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Rising population cost for treating people living with HIV in the UK, 1997-2013.
BACKGROUND\ud \ud The number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) is increasing in the UK. This study estimated the annual population cost of providing HIV services in the UK,... -
Systematic evaluation of the teaching qualities of Obstetrics and Gynecology ...
Background: The importance of effective clinical teaching for the quality of future patient care is globally understood. Due to recent changes in graduate medical education, new... -
A Place to Hide in the Home-Cage Decreases Yolk Androgen Levels and Offspring...
International audience; An animal's emotional responses are the result of its cognitive appraisal of a situation. This appraisal is notably influenced by the possibility of an... -
Privacy Attitudes among Early Adopters of Emerging Health Technologies
Introduction Advances in health technology such as genome sequencing and wearable sensors now allow for the collection of highly granular personal health data from individuals.... -
"Expanded HIV Testing in Low-Prevalence, High-Income Countries: A Cost-Effect...
Objective In many high-income countries with low HIV prevalence, significant numbers of persons living with HIV (PLHIV) remain undiagnosed. Identification of PLHIV via HIV... -
Development and differentiability of three brief interventions for risky alco...
Background While brief intervention (BI) for risky alcohol use generally yields positive effects among those identified by screening, effect sizes are small and there is... -
Publication pressure and burn out among Dutch medical professors: a nationwid...
BACKGROUND: Publication of scientific research papers is important for professionals working in academic medical centres. Quantitative measures of scientific output determine... -
"How much will I get charged for this?" Patient charges for top ten diagnoses...
Objectives We examined the charges, their variability, and respective payer group for diagnosis and treatment of the ten most common outpatient conditions presenting to the... -
Trends in alcohol use among young people according to the pattern of consumpt...
Aim To identify differences in Risky Consumption (RC) and Binge drinking (BD) trends in students who already followed these patterns of alcohol consumption on starting... -
Cilostazol induced migraine does not respond to sumatriptan in a double blind...
Background Cilostazol is an inhibitor of phosphodiesterase 3 and thus causes accumulation of cAMP. It induces migraine-like attacks in migraine patients. Whether the cilostazol... -
Validation of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy in Spanish medical stu...
Background The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy is the most widely used instrument to measure empathy in the doctor-patient relationship. This work pursued cultural... -
Mono, bi- and tri-exponential diffusion MRI modelling for renal solid masses ...
Purpose To compare diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM), and tri-exponential models of the diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signal for... -
Evaluation of the Tobacco-Use Prevention Education (TUPE) program in California
Author(s): McMenamin, Sara B; Cummins, Sharon E; Zhuang, Yue-Lin; Gamst, Anthony C; Ruiz, Carlos G; Mayoral, Antonio; Zhu, Shu-Hong | Abstract: BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The... -
Short Physical Performance Battery and all-cause mortality: systematic review...
Background The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) is a well-established tool to assess lower extremity physical performance status. Its predictive ability for all-cause... -
NIH Disease Funding Levels and Burden of Disease
BACKGROUND:An analysis of NIH funding in 1996 found that the strongest predictor of funding, disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), explained only 39% of the variance in... -
Efficacy of a New Educational Tool to Improve Handrubbing Technique amongst H...
INTRODUCTION: Hand hygiene is a key component of infection control in healthcare. WHO recommends that healthcare workers perform six specific poses during each hand hygiene... -
Patients Are Paying Too Much for Tuberculosis: A Direct Cost-Burden Evaluatio...
Paying for health care may exclude poor people. Burkina Faso adopted the DOTS strategy implementing "free care" for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment. This should... -
Defining Catastrophic Costs and Comparing Their Importance for Adverse Tuberc...
Tom Wingfield and colleagues investigate the relationship between catastrophic costs and tuberculosis outcomes for patients receiving free tuberculosis care in Peru. Please see... -
Men ask more questions than women at a scientific conference.
Gender inequity in science and academia, especially in senior positions, is a recognised problem. The reasons are poorly understood, but include the persistence of historical... -
Validity of Six Activity Monitors in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A...
Reduced physical activity is an important feature of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Various activity monitors are available but their validity is poorly...
