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Understanding the nature of health: New perspectives for medicine and public health. Improved wellbeing at lower costs [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2016
Background: Current dilemmas of health care systems call for a new look at the nature of health. This is offered by the Meikirch model. We explore its hypothetical benefit for the future of medicine and public health.
Johannes Bircher, Eckhart G. Hahn
doaj   +1 more source

Patient perspectives on the promptness and quality of care of road traffic incident victims in Peru: a cross-sectional, active surveillance study [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/p2]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2013
Background: Road injuries are the second-leading cause of disease and injury in the Andean region of South America. Adequate management of road traffic crash victims is important to prevent and reduce deaths and serious long-term injuries.
J Jaime Miranda   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Psychological Aspects of the Occupational and Social Stresses on the Dental Professionals

open access: yesJournal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences
Background: Medical professionals face unique mental health challenges due to high professional standards, irregular schedules, disrupted sleep, and strained personal life.
Namdeo Prabhu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lumboperitoneal shunt insertion without fluoroscopy guidance: Accuracy of placement in a series of 107 procedures [version 2; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2017
Background: Lumboperitoneal (LP) shunts were the mainstay of cerebrospinal fluid diversion therapy for idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH).
Sabah Al-Rashed   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Blockchain protocols in clinical trials: Transparency and traceability of consent [version 4; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 2 not approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2017
Clinical trial consent for protocols and their revisions should be transparent for patients and traceable for stakeholders. Our goal is to implement a process allowing for collection of patients’ informed consent, which is bound to protocol revisions ...
Mehdi Benchoufi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Service provision and barriers to care for homeless people with mental health problems across 14 European capital cities

open access: yes, 2012
Background Mental health problems are disproportionately higher amongst homeless people. Many barriers exist for homeless people with mental health problems in accessing treatment yet little research has been done on service provision and quality of care
Greacen, Tim   +70 more
core   +1 more source

A promising approach to scale up health care improvements in low-and middle-income countries: the Wave-Sequence Spread Approach and the concept of the Slice of a System [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/37o]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2014
There are several examples of successes in improving health care. However, many of these tend to remain limited to the sites they were originally developed in.
M. Rashad Massoud, Nana Mensah-Abrampah
doaj   +1 more source

Improving educational environment in medical colleges through transactional analysis practice of teachers [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/R3KKeG]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2012
Context: A FAIMER (Foundation for Advancement in International Medical Education and Research) fellow organized a comprehensive faculty development program to improve faculty awareness resulting in changed teaching practices and better teacher student ...
Marina Rajan, Thomas Chacko
doaj   +1 more source

Building health research systems to achieve better health

open access: yes, 2006
Health research systems can link knowledge generation with practical concerns to improve health and health equity. Interest in health research, and in how health research systems should best be organised, is moving up the agenda of bodies such as the ...
Hanney Stephen R   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Blockchain protocols in clinical trials: Transparency and traceability of consent [version 3; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2017
Clinical trial consent for protocols and their revisions should be transparent for patients and traceable for stakeholders. Our goal is to implement a process allowing the collection of patients’ informed consent, which is bound to protocol revisions ...
Mehdi Benchoufi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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