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Missed opportunities for community engagement: An examination of the government-funded Local Journalism Initiative [PDF]
Facts & FrictionsThis article examines the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI), initially a $70-million, five-year program of the Canadian government to fund new reporting positions in existing newsrooms across Canada, with the goal of increasing the amount of civic ...
Magda Konieczna, Béatrice Girardin
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Missed Opportunities for HIV Diagnosis
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 2017 It has been previously shown that patients may present for multiple health issues in the years preceding their initial HIV diagnosis. This retrospective cohort study analyzed the data of patients with a new HIV diagnosis, at Ochsner Health System between
Asia Downing MBBS +1 more
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Missed Opportunities For Immunization In Children And Pregnant Women
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 1990 The role of immunization in reducing childhood mortality cannot be over-emphasised, yet many opportunities for immunization are missed when children and pregnant women visit a health facility. Reducing missed opportunities is the cheapest way to increase
Benjamin A I, Vadhera K K, Zachariah P
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Comparative study of the efficacy of olmesartan/amlodipine vs. perindopril/amlodipine in peripheral blood pressure after missed dose in type 2 diabetes [PDF]
, 2016 INTRODUCTION: Combination therapy is needed to control blood pressure (BP) in a large number of hypertensive patients with diabetes mellitus. Adherence to treatment is a major clinical problem; therefore, the time duration of the antihypertensive action
Redon, Josep +3 more
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Missed opportunities for tuberculosis diagnosis. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: In high tuberculosis (TB) burden, resource-poor countries, sputum smear microscopy remains the mainstay of diagnosis. The low sensitivity of this test means that patients with smear-negative but culture-positive TB pass undetected through the
Trejos, N +5 more
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Missed opportunities in crystallography [PDF]
The FEBS Journal, 2014 Scrutinized from the perspective of time, the giants in the history of crystallography more than once missed a nearly obvious chance to make another great discovery, or went in the wrong direction. This review analyzes such missed opportunities focusing on macromolecular crystallographers (using Perutz, Pauling, Franklin as examples), although cases of
Zbigniew, Dauter, Mariusz, Jaskolski
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Missed Opportunity to Diagnose Palliative Care Need Among Older Emergency Department Patients in a Middle-Income Country: A Retrospective Study [PDF]
Open Access Emergency MedicineJiraporn Sri-on,1 Jesda Phumsrisawat,2 Rapeeporn Rojsaengroeng2 1Geriatric Emergency Medicine Unit, The Department of Emergency Medicine, Vajira Hospital, Navamindradhiraj University, Bangkok, Thailand; 2The Department of Emergency Medicine, Vajira ...
Sri-on J +2 more
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Tuberculosis – a missed opportunity? [PDF]
Clinical Medicine, 2002 The recent publicity surrounding tuberculosis (TB) in both the medical and the lay press, particularly in reference to a number of outbreaks of the disease in British schools, is a timely reminder of a 'forgotten' disease that has never really gone away.
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Onychophagia and a missed opportunity [PDF]
QJM, 2016 A 71 year old Caucasian male, with a 50 pack year smoking history, presented with an enlarging tender chest wall swelling. It was originally thought to be a left axillary abscess and treated by incision and drainage. He was re-admitted a month later due …
Navya, Bezawada +2 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2016 Summary In 2014, there were 36.9 million people worldwide living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH), of whom 17.1 million did not know they were infected.
Katharine EA Darling +5 more
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