Altwies, Eden E Zinsli, Kaitlin A Chwastiak, Lydia Tsui, Judith I Bhatraju, Elenore P Ramchandani, Meena S Golden, Matthew R Dombrowski, Julia C
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AIDS and behavior
Low-barrier care is one model of a differentiated service delivery approach for people with HIV (PWH) who are not engaged in conventionally-organized HIV care. Although psychiatric and substance use disorders are common among patients in low-barrier clinics, approaches to behavioral health service delivery within this context have not been well-des...
Alves, Ronaldo Fernandes Santos Boccolini, Cristiano Siqueira Baroni, Lais Ribeiro Boccolini, Patricia de Moraes Mello
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BMC Research Notes
Objectives Primary health care builds the backbone of an effective healthcare system and can improve population health, reduce cost growth, and lessen inequality. We offer a machine-readable and open-access dataset on primary health care coverage in Brazil from 1998 to 2020. This dataset is interoperable with epidemiological data from two major stu...
Ding, Hanyue Huang, Junjie Deng, Yunyang Tin, Sze Pui Pamela Wong, Martin Chi-Sang Yeoh, Eng-Kiong
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BMJ open
To perform a systematic review on the characteristics of participants who attended screening programmes with blood glucose tests, lipid profiles or a combination of them, respectively. Systematic review following the Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology checklist. PubMed and Medline databases for English literature from 1 January ...
Cavalcante, João Roberto Proença, Raquel Cano, Ignacio Trajman, Anete Faerstein, Eduardo
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Revista de Saúde Pública
OBJECTIVE To analyze the sociodemographic profile and self-reported health conditions of asylum-seekers in Rio de Janeiro. METHODS A cross-sectional study of secondary data, collected from asylum claims forms completed in 2016 and 2017, at Cáritas Arquidiocesana do Rio de Janeiro (Cáritas-RJ). Descriptive analyses were performed and absolute and re...
Olaya Pontificia, Lina Becerra Javesalud, Nelci Cuevas, Virginia Almonacid, Ingrid Olejua, Peter Alba, Luz Helena
Introduction: Smoking cessation interventions are a priority in medical care settings, including hospitals. Objectives: To describe the sociodemographic, family, and clinical characteristics of smokers treated in a quaternary care hospital and to establish the variables associated with smoking cessation intention in order to optimize the management...
Albújar Castillo, Mariana Arroyo Sánchez, Abel Salvador
Objective: To determine the level of knowledge of organ donation (LKD) in tenth-semester Human Medicine students and its relationship with some sociodemographic variables. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional survey study conducted with 121 students from a Peruvian university. A questionnaire consisting of five sociodemographic characteristics ...
Zhou, Yue Li, Feng Li, Rui Peng, Yuan He, Mei Sun, Fengjun Yang, Ming
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Medical Science Monitor : International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research
Background Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is one of the most common opportunistic neuroinfections in patients with HIV. Most studies have focused on non-HIV CM and there are only a few studies on HIV CM in China. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the characteristics and risk factors for CM recurrence in patients infected with HIV in th...
Kranjcic, Josip Hunt, David Persic Kirsic, Sanja Kovacic, Ines Vuksic, Josip Vojvodic, Denis
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Acta Stomatologica Croatica
Objectives This study was performed to determine the values of the articular eminence inclination (AEI), the articular eminence height (AEH), and the length of the articular eminence curved line (AEL) among American prehistoric and contemporary populations. Materials and methods The study was carried out on 120 human dry skulls divided into 4 group...
Parums, Dinah V
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Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research
Infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) commonly presents with pneumonia. However, COVID-19 is now recognized to involve multiple organ systems with varying severity and duration. In July 2021, the findings from a retrospective population study from the National COV...
Xu, Mingfang Chen, Wei Wang, Dong Nie, Mao
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Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research
BACKGROUND The incidence of osteoclast-like giant cell tumor of the pancreas (OGTP) is very low, and relatively little OGTP clinical data is available. The present study, therefore, sought to conduct a more comprehensive analysis of the clinical characteristics and prognosis of OGTP. MATERIAL AND METHODS A large population-based cohort analysis was...
