Academic Articles & Research Papers

Hiperentorno como medio de enseñanza del proceso atención de enfermería a pacientes con afecciones osteomioarticulares

Fundamento: En la enseñanza de las ciencias de la salud los medios informáticos ocupan un lugar fundamental. Objetivo: Determinar la pertinencia de un hiperentorno en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de la atención de enfermería a pacientes con afe...

A Primer on Aspects of Cognition for Medical Informatics

As a multidisciplinary field, medical informatics draws on a range of disciplines, such as computer science, information science, and the social and cognitive sciences. The cognitive sciences can provide important insights into the nature o...

Electronic symptom monitoring of patient-reported outcomes among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma during immunotherapy (PRIME-HCC): protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Introduction Electronic patient-reported outcome (ePROs)-based symptom monitoring benefits health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in various cancers. However, despite the high disease and economic burden of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) an...

Rapid review of the ideal clinic realisation and maintenance programme among primary healthcare providers in the Gauteng Province, South Africa

Background The ideal clinic realisation and maintenance (ICRM) programme in South Africa aims to elevate primary healthcare clinic (PHC) service quality in preparation for the National Health Insurance rollout. This study investigated ICRM ...

Preparedness of health facilities in managing hypertension & diabetes mellitus in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: a cross sectional study

Abstract Background Hypertension and Diabetes mellitus are risk factors for cardiovascular diseases that cause 17 million deaths globally. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if hypertensive and diabetic patients had their blood ...

Demographic determinants of patient satisfaction in medical outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital in North India

Introduction: Patient satisfaction surveys are widely used in European countries to ensure high-quality healthcare through systematic feedback. India, through its National Health Mission, is now adopting this practice to measure satisfactio...

The leadership role in healthcare management

Within the changes in the Portuguese healthcare system across the years, new challenges emerge for healthcare practitioners, organisations, and their management boards, so the recognition of the need for different health professionals in he...

Healthcare Management and Leadership Roles

Within the changes in healthcare system across the years, new challenges emerge for healthcare practitioners, organisations, and their management boards, so the recognition of the need for different health professionals in healthcare manage...

Recent Advancements in Emerging Technologies for Healthcare Management Systems: A Survey

In recent times, the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and Blockchain technologies have quickly gained pace as a new study niche in numerous collegiate and industrial sectors, notably in the healthcare se...

Prevalence of fear of hypoglycemia in adults with type 1 diabetes using a newly developed screener and clinician’s perspective on its implementation

Introduction Fear of hypoglycemia (FoH) affects quality of life, emotional well-being, and diabetes management among people with type 1 diabetes (PwT1D). American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) guidelines recommend assessing FoH in clinical p...

Sakha Language in a Northern Industrial Monotown: Linguistic Distribution in Speech Repertoire of Sakha People

This study explores the functioning of the Yakut language in the conditions of the northern industrial monotown Mirny (Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)). The study identifies the features of linguistic distribution in the speech repertoire of et...

Abnormal cervical cancer screening results among US Veteran and non-Veteran participants in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)

Female Veterans report cervical cancer risk factors at higher rates than non-Veterans. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we tested whether Veterans with a recent cervical cancer screening test were more likely tha...

A Comprehensive Survey on Healthcare Management

Healthcare management and leadership roles

Within the changes in healthcare system across the years, new challenges emerge for healthcare practitioners, organisations, and their management boards, so the recognition of the need for different health professionals in healthcare manage...

Physician’s changes in management of return visits to the Emergency Department

Return visits to the Emergency Department (ED) are estimated between 2-3.1%, which impacts ED care costs and wait times. Adverse events for unscheduled return visits (URVs) have been reported to be as high as 30%. The objective of this stud...

Healthcare Management Control

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges to those responsible for the management of healthcare activities. These challenges require decision makers at all levels to possess a broad and comprehensive understanding of health...

Career advancement and gender equity in healthcare management

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the conditions for career advancement in healthcare management and examine factors that may be impeding gender equity. Design/methodology/approach The authors assess gender differences in the ...

Exploring health literacy pertaining to general wellbeing and chronic disease management among population registered within Primary Healthcare System: A Study protocol.

BackgroundEvidence suggests that high level of health literacy among patients is associated with high levels of accessibility to healthcare, better understanding consent-to-treat forms, increased compliance to treatment (particularly in tak...

Analysis of the Status Quo and Influencing Factors of Community Residents’ Awareness of Basic Life Support and Willingness to Attempt Rescue

Yu-Fei Qian,1 Gui-Ling Geng,1 Yu-Qin Ren,2 Xin-Tong Zhang,2 Wen-Jun Sun,2 Qing Li2 1Department of School of Nursing, Nantong University Medical School, Nantong, 226001, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Emergency, Nantong First Peo...

Multilevel factors associated with self-reported sexually transmitted infections among sexually active women in Africa: a socio-ecological analysis

Abstract Background Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to pose a significant public health challenge globally, negatively impacting reproductive health and increasing the likelihood of infertility, complications during pregnanc...