Mental health mobile apps for patients: Psychiatrists’ concerns
Introduction The use of mobile apps aimed at supporting patients with a mental illness is rapidly increasing. Objectives The presented results explore psychiatrists’ concerns about mobile apps for patients with a mental illness.
S. Hanft-Robert +4 more
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Educational interventions to improve people's understanding of key concepts in assessing the effects of health interventions: a systematic review [PDF]
Background Health information is readily accessible but is of variable quality. General knowledge about how to assess whether claims about health interventions are trustworthy is not common, so people’s health decisions can be ill-informed, unnecessarily
Chalmers, Iain +4 more
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Interpreting Health Outcome Measures [PDF]
To the Editor: Despite being an admitted agnostic in matters of “outcomes,” as an entire area of health care assessment, management, and research is coming to be known, I studied with great care and without prejudice Jette and Jette's report on health outcomes in patients with knee impairments in the November 1996 issue of Physical Therapy . The reason
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Burden and outcome of HIV infection and other morbidities in health care workers attending an Occupational Health Program at the Provincial Hospital of Tete, Mozambique. [PDF]
Objectives To investigate the burden and outcome of HIV infection and other morbidities amongst a Mozambican hospital staff. Methods Within an occupational health service set up in April 2008 in the provincial hospital of Tete, Mozambique, we offered ...
Bemelmans +18 more
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Extent of hypoattenuation on CT angiography source images in Basilar Artery occlusion: prognostic value in the Basilar Artery International Cooperation Study [PDF]
<p><b>Background and Purpose:</b> The posterior circulation Acute Stroke Prognosis Early CT Score (pc-ASPECTS) quantifies the extent of early ischemic changes in the posterior circulation with a 10-point grading system.
Algra, Ale +18 more
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Association between time to reperfusion and outcome is primarily driven by the time from imaging to reperfusion [PDF]
Background and Purpose A progressive decline in the odds of favorable outcome as time to reperfusion increases is well known. However, the impact of specific workflow intervals is not clear.; Methods We studied the mechanical thrombectomy group (n=103 ...
Cerda, Neus +8 more
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Modelos predictivos para la seguridad alimentaria en América Latina: Una revisión de alcance
Introducción: La seguridad alimentaria en América Latina enfrenta desafíos significativos debido a factores como el cambio climático, la desigualdad social y la inestabilidad económica, lo que resalta la necesidad de herramientas avanzadas para su ...
Juanita Trejos-Suárez +5 more
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The Impact of Healthcare Spending on Health Outcomes: New Evidence from OECD Countries
Objective: This study aimed to reveal the impact of the selected healthcare spending indicators on the selected health outcomes for OECD countries.
Sevilay Karaman +4 more
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Understanding the diversity and dynamics of living with diabetes : a feasibility study focusing on the case [PDF]
Despite growing evidence about treatments, many people living with diabetes have poor diabetes control even when healthcare is available. One difficult issue is how to apply medical evidence to individuals.
Anto, Natasha +5 more
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Rabin's paradox for health outcomes
AbstractMany health economic studies assume expected utility maximisation, with typically a concave utility function to capture risk aversion. Given these assumptions, Rabin's paradox (RP) involves preferences over mixed gambles yielding moderate outcomes, where turning down such gambles imply absurd levels of risk aversion. Although RP is considered a
Stefan A. Lipman, Arthur E. Attema
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