Civil Servants and Political Leaders’ Performance in Service Delivery in Kisoro District Local Government, Uganda. by Zigira Sam, Niyonzima

“…From the findings, it was established that monitoring and supervision ensures timely reports are produced and disseminated to all stakeholders in health which ensures constant supply/delivery of medical facilities and drugs. It was established that corruption, limited revenue and financing, human resource incapacity, Conflict between civil servants and political leaders, lack of coordination between local authorities and extension service delivery workers hinder effective performance of civil servants and political leaders in ensuring effective service delivery. …”
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Olfactory disorders in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A cross-sectional study by Yasmin Nsunzu Tshingamb, Sympho Junior Mpiana, Patrick Sekele Marob Ndjock, Emile Kayembe, Eric Banza Lukoji, Alain Ntumba Malemba, Auguste O. Omadjela, Dieudonné T. Nyembue

“…Methods This was a cross-sectional and analytical study involving 105 CRS patients in two medical facilities in Kinshasa. Eligible patients were aged ≥18 years, diagnosed with CRS, had completed primary education, and provided informed consent. …”
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Silent witnesses: unveiling the epidemic of femicides in North-west Tshwane, South Africa – a decade of analysis by Yaseen Bismilla, K. K. Hlaise, C. Van Wyk

“…The study found that the most common months for femicides were September and December, with most incidents occurring at home, followed by residential areas and medical facilities. The geographic analysis identified Temba, Rietgat, and Akasia as the areas with the highest number of femicide cases. …”
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Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability for a Hospital Building Using Field Data and Various Numerical Analyses Considering Bidirectional Ground Motion Effects by Alireza Kharazian, Arianna Guardiola-Villora, Juan José Galiana-Merino, Sergio Molina, Gonzalo Ortuño-Sáez, Juan Luís Soler-Llorens, José Antonio Huesca-Tortosa, Igor Gómez, David Montiel-López

“…For the assessment of seismic effects on RC buildings, the real structural condition has to be modelled as accurately as possible. Medical facilities and hospitals have to resist seismic actions and remain operational after seismic events. …”
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Employing a low-code machine learning approach to predict in-hospital mortality and length of stay in patients with community-acquired pneumonia by Hao Chen, Shurui Zhang, Hiromi Matsumoto, Nanami Tsuchiya, Chihiro Yamada, Shunsuke Okasaki, Atsushi Miyasaka, Kentaro Yumoto, Daiki Kanou, Fumihiro Kashizaki, Harumi Koizumi, Kenichi Takahashi, Masato Shimizu, Nobuyuki Horita, Takeshi Kaneko

“…A retrospective study was conducted using a low-code platform and the PyCaret library in Google Colab on data from patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) admitted between January 2013 and December 2021 to two medical facilities. Model performance was assessed using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for mortality prediction and the R2 score for LOS prediction, with benchmarks set at AUC > 0.9 and R2 > 0.5. …”
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Prevalence and Determinants of Home Delivery among Women with Easy Access to Health Facilities in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Multi-level Mixed Effect Analysis by Berhan Tekeba, Alebachew Ferede Zegeye, Deresse Abebe Gebrehana, Tadesse Tarik Tamir

“…Conclusion: According to this study, a higher portion of women in sub-Saharan Africa who had easy access to medical facilities gave birth at home. The study’s findings demonstrated that factors at the individual and community levels influence home delivery with easy access to health facilities. …”
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October 7th Mass Casualty Attack in Israel: Injury Profiles of Hospitalized Casualties by Sharon Goldman, MPH, Ari M. Lipsky, MD, Irina Radimislensky, BSc, Adi Givon, BSc, Ofer Almog, MD, Avi Benov, MD, Israel Trauma Group, Eldad Katorza, MD, MSC, MBA, H. Bahouth, A. Bar, A. Braslavsky, D. Czeiger, D. Fadeev, A. L. Goldstein, I. Grevtsev, G. Hirschhorn, I. Jeroukhimov, A. Kedar, Y. Klein, A. Korin, B. Levit, I. Schrier, A. D. Schwarz, W. Shomar, D. Soffer, M. Weiss, O. Yaslowitz, I. Zoarets

“…Additionally, the huge demand for rehabilitation resources necessitated immediate reorganization and transformation of existing medical facilities to accommodate the many casualties requiring rehabilitation. …”
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Aseptic inflammation as the essential link in the pathogenesis of endometrioid disease by Yu.A. Orlova, A.M. Hromova, O.M. Ketova, T.Yu. Liakhovska, V.B. Martynenko, E.I. Krutikova

“…A prospective study was performed in gynecological units of the medical facilities of Poltava city. 140 women of reproductive age who made up the main group (110 women with endometrioid disease) and the control group (30 women without endometrioid disease) voluntarily participated in the study. …”
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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Healthcare Waste Valorisation Alternatives by Zlaugotne Beate, Zandberga Anda, Gusca Julija, Kalnins Silvija Nora

“…The aim of the research is to understand the environmental consequences and potential benefits of treated iHCW valorisation scenarios through the ‘gate-to-gate’ (from iHCW generation at medical facilities to end-of-life or recovery) life cycle assessment framework and to compare it with the existing practice – landfilling with functional unit 1 ton of treated iHCW and using ReCiPe 2016 (Midpoint, Hierarchist perspective) method. …”
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Trends in stroke-related mortality in atrial fibrillation patients in the United States: Insights from the CDC WONDER database by Muhammad Abdullah Naveed, Sivaram Neppala, Himaja Dutt Chigurupati, Muhammad Omer Rehan, Ahila Ali, Hamza Naveed, Bazil Azeem, Rabia Iqbal, Manahil Mubeen, Mashood Ahmed, Ayman R. Fath, Timir Paul, Bilal Munir

“…Deaths occurred predominantly in medical facilities (43.2 %). The overall AAMR for AF-associated stroke decreased from 7.4 in 1999 to 6.4 in 2020, with an APC of −1.02 (p-value = 0.004). …”
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Postpartum depression and associated factors among childbearing women from the recent Demographic and Health Survey data of Mozambique: Multilevel analysis by Mamaru Melkam, Bezawit Melak Fente, Yohannes Mekuria Negussie, Zufan Alamrie Asmare, Hiwot Altaye Asebe, Beminate Lemma Seifu, Alemayehu Kasu Gebrehana, Sintayehu Simie Tsega, Meklit Melaku Bezie, Angwach Abrham Asnake

“…Depression during childbirth can have several detrimental effects, including increased risk of complication and decreased satisfaction with birth, decreased trust in medical facilities, and decreased women's participation in maternity and newborn healthcare units.Therefore, this study amid to reveal the prevalence of postpartum depression and associated factors at individual and community levels among women who give birth in Mozambique's recent data Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). …”
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Outcomes and risk factors of transported patients with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: An ECMO center experience by Lingjuan Liu, Dingji Hu, Tong Hao, Shanshan Chen, Lei Chen, Yike Zhu, Chenhui Jin, Jing Wu, Haoya Fu, Haibo Qiu, Yi Yang, Songqiao Liu

“…Conclusion: Transporting patients on ECMO between medical facilities is a safe procedure that does not increase patient mortality rates, provided it is orchestrated and executed by proficient transport teams. …”
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Design of a Medical Clinic at Kabale University, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Applied Design and Fine Art. by Mugarura, Peter

“…This report is about the Design of a Medical Facility at the Engineering Faculty Kabale University Nyabikoni. …”
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An Evaluation of the Contribution of African Traditional Medicine to Healthcare Delivery: A Case Study of Selected Herbal Centres in Akuapem, Ghana by Henry Kwaku Adu-Offei, John Kwaku Opoku

“…With the use of a semi-structured interview guide, purposive and random sampling techniques were employed in this qualitative study to gather data from a well-established traditional medical facility as well as two native healers all in the Akuapem enclave of Ghana. …”
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Technical, social, psychological and ethical aspects of human-robot collaboration: a case study of the 'Robin Heart' medical robot by Małgorzata Suchacka, Mariusz Wojewoda, Zbigniew Nawrat, Artur Domurat, Angelika Magdalena Pabian

“…The first agent is a person working in a medical facility, functioning in various roles: robot creator, programmer, device owner, operator, robot trainer. …”
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Liraglutide Effect on Weight and A1C in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Real-World Data from a Single Tertiary Care Center in Saudi Arabia by Awadh AlRashidi, Rasha AlArfaj, Abdullah Al Ruqaib, Emad Masuadi, Munirah AlFaraj, Yousef Al-Saleh, Rakan AlEnezi, Moeber M Mahzari, Mohammed Z. Aljulifi

“…The present investigation was carried out at a medical facility located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. …”
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Patient satisfaction with Indonesian sharia hospital services: Halal healthcare tool and implications for loyalty-WoM by Muhammad Alfarizi, Rafialdo Arifian

“…However, there is resistance to the influence of the medical facility atmosphere on satisfaction caused by the concentration of patients in medical services and solving health problems. …”
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Sonochemically Modified Lapindo Mud Using Sulfuric Acid for Efficient Adsorption of Phenol in Aqueous Media and Real Wastewater Samples by Karna Wijaya, Adyatma Bhagaskara, Maria Francia Mirabella Sani, Marini Fairuz Vebryana, Fernando Alvaro Pratama, Widuri Anggraeni, Amalia Kurnia Amin, Faturrahman Al Ramadhani, Aldino Javier Saviola

“…Considering the large adsorption capacity and quick kinetic, the SLM adsorbent can be a promising cheap and green material to remove phenolic substances in wastewater, especially in the river near the medical facility. Copyright © 2024 by Authors, Published by BCREC Publishing Group. …”
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A rare case of Ewing's sarcoma in a 4-year-old child treated by tumor endoprosthetics using 3D printing by Vladimir Stavrev, Luben Stokov, Petko Ganev, Georgi Georgiev

“…Material and methods: In the present report, we present a 4-year-old boy diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma involving ¾ of the right tibia. In another medical facility, he was offered amputation. Our team decided to use the "3D printed tumor megaendoprosthesis, double growing, from the Czech company Prospon. …”
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Uncommon presentation of a chronic recurrent symptomatic encapsulated calcified postoperative paraspinal lumbar hematoma: A case report by Timothy Edwards, Shaan Sadhwani, Brendan Sweeney, Antonio Almeda-Lopez, Walter C Peppelman, William J Beutler

“…Four years later, the patient had a large paraspinal mass removed from a similar location in an outside medical facility. The procedure required the assistance of plastic surgery for flap closure and a pathologic review of the mass revealed a calcified hematoma. …”
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