Isolation and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Haemophilus influenzae from Nasopharynx of Children under Five Years Attending Maternal and Child Health Clinic in Mbarara Region... by Daniel Omoding, Joel Bazira

“…Information on the current carriage status and antibiotic susceptibility is key on proper health-care provision. Therefore, we conducted a study to determine H. influenzae carriage rate and antibiotic susceptibility testing of the isolates among the children. …”
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Good practices for dialysis education, treatment, and eHealth: A scoping review. by Anita van Eck van der Sluijs, Sanne Vonk, Brigit C van Jaarsveld, Anna A Bonenkamp, Alferso C Abrahams

“…However, there is much practice variation which could be explained by good practices: practices developed by local health care professionals, which are not evidence-based. …”
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Strategies and Determinants of Knowledge Management and Sharing in Healthcare Organizations: A Narrative Review by Leila Banifatemeh, Nadjla Hariri, Mostafa Farahbakhsh

“…Effective and efficient sharing of knowledge in health care can lead to the clarification of health data and dissemination of up-to-date health information among employees, decision-makers, and other stakeholders, thereby improving the probability of occurrence of desirable health outcomes. …”
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Peer and lay health work for people experiencing homelessness: A scoping review. by Jessica Mangan, Pablo Del Cid Nunez, Sara Daou, Graziella El-Khechen Richandi, Amna Siddiqui, Jonathan Wong, Liz Birk-Urovitz, Andrew Bond, Aaron M Orkin

“…Peer and lay health worker programs aim to increase access to health care and improve health outcomes for PEH by building trust and empowering community-based workers. …”
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Postnatal quality of care measures for mothers and newborns at home: A scoping review. by Ann-Sofie Mespreuve, Lise Apers, Ann-Beth Moller, Anna Galle

“…Yet, the postnatal period remains the most neglected period along the maternal health care continuum. Globally, measures assessing quality of postnatal care (PNC) often focus on care at health facility level, the provision of home-based PNC and associated quality of care measures seem largely overlooked. …”
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Nasal Sinus Tract of Odontogenic Origin: Report of a Case by Sagar Sareen, Anjani Kumar Pathak, Parth Purwar, Jaya Dixit, Divya Singhal, Isha Sajjanhar, Kopal Goel, Vaibhav Sheel Gupta

“…Initially, a five-step program as recommended by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality was used for smoking cessation followed by root canal therapy (RCT) and surgical management of the sinus tract. …”
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Standardized Functions for Smartphone Applications: Examples from Maternal and Child Health by Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Mark Tomlinson, Dallas Swendeman, Adabel Lee, Erynne Jones

“…Prompts and reminders, as well as real-time monitoring, can improve quality of health care. We propose a three-tier model for designing platforms for both professional and paraprofessional health providers and families: (1) foundational functions (informing, training, monitoring, shaping, supporting, and linking to care); (2) content-specific targets (e.g., for MDG; developmentally related tasks); (3) local cultural adaptations (e.g., language). …”
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Key insights into recent advances and challenges in COVID-19 management by Prakash Monika, Anushka A. Poola, Prithvi S. Prabhu, K. Samrat, C. Likhitha

“…It can be understood that the task of controlling and managing the impact of such a massive pandemic goes well beyond the boundaries of what present-day technology and advancements in the field of medicine and health care can offer. A collaborative and integrative approach between academic, scientific, social, and economic factors, along with close supervision and reinforcement of the current public safety protocols, can help to ensure a better management strategy to control the progression of COVID-19. …”
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A Patient Flow Analysis: Identification of Process Inefficiencies and Workflow Metrics at an Ambulatory Endoscopy Unit by Rowena Almeida, William G. Paterson, Nancy Craig, Lawrence Hookey

“…The increasing demand for endoscopic procedures coincides with the paradigm shift in health care delivery that emphasizes efficient use of existing resources. …”
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Evaluation of Impact of Prescribing Safety Assessment Workshop on Medical Doctors Using Kirkpatrick Model by Adnan Jehangir, Khalid Farooq Danish, Rahila Yasmeen, Waqas Rabbani, Farhana Ayub

“…Prescription writing errors are not infrequent at primary health care level leading to threat to patient safety. …”
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Overcoming challenges to integration of oral health into geriatric primary care by Alberto Enrique Varela, Donna Baluchi, Timothy W. Farrell, José E. Rodríguez

“…This manuscript presents four of those challenges (lack of communication between medical and dental providers, the distance between medical and dental services, patient discomfort with the inclusion of oral health in primary health care, and provider discomfort in requesting oral health information in medical encounters) with the solutions derived at the University of Utah Health. …”
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The implementation of a system of CardioQVARK to personalize treatment in terms of the digital ecosystem healthcare formation by V. Isaenko, M. Rybina

“…LLC “Kardiokvark” developed and introduced into practice of domestic health care system CardioQVARK, which is a breakthrough digital technology in cardiology. …”
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Self-medication pattern among medical students in Middle Delta, Egypt by Nadira Mansour Hassan, Shimaa Mohamed Mohamed Koabar

“…Undergraduate medical students as being the future physicians representing a main pillar in health care system thus have special significance. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of self-medication and identify its pattern among medical students in Tanta university, Egypt. …”
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Publication of studies registered in Clinical Trials Registry of India: An audit of mood disorder research protocols from 2009-2019 by Vikas Menon, Natarajan Varadharajan, Rini Joseph, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Chittaranjan Andrade

“…These findings from a low- and middle-income country with limited spending on health care research and development represent wastage of resources and raise scientific and ethical concerns about unpublished data and futile patient participation in research.…”
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Chronic Gastritis in Dermatitis Herpetiformis: A Controlled Study by Anna Alakoski, Teea T. Salmi, Kaisa Hervonen, Hannu Kautiainen, Maarit Salo, Katri Kaukinen, Timo Reunala, Pekka Collin

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Different Strategies for the Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in China: An Economic Evaluation by Bin Wu, Jin Li, Houwen Lin, Haixiang Wu

“…Direct medical costs and resource utilization in the Chinese health care setting were taken into account. Health and economic outcomes were evaluated over a lifetime horizon. …”
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Antimicrobial test of five ethnomedicinal plants in an ancestral forest area by M.B. Bandibas, P. Roxas

“…Indigenous people, in particular, know the importance of the forest especially in relation to health care system and they believe that there is a need to conserve the resources to sustain the services it provides.…”
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Considerations of HLA, Renal Failure, Valproic Acid Use, and Current Treatment Guidelines in Clozapine-Induced Agranulocytosis by Melissa Sussman, Michael Epifania, Derrick Eng, Yun Jae Cho, Richard Steward

“…Clozapine, though beneficial in reducing the need for hospitalization, rehabilitation, and health care costs, is known as a drug of last resort due to its potential adverse event of clozapine-induced agranulocytosis, which holds a case fatality rate between 4.2 and 16%. …”
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Modern Imaging Methods in the Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Diseases by Paulina Dorota Pietrukaniec, Bartosz Omasta, Katarzyna Kamińska-Omasta, Olga Krupa, Daria Rybak, Kuba Borys Romańczuk, Magdalena Agata Czerska, Szymon Przemysław Stolarczyk, Zofia Martyna Wójcik, Kinga Furtak

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Fibromyalgia syndrome—a bodily distress disorder/somatic symptom disorder? by Winfried Häuser, Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Peter Henningsen

“…Previously, the ICD-10 diagnosis of somatoform disorder was often used by mental health care disciplines instead of the label FMS. Somatoform disorders category has been eliminated as a diagnostic category in the ICD-11 and the 5th version Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and has been replaced with the new categories of bodily distress disorder (BDD) and somatic symptom disorder (SSD) respectively. …”
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