The landscape of family medicine in India - A cross-sectional survey study. by Archna Gupta, Raman Kumar, Ramakrishna Prasad, Sunil Abraham, Nisanth Menon Nedungalaparambil, Paul Krueger, Carolyn Steele Gray, Megan Landes, Sanjeev Sridharan, Onil Bhattacharyya

“…Postgraduate family medicine training should be scaled up to support improving gaps seen in primary care and primary health care.…”
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A case report of an early neonatal death accompanied by disseminated intravascular coagulation caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 infection by Mitić Gorana P., Spasić Igor G., Panjković Milana D., Vučković Biljana A.

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Packaging of organic food—the dilemma of consumers’ internal and external motives by Olena Nifatova, Olena Nifatova, Kseniia Bliumska-Danko, Kseniia Bliumska-Danko, Sandra Charreire-Petit, Yuriy Danko

“…However, organic packaging can be an indicator of external (altruistic) consumer motives, subject to the limitations that organic packaging is less related to health care and more to altruistic motives. Consumers driven by external motives may expect produce to be organic at all stages of their life cycle and are more likely to rely on the producer’s commitment to environmental responsibility. …”
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Effectiveness of nurse-led multi-component intervention program (NLMIP) on improving antiretroviral therapy adherence, CD4 count, psychological distress, and quality of life of peo... by Gulati Sonia, Pandurangan Hariprasath, Gupta P. Kumar

“…Conclusions: NLMIP will provide a comprehensive guide for nurses and other health care professionals to provide regular health education to PLWHA who are registered for ART.…”
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Evaluation of Osteoporosis Awareness among Healthcare Professionals in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi: A Comprehensive Analysis using the Osteoporosis Knowledg... by Benish Adil, Taqdees Khaliq, Sarah Azam Shah, Hafiz Zayn Zafar

“…The overall knowledge is affected by age, post-graduate qualification and speciality of the health care provider. …”
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Does Therapeutic Zinc Level of Supplementation for Diminutions of Acute Diarrheal Morbidity Varied in Public and Private Health Institutions in Ethiopia, Data from EDHS 2016? by Fassikaw Kebede, Merkineh Markos

“…More than twofold time therapeutic zinc was prescribed in public than in private health institutions. Health care workers should be encouraged both in public and private health institutions for zinc prescription.…”
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MEDICAL SERVICES OR MEDICAL CARE – AN URGENT ISSUE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTIONS by E. V. Pesennikova, O. V. Gridnev, S. S. Kuchits

“…It was revealed that the concept of “medical services” appeared much later and was associated with the development of paid medical services and the need to establish legal aspects of health care. The provision of medical assistance is regulated mainly by public law, and the provision of medical services is governed by private law. …”
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Association of hearing loss with cognitive function and mental health in Africa: A systematic review by Abdulazeez Ahmed, Fatimah Tsiga-Ahmed, Nafisatu Bello-Muhammad, Abdulrazaq Ajiya, Mustapha Gudaji, Denes Stefler

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Clustering long-term health conditions among 67728 people with multimorbidity using electronic health records in Scotland. by Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Utkarsh Agrawal, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Briana MacKerron, Eda Bilici Özyiğit, Daniel C Alexander, Ashley Akbari, Rhiannon K Owen, Jane Lyons, Ronan A Lyons, Spiros Denaxas, Paul Kirk, Ana Corina Miller, Gill Harper, Carol Dezateux, Anthony Brookes, Sylvia Richardson, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Bruce Guthrie, Lloyd Hughes, Umesh T Kadam, Kamlesh Khunti, Keith R Abrams, Colin McCowan

“…There is still limited understanding of how chronic conditions co-occur in patients with multimorbidity and what are the consequences for patients and the health care system. Most reported clusters of conditions have not considered the demographic characteristics of these patients during the clustering process. …”
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Vaccinating Adult Patients with Cirrhosis: Trends over a Decade in the United States by Abhijeet Waghray, Nisheet Waghray, Hicham Khallafi, K. V. Narayanan Menon

“…Ultimately, the use of electronic medical record (EMR) reminders improved communication between healthcare professionals and public health programs to increase awareness are fundamental to reducing morbidity, mortality, and health-care related costs of vaccine preventable diseases in patients with cirrhosis.…”
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A robust multi-objective multi-priodic planning approach to the problem of locating the allocation of organ transplant centers under conditions of uncertainty by Elham Nejati, Mahdi Yousefi Nejad Attari, Asgar Hajibadali

“…Purpose: One of the most vital subcategories of the health care system is organ transplantation, and since organ transplant centers deal directly with surgical operations and, as a result, human lives, the importance of this issue has received more attention. …”
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“Near Miss” Obstetric Events and Maternal Deaths in a Tertiary Care Hospital: An Audit by Roopa PS, Shailja Verma, Lavanya Rai, Pratap Kumar, Murlidhar V. Pai, Jyothi Shetty

“…As near miss analysis indicates the quality of health care, it is worth presenting in national indices.…”
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Low Vital Capacity and Electrocardiographic ST-T Abnormalities in Asymptomatic Adults by Kei Nakajima, Yulan Li, Hiroshi Fuchigami, Hiromi Munakata

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Negative experiences with primary care services in Norway expressed in patient and next-of-kin complaints – a qualitative study by Alison Axisa Eriksen, Terje Emil Fredwall, Inger Beate Larsen

“…Abstract Background Primary health care has been central to achieving universal health coverage. …”
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The utility of preemptive mass influenza vaccination in controlling a SARS outbreak during flu season by Qingling Zeng, Kamran Khan, Jianhong Wu, Huaiping Zhu

“…The study revealed that a campaign of mass influenza vaccination prior tothe onset of flu season could aid the containment of a future SARS outbreak bydecreasing the total number of persons with ILIs presenting to the health-care system,and consequently decreasing nosocomial transmission of SARS in persons underinvestigation for the disease.…”
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A Case of Neuromyelitis Optica: Puerto Rican Woman with an Increased Time Lag to Diagnosis and a High Response to Eculizumab Therapy by Ramón Vega, Benjamín González, Kiara Ortiz, Viviana Martínez, David Carmona, Ivonne Vicente, Javier Chapa, Ángel Chinea

“…A link between intractable hiccups, as the initial symptom, and a possible neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) diagnosis is confusing but vital and may not be made by health care providers (HCPs) if they are not aware of the 2015 NMOSD criteria. …”
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Prevalence of Transfusion Transmitted Virus Infection in Hemodialysis Patients and Injection Drug Users Compared to Healthy Blood Donors in Isfahan, Iran by Behrooz Ataei, Alireza Emami Naeini, Farzin Khorvash, Mohammad Reza Yazdani, Abbas-Ali Javadi

“…It seems necessary to take serious measures to reduce the risk of TTV transmission to IDUs’ close contacts and health care providers.…”
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Low-cost and scalable machine learning model for identifying children and adolescents with poor oral health using survey data: An empirical study in Portugal. by Susana Lavado, Eduardo Costa, Niclas F Sturm, Johannes S Tafferner, Octávio Rodrigues, Pedro Pita Barros, Leid Zejnilovic

“…This study is one of the few in oral health care that includes bias auditing of classification models. …”
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Syringaldehyde Alleviates Cardiac Hypertrophy Induced by Hyperglycemia in H9c2 Cells Through GLP-1 Receptor Signals by Yingxiao Li, Chao-Tien Hsu, Ting-Ting Yang, Kai-Chun Cheng

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Thin Air Resulting in High Pressure: Mountain Sickness and Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension by Jan Grimminger, Manuel Richter, Khodr Tello, Natascha Sommer, Henning Gall, Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani

“…This review summarizes current knowledge of the body’s acute response to these circumstances, possible complications and their treatment, and health care issues resulting from long-term exposure to high altitude. …”
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