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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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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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Why and When Are Evidence‐Based Interventions Adopted in Paediatric Supportive Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Determinants of Photobiomodulation Implementation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie, Kara A. Gray‐Burrows, Peter F. Day, Bob Phillips, Carl A. Thompson   +4 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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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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Dexamethasone for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Prevention in Pediatric Patients: International Consensus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An international Delphi panel of experts developed consensus statements to delineate the circumstances where the risks of dexamethasone as an antiemetic do and do not outweigh its benefits. Procedure Experts in supportive care of pediatric patients were invited to participate.
Negar Shavandi, Paula D. Robinson, Shana Jacobs, L. Lee Dupuis, the International Pediatric Dexamethasone Panel, Sameer Bakhshi, Tiene Bauters, Eva Brack, Simone Cesaro, Claire Fosbrook, Jason Freedman, Tamara MacDonald, Eloise Neumann, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Rod Rassekh, Florian Slimano, Johnathan Soggee, Joel Thompson, Marianne van de Wetering, Milena Villarroel, Jasper Wong   +20 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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Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine, Ofélie Trudeau‐Ferrin, Caroline Laverdière, Patrick Hamel, Rosanne Superstein, Bénédicte Koukoui, Carole Provost, Paul C. Nathan, Vijay Ramaswamy, Furqan Shaikh, Brenda Gallie, Ashwin Mallipatna, Stephanie Kletke, Helen Dimaras, Hallie Coltin   +14 more
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Personalized Selumetinib Dosing in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Insights From a Pilot Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács, Zoltán Köllő, Balázs Gellért Karvaly, Mahmoud Obeidat, Rita Nagy, Péter Hegyi, Brigitta Teutsch, Eszter Tuboly, Miklós Garami   +8 more
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