The impact of social isolation on delayed hospital discharges of older hip fracture patients and associated costs by Landeiro, F, Leal, J, Gray, A

“…Preventing delays could save between 11.2 and 30.7 % of total hospital costs for this patient group.Delayed discharges of older patients from acute care hospitals are a major challenge for administrative, humanitarian, and economic reasons. …”

COVID-19 pandemic impact on hypertension management in North East London: an observational cohort study using electronic health records by Rison, SCG, Redfern, O, Mathur, R, Dostal, I, Carvalho, C, Raisi-Estabragh, Z, Robson, JP

“…The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on primary care management of long-term conditions such as hypertension. …”

Determining optimal timing of birth for women with chronic or gestational hypertension at term: the WILL (When to Induce Labour to Limit risk in pregnancy hypertension) randomised... by Magee, LA, Kirkham, K, Tohill, S, Gkini, E, Moakes, CA, Dorling, J, Green, M, Hutcheon, JA, Javed, M, Kigozi, J, Mol, BWM, Singer, J, Hardy, P, Stubbs, C, Thornton, JG, von Dadelszen, P, WILL Trial Study Group

“…WILL randomised women with chronic or gestational hypertension at 36 to 37 weeks and a singleton fetus, and who provided documented informed consent to “Planned early term birth at 38+0–3 weeks” (intervention) or “usual care at term” (control). The coprimary outcomes were “poor maternal outcome” (composite of severe hypertension, maternal death, or maternal morbidity; superiority hypothesis) and “neonatal care unit admission for ≥4 hours” (noninferiority hypothesis). …”

Understanding non-traditional stroke outcomes that matter - poststroke depression, cognitive impairment, and sleep disturbance by Chan, Lai Gwen

“…Longer-term stroke outcomes may be modified by targeting sleep and social isolation and by integrating psychiatric care with routine stroke care during hospitalization. …”
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"Workhorses": exploring how internal medicine residents learn efficiency by Ting, J

“…Learning efficiency required residents to foster other-centeredness, focusing on actions that would help their team succeed in advancing patient care. Experience and effective feedback were essential for the development of efficiency.…”

Can social adversity and mental, physical and oral multimorbidity form a syndemic? A concept and protocol paper by Joury, E, Nakhleh, E, Beveridge, E, Tracy, D, Heidari, E, Shiers, D, Vereeken, S, Peckham, E, Gilbody, S, Das-Munshi, J, Fortune, F, Aggarwal, VR, Mishu, M, Firth, J, Bhui, K

“…Discussion: the syndemic conceptualisation provides a valuable framework to understand health and illness, and hence to better design and deliver effective and cost-effective preventative and curative integrated (syndemic) care to improve patient and population health. Such syndemic care aims to address the social determinants of health, whilst simultaneously managing all interlocked conditions.…”

Intelligent database design for microgrids in low voltage distribution systems-I GUI and database design by Ng, Pei Fen

“…Climatic change can lead to consequences such as increasing cases of heat-related illness, endangering wildlife like polar bears and rising of sea level that would trigger natural disasters leading to individual losing their homes. [51] Due to extensively use of electricity in this contemporary society, there arises a need to seek for alternative energy sources, if at all possible renewable resources such as wind and solar. …”
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Advancing healthcare with artificial intelligence: diagnostic accuracy of machine learning algorithm in diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy in the Brazilian population by dos Reis, Mateus A., Künas, Cristiano A., da Silva Araújo, Thiago, Schneiders, Josiane, de Azevedo, Pietro B., Nakayama, Luis F., Rados, Dimitris R. V., Umpierre, Roberto N., Berwanger, Otávio, Lavinsky, Daniel, Malerbi, Fernando K., Navaux, Philippe O. A., Schaan, Beatriz D.

“…Artificial intelligence has the potential to increase care delivery. Therefore, we trained and evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of a machine learning algorithm for automated detection of DR. …”
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The epidemiology of periportal fibrosis and relevance of current Schistosoma mansoni infection within the context of repeated mass drug administration: a population-based, cross-se... by Ajayi, S, Nabatte, B, Mpooya, S, Tinkitina, B, Opio, CK, Kabatereine, NB, Chami, G

“…By Kato-Katz microscopy, 1229 (43·4%) of 2834 participants were infected. 1863 (65·7%) of 2834 participants had trace positive point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen tests, which was higher than prevalence by Kato-Katz microscopy, and 1158 (40·9%) of 2834 participants had trace negative point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen tests. …”

Health Communication Research Measures / by Kim, Do Kyun, editor 655230, Dearing, James W., editor 655231, Peter Lang (Online service) 655232

“…The chapters emphasize constructs, scales, and up-to-date reports and evidence about key social science constructs and ways of measuring them, whether your interest is in patient-provider dyadic communication, uncertainty management, self-efficacy, disclosure, social norms, social support, risk perception, health care team performance, message design and effects, health and numerical literacy, communication satisfaction, social influence and persuasion, stigma, health campaigns, reactance, or other topics. …”
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Wearable bioadhesive ultrasound shear wave elastography by Liu, Hsiao-Chuan, Zeng, Yushun, Gong, Chen, Chen, Xiaoyu, Kijanka, Piotr, Zhang, Junhang, Genyk, Yuri, Tchelepi, Hisham, Wang, Chonghe, Zhou, Qifa, Zhao, Xuanhe

“…BAUS-E holds promise for clinical applications, particularly in patients after organ transplantation or postoperative care in the intensive care unit (ICU).…”
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Development of rehabilitative multimodal interactive pet robot for elderly residents by Sheba, Jaichandar Kulandaidaasan, Phuc, Le Tan, Salman, Adnan Ahmed, Kumar, Sampath, Elara, Mohan Rajesh, Martínez-García, Edgar

“…The ongoing development in robotics has enabled socially interactive robots (SIR) to contribute towards elderly care. Various studies on using therapeutic robots in health care for elderly people conducted for the last decade have indicated the effectiveness of these methods. …”
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Introduction: what this book is about and how we came to write it (Chapter 1 of the book 'Emotional labour in oral history: the hidden toll') by Harding, Jennifer, Calabria, Verusca

“…It evaluates recommendations from related disciplinary fields for ways of supporting researchers and considers how an ethics of care can be fostered in local research environments. …”
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Exploring the mechanisms of coordinated chick provisioning in the Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus by Gillies, N, Tyson, C, Wynn, J, Syposz, M, Vansteenberghe, C, Guilford, TC

“…Many species that provide care for their offspring in tandem with a partner coordinate their activities to maximise the efficiency of their investment. …”

Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Considerations Raised by Self-Reported Genital Mutilation Following Voluntary Cosmetic Labiaplasty by Metaxas, T, Earp, BD, Bader, D, Ghasemi, S, Solari, M, Abdulcadir, J

“…This feeling led these women to seek care at an outpatient clinic that receives migrants, refugees, second-generation, or naturalized patients originating mainly from African countries having experienced FGM/C. …”

Sleep and circadian difficulties in schizophrenia: presentations, understanding, and treatment by Freeman, D, Waite, F

“…It is common in mental health care to ask about people’s days but comparatively rare to ask about their nights. …”

The iHealth-T2D study, prevention of type 2 diabetes amongst South Asians with central obesity and prediabetes: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Khawaja, Khadija I., Ahmad, Sajjad, Siddiqui, Samreen, Shahzad, Khurram, Athauda, Lathika K., Jayawardena, Ranil, Mahmood, Sara, Muilwijk, Mirthe, Batool, Tayyaba, Burney, Saira, Glover, Matthew, Palaniswamy, Saranya, Bamunuarachchi, Vodathi, Panda, Manju, Madawanarachchi, Suren, Rai, Baldeesh, Sattar, Iqra, Silva, Wnurinham, Waghdhare, Swati, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Rannan-Eliya, Ravindra P., Gage, Heather M., van Valkengoed, Irene G. M., Valabhji, Jonathan, Frost, Gary S., Loh, Marie, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Kooner, Jaspal S., Katulanda, Prasad, Jha, Sujeet, Chambers, John C.

“…Usual care comprised a single 30-min session of lifestyle modification advice from the community health worker. …”
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Electrode modification by diazonium chemistry : studies on the effect of steric bulk on film thickness, and modified activated carbon cloths for energy storage by Subrata, Arnold

“…One key disadvantage of grafting by diazonium chemistry is the inherent tendency of the grafted film to bear multilayers of organic molecules, which is not desired in most applications requiring modified electrodes. …”
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Microbially induced calcite precipitation in residual soil improvement by Murtala Umar

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Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes : Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy / by Ivtzan, Itai, editor 656188, Taylor & Francis Group (Online service) 645650

“…The rapid growth of mindfulness in the Western world has given rise to an unprecedented wave of creative mindfulness programmes, offering tailor-made mindfulness practices for school teachers, students, parents, nurses, yoga teachers, athletes, pregnant women, therapists, care-takers, coaches, organisational leaders and lawyers. …”
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