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Japan's new security agenda [PDF]

, 2007
New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has only been in office since late September, but already the outlines of his administration are becoming clearer, both in expected and unexpected directions.
Hughes, Christopher W., Krauss, Ellis S.
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Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century: a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2022
This study, conducted in a Finnish city, examined whether a long-lasting observed trend in Finnish primary health care, namely, a decreasing rate of office-hour visits to general practitioners (GPs), would lead to reduced services for specific gender ...
Timo Kauppila, Marja Liedes-Kauppila, Mika Lehto, Katri Mustonen, Ossi Rahkonen, Marko Raina, Anna M. Heikkinen   +6 more
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The association between the number of office visits and the control of cardiovascular risk factors in Iranian patients with type2 diabetes.

PLoS ONE, 2017
IntroductionPatients with diabetes type2 should receive regular medical care. We aimed at investigating the association between the number of office visits and improvement of their cardiovascular-risk factors.MethodsFour hundred and ninety patients with ...
Sedighe Moradi, Zeinab Sahebi, Ameneh Ebrahim Valojerdi, Farzaneh Rohani, Hooman Ebrahimi   +4 more
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Reduced liver cancer mortality with regular clinic follow‐up among patients with chronic hepatitis B: A nationwide cohort study

Cancer Medicine, 2020
Background Regular clinic follow‐up is a prerequisite for optimal antiviral therapy and surveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). However, adherence to regular follow‐up stays low in practice.
Jae‐Jun Shim, Gi‐Ae Kim, Chi Hyuk Oh, Jung Wook Kim, Jisun Myung, Byung‐Ho Kim, In‐Hwan Oh   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Primary Care Emergency Service Reduction Did Not Increase Office-Hour Service Use: A Longitudinal Follow-up Study

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2019
This study, conducted in a Finnish city, examined whether decreasing emergency department (ED) services in an overcrowded primary care ED and corresponding direction to office-hour primary care would guide patients to office-hour visits to general ...
Mika Lehto, Katri Mustonen, Jarmo Kantonen, Marko Raina, Anna-Maria K. Heikkinen, Timo Kauppila   +5 more
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Descriptive study of economic behavior of general practitioners in Iran: Practice income, hours of work, and patient visits

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2019
Background: Although there is a critical need for information on economic performance of Iranian general practitioners (GPs) in health policymaking, there is not any scientific evidence in this area.
Mohsen Bayati, Arash Rashidian
doaj   +1 more source

MFM Guidance for COVID-19 [PDF]

, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Healthcare providers should prepare internal guidelines covering all aspect of the organization in order to have their unit ready as soon as possible.
Bellussi, Federica, Berghella, Vincenzo, Boelig, Rupsa C., Saccone, Gabriele   +3 more
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Differences between recorded diagnoses of patients of an emergency department and office-hours primary care doctors: a register-based study in a Finnish town

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2021
To determine the extent to which it is possible to provide continuity of primary care for those who visit Emergency Departments (EDs) we studied how recorded diagnoses in primary care differ, depending on whether the patient is met in an ED or a primary ...
Mika Lehto, Katri Mustonen, Marko Raina, Timo Kauppila   +3 more
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Analysis of seasonal variation of antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract diagnoses in primary care practices

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Objective: To determine antibiotic prescribing appropriateness for respiratory tract diagnoses (RTD) by season. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Primary care practices in a university health system.
Lacey Serletti, Lauren Dutcher, Kathleen O. Degnan, Julia E. Szymczak, Valerie Cluzet, Michael Z. David, Leigh Cressman, Lindsay W. Glassman, Keith W. Hamilton, for The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prevention Epicenters Program   +9 more
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"Are you accepting new patients?" A pilot field experiment on telephone-based gatekeeping and Black patients' access to pediatric care. [PDF]

, 2018
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine whether name and accent cues that the caller is Black shape physician offices' responses to telephone-based requests for well-child visits. METHOD AND DATA: In this pilot study, we employed a quasi-experimental audit
Irby‐Shasanmi, Amy, Leech, Tamara G.J., Mitchell, Anne L.   +2 more
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