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Identifying the content of home-based health behaviour change interventions f...
Background: Meeting the needs of the growing number of older people is a challenge for health and social care services. Home-based interventions aiming to modify health-related... -
The efficacy of varenicline in achieving abstinence among waterpipe tobacco s...
Abstract Background Waterpipe tobacco smoking has increased among youth across the globe including in the US, and it continues as a common and traditional form of smoking... -
Combined interventions to reduce HIV incidence in KwaZulu-Natal: a modelling ...
Abstract Background Combined prevention interventions, including early antiretroviral therapy initiation, may substantially reduce HIV incidence in hyperendemic settings. Our... -
CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ALLERGY
textabstractBackground: In all societies, the burden and cost of allergic and chronic respiratory diseases are increasing rapidly. Most economies are struggling to deliver... -
Prioritising pathogens for the management of severe febrile patients to impro...
Abstract Background Severe febrile illness without a known source (SFWS) is a challenge for clinicians when deciding how to manage a patient, particularly given the wide... -
Self-monitoring of health data by patients with a chronic disease: does disea...
Background: There is a growing emphasis on self-monitoring applications that allow patients to measure their own physical health parameters. A prerequisite for achieving... -
Substitution of care for chronic heart failure from the hospital to the gener...
Background: Shifting care from the secondary to the primary system may present an opportunity to ensure that the increasing number of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF)... -
Effects of oncological care pathways in primary and secondary care on patient...
Abstract Background The high impact of a cancer diagnosis on patients and their families and the increasing costs of cancer treatment call for optimal and efficient oncological... -
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... -
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... -
Effect of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment on clinical outcomes in i...
Background: The clinical utility of serum procalcitonin levels in guiding antibiotic treatment decisions in patients with sepsis remains unclear. This patient-level... -
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... -
Expressive writing as a therapeutic intervention for people with advanced dis...
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Determinants of HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention needs among African m...
Background: Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa (MisSA) are a relevant sub-group for HIV-transmission in Germany. A total of 10-15 % of all newly diagnosed cases are MisSA, and... -
Negligible risk of inducing resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with sin...
Abstract Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for leprosy is administered as one single dose of rifampicin (SDR) to the contacts of newly diagnosed leprosy patients. SDR reduces the... -
ショウジョウバエ野外集団におけるコアプロモーター配列変異によって生じる発現量変化への自然選択
Abstract Background Understanding the evolutionary forces that influence variation in gene regulatory regions in natural populations is an important challenge for evolutionary... -
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Increased vaccine hesitancy presents challenges to public health and undermines efforts to eradicate diseases such as measles, rubella, and polio. The decline is partly... -
Characteristics of human encounters and social mixing patterns relevant to in...
Abstract Background Quantification of human interactions relevant to infectious disease transmission through social contact is central to predict disease dynamics, yet data from... -
Efficacy of imidacloprid 10%/moxidectin 1% spot-on formulation (Advocate®) in...
Abstract Background In three randomized, controlled laboratory efficacy studies, the efficacy in the prevention of patent infections of a topical combination of imidacloprid... -
Infection control link nurses in acute care hospitals: a scoping review
Abstract Background Involving link nurses in infection prevention and control is a strategy to improve clinical practice that has been implemented in hospitals worldwide....
