Knowledge, attitude and practice of health care workers on solid medical waste management in two urban hospitals of Bangladesh: a mixed-method study by Md Tauhidul Islam, Md Abdur Rafi, Mohammad Jahid Hasan

“…A number of 138 healthcare professionals (29 doctors, 80 nurses and 29 cleaners) participated in the study. …”
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The Dual Innervation of the Gluteus Maximus Associated with Other Anatomical Variations of the Gluteal Region by Punnapa RAVITEJA, Mrudula CHANDRUPATLA, Alka V BHINGARDEO, Surraj SUSAI

“…The anatomical variations of the gluteal region are important to surgeons, physicians, anatomists, and nurses.…”
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Konsep Diri LANSIA di Panti Jompo by Yiyit Yentika

“…Based on the interview to these three elders that has been nursed in this dwelling, one elder says happy although living far away from the family and the brother feels grateful, 2 elders say that they feel sad and yearning of their family. …”
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Case Report: Diagnostic itinerary of a male case of juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus in Bouake by Aissata Doucoure Traore, Aissata Doucoure Traore, Joseph Kan Enock Koffi, Joseph Kan Enock Koffi, Christ Ziahy Reine Marie Koffi, Christ Ziahy Reine Marie Koffi, Konan Joe Clovis Yao, Konan Joe Clovis Yao, Jean Jacque Goua, Jean Jacque Goua, Ehaulier Soh Christian Kouakou, Ehaulier Soh Christian Kouakou, Weu Melanie Tia, Weu Melanie Tia, Felix Jean Claude Daboiko, Felix Jean Claude Daboiko

“…It is important to make the general public, as well as nurses and doctors, aware of the importance of early diagnosis for effective and efficient treatment.…”
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Analysis of a case of pilomatricoma in an adolescent after receiving recombinant hepatitis B vaccine (CHO cell) in Beijing of China by Li Li, Jingyi Xu, Dongkun Zhang, Jianlin Cai, Zhen Li, Xiaohui Zhang, Shuping Li

“…This suggests that the implementation process of vaccination should be standardized and that the injection site after vaccination should be nursed properly.…”
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Opioid Dependent and Pregnant: What Are the Best Options for Mothers and Neonates? by Annemarie Unger, Verena Metz, Gabriele Fischer

“…Ideally, early and closely monitored treatment in an interdisciplinary team approach including social workers, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, anesthesiologists, and pediatricians should be provided. …”
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The Socio-Cultural Effects of Banning Traditional Midwives from Attending Homebirth in Romania by Adina Hulubas

“…In hospitals, however, rituals are maintained under the intention of purifying nurses from unclean birth, while granny-midwife became a role, a character usually played by the mother of the woman in parturition. …”
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Real-time seizure detection in paediatric intensive care patients: the RESET child brain protocol by Kristen Gibbons, Andreas Schibler, Anthony Slater, Louise Sparkes, Michaela Waak, Stephen Malone, Jane Harnischfeger, Sandra Gurr

“…Trained bedside clinical nurses will interpret the QEEG. Seizure events will be marked as seizures if >3 QEEG criteria occur. …”
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Equity and efficiency of public health resource allocation in China by Minghua Zhou

“…Results The Theil index of public health resource allocation by population in China ranges from 0.006 to 0.049, and the Theil index contribution rate of the number of beds, health technicians, licensed (assistant) physicians, and registered nurses within region is less than 28.76%. The Theil index of public health resource allocation by geography in China ranges from 0.274 to 0.624, and the Theil index contribution rate of the number of institutions, the number of beds, health technicians, licensed (assistant) physicians, and registered nurses within region is more than 77.05%. …”
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Assessing the application of adapted theory of planned behaviour in predicting postpartum family planning intentions in a pragmatic randomized control trial in Western Kenya. by Morris Senghor Shisanya, Mary Kipmerewo, Everlyne Morema, Collins Ouma

“…Trained nurses and Community Health Workers (CHW) delivered counseling in their respective arms, while the control arm received routine care. …”
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Perceptions of healthcare professionals on the use of a risk prediction model to inform atrial fibrillation screening: qualitative interview study in English primary care by Chris Gale, Jianhua Wu, Ramesh Nadarajah, Catherine Reynolds, Ellen Hamilton, Lydia Shone

“…Data were thematically analysed and synthesised to understand barriers and facilitators to AF screening and guiding screening using risk assessment.Setting Five primary care practices in England taking part in the FIND-AF study.Participants 15 HCPs (doctors, nurses/nurse practitioners, healthcare assistants, receptionists and practice managers).Results Participants knew the health implications of AF and were supportive of the risk prediction models for AF screening. …”
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: The Secret World of Women as Seen by Men by Adriana Kaplan, Babucarr Cham, Lamin A. Njie, Ana Seixas, Sandra Blanco, Mireia Utzet

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A WeChat-Based Mobile Platform for Perioperative Health Education for Gastrointestinal Surgery by Ying Li, Xiao-hui Cheng, Wen-ting Xu, Li-ping Tan, Xiao-jun Gou

“…Here, we embedded health education information of the perioperative period for gastrointestinal surgery on a WeChat-based mobile platform and evaluated the platform through medical staff evaluation, patient volunteer evaluation, and quantitative grading rubric. Clinicians and nurses believed that the mobile platform was attractively designed and easy to navigate, valuable, and adequate for patient health education. …”
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Willingness to Adopt Telemedicine in Major Iraqi Hospitals: A Pilot Study by Mohd Khanapi Abd Ghani, Mustafa Musa Jaber

“…The Iraqi healthcare services are struggling to regain their lost momentum. Many physicians and nurses left Iraq because of the current situation in the country. …”
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Composer avec l’expectation actorielle dans la relation chercheur-acteurs by Julien de Miribel

“…It states a self-analysis of the researcher’s posture while he has to deal with an expectation expressed by some actors of the field, psychiatric nurse-tutors. The reaction to these expectations led him to take part in working days bringing together these tutors and to give them back some research data concerning them. …”
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Who calls the shots in Naomi's life? Reading the Naomi-Ruth story within the African religio-cultural context

“…Such a worldview, in which the Sacred Other, the living and the (living) dead formed an integral whole, can also be observed at critical points in Naomi’s life: when Naomi bid farewell to her daughters-in-law (Rt 1:8-9); Naomi’s confession about Yahweh’s faithfulness to both the living and the dead (Rt 2:20); Naomi’s plan to seek security for Ruth through “levirate” marriage (Rt 3:1), and when she acted as a nurse to Mahlon’s son (Rt 4:5, 16). Basing one’s arguments on the apparent resemblances between the world view in which the narrative of Ruth is embedded and the African (Northern Sotho) world view, how may it be far-fetched to argue that the dead (males) called the shots in Naomi’s life? …”
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A Hepatitis C Educational Needs Assessment of Canadian Healthcare Providers by Reza Naghdi, Karen Seto, Carolyn Klassen, Didi Emokpare, Brian Conway, Melissa Kelley, Eric Yoshida, Hemant A. Shah

“…Physicians most frequently screened patients who had abnormal liver enzymes, while nurses tended to screen based on lifestyle factors. …”
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A randomized controlled trial to study the efficacy of 1% vs. 2% lignocaine in topical airway anesthesia in routine bronchoscopy procedures by Danny Prasad, Prince James, Richa Gupta

“…The cough VAS scores evaluated by the bronchoscopist (31.4 vs. 34.5 [p − 0.116]), respiratory nurse (31.3 vs. 34.3 [p − 0.182]), and therapist (31.7 vs. 34.3 [p − 0.209]) were slightly higher in the 1% arm. …”
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Health professionals’ willingness to share responsibility and strengthen interprofessional collaboration: a cross-sectional survey by Sophie Karoline Brandt, Stefan Essig, Andreas Balthasar

“…Medical practice assistants (52.3%) and nurses (46.8%) were highly willing to relinquish responsibility, less so pharmacists (34.2%) and physiotherapists (37.8%); doctors were torn between high (49.2%) and neither high nor low willingness (38%). …”
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A pilot program to improve TB care with primary and specialty care coordination in TB public health clinic by P. Jadhav, G. Boudoin, R. Miles, S. Seymour, J. Parham, A. Wolfe, J. Ali

“…METHODS: Data collection involved categorizing patients based on their PC status: Group I (regular PC), Group II (intermittent PC), and Group III (no PC), with on-site Nurse Practitioner-based Bridge Care (NPBC) provided as needed. …”
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