SCREEN: A simple layperson administered screening algorithm in low resource international settings significantly reduces waiting time for critically ill children in primary healthcare clinics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 In low resource settings, an inadequate number of trained healthcare workers and high volumes of children presenting to Primary Healthcare Centers (PHC) result in prolonged waiting times and significant delays in identifying and evaluating critically ill
Bhakti Hansoti +7 more
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Simplified HIV Testing and Treatment in China: Analysis of Mortality Rates Before and After a Structural Intervention. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundMultistage stepwise HIV testing and treatment initiation procedures can result in lost opportunities to provide timely antiretroviral therapy (ART).
Brookmeyer, Ron +21 more
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Public service reform in Ethiopia: Challenges and gaps post-implementation
Africa's Public Service Delivery & Performance Review, 2019 Background: The Federal Government of Ethiopia has introduced successive public-sector improvement initiatives in the past few decades. However, preliminary studies and observations revealed that such efforts were far from meeting their targets of ...
W. Tadesse
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Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchIntroduction: Standard order sets, which are pre-decided measures that guide clinical decisions and treatment, are shown to benefit quality of care in various medical conditions, including stroke.
Sarang Dilip Videkar, Tushar Patil
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Indian Heart Journal, 2017 Objectives: We evaluated the impact of implementation of the TN-STEMI programme on various characteristics of the pharmacoinvasive group by comparing clinical as well as angiographic outcomes between the pre- and post-implementation groups.
Deep Chandh Raja +12 more
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Influence of Pre- and Post-compensation of Chromatic Dispersion on Equalization Enhanced Phase Noise in Coherent Multilevel Systems [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2016 In this paper we present a comparative study of the equalization enhanced phase noise (EEPN) for pre- and post-compensation of chromatic dispersion in high capacity and high constellation systems. This is to our knowledge the first detailed study in this
G. Jacobsen +5 more
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Implementation of early warning system in the clinical teaching unit to reduce unexpected deaths
BMJ Open Quality, 2023 Background Early detection of patients with clinical deterioration admitted to the hospital is critical. The early warning system (EWS) is developed to identify early clinical deterioration.
Rabia Shahid +6 more
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Proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of twin-field type quantum key distribution
, 2019 The twin-field (TF) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol and its variants are highly attractive because they can beat the well-known rate-loss limit (i.e., the PLOB bound) for QKD protocols without quantum repeaters.
Curty, M. +4 more
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Why students need to be prepared to cooperate : a cooperative nudge in statistics learning at university [PDF]
, 2015 Despite the potential benefits of cooperative learning at university, its implementation is challenging. Here, we propose a theory-based 90-min intervention with 185 first-year psychology students in the challenging domain of statistics, consisting of an
Antonietti, J.P. +3 more
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Observation of the nonlinear phase shift due to single post-selected photons [PDF]
Nature Physics, 2015 Using post-selection and electromagnetically induced transparency in a cold atomic gas it is now possible to generate a strong nonlinear interaction between two optical beams, bringing nonlinear optics into the quantum regime.
Amir Feizpour Matin Hallaji Greg Dmochowski +1 more
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