General practitioners' perceptions of pharmacists working in general practice: a qualitative interview study. by Eoin Hurley, Tony Foley, Elaine Walsh, Stephen Byrne, Clara Heinrich, Kieran Dalton

“…Five TDF domains were found to be most relevant in affecting pharmacist integration: (1) ‘environmental context and resources’ (space, government funding, information technology, current workplace pressures, increasing patient complexity, indemnity, moves towards group practices); (2) ‘skills’ (GP mentors, practical in-service training, consultation skills development); (3) ‘social professional role and identity’ (role definition, clinical governance, pharmacist prescribing, medication review and monitoring); (4) ‘beliefs about consequences’ (patient safety, cost savings, workload); and (5) ‘knowledge’ (pharmacists as medication experts, lack of knowledge of pharmacist undergraduate training).Discussion: This is the first qualitative interview study to focus on exploring GPs' perceptions of pharmacists working in general practice outside of private practice settings. It has provided a deeper understanding of GPs' considerations regarding the integration of pharmacists into general practice. …”
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Quality of maternal healthcare and travel time influence birthing service utilisation in Ghanaian health facilities: a geographical analysis of routine health data by Andrew J Tatem, Zoe Matthews, Anthony Ofosu, Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Victor A Alegana, Jim A Wright

“…Routine birth data were spatially linked to quality care, service demand and travel time data.Setting 131 Health facilities (public, private and faith-based) in 33 districts in Eastern Region, Ghana.Participants Women who gave birth in health facilities in the Eastern Region, Ghana in 2017.Outcome measures The count of women giving birth, the quality of birthing care services and the geographic coverage of birthing care services.Results As travel time from women’s place of residence to the health facility increased up to two2 hours, the utilisation rate markedly decreased. …”
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Burn related injuries: a nationwide analysis of adult inter-facility transfers over a six-year period in the United States by Christopher S. Evans, Kimberly Hart, Wesley H. Self, Sayeh Nikpay, Callie M. Thompson, Michael J. Ward

“…Odds of transfer were increased for Medicare and self-pay patients (vs. private pay) but there was a significant interaction of sex and payer and the effect of insurance varied by sex. …”
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Impact of education on knowledge, attitudes, and practices for gestational toxoplasmosis by Stefany Velasco-Velásquez, Ana Sofía Orozco, Morgan Ramirez, Liliana Pachón, Maryi Juliana Hurtado-Gomez, Gloria Valois, Daniel Celis-Giraldo, Sara Sofia Cordero-López, Rima McLeod, Jorge Enrique Gómez-Marín

“…This took place in the public health clinic RedSalud and the private clinic Happy Maternity with a post-KAP survey after pregnancy. …”
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Iranian midwives’ lived experiences of providing continuous midwife-led intrapartum care: a qualitative study by Leila Amiri-Farahani, Maryam Gharacheh, Narges Sadeghzadeh, Hamid Peyravi, Sally Pezaro

“…Participants were midwives working in the labour wards of private and public hospitals in Iran. The data were purposefully collected in 2019 through in-depth, semi-structured, and face-to-face interviews with midwives (n = 10) aged between 26 and 55 years. …”
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Deep Transfer Learning for the Multilabel Classification of Chest X-ray Images by Guan-Hua Huang, Qi-Jia Fu, Ming-Zhang Gu, Nan-Han Lu, Kuo-Ying Liu, Tai-Been Chen

“…In this study, we used a private data set containing 1630 CXR images with disease labels; most of the images were disease-free, but the others contained multiple sites of abnormalities. …”
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A GIS-MCDM Method for Ranking Potential Station Locations in the Expansion of Bike-Sharing Systems by Mohammad Sadegh Bahadori, Alexandre B. Gonçalves, Filipe Moura

“…Bicycle-sharing systems (BSSs) are an effective solution to reduce private car usage in most cities and are an influential factor in encouraging citizens to shift to more sustainable transport modes. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with e-cigarette use among undergraduate students: a cross-sectional study by Leda Marília Fonseca Lucinda, Gabriela Almeida Mattos, Gabriela Ferreira Paticcié, Iara Ana Pinto Borges, Isabela Maciel Camarano, Thamyres Albuquerque Campos Belo Fagundes, Lucas Coutinho Orellana, Pedro Ivo Carmo Campos

“…Methods: This is a cross-sectional observational study, carried out with undergraduate students from two private colleges. The prevalence of the consumption of e-cigarettes, conventional cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana was evaluated. …”
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Designing a Policy Package to Achieve Sustainable Tourism Development in Iran by Manouchehr Ansari, Akbar Khalili

“…Paying attention to the issues mentioned by the participants and applying the policy package obtained in this research can help public and private managers and investors to preserve valuable natural resources, especially hot springs, and to develop the tourism industry.…”
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Parental obesity, health determinants, and cardiometabolic risk according to sleep duration in schoolchildren: analysis through structural equations by Caroline Brand, Vanilson Batista Lemes, Ana Paula Sehn, Cesar Agostinis-Sobrinho, Fernanda Henriquez-Maquehue, Emilio Jofré-Saldía, Paulina Ibacache-Saavedra, Claudio Farias-Valenzuela, Emilio Villa-González, Cézane Priscila Reuter

“…Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted on 3,973 children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years attending public and private schools in a city located in Southern Brazil. …”
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Regional disparity of HIV incidence and prevalence among men who have sex with men by D. N. Vergara-Ortega, H. López-Gatell, S. Bautista-Arredondo, A. Colchero, S. G. Sosa-Rubí, M. Morales-Vazquez, A. Herrera-Ortiz, M. Olamendi-Portugal, S. García-Cisneros, E. E. Sevilla-Reyes, M. Hernández-Avila, M. A. Sánchez-Alemán

“…Centre region, use of private clinics as health services, and having sex exclusively with men were associated with recent HIV infections. …”
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A 71-Year-Old Man From Ecuador With a History of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia and Lung Cavitation Associated With Triple Infection With , , and by Killen H. Briones-Claudett MD, MSc, Mónica H. Briones-Claudett MSc, MD, Francisco Javier Cordova Loor MD, MSc, Roger Alexander Murillo Vasconez MD, Carolina del Rosario Rivera Salas MD, Cynthia K. Bajaña Huilcapi MD, Domenica F. Estupinan Vargas MD, Stalin E. Rodriguez Garcia MD, Jaime Benitez Sólis MD, MSc, Killen H. Briones Zamora MS, Diana C. Briones Marquez MD, Michelle Grunauer MD, PhD

“…The patient with a history of high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes was admitted to our hospital from a private care center with a diagnosis of COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome. …”
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Vaping guidance and women's decision-making during pregnancy & postpartum by Greaves L, A.C. Brabete, N. Poole, E. Huber, J. Stinson

“…Some women dealt with ambivalence by vaping only in private, while alone, and at home or as a convenience. …”
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Associated Factors of the Need for Mechanical Ventilation Following Traumatic Injuries; a Registry-Based Study on 2,708 Cases in Iran by Zahra Ramezani, Vali Baigi, Mohammadreza Zafarghandi, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Reza Farahmand-Rad, Akram Zolfaghari Sadrabad, Seyed-Mohammad Piri, Mahgol Sadat Hassan Zadeh Tabatabaei, Khatereh Naghdi, Payman Salamati

“…The significant associated factors of need for MV based on the univariable analysis were age ≥ 65 years (p <0.001); penetrating trauma (p < 0.001) and falling (p = 0.01); private mode of transportation to ED (p < 0.001); site of injury (p < 0.001); heart rate ≥ 100/ minutes (p = 0.04); O2 saturation < 90 % on room air (p < 0.01); Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) < 13 (p< 0.001); and injury Severity Score (ISS) ≥ 9 (p< 0.001). …”
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Effect of paddy sourcing methods on the volume of rice milled by rice millers in Mwea, Kirinyaga county, Kenya by Apollo Uma, Dickson Okello, Florence Opondo

“…Rice millers access paddy through private traders, cooperatives, individual farmers, and village agents. …”
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Pain scoring systems in hospitalized horses with ocular disease by Dayna Jodzio, Sally DeNotta, Caryn Plummer, Chris Sanchez

“…We hypothesized that HGS and BPS would be associated with different clinical progressions. Animals Privately owned horses hospitalized for ocular disease between September 2018 and September 2020. …”
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Toothbrushing programme in Saudi Arabia ‘TOPS’: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial in kindergartens, Riyadh by D Conway, Alex D McMahon, Alastair Ross, Budur Almutairi, Mohammed Hattan, Fayyad Almogren

“…A priori subgroups of the region of Riyadh, school type (public, private), child sex and presence/absence of prior decay at baseline, will be analysed. …”
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Differences in risky sexual behaviors and HIV prevalence between men who have sex with men and transgender women in the Midwest Brazil. by Gabriela Alves Cesar, Bárbara Vieira do Lago, Tayana Serpa Ortiz Tanaka, Priscila Brunini Zanini, Larissa Melo Bandeira, Marco Antonio Moreira Puga, Fernanda Rodas Pires Fernandes, Clarice Souza Pinto, Lisie Souza Castro, Lívia Garcia Bertolacci-Rocha, Carlos Eurico Dos Santos Fernandes, Grazielli Rocha de Rezende, Ana Rita Coimbra Motta-Castro

“…Participants who were assigned male at birth, older than 18 years old and self-declared as MSM or TW were recruited from LGBT+ associations, as well as public (parks, square, streets, etc) and private [nightclubs, saunas, brothels, etc] places. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes & practices of healthcare professionals in hospitals towards the reporting of adverse drug reactions in Saudi Arabia: A multi-centre cross sectional study by Thamir M. AlShammari, Mohammed J. Almoslem

“…Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted between January and February of 2013 in nine tertiary care hospitals (governmental and private) that provide highly specialized medical services in Riyadh, Qassim, and the Eastern region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. …”
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Political Economy of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and control in Lebanon: identifying challenges and opportunities for policy change and care provision reforms by Ibrahim R. Bou-Orm, Giulia Loffreda, Karin Diaconu, Sophie Witter, Pol deVos

“…NCD care provision is twisted by powerful stakeholders towards a hospital-centred model with a powerful private sector. Stakeholders like the MOPH, UN agencies, and NGOs have been pushing towards changing the existing care model towards a primary care model. …”
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