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A three-arm single blind randomised control trial of naïve medical students performing a shoulder joint clinical examination

BMC Medical Education, 2021
Background Technological advances have previously been hailed as a new dawn in Higher Education, with the advent of ‘massive open online courses’ (MOOCs) and online learning.
P. E. Brewer, M. Racy, M. Hampton, F. Mushtaq, J. E. Tomlinson, F. M. Ali   +5 more
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Evaluation of Outpatient Antibiotic Use in Beijing General Hospitals in 2015

Chinese Medical Journal, 2017
Background: Medical misuse of antibiotics is associated with the acquisition and spread of antibiotic resistance, resulting in a lack of effective drugs and increased health-care cost.
Chuan Yang, Wen-Qiang Cai, Zi-Jun Zhou
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome as the first manifestation of mixed connective tissue disorder: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021
Background Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a neurological syndrome characterised by a range of neurological symptoms and signs, and distinctive neuroimaging findings reflecting vasogenic oedema.
Phani Krishna Machiraju, Neetu Mariam Alex, Safinaaz, Sriram Sankaran   +3 more
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Psychological violence against general practitioners and nurses in Chinese township hospitals: incidence and implications

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2018
BackgroundInternational reports indicating that around 10–50% of health care staff are exposed to violence every year; in certain settings, this rate might reach over 85%.
Peng Li, Kai Xing, Hong Qiao, Huiying Fang, Hongkun Ma, Mingli Jiao, Yanhua Hao, Ye Li, L. Liang, Lijun Gao, Zheng Kang, Yu Cui, Hong Sun, Qunhong Wu, Ming Liu   +14 more
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Transient electrocardiographic changes following smoking cannabis

Journal of Arrhythmia, 2020
We report a case of transient ECG abnormalities (negative T waves in the inferior leads) associated with presyncope related to acute cannabis consumption; after a few hours the ECG returned normal. Although pathophysiological mechanisms are not clear, it
Giacomo Mugnai, Cristina Longo, Chiara Zaltron, Francesca Prevedello, Paolo Segalina, Claudio Bilato   +5 more
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Sleep disturbances among Chinese clinical nurses in general hospitals and its influencing factors

BMC Psychiatry, 2017
BackgroundThis study aimed to determine the prevalence of sleep disturbances among clinical nurses in general hospitals in Mainland China, and identify its associate factors.MethodsUsing a cross-sectional design, a total of 5012 clinical nurses selected ...
H. Dong, Qiong Zhang, Zi-hua Sun, F. Sang, Y. Xu   +4 more
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Quality of care delivered by general internists in US hospitals who graduated from foreign versus US medical schools: observational study

British medical journal, 2017
Objective To determine whether patient outcomes differ between general internists who graduated from a medical school outside the United States and those who graduated from a US medical school. Design Observational study.
Y. Tsugawa, A. Jena, E. Orav, A. Jha
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Suicidal ideation among Chinese cancer inpatients of general hospitals: prevalence and correlates

OncoTarget, 2017
Cancer patients are at high risk for suicide, particularly when they are informed about the cancer diagnosis or hospitalized for cancer treatment. Therefore, oncology healthcare settings such as large general hospitals in China, may represent an ideal ...
B. Zhong, Si-Heng Li, S. Lv, Shunli Tian, Zhidong Liu, Xu-Bin Li, H. Zhuang, Ran Tao, Wei Zhang, C. Zhuo   +9 more
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Outcomes following repair of incarcerated and strangulated ventral hernias with or without synthetic mesh

World Journal of Emergency Surgery, 2017
Background The use of synthetic mesh for ventral hernia repair under contaminated conditions is a controversial issue due to the considerable risk of surgical site infection (SSI).
Sameh Hany Emile, Hesham Elgendy, Ahmad Sakr, Waleed Ahmed Gado, Ahmed Aly Abdelmawla, Mahmoud Abdelnaby, Alaa Magdy   +6 more
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Can educational video resources improve learning when used to augment traditional teaching of clinical examination? A randomized control trial of novice medical students

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background Good clinical examination skills can both increase the quality of patient care and reduce its cost. A previous study by our group demonstrated that face-to-face training is the gold standard for teaching these skills.
Ellie Flatt, Paul Brewer, Malek Racy, Faisal Mushtaq, Rachael Ashworth, Fazal Ali, James Tomlinson   +6 more
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