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Introduction of a standardised protocol, including systematic use of tranexam...
Abstract Background Bleeding is an important cause of death in trauma victims. In 2010, the CRASH-2 study, a multicentre randomized control trial on the effect of tranexamic... -
Complaint handling in healthcare: expectation gaps between physicians and the...
Background: Patients who submit complaints about the healthcare they have received are often dissatisfied with the response to their complaints. This is usually attributed to... -
A cluster randomized controlled trial of extending ART refill intervals to si...
Abstract Background The antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence club (AC) differentiated service delivery model, where clinically stable ART patients receive their ART refills... -
Typology of birth centres in the Netherlands using the Rainbow model of integ...
Abstract Background The goal of integrated care is to offer a continuum of care that crosses the boundaries of public health, primary, secondary, and tertiary care. Integrated... -
Concurrent use of prescription drugs and herbal medicinal products in older a...
Background: There has been a global increase in the use of herbal medicinal products (HMPs). About a quarter of UK adults use HMPs, bought over the counter by self-prescription... -
Outcome reporting in neonates experiencing withdrawal following opioid exposu...
Abstract Background Neonatal withdrawal secondary to in utero opioid exposure is a growing global concern stressing the psychosocial well-being of affected families and scarce... -
Clinical effect modifiers of antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic lo...
Abstract Background Randomised trials on antibiotic treatment for patients with chronic low back pain and vertebral endplate changes visible on MRI (Modic changes) have shown... -
Factors associated with health service utilisation for common mental disorder...
Abstract Background There is a large treatment gap for common mental disorders (CMD), with wide variation by world region. This review identifies factors associated with formal... -
Prevalence of non-communicable diseases and access to care among non-camp Syr...
Abstract Background Tackling the high non-communicable disease (NCD) burden among Syrian refugees poses a challenge to humanitarian actors and host countries. Current response... -
Health care professionals’ perspectives on barriers to treatment seeking for ...
Abstract Background Little/no research has been conducted in Uganda in particular and sub-Saharan Africa in general on the health professional’s perspectives on barriers to... -
A comparison of self-report and antiretroviral detection to inform estimates ...
Abstract Background Accurately identifying individuals who are on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important to determine ART coverage and proportion on ART who are virally... -
Trajectory modelling of ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Finland in 19...
Abstract Background Due to stagnating resources and an increase in staff workload, the quality of Finnish primary health care... -
Association of extracerebral organ failure with 1-year survival and healthcar...
Abstract Background Organ dysfunction is common after cardiac arrest and associated with worse short-term outcome, but its impact... -
The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Europe
Abstract Background While the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become increasingly popular in western societies, we do not understand why CAM use is more... -
Mapping staff perspectives towards the delivery of hospital care for children...
Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which... -
Predictors of fibromyalgia: a population-based twin cohort study
Abstract Background Fibromyalgia (FM) is a pain syndrome, the mechanisms and predictors of which are still unclear. We have... -
Progress towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals by age and gender in a rural area ...
Abstract Background The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has developed an ambitious strategy to end the AIDS epidemic. After eight years of antiretroviral... -
Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of research on the associa...
Abstract Background Existing evidence on the association between exposure to bullying and sleep is limited and inconclusive. The aims of this planned systematic review and... -
The effectiveness of shared decision-making followed by positive reinforcemen...
Abstract Background Although the recovery of patients suffering from low back pain is highly context dependent, patient preferences about treatment options are seldom... -
Intensive follow-up for women with breast cancer: review of clinical, economi...
Background: Women treated for breast cancer are followed-up for monitoring of treatment effectiveness and for detecting recurrences at an early stage. The type of follow-up...
