Arnadottir, Solveig A. Jonsson, Brynjolfur Gauti
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundThe Icelandic population is aging like other populations in the world, the life expectancy is high, and the national focus is to help people to age in their own homes. The objectives of this research was to describe 17 years of demographic changes among outpatient physical therapy (OPT) clients and to determine if these changes reflect ag...
Frohman, Elliot M Villemarette-Pittman, Nicole R Rodriguez, Adriana Glanzman, Robert Rugheimer, Sarah Komogortsev, Oleg Zamvil, Scott S Cruz, Roberto Alejandro Varkey, Thomas C Frohman, Ashley N
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The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated individuals, families, and institutions throughout the world. Despite the breakneck speed of vaccine development, the human population remains at risk of further devastation. The decision to not become vaccinated, the protracted rollout of available vaccine, vaccine failure, mutational forms of the SARS virus, w...
Sim, Yi C. Mohd-Rosli, Intan S. Lau, Boon T. Ng, Siew Y.
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Pharmacy Practice
Background: Patient satisfaction is one of the essential indicators for assessing the quality of healthcare services being delivered, including pharmacy ambulatory care service, as it determines the practicability and sustainability of the service provided. As such, pharmaceutical care services provided during medication therapy adherence clinic (M...
Fumagalli, Alessia Misuraca, Clementina Riva, Sonia Soraci, Luca Fabbietti, Paolo Di Rosa, Mirko Corsonello, Andrea Lattanzio, Fabrizia Colombo, Daniele
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Aging clinical and experimental research
Executive abilities are frequently impaired in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We aimed at investigating the association between trail making test (TMT) and survival. Our series consisted of 68 stable COPD outpatients followed-up every 6 months for 52.6 ± 27.6 months. Enrolled patients underwent a baseline comprehensive ...
Farrell, Eric Smyth, David
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European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
Purpose The use of single use plastic items and plastic wrapping has increased over the last number of decades. Outside of the medical field there has been a conscious drive to reduce single use plastic and reuse items to reduce the amount of waste we produce. We undertook this investigation to quantify our plastic waste production and generate ide...
Abdu-Aguye, Samirah N. Mohammed, Shafiu Danjuma, Nuhu M. Labaran, Kamilu S.
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Pharmacy Practice
Background: Despite the importance of medication counselling for patients, it is common knowledge that it is often sub-optimally carried out by pharmacy staff. While some interventions have been designed to help improve counselling, no study till date has used the Capability Opportunity and Motivation behavior model (COM-B) or Theoretical Domains F...
WANG, Xiao-qi CHEN, Mei-jun YUN, Qing-ping SUN, Si-wei WANG, Xi-kai SHI, Yu-hui JI, Ying GUAN, Zhong-jun CHANG, Chun
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Journal of Peking University (Health Sciences)
目的 探究中国门诊患者的健康素养与就医体验之间的关联，分析其具体的影响机制。 方法 以安德森医疗卫生服务利用行为模型和健康素养技能模型为理论依据，构建患者层面的就医体验影响因素理论框架。采用滚雪球抽样法，通过线上电子问卷调查，利用自行设计的患者健康素养量表和北京协和医学院开发的中国门诊患者体验量表，评估门诊患者的健康素养和就医体验，构建结构方程模型探究两者之间的关系。 结果 最终纳入门诊患者2 773名，健康素养总得分的平均值为(90.72±12.90)分，就医体验综合评价的平均分为(3.71±0.74)分。结构方程模型分析结果表明，门诊患者的健康素养对其就医体验的综合评价产生积极影响，健康素养每提升一个标准差，就医体验增加0.275个单位。在就医体验的不同维度上，健康素养对就医体验总效应的...
Yordanov, Youri Dinh, Aurélien Bleibtreu, Alexandre Mensch, Arthur Lescure, François-Xavier Debuc, Erwan Jourdain, Patrick Jaulmes, Luc Dechartres, Agnes
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Clinical Microbiology and Infection
Objectives Studies on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have mainly focused on hospitalized patients or those with severe disease. We aim to assess the clinical characteristics, outcomes and factors associated with hospital admission or death in adult outpatients with COVID-19. Methods This is a prospective cohort of outpatients with suspected or...
Linhares, Daniela Fonseca, João A. Ribeiro da Silva, Manuel Conceição, Filipe Sousa, António Sousa-Pinto, Bernardo Neves, Nuno
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
BackgroundMicrodiscectomy is the most commonly performed spine surgery and the first transitioning for outpatient settings. However, this transition was never studied, in what comes to cost-utility assessment. Accordingly, this economic study aims to access the cost-effectiveness of outpatient lumbar microdiscectomy when compared with the inpatient...
Varsi, Cecilie Stenehjem, Aud-Eldrid Børøsund, Elin Solberg Nes, Lise
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BMC Nephrology
BackgroundRenal transplant recipients have to see a nephrologist for regular follow-up for the rest of their lives. To reduce the burden for the patients, video consultation can be an alternative to traditional in-person hospital consultations. The aim of the current study was, from the perspectives of patients and health care providers, to investi...
