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Telemedicine in Low-Resource Settings [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2015 Telemedicine is a fuzzy term with several synonyms (telehealth, e-health, etc), which cover a wide range of topics, all concerning the delivery of health care at a distance. “Health care” itself is a broad concept, encompassing diagnosis and treatment of patients, education of staff, patients, and the general public, and administrative activities, such
Wootton R, Bonnardot L
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Appendicitis in Low-Resource Settings [PDF]
Surgical Infections, 2020 Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies globally. Its incidence is increasing in low- and middle-Human Development Index countries (LMHDICs). Although a proportion of patients can be treated successfully with non-operative management consisting of antibiotics, supportive therapy, and close observation, current ...
Kovi E, Bessoff, Joseph D, Forrester
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Predicting stillbirth in a low resource setting [PDF]
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2016 الإملاص هو المساهم الرئيسي في وفيات الفترة المحيطة بالولادة وهو شائع بشكل خاص في البلدان المنخفضة والمتوسطة الدخل، حيث تحدث سنويًا حوالي ثلاثة ملايين ولادة ميتة في الثلث الثالث من الحمل. تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى تطوير نموذج تنبؤي للكشف المبكر عن حالات الحمل المعرضة لخطر كبير للإملاص. فحصت هذه الدراسة الأترابية بأثر رجعي 6573 امرأة حامل ولدن في المركز الطبي
Gbenga A Kayode +6 more
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Induction of labour in low-resource settings
Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2021 Due to the disparity in resource availability between low- and high-resource settings, practice recommendations relevant to high-income countries are not always relevant and often need to be adapted to low-resource settings. The adaptation applies to induction of labour (IOL) which is an obstetric procedure that deserves special attention because it ...
Nnabuike Chibuoke Ngene +1 more
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Measuring neurodevelopment in low-resource settings [PDF]
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 2017 The burden of neurodevelopmental, cognitive, behavioural, and mental health disorders in children will continue to rise as infant and child mortality is reduced with improvements in medical care.1 In recognition of this epidemiological transition, the international community is shifting the focus from child survival to so-called child thrival, with the
Gladstone, M +4 more
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African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background: The South African Triage Scale (SATS) requires the calculation of the Triage Early Warning Score (TEWS), which takes time and is prone to error.
Lucien Wasingya-Kasereka +5 more
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Bayesian Modeling of Lexical Resources for Low-Resource Settings [PDF]
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2017 Lexical resources such as dictionaries and gazetteers are often used as auxiliary data for tasks such as part-of-speech induction and named-entity recognition. However, discriminative training with lexical features requires annotated data to reliably estimate the lexical feature weights and may result in overfitting the lexical features at the expense ...
Nicholas Andrews +3 more
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African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022 Aim: Assess the performance of a simple triage disposition score based on mental status, mobility and either oxygen saturation or respiratory rate by three principal metrics: 24 h mortality, the need for hospital admission and the urgency ranking of ...
Brian Kikomeko +4 more
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Care of infants with gastroschisis in low-resource settings [PDF]
Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, 2018 There is great global disparity in the outcome of infants born with gastroschisis. Mortality approaches 100% in many low income countries. Barriers to better outcomes include lack of antenatal diagnosis, deficient pre-hospital care, ineffective neonatal resuscitation and venous access, limited intensive care facilities, poor access to the operating ...
Wright, Naomi J. +2 more
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023 BackgroundHypothermic neonates need to be promptly rewarmed but there is no strong evidence to support a rapid or a slow pace of rewarming. This study aimed to investigate the rewarming rate and its associations with clinical outcomes in hypothermic ...
Elisa Rossi +9 more
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