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Who fails to return within 30 days after being tested positive for HIV/STI in a free testing centre?

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background Some patients who test positive for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) fail to return for results and treatment. To target improvement actions, we need to find out who these patients are. This study aimed to explore factors associated with
Camille Rolland   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mantoux test defaulters in rural population attending tertiary care hospital in a tuberculosis endemic area

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the main causes of mortality among infectious diseases. The prevalence of tuberculosis is very high in developing countries such as India.
Sameer Singh Faujdar   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling and forecasting patient recruitment in clinical trials with patients' dropout

open access: yes, 2022
17 pages, 4 ...
Anisimov, Vladimir   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Reasons for default from treatment of chronic illnesses in a primary healthcare program in rural Tamil Nadu

open access: yesIndian Journal of Public Health, 2013
Chronic illnesses are an increasing cause of morbidity and mortality in rural India. Many patients default from treatment, and exploring their reasons for the same may suggest strategies to improve service accessibility and acceptability.
Henry R Jennens   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Abandono ou descontinuidade do tratamento da tuberculose em Rio Branco, Acre Dropouts or discontinuity of the treatment of tuberculosis in Rio Branco, Acre

open access: yesSaúde e Sociedade, 2012
Esta pesquisa investiga os fatores que estão relacionados à descontinuidade do tratamento da tuberculose em Rio Branco-Acre e foi realizada com uma contribuição da etnografia para uma apreensão da realidade a ser estudada. Foi desenvolvida em duas etapas
Danúzia da Silva Rocha   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Widespread White Matter Alterations in Patients With Visual Snow Syndrome

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2021
Background: Visual snow is considered a disorder of central visual processing resulting in a perturbed perception of constant binocular flickering or pixilation of the whole visual field.
Lars Michels   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dropout rates and reasons for dropout from treatment among elderly patients with depression

open access: yesJournal of Geriatric Mental Health, 2018
Background: Adherence to medical treatment is a major challenge. A significant proportion of patient's dropout of treatment after the initial visit. Little is known about the reasons for such high dropouts. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the dropout rates and reasons for dropout from treatment among elderly patients with depression attending a ...
Sandeep Grover   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Peritoneal Dialysis Drop-out: Causes and Prevention Strategies

open access: yesInternational Journal of Nephrology, 2011
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) as a renal replacement therapy (RRT) has become wide spread since its inception more than twenty-five years back. Since then, several advances have been made and PD has been accepted as an alternative therapy to hemodialysis (HD),
Kunal Chaudhary
doaj   +1 more source

Participant retention practices in longitudinal clinical research studies with high retention rates

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2017
Background There is a need for improving cohort retention in longitudinal studies. Our objective was to identify cohort retention strategies and implementation approaches used in studies with high retention rates.
Martha Abshire   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transcriptional profiling of circulating extracellular vesicles from prebiopsy prostate cancer patients

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
RNA profiling of circulating extracellular vesicles (EVs) from blood samples of men undergoing prostate biopsy identifies transcripts associated with clinically significant prostate cancer. Integrative analysis with public tumor datasets links EV‐derived gene signatures to tumor stage and progression‐free survival, highlighting CASP3, XRCC2, and RIT1 ...
Stefan Werner   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

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