Pilot feasibility study to determine the utility of direct access and quantitative magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) in the assessment of suspected acute biliary o... by Novak, A, Acharya, A, Beer, S, Espinosa, A, Smith, GB, Saga, C, Andrews, J, Bailey, A, Soonawalla, Z, Bungay, H, Pavlides, M

“…Results: 27 participants were enrolled over 12 months, 15 to direct MRCP and 11 to standard care. One patient was excluded from analysis. Mean patient time to diagnostic report and mean per patient associated direct medical cost and mean cost to diagnosis for the direct MRCP and standard of care group was 2.53 days, £449.54, and £647 respectively for the direct MRCP group and 4.18 days costing £742.06 and £896 for standard care. …”

Nurses lived experiences on the nurse-patient relationship by Koo, Alvina Min En

“…This study examines the perspectives of Singaporean non-palliative care trained nurses (NPNs), working in local general hospitals, on their experiences in forming the nurse-patient relationship (NPR) with their patients. …”
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Examining the quality of life of elders in Singapore by Chee, Wai Ern

“…However, accessibility to quality food and private medical care proved challenging, particularly for low-income elderly individuals. …”
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Assisted child-minding based visual activity monitoring in a home camera surveillance system by Sruthi Inbavanan

“…In today’s fast-paced world, adults are having less and less time to stay home and take care of their children throughout a day. Child care is increasingly becoming a challenging task. …”
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Motivation & family caregivers of elderly individuals : exploring the relevance of filial piety & autonomy by Nur 'Atiqah Mohd Farhan

“…Individuals who provide care for their sick or frail family members are reported to be at risk of developing depression and other psychosomatic symptoms due to the burden of caregiving. …”
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Skindiary : mobile application for skin health by Wang, Zirui

“…Hairstyling, dressing or making up... people have thought out much to improve their appearance in various perspectives and care for skin is a significant one of them. Skin care is a range of practice or routine procedure to keep skin in a balanced condition, promote the health as well as prevent the external injury. …”
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Exploring and Exploiting Ribonuclease 1: from Protein Biochemistry to Protein Engineering by Wralstad, Evans Christian

“…Efforts to establish a zymogen directed toward the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are described in two parts of this thesis. …”
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Harvesting image databases from the Web by Schroff, F, Criminisi, A, Zisserman, A

“…Examples are given for a selection of animals (e.g. camels, sharks, penguins), vehicles (cars, airplanes, bikes) and other classes (guitar, wristwatch), totalling 18 classes. …”

Antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular profiles of acinetobacter baumannii in Makkah hospitals, and the potential use of bacteriophage as a treatment option by Raees, Fahad

“…Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic Gram-negative pathogen that frequently causes infections especially in intensive care settings worldwide including Saudi Arabia. …”
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Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients by Rigotti, NA, Clair, C, Munafo, MR, Stead, LF

“…A specific benefit for post‐discharge contact compared with usual care was found in a subset of trials in which all participants received a counselling intervention in the hospital and were randomly assigned to post‐discharge contact or usual care. …”

The neurological consequences of contracting COVID-19 by Aknin, LB, De Neve, JE, Dunn, EW, Fancourt, DE, Goldberg, E, Helliwell, JF, Jones, SP, Karam, E, Layard, R, Lyubomirsky, S, Rzepa, A, Saxena, S, Thornton, EM, VanderWeele, TJ, Whillans, AV, Zaki, J, Caman, O, Amor, YB

“…Since the first confirmed case in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has spread quickly, infecting 165 million people as of May 2021. …”

Sold To Be A Wife : ONLY A DETERMINED FOSTER CARER CAN STOP A TERRIFIED GIRL FROM BECOMING A CHILD BRIDE / by Hartley, Maggie, author 656233

“…Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. …”

Renewing Our Focus on Vulnerable Populations Among People Living with HIV by Ayieko, James, Thorp, Marguerite, Ghebremichael, Musie

“…What are the threats to care engagement for vulnerable people? And what health care system changes are needed to accommodate vulnerable people? …”
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Designing initiatives for vulnerable families : from theory to design in Sydney, Australia by Eastwood, John Graeme, De Souza, Denise E., Shaw, Miranda, Garg, Pankaj, Woolfenden, Susan, Tyler, Ingrid, Kemp, Lynn A.

“…Introduction: Intergenerational cycles of poverty, violence and crime, poor education and employment opportunities, psychopathology, and poor lifestyle and health behaviours require innovative models of health care delivery to break them. We describe a programme of research informed service development targeting vulnerable families in inner metropolitan Sydney, Australia that is designed to build and confirm a “Theory of Neighbourhood Context, Stress, Depression, and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)”. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to the initiation of injectable therapies for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a mixed methods study by de Lusignan, S, McGovern, A, Hinton, W, Whyte, M, Munro, N, Williams, ED, Marcu, A, Williams, J, Ferreira, F, Mount, J, Tripathy, M, Konstantara, E, Field, BCT, Feher, M

“…These skills should be concentrated in the hands of a small number of primary care providers to ensure they can maintain their skills.…”

Knowledge and attitude of traditional medicine among Staff Nurse In Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) by Affendy, Nur Aishah Eliza

“…The study underscores the importance of incorporating TM education into nursing curricula to foster a more holistic approach to patient care. Future research should focus on longitudinal studies to track changes over time and explore the impact of educational interventions on nurses' knowledge and attitudes towards traditional medicine.…”
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Why federated learning will do little to overcome the deeply embedded biases in clinical medicine by Sauer, Christopher Martin, Pucher, Gernot, Celi, Leo Anthony

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Inadequate social housing and health: the case of Oliver Bond House, in inner-city Dublin by Manzo, LKC, Grove, H

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> The results highlight the urgent need to place greater priority on the maintenance of the existing social housing stock and demonstrate the need for public housing policies that recognize the quality and quantity of adequate housing provision, where care is at the heart of housing policies. The paper also presents a novel ‘City of Care’ framework, following the need to develop an ethics of care within cities where public health, community wellbeing, solidarity, residents’ empowerment, and social justice principles are at the forefront. …”

Modelling and analysis of lubricated piston skirt-cylinder sub-systems in internal combustion engines by Amirun Rasyid Abu Bakar

“…As such, a with a good knowledge of all three variables together, which are modal operating crank velocities of the vehicle, dynamic viscosities of the lubricant and the clearance specifications of the car engine, will allow car owners to maximise the efficiency and performance of their machine.…”
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Improving outcomes in panic disorder and carer support in psychosis: a triad of studies on theory, practice and innovations by Aslam, SY

“…Once the changes were made, carers and care coordinators were approached again to evaluate them. …”