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Maintaining quality out-of-hours in an acute cardiology service in a UK primary PCI centre [PDF]

Open Heart
Background Many district general hospitals (DGHs) in the UK do not have resident on-call cardiology registrars overnight; in these situations, it is becoming more common for cardiac outreach practitioners (COPs) to provide specialist input for patients ...
David Williams, Karen Roberts, Simon Hetherington, Ayman Helal, Mohammed El-din, Mohsin Farooq, Prashanth Raju, Javed Ehtisham, Kerry Moore, Cullum Shaw, Karen McDonagh, Adam Frosdick, Melody Thomas, Faye Robson, Lissy Jose   +14 more
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Peer academic detailing on use of antibiotics in acute respiratory tract infections. A controlled study in an urban Norwegian out-of-hours service

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2016
Objective: To analyse if peer academic detailing by experienced general practitioners (GPs) could be a useful way to change Medical Doctors, (MDs) prescription of antibiotics for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in out-of-hours service. Method:
Roar Dyrkorn, Svein Gjelstad, Ketil Arne Espnes, Morten Lindbæk   +3 more
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The Electronic Logging Device Mandate, Hours of Service Rules, and Implications for Southwest Florida Produce Haulers

EDIS, 2019
Electronic logging devices, or ELDs, became mandatory for commercial motor carriers December 18, 2017. The compliance timeline for the produce industry was delayed with two 90-day waivers.
Fritz Roka, Tara Wade, Craig Sprouse
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Machine learning models predicting undertriage in telephone triage

Annals of Medicine, 2022
Background Undertriaged patients have worse outcomes than appropriately triaged patients. Machine learning provides better triage prediction than conventional triage in emergency departments, but no machine learning-based undertriage prediction models ...
Ryota Inokuchi, Masao Iwagami, Yu Sun, Ayaka Sakamoto, Nanako Tamiya   +4 more
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Changes in the proportion and severity of patients with fever or common cold symptoms utilizing an after-hours house call medical service during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo, Japan: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background Trends in the characteristics and disease severity of patients using an after-hours house call (AHHC) medical service changed during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. However, there have been no reports on this issue since the start
Ryota Inokuchi, Kojiro Morita, Masao Iwagami, Taeko Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Nanako Tamiya   +5 more
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Determination of engine oil change interval for patrol engines based on actual operating time

Вестник СибАДИ, 2021
Introduction. This paper shows the results of a study of the frequency of maintenance of passenger cars in various operating conditions, and provides recommendations for replacing the engine oil of gasoline engines (category SN classification according ...
A. A. Abakarov, Sh. M. Igitov, Ali A. Abakarov   +2 more
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The association between municipal pandemic response and COVID-19 contacts to emergency primary health care services: an observational study

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Norwegian municipalities had diverse strategies for handling tasks related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergency primary health care services were involved to different extents.
Vivian Midtbø, Ingrid Hjulstad Johansen, Steinar Hunskaar   +2 more
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Utilisation of after-hours telephone support in a home-based hospice service

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background After-hours support from hospice providers is instrumental to patients with serious illness who choose to remain at home, particularly at end of life.
Poh-Heng Chong, Jasmin Lee, Zhi-Zheng Yeo, Raymond Qishun Ang   +3 more
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Patients’ impressions of after-hours house-call services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: a questionnaire-based observational study

BMC Family Practice, 2021
Background Access to healthcare has been strongly affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has raised concerns about the increased risk of delays in receiving medical care.
Kojiro Morita, Ryota Inokuchi, Xueying Jin, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Nanako Tamiya   +4 more
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Diagnosis-linked antibiotic prescribing in Swedish primary care - a comparison between in-hours and out-of-hours

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background The rise in antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern, and antibiotic overuse needs to be reduced. Earlier studies of out-of-hours care have indicated that antibiotic prescribing is less appropriate than that of in-hours care ...
Olof Cronberg, Mia Tyrstrup, Kim Ekblom, Katarina Hedin   +3 more
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