Rogero-Blanco, Eloisa González-García, Vera García, Rodrigo Medina Muñoz-Molina, Pilar Machin-Hamalainen, Santiago López-Rodríguez, Juan A. López, Abellán Ramón, Francisco Apoita, Barranco de Quirós, Marta Bernardo
...
Published in
BMC Family Practice
BackgroundTo estimate the prevalence of symptoms and signs related to a COVID-19 case series confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for SARS-CoV-2. Risk factors and the associated use of health services will also be analysed.MethodsObservational, descriptive, retrospective case series study. The study was performed at two Primary Care Health ...
Wood, Angela Denholm, Rachel Hollings, Sam Cooper, Jennifer Ip, Samantha Walker, Venexia Denaxas, Spiros Akbari, Ashley Banerjee, Amitava Whiteley, William
...
Minian, Nadia Noormohamed, Aliya Lingam, Mathangee Zawertailo, Laurie Le Foll, Bernard Rehm, Jürgen Giesbrecht, Norman Samokhvalov, Andriy V. Baliunas, Dolly Selby, Peter
...
Published in
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
BackgroundRandomized trials of complex interventions are increasingly including qualitative components to further understand factors that contribute to their success. In this paper, we explore the experiences of health care practitioners in a province wide smoking cessation program (the Smoking Treatment for Ontario Patients program) who participat...
Bernabé-Ortiz, Antonio Zafra-Tanaka, Jessica H. Moscoso-Porras, Miguel Sampath, Rangarajan Vetter, Beatrice Miranda, J. Jaime Beran, David
Published in
Globalization and Health
A key component of any health system is the capacity to accurately diagnose individuals. One of the six building blocks of a health system as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) includes diagnostic tools. The WHO’s Noncommunicable Disease Global Action Plan includes addressing the lack of diagnostics for noncommunicable diseases, through...
da Conceição, Manoela Garcia Dias Emmerick, Isabel Cristina Martins Figueiró, Ana Claudia Luiza, Vera Lucia
Published in
BMC Health Services Research
Background This paper aims to describe the profile of oral cancer (OC) patients, their risk classification and identify the time between screening and treatment initiation in Rio de Janeiro Municipality. Method Data were obtained from the healthcare Regulation System (SISREG) regarding the period January 2013 to September 2015. Descriptive, bivaria...
Airaksinen, Marja Toivo, Terhi Jokinen, Lenita Savela, Eeva Parkkamäki, Stina Sandler, Charlotta Kalliomäki, Hanna Dimitrow, Maarit
Published in
Pharmacy Practice
Finland’s community pharmacy system provides an example of a privately-owned regulated system being proactively developed by the profession and its stakeholders. Community pharmacists have a legal duty to promote safe and rational medicine use in outpatient care. The development of professionally oriented practice has been nationally coordinated si...
Johnson, Emily M Possemato, Kyle
Published in
Psychological services
Mental health concerns are prevalent among primary care patients, but many do not utilize services for these conditions. This study aims to conduct a comprehensive assessment of barriers and facilitators to mental health care utilization among veteran primary care patients with common mental health concerns. We hypothesized that beliefs and knowled...
Martínez-Riera, José Ramón Gras-Nieto, Elvira
Published in
Enfermeria clinica
In Spain, Home Care as a fundamental tool of Primary Health Care, has had uneven development both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, although it initially played a relevant role in the control and monitoring of infected people and their families. However, at no time it was used the desirable community perspective and community participation t...
Vandervelde, Sara Scheepmans, Kristien Milisen, Koen van Achterberg, Theo Vlaeyen, Ellen Flamaing, Johan Dierckx de Casterlé, Bernadette
Published in
BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundA validated evidence-based guideline was developed to reduce physical restraint use in home care. However, the implementation of guidelines in home care is challenging. Therefore, this study aims to systematically develop and evaluate a multicomponent program for the implementation of the guideline for reducing the use of physical restrai...
Al Ghafri, Thamra Al Ajmi, Fatma Al Balushi, Lamya Kurup, Padma Mohan Al Ghamari, Aysha Al Balushi, Zainab Al Fahdi, Fatma Al Lawati, Huda Al Hashmi, Salwa Al Manji, Asim
...
Published in
Oman Medical Journal
Objectives As coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was pervading different parts of the world, little has been published regarding responses undertaken within primary health care (PHC) facilities in Arabian Gulf countries. This paper describes such responses from January to mid-April 2020 in PHC, including public health measures in Muscat, Oman. Methods ...
