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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... -
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... -
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Manipulation of the microbiome is an emerging approach to promote health. We conducted a Phase Ia safety study of a single bladder instillation of probiotics in asymptomatic... -
Comparative efficacy between atorvastatin and rosuvastatin in the prevention ...
© 2019 The Author(s). Background: There is no randomized clinical trials with recurrence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) as a major outcome with rosuvastatin.... -
Risk perception of blood transfusions – a comparison of patients and allied h...
Background: Due to an increasing demand in health care services plans to substitute selective physician-conducted medical activities have become attractive. Because... -
Emergence delirium in children is not related to intraoperative burst suppres...
Abstract Background Emergence-delirium is the most frequent brain dysfunction in children recovering from general anaesthesia, though the pathophysiological background remains... -
A workplace intervention to reduce alcohol and drug consumption: a nonrandomi...
Abstract Background The consumption of alcohol and other drugs causes social and health problems in industrialized societies. Furthermore, alcohol and drug consumption in the... -
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... -
The relationship between living arrangements and higher use of hospital care ...
Abstract Background Previous research has shown that certain living arrangements, such as living alone, are... -
Implementing the skilled birth attendance strategy in Uganda: A policy analysis
Abstract Background Uganda, a low resource country, implemented the skilled attendance at birth strategy, to meet a key target of the 5th Millenium Development Goal (MDG), 75%... -
A transcriptomic snapshot of early molecular communication between Pasteuria ...
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Occurrence of marked sepsis-induced immunosuppression in pediatric septic sho...
Abstract Background While the process of sepsis-induced immunosuppression is now well described in adults, very little information is available on immune functions in pediatric... -
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... -
Adaptation, modification, and psychometric assessment of a Norwegian version ...
Background: To our knowledge, no instrument has been developed and tested for measuring unfinished care in Norwegian nursing home settings. The Basel Extent of Rationing of... -
Determinants of the quality of care relationships in long-term care: a partic...
Background: The quality of the care relationship between a client and a professional is important in long-term care, as most clients depend on support for a lengthy period. The... -
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...
