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Referral tickets to secondary healthcare : is communication effective? [PDF]

, 2016
Communication between primary and secondary health care relies primarily on referral tickets. They determine how patients’ details are conveyed and hence the quality of care. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of referral tickets at the
Cassar, Matthew, Debono, Joseph, Mifsud, Janine, Vella Fondacaro, Daniel   +3 more
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Detecting Mutations in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pyrazinamidase Gene pncA to Improve Infection Control and Decrease Drug Resistance Rates in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Coinfection. [PDF]

, 2016
Hospital infection control measures are crucial to tuberculosis (TB) control strategies within settings caring for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients, as these patients are at heightened risk of developing TB.
Bangsberg, Butler, Campos, Carlton A. Evans, Caviedes, Daniela E. Kirwan, David A. J. Moore, Dooley, Eduardo Ticona, Escombe, Escombe, Evans, Franzblau, Hannan, Hu, Huang, Iwamoto, Jon S. Friedland, Jorge Coronel, Kawai, Lilia Z. Cabrera, Louis Grandjean, Luz Caviedes, Luz Huaroto, Matthew Z. Dudley, Mirko Zimic, Mitchison, Moore, Moore, Patricia Sheen, Raviglione, Richard Rodriguez, Robert H. Gilman, Scorpio, Sheen, Sheen, Sheen, Steele, Stricof, Víctor Chávez-Pérez, Wells, Willingham   +41 more
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Ambulatory chest physiotherapy in mild-to-moderate acute bronchiolitis in children under two years of age — A randomized control trial

Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal, 2021
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the role of a chest physiotherapy (CP) intervention to no intervention on the respiratory status of children under two years of age, with mild-to-moderate bronchiolitis. Methods: Out of 80 eligible children
Frederico Ramos Pinto, Ana Silva Alexandrino, Liane Correia-Costa, Inês Azevedo   +3 more
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COVID-19 Concerns Among Old Age Psychiatric In- and Out-Patients and the Employees Caring for Them, a Preliminary Study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
A questionnaire was administered to 14 patients admitted at the Department of Old Age Psychiatric 24-h unit at Oslo University Hospital with questions about experiences and fears regarding COVID-19. A similar adjusted questionnaire was administered to 19
Maria Stylianou Korsnes, Maria Stylianou Korsnes, Elsa Grødal, Elisabeth Kjellén, Tone M. C. Kaspersen, Kristin B. Gjellesvik, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth, Bodil A. McPherson   +8 more
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Virtual outreach: economic evaluation of joint teleconsultations for patients referred by their general practitioner for a specialist opinion [PDF]

, 2003
Objectives To test the hypotheses that, compared with conventional outpatient consultations, joint teleconsultation (virtual outreach) would incur no increased costs to the NHS, reduce costs to patients, and reduce absences from work by patients and ...
Barber, JA, Currell, R, Haines, A, Harrison, R, Jacklin, PB, Lewis, L, Parker, S, Roberts, JA, Thompson, SG, Virtual Outreach Project Grp, Wainwright, P, Wallace, P   +11 more
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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Among Outpatients in a Health Center in East-Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

İstanbul Medical Journal, 2019
Introduction:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is becoming a global epidemic and a threat to the world population.Methods:This cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) regarding T2DM among outpatients of a
Rawaida Mat Salleh, Nor Azlina A Rahman, Mainul Haque   +2 more
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Correlates of Psychotropic Polypharmacy in outpatient psychiatric clinics of two military tertiary hospitals in Saudi Arabia

Journal of Family and Community Medicine, 2019
BACKGROUND: Polypharmacy is meaningful and clinically justified under certain circumstances. However, the prescription of multiple psychiatric medicines is mostly based on practical experience rather than evidence. The aim of this study was to assess the
Fares F Alharbi, Samar F Alharbi, Saleh Bin Salih, Khaled Al-Surimi   +3 more
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Are There Striking Differences in Outpatient Use of Antibiotics Between South Backa District, Serbia, and Some Scandinavian Countries?

Frontiers in Public Health, 2018
There is little published information about antibiotic utilization in outpatients in Serbia. The objective of this study was to determine the amount and structure of outpatient antibiotic use in South Backa District (SBD) in Serbia, to assess prescibing ...
Olga Horvat, Vesna Mijatović, Boris Milijasević, Ana Tomas, Milica Paut Kusturica, Zdenko Tomić, Ana Sabo   +6 more
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How major depressive disorder affects the ability to decode multimodal dynamic emotional stimuli [PDF]

, 2016
Most studies investigating the processing of emotions in depressed patients reported impairments in the decoding of negative emotions. However, these studies adopted static stimuli (mostly stereotypical facial expressions corresponding to basic emotions)
Esposito, Anna, Likforman-Sulem, Laurence, Scibelli, Filomena, Troncone, Alda, Vinciarelli, Alessandro   +4 more
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Evaluation of the Outpatients consultation in East Kent [PDF]

, 2014
CHSS undertook to support Kent and Medway Commissioning Support (KMCS: acting on behalf of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Canterbury and Coastal Clinical Commissioning Group) in undertaking an independent analysis of a ...
Billings, Jenny R., Hotham, Sarah, Jenkins, Linda M.   +2 more
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