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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38510518/factors-associated-with-poor-sleep-quality-among-primary-healthcare-workers-during-the-sars-cov-2-pandemic
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jorge I Zurutuza, Liliana Ovando-Diego, Marco A Lezama-Prieto, Jaime Morales-Romero, Montserrat A Melgarejo-Gutierrez, Christian S Ortiz-Chacha
INTRODUCTION: Sleep is one of the most important activities for health and the processes related to the central nervous system. Healthcare workers commonly present alterations in the sleep-wake cycle due to complex work schedules because 24-hour attention to the population is required in public health institutions. The increase in care needs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic caused changes in work schedules; as in Mexico, the number of patients requiring consultation in all public health units increased...
March 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38508649/decentralising-chronic-disease-management-in-sub-saharan-africa-a-protocol-for-the-qualitative-process-evaluation-of-community-based-integrated-management-of-hiv-diabetes-and-hypertension-in-tanzania-and-uganda
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marie-Claire Van Hout, Mathias Akugizibwe, Elizabeth Henry Shayo, Moreen Namulundu, Francis Xavier Kasujja, Ivan Namakoola, Josephine Birungi, Joseph Okebe, Jamie Murdoch, Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga, Shabbar Jaffar
INTRODUCTION: Sub-Saharan Africa continues to experience a syndemic of HIV and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Vertical (stand-alone) HIV programming has provided high-quality care in the region, with almost 80% of people living with HIV in regular care and 90% virally suppressed. While integrated health education and concurrent management of HIV, hypertension and diabetes are being scaled up in clinics, innovative, more efficient and cost-effective interventions that include decentralisation into the community are required to respond to the increased burden of comorbid HIV/NCD disease...
March 20, 2024: BMJ Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38508618/-evol-ution-of-the-data-and-methods-in-real-world-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-studies-on-mortality-a-sc-oping-r-eview-protocol
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paulina Stehlik, Caroline Dowsett, Ximena Camacho, Michael O Falster, Renly Lim, Sharifa Nasreen, Nicole L Pratt, Sallie-Anne Pearson, David Henry
BACKGROUND: Early evidence on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy came from randomised trials. Many important questions subsequently about vaccine effectiveness (VE) have been addressed using real-world studies (RWS) and have informed most vaccination policies globally. As the questions about VE have evolved during the pandemic so have data, study design, and analytical choices. This scoping review aims to characterise this evolution and provide insights for future pandemic planning-specifically, what kinds of questions are asked at different stages of a pandemic, and what data infrastructure and methods are used? METHODS AND ANALYSIS: We will identify relevant studies in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health VIEW-hub database, which curates both published and preprint VE RWS identified from PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, the WHO COVID Database, MMWR, Eurosurveillance, medRxiv, bioRxiv, SSRN, Europe PMC, Research Square, Knowledge Hub, and Google...
March 19, 2024: BMJ Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38505847/advancements-in-predictive-medicine-nlrp3-inflammasome-inhibitors-and-ai-driven-predictive-health-analytics
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EDITORIAL
Robert B Kargbo
Recent advancements in predictive medicine are significantly reshaping the field, primarily through developing novel NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors and applying AI-driven predictive health analytics. NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors offer new therapeutic strategies for treating inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. Concurrently, AI's role in predictive health analytics marks a transformative shift in disease management and personalized healthcare. By analyzing complex biomarker data, AI provides crucial insights into individual health trajectories, enabling early interventions and customized treatment plans...
March 14, 2024: ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38504918/development-and-implementation-of-a-high-fidelity-simulation-training-course-for-medical-and-nursing-collaboration-based-on-the-fink-integrated-course-design-model
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Meng-Han Jiang, Li-Wen Dou, Bo Dong, Man Zhang, Yue-Ping Li, Cui-Xia Lin
AIM: The purpose of this study is to examine the design and implementation of a high-fidelity simulation training course for medical and nursing collaboration, based on the Fink integrated course design model. Additionally, the study aims to validate the teaching effectiveness of the course. BACKGROUND: Previous empirical studies have highlighted the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare education in institutional teaching and hospital training. However, the development of healthcare collaborative education in China has been slow to develop in China...
2024: Frontiers in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38502884/enhanced-interstitial-fluid-extraction-and-rapid-analysis-via-vacuum-tube-integrated-microneedle-array-device
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuanting Xie, Jinhua He, Wenqing He, Tayyaba Iftikhar, Chuangjie Zhang, Lei Su, Xueji Zhang
Advancing the development of point-of-care testing (POCT) sensors that utilize interstitial fluid (ISF) presents considerable obstacles in terms of rapid sampling and analysis. Herein, an innovative strategy is introduced that involves the use of a 3D-printed, hollow microneedle array patch (MAP), in tandem with a vacuum tube (VT) connected through a hose, to improve ISF extraction efficiency and facilitate expedited analysis. The employment of negative pressure by the VT allows the MAP device to effectively gather ≈18 µL of ISF from the dermis of a live rabbit ear within a concise period of 5 min...
March 19, 2024: Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38501447/the-wells-riley-model-revisited-randomness-heterogeneity-and-transient-behaviours
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexander J Edwards, Marco-Felipe King, Catherine J Noakes, Daniel Peckham, Martín López-García
The Wells-Riley model has been widely used to estimate airborne infection risk, typically from a deterministic point of view (i.e., focusing on the average number of infections) or in terms of a per capita probability of infection. Some of its main limitations relate to considering well-mixed air, steady-state concentration of pathogen in the air, a particular amount of time for the indoor interaction, and that all individuals are homogeneous and behave equally. Here, we revisit the Wells-Riley model, providing a mathematical formalism for its stochastic version, where the number of infected individuals follows a Binomial distribution...
March 19, 2024: Risk Analysis: An Official Publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38499424/flexible-microfluidic-colorimetric-detection-chip-integrated-with-abts-%C3%A2-and-co-mno-2-nanozyme-catalyzed-tmb-reaction-systems-for-bio-enzyme-free-detection-of-sweat-uric-acid
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fang Li, Jianming Jiang, Nuotong Shen, Hao Peng, Yi Luo, Nannan Li, Liyang Huang, Yuyang Lu, Lifu Liu, Bing Li, Jianbo He
BACKGROUND: The development of wearable detection devices that can achieve noninvasive, on-site and real-time monitoring of sweat metabolites is of great demand and practical significance for point-of-care testing and healthcare monitoring. Monitoring uric acid (UA) content in sweat provides a simple and promising way to reduce the risk of gout and hyperuricemia. Traditional bioenzyme based UA assays suffer from high cost, poor stability, inconvenience for storage and easy deactivation of bioenzymes...
April 22, 2024: Analytica Chimica Acta
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38498800/what-are-the-perceptions-of-recipients-of-allogeneic-hematopoietic-stem-cell-transplant-about-medication-adherence-a-synthesis-of-qualitative-studies
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chiara Visintini, Irene Mansutti, Alvisa Palese
BACKGROUND: Recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) may encounter difficulties in adhering to their post-transplant medication as prescribed to avoid complications. Despite the relevance of patients' perspectives to inform the clinical practice, to date, no summary regarding their lived experience of oral medication adherence (MA) has been produced. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the lived experience of MA by recipients of allogeneic HSCT as documented in qualitative studies...
March 18, 2024: Cancer Nursing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38496081/breath-of-change-evaluating-asthma-information-on-tiktok-and-introducing-the-video-health-information-credibility-score
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bilal Irfan, Ihsaan Yasin, Aneela Yaqoob
Introduction Asthma's global prevalence underscores the need for accessible health information dissemination, especially in the digital age. TikTok, known for its wide reach and diverse content, presents both opportunities and challenges in health information dissemination. This study aims to characterize the quality and reach of asthma-related content on TikTok and introduces the Video Health Information Credibility Score (VHICS) as a novel tool for quality assessment. Materials and methods We used a systematic methodology to analyze the top 100 TikTok videos by the number of likes tagged with #asthma...
February 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38495823/language-model-and-its-interpretability-in-biomedicine-a-scoping-review
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REVIEW
Daoming Lyu, Xingbo Wang, Yong Chen, Fei Wang
With advancements in large language models, artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing a paradigm shift where AI models can be repurposed with minimal effort across various downstream tasks. This provides great promise in learning generally useful representations from biomedical corpora, at scale, which would empower AI solutions in healthcare and biomedical research. Nonetheless, our understanding of how they work, when they fail, and what they are capable of remains underexplored due to their emergent properties...
April 19, 2024: IScience
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38495364/disease-modifying-therapy-initiation-patterns-in-multiple-sclerosis-in-three-large-ms-populations
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexander Stahmann, Elaine Craig, David Ellenberger, Firas Fneish, Niklas Frahm, Ruth Ann Marrie, Rod Middleton, Richard Nicholas, Jeff Rodgers, Clemens Warnke, Amber Salter
BACKGROUND: Treatment guidelines recommend early disease-modifying therapy (DMT) initiation after diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). Multinational comparative studies that assess time to DMT initiation in MS may allow detection of barriers inherent to healthcare systems to explain potential adverse systematic delays in commencing DMTs. OBJECTIVES: To investigate and compare the time to first DMT and its association with sociodemographic and clinical variables after MS diagnosis in three large MS registries...
2024: Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38494149/deception-by-obfuscation-studnicki-et-al-s-retracted-longitudinal-cohort-study-of-emergency-room-utilization-following-abortion
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ushma D Upadhyay, Chris E Adkins
OBJECTIVE: In November 2022, the anti-abortion advocacy group, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration challenging the initial 2000 approval of mifepristone and its subsequent approvals, which removed unnecessary restrictions on its use, by disputing the medication's safety record. Such challenges relied on a study examining the incidence of emergency room (ER) visits following medication abortion with mifepristone and procedural abortion using Medicaid claims data from 1999-2015...
March 15, 2024: Contraception
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493945/external-quality-assurance-in-the-era-of-standardization
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REVIEW
Theodorsson Elvar, Meijer Piet, Badrick Tony
Metrology in clinical chemistry aims to ensure the equivalence of measurement results from different in-vitro diagnostic measurement devices (IVD MD) for use in healthcare. The metrological traceability of measurement results to higher-order references is the cornerstone to achieving equivalent results. However, other fundamentals are also needed, including the commutability of reference materials and external quality assessment (EQA) materials for monitoring the equivalence of measurement results at the end-user level...
March 15, 2024: Clinica Chimica Acta; International Journal of Clinical Chemistry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493680/using-simulation-modelling-to-transform-hospital-planning-and-management-to-address-health-inequalities
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eren Demir, Usame Yakutcan, Stephen Page
Health inequalities are a perennial concern for policymakers and in service delivery to ensure fair and equitable access and outcomes. As health inequalities are socially influenced by employment, income, and education, this impacts healthcare services among socio-economically disadvantaged groups, making it a pertinent area for investigation in seeking to promote equitable access. Researchers widely acknowledge that health equity is a multi-faceted problem requiring approaches to understand the complexity and interconnections in hospital planning as a precursor to healthcare delivery...
March 14, 2024: Social Science & Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493087/clinical-virtual-simulation-predictors-of-user-acceptance-in-nursing-education
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
José Miguel Padilha, Patrício Costa, Paulino Sousa, Ana Ferreira
BACKGROUND: Using virtual patients integrated in simulators expands students' training opportunities in healthcare. However, little is known about the usability perceived by students and the factors/determinants that predict the acceptance and use of clinical virtual simulation in nursing education. OBJECTIVES: To identify the factors/determinants that predict the acceptance and use of clinical virtual simulation in learning in nursing education. METHODS: Observational, cross-sectional, analytical study of the use of clinical virtual simulation in nursing to answer the research question: What factors/determinants predict the acceptance and use of a clinical virtual simulator in nursing education? We used a non-probabilistic sampling, more specifically a convenience sample of nursing degree students...
March 16, 2024: BMC Medical Education
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38491298/current-data-processing-methods-and-reporting-standards-for-untargeted-analysis-of-volatile-organic-compounds-using-direct-mass-spectrometry-a-systematic-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
K Rosenthal, M R Lindley, M A Turner, E Ratcliffe, E Hunsicker
INTRODUCTION: Untargeted direct mass spectrometric analysis of volatile organic compounds has many potential applications across fields such as healthcare and food safety. However, robust data processing protocols must be employed to ensure that research is replicable and practical applications can be realised. User-friendly data processing and statistical tools are becoming increasingly available; however, the use of these tools have neither been analysed, nor are they necessarily suited for every data type...
March 16, 2024: Metabolomics: Official Journal of the Metabolomic Society
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38491174/transforming-post-pandemic-cancer-services
#38
REVIEW
Thomas Round, Lakshman Sethuraman, Mark Ashworth, Arnie Purushotham
This paper outlines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer services in the UK including screening, symptomatic diagnosis, treatment pathways and projections on clinical outcomes as a result of these care disruptions. A restoration of cancer services to pre-pandemic levels is not likely to mitigate this adverse impact, particularly with an ageing population and increased cancer burden. New cancer cases are projected to rise to over 500,000 per year by 2035, with over 4 million people living with and beyond cancer...
March 15, 2024: British Journal of Cancer
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38491130/exploring-trajectories-of-functional-decline-and-recovery-among-older-adults-a-data-driven-approach
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ghazal Khalili, Manaf Zargoush, Kai Huang, Somayeh Ghazalbash
Independently performing activities of daily living (ADLs) is vital for maintaining one's quality of life. Losing this ability can significantly impact an individual's overall health status, including their mental health and social well-being. Aging is an important factor contributing to the loss of ADL abilities, and our study focuses on investigating the trajectories of functional decline and recovery in older adults. Employing trajectory analytics methodologies, this research delves into the intricate dynamics of ADL pathways, unveiling their complexity, diversity, and inherent characteristics...
March 15, 2024: Scientific Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38487056/increased-prevalence-of-adverse-health-outcomes-across-the-lifespan-in-those-affected-by-polycystic-ovary-syndrome-a-canadian-population-cohort
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Donna Vine, Mahua Ghosh, Ting Wang, Jeffrey Bakal
BACKGROUND: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common metabolic-endocrine disorder impacting the health and quality of life of women over the lifespan. Evidence-based data on the scope of adverse health outcomes in those affected by PCOS is critical to improve healthcare and quality of life in this population. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of adverse health outcomes in those with PCOS compared to age-matched controls. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective observational case-control study in those diagnosed with PCOS and age-matched controls using the Alberta Health Services Health Analytics database and the International Classification of Diseases, for the period from 2002-2018 in Alberta, Canada...
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