Capacity of Ugandan public sector health facilities to prevent and control non-communicable diseases: an assessment based upon WHO-PEN standards by Hilary E. Rogers, Ann R. Akiteng, Gerald Mutungi, Adrienne S. Ettinger, Jeremy I. Schwartz

“…All facilities reported deficiencies in NCD screening and management services. Less than half of all RRH and GH had an automated blood pressure machine. …”
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Associations of depression with hypertension and citizenship among U.S. adults: A cross-sectional study of the interactions of hypertension and citizenship by Emmanuel A. Odame, Paul H. Atandoh, Lohuwa Mamudu, David Adzrago, Ishmael Tagoe, Saanie Sulley, Maureen Boms, Erasmus Tetteh-Bator, Timothy S. McNeel, Faustine Williams

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Impact of global health governance on country health systems: the case of HIV initiatives in Nigeria by Charles Chikodili Chima, Nuria Homedes

“…Semi–structured interviews were held with key informants selected to reach a broad range of stakeholders including policymakers, program managers, service providers, representatives of donor agencies and their implementing partners; the WHO country office in Nigeria; independent consultants; and civil society organizations involved in HIV work. …”
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Generic Services Model for the Automatic Improvement of Business Processes by Valentina Vera Paz, Anyi Aracely Ramírez Obando, Carlos Cobos Lozada

“…It also summarizes the implementation of the bottleneck management service to support decision-making in a simulated process, applying regression models to predict the performance of manual process activities based on delays and queue lengths. …”
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Non-communicable diseases prevention in remote areas of Vietnam: Limited roles of health education and community workers. by Hang Thi Le, Tuan Anh Le, Tuan Dang Mac, Dua Nhu Nguyen, Ha Ngoc Vu, Anh Thi Mai Truong, Anh Tran Quang Do, Hoai Thi Thu Bui, Huong Thi Thu Do, Anh Thi Hoang Nguyen, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Ngoc The Ngo, Tam Thi Ngo

“…Among locals having VHWs, health communication and education was the most common service provided (54.3%); however, only 30% received NCD management services. Participants who had other jobs were less likely to hear about diet-related messages (OR = 0.32; 95%CI = 0.11-0.92), and those ever smoking were more likely to hear these messages in the last 30 days (OR = 6.86; 95%CI = 1.06-44.51). …”
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Morbidity from in-hospital complications is greater than treatment failure in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia by Natasha E. Holmes, J. Owen Robinson, Sebastiaan J. van Hal, Wendy J. Munckhof, Eugene Athan, Tony M. Korman, Allen C. Cheng, John D. Turnidge, Paul D. R. Johnson, Benjamin P. Howden, VANESSA study group, on behalf of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) Clinical Research Network (CRN)

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Inhibitory Effects of Sesquiterpenoids Isolated from <i>Artemisia scoparia</i> on Adipogenic Differentiation of 3T3-L1 Preadipocytes by Jung Im Lee, Jung Hwan Oh, Fatih Karadeniz, Chang-Suk Kong, Youngwan Seo

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Prediction Score for Anticoagulation Control Quality Among Older Adults by Kueiyu Joshua Lin, Daniel E. Singer, Robert J. Glynn, Suzanne Blackley, Li Zhou, Jun Liu, Gina Dube, Lynn B. Oertel, Sebastian Schneeweiss

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HIV testing and ART initiation among partners, family members, and high-risk associates of index clients participating in the CommLink linkage case management program, Eswatini, 20... by Daniel Williams, Duncan MacKellar, Makhosazana Dlamini, Johnita Byrd, Lenhle Dube, Phumzile Mndzebele, Sikhathele Mazibuko, Trong Ao, Ishani Pathmanathan, Alysha Beyer, Caroline Ryan

“…Among 210 HIV-positive contacts aged ≥15 years who participated in CommLink, nearly all received recommended linkage services including treatment navigation (95%), weekly telephone follow-up (93%), and ≥3 counseling sessions (94%); peer counselors resolved 76% (306/404) of identified barriers to care (e.g., perceived wellness); and 200 (95%) initiated ART at a healthcare facility, of whom 196 (98%) received at least one antiretroviral refill before case-management services ended. To help countries achieve ≥90% ART coverage among all PLHIV, expanding ICT for adult family members and high-risk associates of index clients, and providing peer-delivered linkage case management for all identified PLHIV, should be considered.…”
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Serious cardiovascular adverse events with fluoroquinolones versus other antibiotics: A self‐controlled case series analysis by Sherrie L. Aspinall, Nathan P. Sylvain, Xinhua Zhao, Rongping Zhang, Diane Dong, Kelly Echevarria, Peter A. Glassman, Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Donald R. Miller, Francesca E. Cunningham

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Phosphate binder pill burden, adherence, and serum phosphorus control among hemodialysis patients converting to sucroferric oxyhydroxide by Gray K, Ficociello LH, Hunt AE, Mullon C, Brunelli SM

“…Among patients not using the LDO pharmacy&rsquo;s automated refill management service (N=30), mean phosphate binder MPR increased from 0.68 during baseline to 0.80 during follow-up (P=0.01). …”
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Development, implementation and user experience of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) dialysis dashboard by Michael J. Fischer, Wissam M. Kourany, Karen Sovern, Kurt Forrester, Cassandra Griffin, Nancy Lightner, Shawn Loftus, Katherine Murphy, Greg Roth, Paul M. Palevsky, Susan T. Crowley

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Maize yield reduction is more strongly related to soil moisture fluctuation than soil temperature change under biodegradable film vs plastic film mulching in a semi-arid region of... by Tao Yin, Zhipeng Yao, Changrong Yan, Qi Liu, Xiaodong Ding, Wenqing He

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Investigating Research Data Management Methods and Research Data Requirements in Information Science Researchers in Iran by Adel Soleimani Nezhad, Fariborz droudi, Farzaneh jahanshahi javaran

“…In terms of the need for research data sharing and management services, they all point to problems such as lack of data sharing, data loss, storage, dissemination and data security. …”
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Real-world safety of ulinastatin: a post-marketing surveillance of 11,252 patients in China by Jin Li, Meijun Li, Liren Li, Lin Ma, Ailin Cao, Aiping Wen, Wenge Chen, Lingling Li, Yan Liang, Jianxiong Deng

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The Swarm Archiving Payload Data Facility, an Instance Configuration of the ESA Multi-Mission Facility by B. Pruin, A. Martini, P. Shanmugam, C. Lopes

“…A noteworthy fact about the APDF is that the dissemination elements are hosted in a high bandwidth infrastructure procured as a managed service, thus affording users a considerable access bandwidth. …”
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A WOA-CNN-BiLSTM-based multi-feature classification prediction model for smart grid financial markets by Guofeng Ni, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Xiang Ni, Xiaomei Cheng, Xiangdong Meng

“…Experimental results show that our proposed CNN-BiLSTM model has better prediction accuracy than other models and can effectively deal with the problem of missing historical data in long-term sequence forecasting.Discussion: This provides necessary help for the development of smart grid financial markets and risk management services, and can promote the development and growth of the smart grid industry. …”
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Deep active learning for classifying cancer pathology reports by Kevin De Angeli, Shang Gao, Mohammed Alawad, Hong-Jun Yoon, Noah Schaefferkoetter, Xiao-Cheng Wu, Eric B. Durbin, Jennifer Doherty, Antoinette Stroup, Linda Coyle, Lynne Penberthy, Georgia Tourassi

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Sertraline as an adjunctive treatment for insomnia comorbid with other mental health disorders by K. Gandotra, G. Jaskiw, M. Fuller, P. Vaidya, A. Chiang, E. Konicki, K.P. Strohl

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Trends in hepatocellular carcinoma stage by racial/ethnic group in the United States, 1992–2019 by Christian S. Alvarez, Jennifer Ruhl, Gretchen Flynn, Barry I. Graubard, Katherine A. McGlynn

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