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The deployment of mobile diagnostic laboratories for Ebola virus disease diagnostics in Sierra Leone and Guinea

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2021
Background: Ebola virus emerged in West Africa in December 2013. The ease of mobility, porous borders, and lack of public health infrastructure led to the largest Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak to date.
Lance D. Presser, Jeanette Coffin, Lamine Koivogui, Allan Campbell, Julian Campbell, Fatmata Barrie, Jone Ngobeh, Zein Souma, Samuel Sorie, Doris Harding, Alimou Camara, Pepe Tohonamou, Basala Traore, Frank A. Hamill, Joe Bogan, Sharon Altmann, Casey Ross, Jay Mansheim, Robert Hegerty, Scott Poynter, Scott Shearrer, Carmen Asbun, Brendan Karlstrand, Phil Davis, Jane Alam, David Roberts, Paul D. Stamper, Jean Ndjomou, Nadia Wauquier, Mohamed Koroma, Alhaji Munu, Jason McClintock, Mar Mar, True Burns, Stephen Krcha   +34 more
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A study on biomedical researchers’ perspectives on public engagement in Southeast Asia [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2023
Introduction: Public engagement is increasingly promoted in the scientific community. Although there are studies about researchers’ perspectives on public engagement, these are predominantly from Global North settings and there is little data from the ...
Huong Van Thuy Qui, Han Tran Dong Thai, Jaom Fisher, Thanh Vu Duy, Mary Chambers   +4 more
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Becoming Entrepreneurs of Connection: How community partnerships shape engagement across difference and anti-poverty commitments

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2023
This article contributes to the civic identity development literature by exploring how a scholarship program emphasizing entrepreneurship and economic revitalization can facilitate engagement across difference in pursuit of shared anti-poverty ...
Albert Benson Nylander, James Robert Love, Laura Elizabeth Martin   +2 more
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Benchmarking outcomes on multiple contextual levels in lean healthcare: a systematic review, development of a conceptual framework, and a research agenda

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Reliable benchmarking in Lean healthcare requires widely relevant and applicable domains for outcome metrics and careful attention to contextual levels.
Elina Reponen, Thomas G. Rundall, Stephen M. Shortell, Janet C. Blodgett, Angelica Juarez, Ritva Jokela, Markku Mäkijärvi, Paulus Torkki   +7 more
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Demonstrating change from a drop-in space soundscape exhibit by using graffiti walls both before and after [PDF]

Geoscience Communication, 2021
Impact evaluation in public engagement necessarily requires measuring change. However, this is extremely challenging for drop-in activities due to their very nature.
M. O. Archer, M. O. Archer, N. Day, S. Barnes   +3 more
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Validation of the Lean Healthcare Implementation Self-Assessment Instrument (LHISI) in the finnish healthcare context

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Lean management is growing in popularity in the healthcare sector worldwide, yet healthcare organizations are struggling with assessing the maturity of their Lean implementation and monitoring its change over time.
Elina Reponen, Ritva Jokela, Janet C. Blodgett, Thomas G. Rundall, Stephen M. Shortell, Mikko Nuutinen, Noora Skants, Markku Mäkijärvi, Paulus Torkki   +8 more
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Co-designing new tools for collecting, analysing and presenting patient experience data in NHS services: working in partnership with patients and carers

Research Involvement and Engagement, 2021
Plain English summary The way we collect and use patient experience data is important because of concern that patients and carers may be excluded by the limited ways it is currently done in NHS services.
Nicola Small, Bie Nio Ong, Annmarie Lewis, Dawn Allen, Nigel Bagshaw, Papreen Nahar, Caroline Sanders, the DEPEND team   +7 more
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Ocean highways in the Western Mediterranean: Which are the areas with increased exposure to maritime traffic for loggerhead turtles?

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Many marine megafauna taxa are tied to the sea surface for breathing which makes them vulnerable to vessel collisions. Sea turtles have developed efficient mechanisms to reduce surface time for breathing to a few seconds, but they can extend their ...
Eugenia Pasanisi, Marianna Chimienti, Monica Francesca Blasi, Fulvio Maffucci, Sandra Hochscheid   +4 more
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Sustainability of residential environmental interventions and health outcomes in the elderly

Asthma Research and Practice, 2020
Background Research has documented that housing conditions can negatively impact the health of residents. Asthma has many known indoor environmental triggers including dust, pests, smoke and mold, as evidenced by the 25 million people in the U.S ...
David A. Turcotte, Susan Woskie, Rebecca Gore, Emily Chaves, Kelechi L. Adejumo, Kim-Judy You   +5 more
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How frames and narratives in press releases shape newspaper science articles: the case of ocean plastic pollution [PDF]

Geoscience Communication
Although framing of scientific topics in the media has been widely studied, relatively little is known about the origins of these frames. Since (geo)science journalism often relies on university press releases, this study investigates how peer-reviewed ...
A. Vonk, M. Bos, E. van Sebille, E. van Sebille   +3 more
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