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Knowledge and performance of the Ethiopian health extension workers on antenatal and delivery care: a cross-sectional study

Human Resources for Health, 2012
Background In recognition of the critical shortage of human resources within health services, community health workers have been trained and deployed to provide primary health care in developing countries.
Medhanyie Araya, Spigt Mark, Dinant GeertJan, Blanco Roman   +3 more
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Care for frontline health care workers in times of COVID-19

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020
INTRODUCTION: The spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has generated the collapse of health care systems and significant impacts on the health of the workers involved in combatting the disease worldwide.
Karine Demartini, Vanessa de Mello Konzen, Marcia de Oliveira Siqueira, Gabriela Garcia, Matheus Santos Gomes Jorge, Juliana Secchi Batista, Lia Mara Wibelinger   +6 more
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Pharmacogenetics of Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Антибиотики и Химиотерапия, 2020
The rate of acetylation of xenobiotics affects the course and prognosis of infectious diseases. The efficacy of antibiotic therapy of community-acquired pneumonia in RA-patients is lower than that in LA-ones.
S. SH. Suleimanov, O. V. Molchanova, N. V. Kirpichnikova, N. V. Sukhotina, A. A. Gorbach   +4 more
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Influenza vaccination of health care workers [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2013
To support his argument in favour of compulsory influenza vaccination of health care workers, Flegel[1][1] cites a Cochrane review[2][2] as evidence of the vaccine’s benefit. However the following points should be noted: ![Figure][3] Image courtesy of © 2013 Thinkstock 1. [↵][4]1.
Peter, Doshi, Elia, Abi-Jaoude, Joel, Lexchin, Tom, Jefferson, Roger E, Thomas   +4 more
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Development and validation of a prediction model for the risk of postoperative renal dysfunction in patients with renal cancer based on machine learning

Guangxi Yike Daxue xuebao
Objective To construct a risk prediction model for postoperative renal dysfunction based on preoperative routine clinical data using machine learning techniques, providing decision support for the early identification of high-risk patients.
Ning QIU, Zihang HUANG, Xinghui SONG, Minhui GAN, Yan YANG, Meiling MO, Maoquan LUO, Dongwei PAN, Sheng SU, Fubo WANG   +9 more
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Utilization of dental health-care services by accredited social health activist and anganwadi workers in lucknow district: A cross-sectional study

Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry, 2022
Background: Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) and Anganwadi workers are grassroots-level health activists who are involved in health education and community mobilization and form a bond between the community and the primary health-care delivery ...
Dyashwari Devi Khoisnam, L Vamsi Krishna Reddy, Pooja M Sinha, B S Goutham, Sonali Saha   +4 more
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Contribution of community health workers to primary health care performance in Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2020
OBJECTIVE To associate the strength of community health workers interventions with primary health care strategies for women’s and children’s health, diabetes, and hypertension.
Alaneir de Fátima dos Santos, Hugo André da Rocha, Ângela Maria de Lourdes Dayrell de Lima, Daisy Maria Xavier de Abreu, Érica Araújo Silva, Lucas Henrique Lobato de Araújo, Isabela Cristina Carreiro Cavalcante, Antônio Thomaz Gonzaga da Matta-Machado   +7 more
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Decolonization of patients and health care workers to control nosocomial spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a simulation study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012
Background Control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission has been unsuccessful in many hospitals. Recommended control measures include isolation of colonized patients, rather than decolonization of carriage among patients and/
Gurieva Tatiana V, Bootsma Martin CJ, Bonten Marc JM   +2 more
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Effects of Teaching Health Care Workers on Diagnosis and Treatment of Pesticide Poisonings in Uganda

Environmental Health Insights, 2017
Background: Acute pesticide poisoning in developing countries is a considerable problem, requiring diagnosis and treatment. This study describes how training of health care workers in Uganda affects their ability to diagnose and manage acute pesticide ...
Claudia Sibani, Kristian Kjaer Jessen, Bircan Tekin, Victoria Nabankema, Erik Jørs   +4 more
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Personal protective equipment for frontline health-care workers during COVID-19 pandemic: A review

Medical Journal of Babylon, 2021
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has thrown health systems indiscriminately across the globe into turmoil. The important route for the spread of COVID-19 is through aerosolized droplets that are expelled at the time of coughing, sneezing,
Santosh Kumar Swain, Pragnya Paramaita Jena   +1 more
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