Introduction Mental health issues among women in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), especially those living with HIV, pose a major public health challenge. Despite the established connections between HIV ...

Background Hospital readmissions are an important quality of care indicator and are tied to hospitals’ financial reimbursements. Safety-net hospitals, which serve a high proportion of patients of low ...

Original research: Is geographical variation in emergency epilepsy admissions related to variation in new epilepsy diagnoses among children and young people across England? An observational study ...

Objective This study aims to calculate the global warming potential, in carbon dioxide (CO 2) equivalent emissions, from all in-scope activities involved in phase 1, 2, 3 and 4 clinical trials ...

Objectives Changing terminology for low-risk, screen-detected conditions has now been recommended by several expert groups in order to prevent overdiagnosis and reduce the associated harms of ...

Participants Individuals prescribed antipsychotics between 2007 and 2011. Measures The proportion of individuals prescribed antipsychotics with a diagnosis of (1) psychosis and bipolar disorder, (2) ...

Objective To test the hypothesis that gouty arthritis (gout) is a risk factor for incidence of heart failure and for echocardiographic measures signifying subclinical heart failure. Design Post-hoc, ...

Objectives Improving the quality of care requires specific, comprehensive and continuous attention from the administration of a health system. However, information on evaluations of national and ...

1 Clinical Nursing Teaching and Research Section, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China 2 Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, China ...

Objective To compare maternal and neonatal birth outcomes and morbidities associated with the intention to give birth in a freestanding primary level midwife-led maternity unit (PMU) or tertiary level ...

Objective To develop expert consensus on the optimal testing pathway for oesophago-gastric (OG) cancer care. Methods and analysis The process followed a modified Delphi methodology to develop ...

1 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2 Faculty of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Objective We ...