Putting surveillance data into context: The role of health care utilization surveys in understanding population burden of pneumonia in developing countries [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2019 Background: Surveillance is essential to estimating the global burden of pneumonia, yet differences in surveillance methodology and health care-seeking behaviors limit inter-country comparisons.
Meredith Deutscher +13 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Introduction Mozambique suffers from regular floods along its principal river basins and periodic cyclones that resulted in several cholera epidemics during the last decades.
Se Eun Park +15 more
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The burden of symptomatic patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria: a real-world study in Korea [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2022 Background/Aims Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) poses a considerable burden both on the quality of life (QoL) of individual patients and on healthcare systems. Real‑world data evaluating the disease burden of CSU are limited in this country.
Young-Min Ye +8 more
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A survey on the attitudinal differences between acute and community settings [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy, 2022 Introduction: While challenges facing community and acute care practitioners have been studied elsewhere, this is not the case for respiratory therapists (RTs). This study aimed to examine attitudinal differences amongst RTs in British Columbia regarding
Cael Field
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Measuring antibiotic availability and use in 20 low- and middle-income countries [PDF]
, 2020 Objective To assess antibiotic availability and use in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries, using the service provision assessment and service availability and readiness assessment surveys.
Hsia, Y +6 more
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Knowledge levels of physicians in samsun about Patients' rights
Medicine Science, 2022 The patient-physician relationship is an issue that includes mutual rights in medical ethics. Patient rights is one of the sub-topics of human rights that has defined and developed in the last century. In this study, it was aimed to measure the knowledge
Muhammet Ali Oruc +2 more
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Assessing health care in Canada's North: what can we learn from national and regional surveys? [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2015 Background: Health surveys are a rich source of information on a variety of health issues, including health care. Objectives: This article compares various national and regional surveys in terms of their geographical coverage with respect to the Canadian
T. Kue Young, Carmina Ng, Susan Chatwood
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The prevalence of social care in US health care settings depends on how and whom you ask
BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Despite unprecedented enthusiasm for integrating social risk screening and related interventions into US health care settings, we know relatively little about the extent to which these activities occur.
Yuri Cartier, Laura Gottlieb
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Predictors of Mental Health Status among Older United States Adults with Pain
Behavioral Sciences, 2021 Poor mental health is common among older adults with pain, resulting in high economic burden and impaired quality of life. This retrospective, cross-sectional database study aimed to identify characteristics associated with good mental health status ...
David R. Axon, Jonathan Chien
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Work activities of primary health care nurses in Poland: National Survey Results
BMC Nursing, 2021 Background In some countries, including Poland, nurses have acquired autonomy from being a designated “ancillary staff” to “professional staff” only in recent decades. No prior published studies have examined, however, whether the actual nursing practice
Ludmila Marcinowicz +2 more
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