Xu, Julia Z. Foe, Meghan Tanongsaksakul, Wilaslak Suksangpleng, Thidarat Ekwattanakit, Supachai Riolueang, Suchada Telen, Marilyn J. Kaiser, Bonnie N. Viprakasit, Vip
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BMC Public Health
Background Thalassemia is a common inherited hemoglobin disorder in Southeast Asia. Severe thalassemia can lead to significant morbidity for patients and economic strain for under-resourced health systems. Thailand’s thalassemia prevention and control program has successfully utilized prenatal screening and diagnosis to reduce the incidence of seve...
Lyerla, Ryan Johnson-Rabbett, Brianna Shakally, Almoutaz Magar, Rekha Alameddine, Hind Fish, Lisa
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Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
AimsDiabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is an emergency with high morbidity and mortality. This study examined patient factors associated with hospitalization for recurrent DKA.MethodsCharacteristics of 265 subjects admitted for DKA at Hennepin County Medical Center between January 2017 and January 2019 were retrospectively analyzed. Differences between su...
Archibald, Laura Kooistra Ascha, Mustafa S Bordeaux, Jeremy S
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Archives of dermatological research
In-office skin exams are recommended at least annually for patients who are diagnosed with a basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma, but it is unknown what proportion of these patients are receiving skin exams. There are a multitude of reasons why patients have difficulty getting skin exams. To assess the proportion of patients at our inst...
Steiner, Timothy J. Jensen, Rigmor Katsarava, Zaza Stovner, Lars Jacob Uluduz, Derya Adarmouch, Latifa Al Jumah, Mohammed Al Khathaami, Ali M. Ashina, Messoud Braschinsky, Mark
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The Journal of Headache and Pain
In countries where headache services exist at all, their focus is usually on specialist (tertiary) care. This is clinically and economically inappropriate: most headache disorders can effectively and more efficiently (and at lower cost) be treated in educationally supported primary care. At the same time, compartmentalizing divisions between primar...
Fonner, Virginia A Geurkink, David Chiwanga, Faraja Amiri, Ismail Likindikoki, Samuel
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AIDS and behavior
Decentralization of HIV care across sub-Saharan Africa has increased access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Although traveling for care has traditionally been viewed as a barrier, some individuals may choose to travel for care due to stigma and fear of HIV status disclosure. We sought to understand the prevalence of traveling long distances for H...
Hall, Allyson G Karabukayeva, Aizhan Rainey, Carmen Kelly, Reena J Patterson, Jonathan Wade, Jamie Feldman, Sue S
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Disability and health journal
Persons living with traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) face challenges when returning to their communities. The Spain Rehabilitation Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is developing a continuum of care for SCI patients. The perspectives of individuals with SCI are critical to designing a person-centered approach to the continuum. Thi...
Kroll, David S Wrenn, Karen Grimaldi, John A Campbell, Lorna Irwin, Lisa Pires, Maria Dattilo, Natalie Schechter, Julia Levy-Carrick, Nomi Gitlin, David F
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Community mental health journal
The authors sought to determine whether providing a rapid-access ambulatory psychiatry encounter correlated with emergency department utilization during a 6-month follow-up period. Electronic medical records of patients who accessed ambulatory psychiatric care through an urgent care psychiatry clinic that offers treatment exclusively on a walk-in b...
Busby, Danielle R Zheng, Kai Eisenberg, Daniel Albucher, Ronald C Favorite, Todd Coryell, William Pistorello, Jacqueline King, Cheryl A
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Journal of American college health : J of ACH
To examine differences between Black students who do and do not screen positive for suicide risk; to describe barriers to mental health service utilization (MHSU) among participants with a positive screen and no current MHSU and; to determine if barriers vary by student characteristics. Participants: 1,559 Black students (66% female), ages 18 years...
Olsson, Sara Hensing, Gunnel Burström, Bo Löve, Jesper
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Community mental health journal
This cross-sectional study investigated if gender, education, and country of birth were associated with perceived need and unmet need for mental healthcare (i.e., refraining from seeking care, or perceiving care as insufficient when seeking it). Questionnaire and register data from 2008 were collected for 3987 individuals, aged 19-64 years, in a ra...
van Niekerk, Lindi Manderson, Lenore Balabanova, Dina
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty
BackgroundSocial innovation has been applied increasingly to achieve social goals, including improved healthcare delivery, despite a lack of conceptual clarity and consensus on its definition. Beyond its tangible artefacts to address societal and structural needs, social innovation can best be understood as innovation in social relations, in power ...
