Family’s Health-Strategy in Brazil: An Analysis of its Applicability by Luiz Antonucci, Maria das Dores de Loreto, Amelia Bifano, Edna Miranda, Diego Procópio

“…The research was carried out in a Primary Health Care Unit (UAPS by its Spanish acronym), where a documentary analysis of the ESF criteria was held through direct non-participatory observation, self-confrontation interviews and the study of social networks mobilized by professionals and users of this Unity. …”
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Access to Specialist Gastroenterology Care in Canada: Comparison of Wait Times and Consensus Targets by Desmond Leddin, David Armstrong, Alan NG Barkun, Ying Chen, Sandra Daniels, Roger Hollingworth, Richard H Hunt, William G Paterson

“…BACKGROUND: Monitoring wait times and defining targets for care have been advocated to improve health care delivery related to cancer, heart, diagnostic imaging, joint replacements and sight restoration. …”
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The perception of healthcare workers toward primary healthcare communication in South Africa by Sonja Verwey, Andrea Crystal, Tracey Bessin

“…The purpose of this study was to investigate this hypo thesis through a qualitative analysis of the perceptions held by health care workers of the effectiveness and suitability of Governments healthcare campaign    …”
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Infectious Disease Management: Lessons from Cuba by Noni E Macdonald, Beth Halperin, Enrique Beldarrain Chaple, Jeff Scott, John M Kirk

“…The Escherichia coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario (1), the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in Toronto, Ontario (2) and the Clostridium difficile hospital outbreak in Montreal, Quebec (3), have cost lives, grabbed headlines and stressed local health care systems. Each outbreak raised questions about our ability to prevent outbreaks, detect outbreaks early, and respond efficiently and effectively to infectious disease crises; these outbreaks also highlighted gaps in Canada's preparedness for managing major infectious disease problems when multiple jurisdictions are involved (4). …”
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Case report of glomerular histiocytosis associated with non-crystalline IgG-kappa paraproteinemia by Aditya Kishore, Susanna A. McRae, David Telio, Monica C. Beaulieu

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Tuberculosis Infection Mimicking Brain Metastatic Malignancy Lesions in an Elderly Male by Dimitrios Anyfantakis, Ageliki Damianaki, Maria Kokosi, Emmanouil K. Symvoulakis, Serafim Kastanakis

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Using an Interactive Systems Framework to Expand Telepsychology Innovations in Underserved Communities by Whitney R. Garney, Carly E. McCord, Michaela V. Walsh, Angela B. Alaniz

“…Literature indicates that the use of promising innovations in mental health care can be improved. The advancement of telepsychology is one innovation that has been utilized as a method to reduce rural health disparities and increase the number of people with access to mental health services. …”
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A Prospective Determination of the Incidence of Perceived Inappropriate Care in Critically Ill Patients by Rohit K Singal, Robert Sibbald, Brenda Morgan, Mel Quinlan, Neil Parry, Michael Radford, Claudio M Martin

“…BACKGROUND: Health care providers’ perceptions regarding appropriateness in end-of-life treatments have been widely studied. …”
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The Doctor-Patient relationship: A bibliometric analysis by Meghana Konda, Murdoc Gould, Rohan Mangal, Anjali Daniel, Thor Stead, Latha Ganti

“… # Conclusion The number of articles published annually regarding doctor-patient communication has constantly been increasing from 2012-2022, demonstrating its importance as a crucial component of effective health care.…”
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Dependence of Chinese Stock Market by Xianbo Wu, Xiaofeng Hui

“…In the pandemic period, the dependence between the consumer staples sector and other sectors is significantly enhanced, and consumer staples sector and health care sector maintain a strong dependence. From the results of the sliding window, the Chinese stock market is sensitive to the impact of COVID-19, but the duration of the impact on the dependence among the stock sectors is not long.…”
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Male Sexual Dysfunction by Danyon Anderson, John Laforge, Maggie M. Ross, Robert Vanlangendonck, Jamal Hasoon, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits

“…For ED, first-line therapy is a phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor or mental health care for psychogenic ED. More complicated cases may be treated with injections, surgery, or shockwave therapy. …”
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Treatment adherence of diabetes mellitus patients: Is it affected by demographic and patient-related factors? A literature review by Paraskevi Theofilou

“…The perceptions about the disease of diabetes, the availability of drugs, the diabetes education provided, perceptions of medication, current patients’ employment, younger age, educational level, nationality, HbA1c levels, abstinence from alcohol, presence of peripheral vascular disease, income, keeping their appointments in primary health care, and the religious beliefs about healing and healing practices are important factors influencing the compliance of patients with diabetes in their treatment. …”
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Development of an Electronic Database for Acute Pain Service Outcomes by Brandy L Love, Louise A Jensen, Donald Schopflocher, Ban CH Tsui

“…Quality assurance has become the focus of many health care programs in an effort to confront the challenges presented by pain and its management. …”
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A Review of Mobile Robotic Telepresence by Annica Kristoffersson, Silvia Coradeschi, Amy Loutfi

“…These systems, which are primarily used in the context of promoting social interaction between people, are becoming increasingly popular within certain application domains such as health care environments, independent living for the elderly, and office environments. …”
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Mexiletine and False Positive Urine Drug Screen for Amphetamine: A Case Review by Sumit Sohal, Mina Sous, Gauri Pethe, Shanmugha V. Padmanabhan, Rajesh Akbari, Shahriar Dadkhah

“…However, mexiletine can lead to false positive urine drug screen testing for amphetamine, and these false-positive urine drug screen test results can affect the decision-making process. Health care providers should be aware of this fact and should either use confirmatory testing or look for confounding compounds in patients who deny using illicit substances and have a positive urine drug screen. …”
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Haemothorax and Thoracic Spine Fractures in the Elderly by Michael A. Masteller, Aakash Chauhan, Harsha Musunuru, Mark M. Walsh, Bryan Boyer, Joseph A. Prahlow

“…This paper serves to remind health care professionals of the importance of using caution when moving elderly patients as well as to consider thoracic spinal fracture as a potential explanation for a hemorrhagic pleural effusion of undetermined etiology.…”
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Public Health Perspectives of Preeclampsia in Developing Countries: Implication for Health System Strengthening by Kayode O. Osungbade, Olusimbo K. Ige

“…Overcoming the prevailing challenges in the control of preeclampsia in developing countries hinges on the ability of health care systems to identify and manage women at high risk.…”
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Geriatric nutrition in the surgical patient: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care and Geriatric Trauma Committees clinical consensus document by Adel Elkbuli, Deborah M Stein, Ruben Peralta, Aussama Khalaf Nassar, Tasce Bongiovanni, Joseph Cuschieri, Michael Steven Farrell, Abhijit Pathak, Rondi Gelbard, Randeep Jawa, Tanya Egodage, Tyler Putnam, Samrah Mitha

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Understanding the Internet of Nano Things: overview, trends, and challenges by Mainor Alberto Cruz Alvarado, Patricia Alejandra Bazán

“…It is concluded that technologies prevail current IoNT literature, applications are focused on health care, and there is no international standardization regarding privacy, security or architecture of nano-networks. …”
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Contemporary Evaluation and Management of the Diabetic Foot by Bauer E. Sumpio

“…Managing the diabetic foot is a complex clinical problem requiring a multidisciplinary collaboration of health care workers to achieve limb salvage. Adequate off-loading, frequent debridement, moist wound care, treatment of infection, and revascularization of ischemic limbs are the mainstays of therapy. …”
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