Patients’ Perceptions and Satisfaction with the Outpatient Telemedicine Clinics during COVID-19 Era in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ashokkumar Thirunavukkarasu, Nasser Hanas Alotaibi, Ahmad Homoud Al-Hazmi, Mohammed Jayed Alenzi, Ziad Mansour Alshaalan, Mohammed Ghazi Alruwaili, Thamer Alshami Marghel Alruwaili, Hassan Alanazi, Turki Hanas Alosaimi

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A study on small-sized rental housing market for single or two-person households and strategies to enhance the supply in Korea by Lee, Jung Mi, S.M. j Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Comparison of range of commercial or primary care led weight reduction programmes with minimal intervention control for weight loss in obesity: lighten Up randomised controlled tri... by Jolly, K, Lewis, A, Beach, J, Denley, J, Adab, P, Deeks, J, Daley, A, Aveyard, P

“…CONCLUSIONS: Commercially provided weight management services are more effective and cheaper than primary care based services led by specially trained staff, which are ineffective. …”

Care standards for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the United Kingdom 2016: a cross-sectional survey by Sheridan, D, Aithal, G, Alazawi, W, Allison, M, Anstee, Q, Cobbold, J, Khan, S, Fowell, A, McPherson, S, Newsome, P, Oben, J, Tomlinson, J, Tsochatzis, E

“…A minority have direct access to community weight management services (22%).Follow-up was favoured by F3/4 fibrosis (72.9%), and high-risk non-invasive fibrosis tests (51%). …”

Overarching Priorities for Health and Care Research in the United Kingdom: A Coproduced Synthesis of James Lind Alliance ‘Top 10s’ by Crocker, JC, Moore, L, Ogden, M, Crowe, S, Khan, M, Schoemaker, C, Roy, NBA, Taylor, M, Gronlund, T, Bueser, T, Tatum, M, Davies, B, Finlay, T

“…We identified 89 overarching themes and subthemes, which we organised into a hierarchy with seven top‐level themes: quality of life, caregivers and families, causes and prevention, screening and diagnosis, treatment and management, services and systems and social influences and impacts. …”

Addressing childhood obesity in low-income, ethnically diverse families: outcomes and peer effects of MEND 7-13 when delivered at scale in US communities by Sacher, P, Kolotourou, M, Poupakis, S, Chadwick, P, Radley, D, Fagg, J

“…OBJECTIVES:Implementation of a large-scale, child weight management program in low-income, ethnically diverse communities provided an important opportunity to evaluate its effectiveness under service level conditions (i.e. provision as a primary care child weight management service). METHODS:MEND 7-13 is a community-based, multi-component, childhood obesity intervention designed to improve dietary, physical activity and sedentary behaviors. …”

Screening and brief intervention for obesity in primary care: cost-effectiveness analysis in the BWeL trial by Retat, L, Pimpin, L, Webber, L, Jaccard, A, Lewis, A, Tearne, S, Hood, K, Christian-Brown, A, Adab, P, Begh, R, Jolly, K, Daley, A, Farley, A, Lycett, D, Nickless, A, Yu, L-M, Jebb, S, Aveyard, P

“…<strong>Conclusions</strong> A brief intervention in which physicians opportunistically endorse, offer, and facilitate a referral to a behavioural weight management service to patients with a BMI of at least 30 kg/m2 reduces healthcare costs and improves health more than advising weight loss.…”

Towards digitalization: grant management system adoption by Ag. Piut, Dg. Aidah

“…This allows for a more systematic grant management system and introduces more efficient ways to offer grant management services. The proposed system was demonstrated through the development of a prototype, which was then used to gauge staff perceptions of its adoption via a user survey. …”
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Barriers and enabling factors in weight management of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A qualitative study using the COM‐B model of behaviour by Yunpeng Gu, Run Zhou, Tingting Kong, Wei Zhang, Yutong Chen, Chunmei Wang, Junping Shi, Yanli Hu

“…This has clinical implications for clinical healthcare providers and health management services for the improvement of education and support regarding lifestyle improvement and weight management in patients with NAFLD. …”
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How is a specialist depression service effective for persistent moderate to severe depressive disorder?: a qualitative study of service user experience by Louise Thomson, Marcus Barker, Catherine Kaylor-Hughes, Anne Garland, Rajini Ramana, Richard Morriss, Emily Hammond, Gail Hopkins, Sandra Simpson

“…Conclusions The study uncovered important mechanisms and contextual factors in the SDS that service users experience as different from TAU, and which may explain the greater effectiveness of the SDS: the technical expertise of the healthcare professionals, personal qualities of clinicians, teamwork, gradual pace of care, accessibility and managing service transitions. Usual care in other specialist mental health services may share many of the features from the SDS. …”
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Protocol for a phase III pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening and guidelines with, versus wit... by Tim Luckett, Jane Phillips, Meera Agar, Lawrence Lam, Patricia M. Davidson, Nicola McCaffrey, Frances Boyle, Tim Shaw, David C. Currow, Alison Read, Annmarie Hosie, Melanie Lovell

“…During the intervention arm, staff at each service will be encouraged to use: 1) a patient education booklet and self-management resource; 2) an online spaced learning cancer pain education module for clinicians from different disciplines; and 3) audit and feedback of service performance on key indices of cancer pain screening, assessment and management. Service-based clinical change champions will lead implementation of these strategies. …”
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Perceived quality of care for severe acute malnutrition management among caregivers of under-five children with severe acute malnutrition in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022: a mixed-me... by Bulcha Guye Adema, Niguse Tadele Atnafu, Feven Mulugeta Ashagre

“…Additionally, lack of support and attention from higher levels of management, and lack of supplements, separate units, and laboratory facilities were among the factors that impede the provision of quality care.DiscussionPerceived quality of SAM management services was low against the national goal of quality improvement to meet the expectations of both internal and external clients. …”
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Incorporating machine learning and social determinants of health indicators into prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments by Jeremy A. Irvin, Andrew A. Kondrich, Michael Ko, Pranav Rajpurkar, Behzad Haghgoo, Bruce E. Landon, Robert L. Phillips, Stephen Petterson, Andrew Y. Ng, Sanjay Basu

“…Abstract Background Risk adjustment models are employed to prevent adverse selection, anticipate budgetary reserve needs, and offer care management services to high-risk individuals. We aimed to address two unknowns about risk adjustment: whether machine learning (ML) and inclusion of social determinants of health (SDH) indicators improve prospective risk adjustment for health plan payments. …”
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A national survey of pharmacists and interns in Aotearoa New Zealand: provision and views of extended services in community pharmacies by Janet McDonald, Caroline Morris, Megan Pledger, Phoebe Dunn, Ausaga Fa’asalele Tanuvasa, Kirsten Smiler, Jacqueline Cumming

“…Just under a quarter could provide a Medicines Use Review (MUR) or Community Pharmacy Anticoagulation Management Service (CPAMS). Of the pharmacists not already accredited, 85% intended to gain accreditation to supply selected oral contraceptives, 40% to become vaccinators, 37% to offer CPAMS and 30% MUR. …”
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Nationwide, Operational Sentinel-1 Based InSAR Monitoring System in the Cloud for Strategic Water Facilities in Hungary by Levente Ronczyk, András Zelenka-Hegyi, Gábor Török, Zoltán Orbán, Marco Defilippi, István Péter Kovács, Dániel Márton Kovács, Péter Burai, Paolo Pasquali

“…Our article provides a comprehensive overview of a nationwide, dedicated, operational InSAR application, which was developed to support the operational work of the Hungarian Disaster Management Service (HDMS). The objective was to provide monthly monitoring of 63 water facilities, including 83 individual objects, distributed throughout Hungary, in combination with the development of a near real-time warning system. …”
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Determinants of technical inefficiency in solid waste collection service by L.A. Chamwali, A.J. Mzava, S. Watundu

“…To achieve this, in 2009, the Government of Tanzania privatized solid waste management services and enacted the Environmental Regulations Law. …”
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Implementation of a novel malaria management strategy based on self-testing and self-treatment in remote areas in the Amazon (Malakit): confronting a-priori assumptions with realit... by Muriel Suzanne Galindo, Yann Lambert, Louise Mutricy, Laure Garancher, Jane Bordalo Miller, José Hermenegildo Gomes, Alice Sanna, Cassio Peterka, Hedley Cairo, Helene Hiwat, Antoine Adenis, Mathieu Nacher, Martha Cecilia Suárez-Mutis, Stephen Vreden, Maylis Douine

“…Better articulation with existing malaria management services is recommended to ensure sustainability. …”
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Effectiveness and cost of integrating a pragmatic pathway for prescribing liraglutide 3.0 mg in obesity services (STRIVE study): study protocol of an open-label, real-world, random... by David Webb, Mike Lean, Werd Al-Najim, Barbara McGowan, Dimitris Papamargaritis, Jonathan Lim, James Crane, Carel le Roux, Donal O'Shea, John Wilding

“…IntroductionIn the UK and Ireland, severe and complex obesity is managed in specialist weight management services (SWMS), which provide multicomponent lifestyle interventions to support weight loss, and use of medication if available. …”
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Impact of Using the Intelligent Physical Health Measurement System on Active Aging: A Survey in Taiwan by Wen-Chou Chi, Wei-Chen Cheng, Ting-Hung Chen, Po-Jin Lin

“…Subjective norms had significant effects on participants’ perceived disease threat (β = 0.347, <i>p</i> < 0.001) and behavior intention of management service (β = 0.701, <i>p</i> < 0.001); furthermore, behavior intention had significant effects on their social participation for active aging (β = 0.430, <i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Fluctuations in warfarin dose response after heart valve surgery: implications for cardiac rehabilitation by Marco Ambrosetti, Walter Ageno, Alberto Calori, Sandro Ferrarese, Annalisa Barosi, Paolo Marchetti, Luciano Salvato, Andrea Sala

“…Giving the high risk of completing the hospitalization phase without a stable OAT in many patients, both cardiac surgeons and cardiologists should not miss the opportunity to improve patients education, and consider a direct track to anticoagulation management services after discharge.…”
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