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Compressed air massage: repeated treatment causes less muscle oedema than a single treatment

South African Journal of Physiotherapy, 2007
Compressed air massage is a new treatment modality that has been shown to cause skeletal muscle capillary dilation for up to 24 hours after a single treatment and significantly hastens healing of diabetic ulcers.
M. A. Gregory, M. Mars
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Telehealthcare for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease of irreversible airways obstruction in which patients often suffer exacerbations. Sometimes these exacerbations need hospital care: telehealthcare has the potential to reduce admission
Car, Josip, Liu, Joseph L. Y., McLean, Susannah, Nurmatov, Ulugbek, Pagliari, Claudia, Sheikh, Aziz   +5 more
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The Controversies and Difficulties of Diagnosing Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia [PDF]

, 2020
We welcome the correspondence from Lavie and Amirav (1), highlighting the difficulties diagnosing primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) and the role of high-speed video analysis (HSVA).
Haarman, Eric, Hirst, Robert A., Hogg, Claire, Jackson, Claire L., Lucas, Jane S., Nielsen, Kim G., Papon, Jean Francois, Robinson, Philip, Rubbo, Bruna, Shoemark, Amelia, Walker, Woolf T.   +10 more
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Increasing the Capacity of Primary Care Through Enabling Technology. [PDF]

, 2017
Primary care is the foundation of effective and high-quality health care. The role of primary care clinicians has expanded to encompass coordination of care across multiple providers and management of more patients with complex conditions.
Nesbitt, Thomas S, Young, Heather M
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Access to health services in Western Newfoundland, Canada: Issues, barriers and recommendations emerging from a community-engaged research project [PDF]

, 2014
Research indicates that people living in rural and remote areas of Canada face challenges to accessing health services. This article reports on a community-engaged research project conducted by investigators at Memorial University of Newfoundland in ...
Heath, Sara, Hippe, Janelle, Jesso, Beulah, Maddalena, Victor, McCahon, Marion, Olson, Kim   +5 more
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Evaluation of Mortality in Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical Outcomes in Digital Electrocardiography (CODE) Study

Global Heart, 2020
Aims: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a public health problem and its prevalence is increasing worldwide. Electronic cohorts, with large electrocardiogram (ECG) databases linked to mortality data, can be useful in determining prognostic value of ECG ...
Gabriela M. M. Paixão, Luis Gustavo S. Silva, Paulo R. Gomes, Emilly M. Lima, Milton P. F. Ferreira, Derick M. Oliveira, Manoel H. Ribeiro, Antonio H. Ribeiro, Jamil S. Nascimento, Jéssica A. Canazart, Leonardo B. Ribeiro, Emelia J. Benjamin, Peter W. Macfarlane, Milena S. Marcolino, Antonio L. Ribeiro   +14 more
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The complexities of technology-based care : telecare as perceived by care practitioners [PDF]

, 2013
Telecare, which offers ‘care at a distance’ (Pols, 2012) through a variety of remote monitoring technologies, has developed rapidly across health and social care policy in many developed countries.
Eccles, Andrew
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A systematic review of tools cited in health information systems evaluations of developing and low to middle income countries

Discover Public Health
Background Evaluating HIS is an important process characterized by many steps. There are numerous frameworks, toolkits and models that can be used to enact an evaluation of HIS; these have been described and reviewed in previous literature.
Simon Philip R. Sacramento, Arturo Ongkeko , Ashley Victoria Ejera , Edge Mata , Catherine Romero , Anicia Catameo , Marielle Anne Mende   +6 more
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Assessing core, e-learning, clinical and technology readiness to integrate telemedicine at public health facilities in Uganda: a health facility – based survey

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background In developing countries like Uganda, there are shortages of health workers especially medical specialists. The referral process is frustrating to both patients and health workers (HWs).
Vincent Micheal Kiberu, Richard E. Scott, Maurice Mars   +2 more
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Telehealth Parity Laws -  Ongoing Reforms Are Expanding the Landscape of Telehealth in the Us Health Care System, but Challenges Remain. [PDF]

, 2016
Despite the fact that no other developed country even comes close to the United States in annual spending on health care, 20 percent of Americans still live in areas where shortages of physicians and health care specialists exist, and the United States ...
Tony Yang
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