astrid Rolin Kragh, Mads Tofte Gregers, Linn Andelius, Anne Juul Grabmayr, Louise Kollander, Victor Elnegaard Kjærulf, Julie Samsøe Kjølbye, Annam Pervez Sheikh, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Fredrik Folke, Carolina Malta Hansen   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Looking back to inform the future: a review of published paramedicine research

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Objective Paramedicine has evolved in ways that may outpace the science informing these changes. Examining the scholarly pursuits of paramedicine may provide insights into the historical academic focus, which may inform future endeavors and evolution of ...
N. Cavanagh, I. E. Blanchard, D. Weiss, W. Tavares   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The emergency medical services in Singapore [PDF]

Resuscitation, 2006
ingapore is a cosmopolitan city state at the crossoads of Asia. It is one of the smallest countries in he world with a land area of 697.1 km2, 193 km of oastline and a population of 4.185million.1 It is ery densely populated. Singapore has been indeendent from Malaya for 40 years. It is an urban, eveloped republic with a president and a parliaent.
openaire   +2 more sources

Translophagy—A potential link between autophagy impairment and translational errors

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterised by the accumulation of abnormal proteins and protein aggregates, but their origin often remains unknown. We propose that selective autophagy removes damaged protein‐making machinery, preventing errors during protein synthesis.
Mykola V. Korolchuk, Gailing Ma, Robin Antrobus, Diego Manni, Marco Trevisan‐Herraz, Mustafa Khwaja, Max Brown, Gavin D. Richardson, Masaaki Komatsu, Daniel Erskine, Viktor I. Korolchuk, Tetsushi Kataura   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical emergency motorcycle – is it useful in a Scandinavian Emergency Medical Service? [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2009
Medical emergency motorcycles (MEM) can be used in time-critical conditions like cardiac arrest and multi-traumatized patients in an attempt to reduce the response time. Other potential benefits with MEM are more efficient patient evaluation, reduction of unnecessary EMS car ambulance missions and reduced cost.
Bjelland Bjørn, Nakstad Anders, Sandberg Mårten   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources