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Bacterial contamination of healthcare workers’ mobile phones in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Health, 2023
Background Mobile phones are potential reservoirs for pathogens and sources of healthcare-associated infections. More microbes can be found on a mobile phone than on a man's lavatory seat, the sole of a shoe, or a door handle.
Demisu Zenbaba, Biniyam Sahiledengle, Girma Beressa, Fikreab Desta, Zinash Teferu, Fikadu Nugusu, Daniel Atlaw, Zerihun Shiferaw, Bereket Gezahegn, Ayele Mamo, Tesfaye Desalegn, Wogene Negash, Getahun Negash, Mohammedaman Mama, Eshetu Nigussie, Vijay Kumar Chattu   +15 more
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Assessment of real life eating difficulties in Parkinson’s disease patients by measuring plate to mouth movement elongation with inertial sensors

Scientific Reports, 2021
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with both motor and non-motor symptoms. Despite the progressive nature of PD, early diagnosis, tracking the disease’s natural history and measuring the drug response are factors that play a major ...
Konstantinos Kyritsis, Petter Fagerberg, Ioannis Ioakimidis, K. Ray Chaudhuri, Heinz Reichmann, Lisa Klingelhoefer, Anastasios Delopoulos   +6 more
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Fungal contamination of medical students’ mobile phones from the University of Belgrade, Serbia: a cross-sectional study

Scientific Reports, 2022
The study aimed to characterize fungal contamination of medical students’ mobile phones, investigate mobile phones’ usage and cleaning habits, identify independent risk factors for fungal contamination, and awareness of mobile phones as a potential route
Eleonora Dubljanin, Teodora Crvenkov, Isidora Vujčić, Sandra Šipetić Grujičić, Jakša Dubljanin, Aleksandar Džamić   +5 more
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Health and the Mobile Phone [PDF]

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2008
Within the next 8 years, annual U.S. expenditure on health care is projected to reach $4 trillion/year, or 20% of the gross domestic product.1 Whether resource consumption of this order of magnitude is sustainable is an open question, but at the very least it suggests the need for population-level solutions for everything from the primary prevention of
Kevin, Patrick, William G, Griswold, Fred, Raab, Stephen S, Intille   +3 more
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“What do I do with my old mobile phones? I just put them in a drawer”: Attitudes and perspectives towards the disposal of mobile phones in Liverpool, UK [PDF]

Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2015
The rapid rise in the use of mobile (cell) phones, combined with their shortening lifespan, due to a high replacement frequency, are posing disposal management challenges at a time when mobile phones are the fastest growing component of Waste Electrical ...
Janet Speake, Leopoul Nchawa Yangke
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Identification of microorganisms on mobile phones of intensive care unit health care workers and medical students in the tertiary hospital [PDF]

Medicinski Glasnik, 2017
Aim To identify and investigate a difference between microorganisms present on intensive care unit (ICU) health care workers’ (HCW, doctors, nurses or medical technicians) and medical students’ mobile phones as well as to investigate a difference between
Ivan Kotris, Domagoj Drenjančević, Jasminka Talapko, Suzana Bukovski   +3 more
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Mobile phones and driving [PDF]

Journal of Public Health, 2005
Prior to the introduction of legislation in the United Kingdom, observational road-side studies showed that approximately 2 per cent of drivers use a mobile phone while driving. We studied the change in the usage rate of hand-held mobile phones from 10 weeks before to 10 weeks after the legislation came into force in December 2003.
Sandeep, Johal, Fiona, Napier, Jenny, Britt-Compton, Tim, Marshall   +3 more
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Modelling and assessment of the electric field strength caused by mobile phone to the human head [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2016
Background/Aim. Electromagnetic field exposure is the one of the most important physical agents that actively affects live organisms and environment. Active use of mobile phones influences the increase of electromagnetic field radiation. The aim
Buckus Raimondas, Strukcinskiene Birute, Raistenskis Juozas, Stukas Rimantas   +3 more
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Use of mobile phones for rehabilitative services among prosthetics users in rural Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda: findings from a qualitative study

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2022
Background Digital technologies such as mobile phones have shown potential as vital tools for use in healthcare and related services. However, little has been done to explore its use for prosthetics rehabilitative services, especially in the Acholi sub ...
Walter Onen Yagos, Geoffrey Tabo Olok, Emmanuel Ben Moro, Jonathan Huck, Mahesh Nirmalan   +4 more
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Mobile phones are hazardous microbial platforms warranting robust public health and biosecurity protocols

Scientific Reports, 2022
Advancements in technology and communication have revolutionised the twenty-first century with the introduction of mobile phones and smartphones. These phones are known to be platforms harbouring microbes with recent research shedding light on the ...
Matthew Olsen, Rania Nassar, Abiola Senok, Susan Moloney, Anna Lohning, Peter Jones, Gary Grant, Mark Morgan, Dinesh Palipana, Simon McKirdy, Rashed Alghafri, Lotti Tajouri   +11 more
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