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Coronavirus: An emergency for healthcare professionals

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Coronavirus infection is a transmissible disease. It was first described in China in December, 2019. It has been said to have a person-to-person transmission after prolonged and unprotected exposure. Patients with a potential SARS-CoV-2 exposure present with symptoms of low-grade pyrexia, dry cough, or shortness of breath.
Sumit Verma, S M Manjunath, Ettishree, Atul Singh, Madhulika Srivastava, Kajal Kiran Sahoo, S Vinuta, Ujwal Singh   +7 more
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Cannabidiol primer for healthcare professionals [PDF]

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2020
Emerging research and clinical data are demonstrating potential benefits of cannabidiol for multiple medical conditions. This article gives healthcare providers information on cannabidiol and the endocannabinoid system as a foundation on which to build their medical knowledge as the risks and benefits of CBD in various diseases are further evaluated ...
Jennifer Clay, Cather, J Christian, Cather   +1 more
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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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Hepatitis C in healthcare personnel: follow-up analysis of treatments with direct-acting antiviral agents

Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2021
Background Hepatitis C infections (HCV) are associated with an increase in morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study is to update the results of treatment with direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) using a larger population of healthcare personnel ...
Claudia Westermann, Dana Wendeler, Albert Nienhaus   +2 more
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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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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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Professional Factors and Emotional Competence in Healthcare Professionals

European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences, 2016
Abstract: Healthcare professionals may face emotions which are hard to deal with. It's important to improve emotional skills in order to develop an appropriate control when it comes to professional situations. Professional variables interfere with the emotional competence of healthcare professionals; What are the predictor variables of emotional ...
Andrade, Ana, Martins, Rosa, Cunha, Madalena, Albuquerque, Carlos, Ribeiro, Olivério   +4 more
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Pentazocine abuse in a healthcare professional [PDF]

BMJ Case Reports, 2016
A 53-year-old man, a health professional from a Middle Eastern country, was admitted with parenteral overuse of pentazocine. He had first used pentazocine in the First Persian Gulf War for migraine. He began to abuse pentazocine, which he scaled up to 20 ampules per day and continued using for >15 years.
Aslı Enez, Darçın, Onur Cemal, Noyan, Serdar, Nurmedov, Nesrin, Dilbaz   +3 more
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Education of healthcare professionals and the public [PDF]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2012
In the winter of 2007-08 a new public-facing antimicrobial campaign was agreed by the Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infection (ARHAI) Education sub-Group (later divided into subgroups for professional and public education): it comprised posters with a positive message on how the public could help themselves ...
Cliodna A M, McNulty, Barry D, Cookson, Michael A O, Lewis   +2 more
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Pharmacovigilance: Empowering healthcare professionals [PDF]

Hospital Pharmacology, 2015
Introduction: Spontaneous reporting of adverse reactions is of greatest importance for obtaining information about adverse drug reactions (ADRs) after granting the marketing authorization.
Mugoša Snežana S., Stanković Maja V., Turković Nemanja M., Bešović Željka M., Šahman-Zaimović Majda M., Drljević Milorad D.   +5 more
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