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Influence of age, sex and hospitalisation on the administration of tuberculosis medication: an evaluation of routine data from a German health insurer

ERJ Open Research, 2020
Background So far, there is no reliable information on the drugs actually taken by tuberculosis patients. With billing data from a large German health insurance company, valid data from practice will be used for analysis. The objective here is to use the
Jan F. Kersten, Stefanie Wobbe-Ribinski, Roland Diel, Albert Nienhaus, Anja Schablon   +4 more
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Who should be prioritized for renal transplantation?: Analysis of key stakeholder preferences using discrete choice experiments [PDF]

, 2012
Background Policies for allocating deceased donor kidneys have recently shifted from allocation based on Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) tissue matching in the UK and USA. Newer allocation algorithms incorporate waiting time as a primary factor, and in
A Allepuz, AJ Lloyd, Ala Szczepura, Anil Gumber, C Byrne, C Byrne, CC Geddes, CJ Browning, Dennis Leech, Department of Health, DJ Street, Domenico Moro, FP Cappuccio, G Rubin, J Huber, J Neuberger, J Ratcliffe, J Ratcliffe, JM Wooldridge, K Ladkin, KC Norris, LF Ross, M Amaya-Amaya, M Bradley, MD Clark, Michael D Clark, NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS Blood and Transplant [formally UK Transplant], Nick West, ON Louis, PL Tso, R Bennett, RA Koenne, RM Higgins, Robert Higgins, S Youngkong, SN Davison, VB Ashby, VS Raleigh   +38 more
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Effect of regression to the mean on decision making in health care [PDF]

, 2003
Knowledge of regression to the mean can help with everything from interpreting test results to improving your career prospects.
Morton, V, Torgerson, D J
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Patient Satisfaction with Healthcare Services: Bangladesh Perspective [PDF]

, 2020
Patient satisfaction is a useful measure for providing a quality benchmark for healthcare services. Concern about the quality of healthcare services in Bangladesh has led to a loss of confidence in healthcare providers, low use of public health ...
Mohiuddin, A. K. (Absul)
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E-professionalism and health-care professionals

Dentistry and Medical Research, 2023
The fast rise and widespread use of online social networking platforms, which are accessed by millions of people, provide significant ethical and professional issues for practitioners. The usage of online social networking forums has grown in popularity,
Kavya Ganesh Kamaraj, Girish R Shavi, Shankar Shanmugam, Senthil Kumar Sennan, Gunasekaran Lalithambigai, Jennifer Monisha Rajan   +5 more
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Medical errors : Healthcare professionals’ perspective at a tertiary hospital in Kuwait [PDF]

, 2019
Medical errors are of economic importance and can contribute to serious adverse events for patients. Medical errors refer to preventable events resulting from healthcare interactions, whether these events harm the patient or not.
Ahmed, Zamzam, Al-Hamid, Abdullah M., Jones, Alan M., Saada, Mohammad   +3 more
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Health Literacy in the Everyday Lives of Older Adults in Greece, Hungary, and the Netherlands [PDF]

, 2020
Health literacy (HL) encompasses someone’s knowledge and abilities to access and use health information in order to make appropriate health decisions in life. HL is particularly valuable in later life when health challenges grow.
Csizmadia, Peter, Dalma, Archontoula, De Winter, Andrea, De Wit, Liesbeth, Karnaki, Pania, Meijering, Louise, Salter, Charlotte   +6 more
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Ethical decision-making, passivity and pharmacy [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Increasing interest in empirical ethics has enhanced understanding of healthcare professionals' ethical problems and attendant decision-making.
Bissell, P., Cooper, R.J., Wingfield, J.
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Are older people putting themselves at risk when using their walking frames? [PDF]

, 2020
Background Walking aids are issued to older adults to prevent falls, however, paradoxically their use has been identified as a risk factor for falling. To prevent falls, walking aids must be used in a stable manner, but it remains unknown to what extent ...
Baker, RD, Bates, AV, Costamagna, E, Dawes, H, Granat, MH, Howard, D, Kenney, LPJ, Thies, SBA, Webb, J   +8 more
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Training refugee and asylum-seeking doctors: a cohort study of the UK REACHE programme

BMJ Open
Objective Refugee and asylum-seeking (RAS) doctors benefit from specialised support to achieve medical registration, though there is limited published evidence from programmes supporting them.
Aaron Drovandi, Aisha Awan, Samuel Barrett, Jouher Kallingal   +3 more
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