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Validation of the PILL-5: A 5-Item Patient Reported Outcome Measure for Pill Dysphagia [PDF]

Frontiers in Surgery, 2019
Objectives: Pill dysphagia is common and costly with a significant risk of pill retention, caustic injury, and poor medication compliance. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the validity and reliability of the PILL-5, a self-administered ...
Nogah Nativ-Zeltzer, Ahmed Bayoumi, Van Pierre Mandin, Matthew Kaufman, Indulaxmi Seeni, Maggie A. Kuhn, Peter C. Belafsky   +6 more
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Association Between Fixed-Dose Combination Use and Medication Adherence, Health Care Utilization, and Costs Among Medicaid Beneficiaries [PDF]

JACC: Advances
Background: Fixed-dose combination (FDC) antihypertensives combine two or more agents. Compared with non-FDC antihypertensives of multiple classes (multi-pill therapy), combination-pill therapy using FDC antihypertensives may improve hypertension control.
Donglan Zhang, PhD, Jun Soo Lee, PhD, Nicole L. Therrien, PharmD, MPH, Lisa M. Pollack, PhD, MPH, MPT, Sandra L. Jackson, PhD, MPH, Xiaobei Dong, PhD, Anand Rajan, MS, Kai Hong, PhD, Andrew E. Moran, MD, MPH, Feijun Luo, PhD   +9 more
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Recognising values and engaging communities across cultures: towards developing a cultural protocol for researchers

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Efforts to build research capacity and capability in low and middle income countries (LMIC) has progressed over the last three decades, yet it confronts many challenges including issues with communicating or even negotiating across different cultures ...
Rakhshi Memon, Muqaddas Asif, Ameer B. Khoso, Sehrish Tofique, Tayyaba Kiran, Nasim Chaudhry, Nusrat Husain, Sarah J. L. Edwards, Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL)   +8 more
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Design of a Smart Medical Box for Automatic Pill Dispensing and Health Monitoring ^†

Engineering Proceedings, 2023
Medication non-adherence or mismanagement in medicines schedules such as missing doses, taking the wrong amounts, or having medicines at incorrect times is a serious problem, especially in elderly patients or patients with serious illnesses, and may lead
Zara Nasir, Amina Asif, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Ali   +3 more
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Is equipoise a useful concept to justify randomised controlled trials in the cultural context of Pakistan? A survey of clinicians in relation to a trial of talking therapy for young people who self-harm

Trials, 2023
Background Clinical equipoise, also defined as the uncertainty principle, is considered essential when recruiting subjects to a clinical trial. However, equipoise is threatened when clinicians are influenced by their own preferences.
Rakhshi Memon, Muqaddas Asif, Alexandra Pitman, Nasim Chaudhry, Nusrat Husain, Sarah J. L. Edwards   +5 more
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Development of an Automatic Pill Image Data Generation System [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2023
Objectives Since the easiest way to identify pills and obtain information about them is to distinguish them visually, many studies on image processing technology exist.
Juhui Lee, Soyoon Kwon, Jong Hoon Kim, Kwang Gi Kim   +3 more
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Learning Through Play (LTP) Parenting Program: Capacity Building of Traditional Birth Attendants in Pakistan

SAGE Open, 2023
The present study aimed to train Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in a parenting program called Learning through Play (LTP) to improve their Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices regarding child development after completion of training, for them to be ...
Tayyeba Kiran, Rabia Sattar, Mina Husain, Sadia Shah, Rakhshi Memon, Nasim Chaudhry   +5 more
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Contraception: Modern trends and controversies [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2009
Ever since ancient civilizations, the possibility of preventing unwanted pregnancies has always been the subject of interest. All available contraception methods have both advantages and disadvantages, and it is up to the doctor and the patient to make a
Berisavac Milica, Sparić Radmila, Argirović Rajka   +2 more
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Building Resilience Against ViolencE (BRAVE): protocol of a parenting intervention for mothers and fathers with post-traumatic stress disorder in Pakistan

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2022
Background Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is high in Pakistan both due to natural disasters and ongoing conflicts. Offspring of trauma survivors are at increased risk for mental and physical illnesses.
Nasim Chaudhry, Sana Farooque, Tayyeba Kiran, Ozlem Eylem-van Bergeijk, Imran B. Chaudhry, Rakhshi Memon, Mina Husain, Panoraia Andriopoulou, Mowadat Hussain Rana, Farooq Naeem, Nusrat Husain   +10 more
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Towards a funding mechanism for loss and damage from climate change impacts

Climate Risk Management, 2022
Finance for loss and damage from human-induced climate change impacts as it is recognised in the Paris Agreement is contentiously discussed in international negotiations, so far without any resolution.
Melanie Pill
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