Academic Articles & Research Papers

Knowledge, Attitude, and Perceived Risks Towards COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impact of Risk Communication Messages on Healthcare Workers in Saudi Arabia

Abdulaziz Mushi,1 Yara Yassin,1 Anas Khan,1,2 Saber Yezli,1 Yasir Almuzaini1 1The Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud Univer...

Peer Education and the Uptake of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis among Female Sex Workers in South Africa

The distribution of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in South Africa was instituted in 2016. Female sex workers (FSWs) were targeted as a priority group to curb the rise in new HIV infections. Certain organizations working with FSWs wer...

Big Data Major Security Issues: Challenges and Defense Strategies

Big data has unlocked the door to significant advances in a wide range of scientific fields, and it has emerged as a highly attractive subject both in the world of academia and in business as a result. It has also made significant contribut...

Healthcare Management using Blockchain

Healthcare management using blockchain technology refers to the use of blockchain to improve the efficiency, security and privacy of healthcare data management. Blockchain enables the creation of a decentralized, tamper-proof database that ...

START Triage Scale in Disasters

Disasters are events that occur since the beginning of time. When previous records are investigated, information on various types of disasters occurred in different parts of the World are encountered. Disasters occur unexpectedly and requir...

BIOTEX—Biosensing Textiles for Personalised Healthcare Management

Textile-based sensors offer an unobtrusive method of continually monitoring physiological parameters during daily activities. Chemical analysis of body fluids, noninvasively, is a novel and exciting area of personalized wearable healthcare ...

Healthcare Management for Healthy Society

A community's health and well-being are greatly influenced by the discipline of healthcare management. This indepth overview article explores the complex facets of healthcare administration and how it significantly impacts a community's gen...

Personalized insights into urinary tract infection management: A text mining analysis of online consultation data

Objectives Urinary tract infections (UTIs) frequently affect individuals of all ages, necessitating antibiotic treatment and medical care, which can impair quality of life and cause psychological strain. Online Health Consultation (OHC) pla...

A systematic perspective on the applications of big data analytics in healthcare management

The exponential growth in the data collected in the form of electronic health records, registries, or wearable sensors has bought a big data revolution in the health industry. A large amount of information is required to be extracted from t...

Intelligent Systems for Healthcare Management and Delivery

"This book explores relevant and advanced methodological, technological and scientific approaches related to the application of sophisticated exploitation of artificial intelligence in intelligent systems for healthcare management and deliv...

Hospital Information System Utilization in Iran: a Qualitative Study

Hospital information system (HIS) should ideally allow different forms of data to be stored and used for decision making by clinicians and managers alike. This system has been developed since the early 1980's, and many hospitals gradually c...

Cuba's Community Health Services：Introduction and Implications to China

Cuba has a three-level healthcare system, and offers free universal healthcare, of which community health services occupy a decisive position. Cuba has accumulated abundant experience in implementing public health services, primary healthca...

Policy Recommendations for Information Prescribing to Heart Failure Patients to Reduce Readmissions, Mortality, and Costs

Introduction: Heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalization and mortality, with frequent readmissions mainly due to poor self-care knowledge and low medication adherence. These readmissions increase healthcare costs and reduce patient...

Incidental findings, genetic screening and the challenge of personalisation

Genetic tests frequently produce more information than is initially expected. Several documents have addressed this issue and offer suggestions regarding how this information should be managed and, in particular, concerning the expedience o...

Big data in healthcare: management, analysis and future prospects

‘Big data’ is massive amounts of information that can work wonders. It has become a topic of special interest for the past two decades because of a great potential that is hidden in it. Various public and private sector industries generate,...

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...

Evaluation of Knowledge and Self-Reported Performance of Primary School Healthcare Providers in the City of Abarkuh City Regarding the Emergency Management of Traumatic Dental Injuries

Introduction: Dental injuries are very common and negatively affect an individual's life. The effective management of emergencies in such situations depends on the knowledge of non-experts, such as healthcare providers, who are on-site duri...

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...

Why do healthcare professionals fail to escalate as per the early warning system (EWS) protocol? A qualitative evidence synthesis of the barriers and facilitators of escalation

Abstract Background Early warning systems (EWSs) are used to assist clinical judgment in the detection of acute deterioration to avoid or reduce adverse events including unanticipated cardiopulmonary arrest, admission to the intensive care ...

IT applications in healthcare management: a survey