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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... -
A web-based education program to encourage organ donation registration among ...
Background The gap between the supply and demand of organ donors is substantial, causing patients to suffer from long waiting times. Moreover, the lack of registrations places a... -
A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a support and training interve...
Background Secondary school teachers are at heightened risk of psychological distress, which can lead to poor work performance, poor quality teacher-student relationships and... -
Co-trimoxazole versus azithromycin for the treatment of undifferentiated febr...
Background Undifferentiated febrile illness (UFI) includes typhoid and typhus fevers and generally designates fever without any localizing signs. UFI is a great therapeutic... -
"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... -
Using Normalization Process Theory in feasibility studies and process evaluat...
Background: Normalization Process Theory (NPT) identifies, characterises and explains key mechanisms that promote and inhibit the implementation, embedding and integration of... -
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... -
Variation in population levels of physical activity in European children and ...
Background Regular physical activity is associated with physical, social and mental health benefits, whilst insufficient physical activity is associated with several negative... -
Crowd-figure-pictograms improve women’s knowledge about mammography screening...
Objective To evaluate the effect of crowd-figure-pictograms on women’s numeric knowledge about mammography screening in a three-armed parallel randomised controlled trial.... -
"Somatosensory abnormalities in Chinese patients with painful temporomandibul...
Background The somatosensory phenotype of Chinese temporomandibular disorders (TMD) patients is not sufficiently studied with the use of contemporary techniques and guidelines.... -
Associations of mutually exclusive categories of physical activity and sedent...
Background Both physical activity and sedentary behaviour have been individually associated with health, however, the extent to which the combination of these behaviours... -
Operative hysteroscopy versus vacuum aspiration for incomplete spontaneous ab...
Background Incomplete spontaneous abortions are defined by the intrauterine retention of the products of conception after their incomplete or partial expulsion. This condition... -
Effectiveness of the settings-based intervention Shaping the Social on preven...
Background Lack of formal education is an important social determinant of health inequality and represents a public health problem. School dropout is particularly common in... -
Bisphenol a increases risk for presumed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in ...
Background Bisphenol-A (BPA) is a ubiquitous chemical and recognized endocrine disruptor associated with obesity and related disorders. We explored the association between BPA... -
Combined cognitive and vocational interventions after mild to moderate trauma...
Background A considerable proportion of patients with mild to moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) experience long-lasting somatic, cognitive, and emotional... -
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Background In 2011, the UK physical activity guidelines were updated to include recommendations for muscle strengthening and balance & coordination (at least two sessions of... -
Defining a core outcome set for adolescent and young adult patients with a sp...
Background and purpose - Routine outcome measurement has been shown to improve performance in several fields of healthcare. National spine surgery registries have been initiated... -
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... -
Possible sexually dimorphic role of miRNA and other sncRNA in ASD brain
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is sexually dimorphic in brain structure, genetics, and behaviors. In studies of brain tissue, the age of the population is clearly a...
