Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Versus Hospital-Acquired Sepsis in Acute Hospitals in Ireland, 2016–2022 by Emer M. Liddy, MSc, MPH, MRCPI, Doaa K. Amin, BSc, MPhil, Declan J. McKeown, MPH, Michael J. O’Dwyer, PhD, FCAI, FCICM, Akke Vellinga, PhD

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A national survey of neuropsychiatry training experiences by Harry Costello, Matthew Baum, Cameron Watson, James B. Badenoch, Ella Burchill, Jonathan P. Rogers, Rachel Thomasson, David Okai, Timothy R. Nicholson, Anthony David, Eileen M. Joyce, Michael Dilley, Graham Blackman

“…Insufficient access to clinical rotations was the most common barrier, with significantly better access in London compared with other regions. …”
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Menstrual management using hormonal medications in adolescents and young adults with developmental disability: a systematic review and a meta-analysis by Dehlia Moussaoui, Judith Laqua, Victoria L Crofts, Camille M Nemitz-Piguet, Anne-Chantal Héritier-Barras, Arnaud Merglen, Michal Yaron

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Challenges of healthcare financing in the world’s largest refugee camp: a mixed-method study among healthcare stakeholders for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by Isabel Smith, Imdadul Haque Talukdar, Sayeeda Tarannum, M A Rifat, Priyanka Boga, Jubayer Mumin, Pablo André Veronés, Ziba Mahdi, Syeda Saima Alam, Arif Faysal Khan

“…Financial documents (available online) and reports from respective coordinating agencies were also reviewed.Setting Online key informant interviews (KIIs) were conducted from Stockholm with participants residing in Bangladesh between June 2022 and September 2022.Participants Eight KIIs were conducted with professional health programme managers, executives and personnel involved in policy coordination and implementation in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh.Results We identified four themes and three subthemes outlining key challenges in healthcare funding, including decreasing funds (supported by a quantitative assessment) due to macroglobal issues, conflicting short-term and long-term priorities between implementing partners, insufficient efficacy due to challenges with collaborative priority-setting and implementing common processes, and a lack of consensus regarding equity between host and refugee communities.Conclusions The study identified unique challenges beyond the commonly discussed health financing issues in a resource-deficient setting: stakeholders’ conflicting priorities regarding funding and undecided equity issues among the host and refugee communities are worth scholarly and policy focus. …”
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Psycho-Socio-Economic Issues Challenging Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis Patients: A Systematic Review. by Beena Elizabeth Thomas, Poonguzhali Shanmugam, Muniyandi Malaisamy, Senthanro Ovung, Chandra Suresh, Ramnath Subbaraman, Srividya Adinarayanan, Karikalan Nagarajan

“…Depression, stigma, discrimination, side effects of the drugs causing psychological distress, and the financial constraints due to MDR-TB were some of the common issues reported in the studies. There were few intervention studies which addressed these psychosocial issues most of which were small pilot studies. …”
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The Makings of a Good Law School? by Michael Trebilcock

“…On moving to the McGill Law School in Montreal in 1969, I encountered my first full-blown law school, with perhaps 25 full-time members of faculty and a full-time student body and national programmes offering degrees in both common and civil law, as well as a significant full-time graduate programme. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of Dysmenorrhea, Its Effect, and Coping Mechanisms among Adolescents in Shai Osudoku District, Ghana by Kwabena Acheampong, Dorothy Baffour-Awuah, Daniel Ganu, Stalla Appiah, Xionfeng Pan, Atipatsa Kaminga, Aizhong Liu

“…Dysmenorrhea has been the most common gynecological problem worldwide. Reports of dysmenorrhea are greatest among individuals in their late teens and 20s and usually declining with age. …”
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Sociodemographic, clinical, and other serological profile of opioid-dependent intravenous drug users infected with hepatitis C virus: A cross-sectional study by Piyush Mahajan, Malvika Dahuja, Manjit Singh, Medi Nagapadma, M Ramasubba Reddy

“…Introduction: As per the 2023 National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Control Programme report, there are 8.5 lakh intravenous drug users (IDUs) in India, although the figures have varied greatly from the year 2009 to 2023. …”
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Twenty-four years of prescription patterns in bipolar disorder inpatients with vs without lithium: a pharmacoepidemiological analysis of 8,707 cases in German-speaking countries by Waldemar Greil, Mateo de Bardeci, Nadja Nievergelt, Andreas Erfurth, Gregor Hasler, Rene Bridler, Sermin Toto, Renate Grohmann, Johanna Seifert, Georgios Schoretsanitis

“…Methods We examined drug use data provided by the Drug Safety in Psychiatry Programme AMSP (German: “Arzneimittelsicherheit in der Psychiatrie”), including psychiatric hospitals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …”
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Factors contributing to the implementation of interventions to prevent and manage intensive care unit delirium: a systematic review protocol by Roxanne M Parslow, Andrew Booth, Maria Pufulete, Andrew J Moore, Ben Gibbison, Burak Kundakci, Katherine Louise Jones

“…Introduction Delirium is a common and serious condition that frequently affects patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). …”
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Assessing the prevalence of non-communicable diseases and their modifiable risk factors in primary healthcare: retrospective analysis of annual health screening in the United Arab... by Hayfa Hamad Al Ali, Aisha Suhail, Micha Gerard Constant Bouts, Fatima Al Meleh, Kareemah Al Raeesi

“…High CVR was especially common among people with diabetes. A large majority of participants had one or more modifiable risk factors. …”
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Assessment of the Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown Dietary Diversity among Urban Households in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria by Solomon Taiwo Folorunso, Ruth Alabi, Omolola Stephen-Adamu, Godfrey Onuwa

“…Cereals, legumes/grains, oils/fat, roots and tubers, sugar and honey and meats were the most common food consumed by the households daily before and after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. …”
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Simvastatin suppresses spinal cord metastasis of medulloblastoma at clinically significant doses by Charley Comer, Kian Cotton, Christopher Edwards, Xiaoyang Dai, Sara Badodi, Roberto Buccafusca, Chris Bennett, Andrew Peet, Alice Williams, David Michod, Elena Bochukova, Maria Victoria Niklison-Chirou

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Characterization of insecticide resistance mechanisms in the Anopheles gambiae population of Sierra Leone by Kevin Ochieng’ Opondo, Evelyne Alyko, Samuel Smith, Rebecca Levine, Jenny Donnelly, Tony Hughes, David Schnabel, Ramlat Jose, Alpha Jalloh, Umaru Lolleh, Samuel Conteh, Laurent Iyikirenga, Djenam Jacob, Miriam Mokuena, Frederick Yamba, Yemane Yihdego

“…The Sierra Leone National Malaria Control Programme, in collaboration with the PMI VectorLink project, assessed the resistance status to insecticides commonly used in public health, and associated resistance mechanisms in Anopheles gambiae, the main vector of malaria in Sierra Leone. …”
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Concurrentievermogen van Brussel in het Europees onderzoek by Nicola Francesco Dotti, André Spithoven, Bas van Heur

“…What is the place of Brussels in the European research geography? Brussels is commonly recognised as the EU capital, but mainly for its political and administrative functions. …”
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High prevalence of vector-borne protozoa and bacteria in dogs from Chad determined using a targeted next-generation sequencing approach by Ian Kirimi Daniel, Hassan Hakimi, Rafael A. N. Ramos, Jobin J. Kattoor, Rebecca P. Wilkes, Richard Ngandolo Bongo Nare, Philip Tchindebet Oaukou, Sidouin K. Metinou, Meriam N. Saleh, Lucienne Tritten, Rebecca Garabed, Guilherme G. Verocai

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An updated inventory of genes essential for oxidative phosphorylation identifies a mitochondrial origin in familial Ménière’s disease by Marcell Harhai, Mads M. Foged, Christine Zarges, Juan C. Landoni, Sylvain Chollet, Michele Simonelli, Emeline Recazens, Miriam Lisci, Nora Laban, Suliana Manley, Jan Riemer, Jose Antonio Lopez-Escamez, Anna Lysakowski, Alexis A. Jourdain

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The intersection of Interprofessional Education and One Health: A qualitative study in human and veterinary medical institutions by Claire Tucker, Jake Keyel, Amy Blue, Ruthanne Chun, Amara Estrada, Hossein Khalili, Anuja Riles, Rohini Roopnarine, Brian Sick, Sue VandeWoude, Brittany Watson, Lauren Wisnieski, Tracy Webb

“…IPE is common at human medical institutions, while One Health is more common in graduate and veterinary programs. …”
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Sleep Quality and Insomnia Prevalence Among a Saudi Population: A Descriptive Study by Senitan M, BinDhim NF, Althumiri NA

“…Additionally, insomnia was more common in certain groups, including people with lower income or those reporting other health issues.This study highlights the need for targeted health programs to address sleep quality and suggests that improving sleep health in the population could benefit overall well-being. …”
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Perceived Barriers to Leisure-Time Physical Activity Among Physically Active Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury by Paul K. Watson, BAppSci, Laura Stendell, MPhysio, Camila Quel De Oliveira, PhD, James W. Middleton, MBBS, PhD, Mohit Arora, PhD, Glen M. Davis, PhD

“…Results: Health problems, costs of equipment and programs, pain, and a lack of energy were the most common capability barriers, and a lack of accessible facilities, confidence in the knowledge and skill of a health professional, and a lack of time were common opportunity barriers. …”
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