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

Yanshang Wang, Xiaoping Wei • BMJ Open (2026)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-116199

Application of Gene Therapy to Oral Diseases

Seiichi Yamano, Kenji Inoue, Yoichiro Taguchi • Pharmaceutics (2025)

Gene therapy has emerged as a promising therapeutic approach across various oral diseases. This review examines current applications and future prospects of gene therapy in dentistry, focusing on five key areas: oral cancer, cancer-related ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics17070859

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

Dorina Onoya, Idah Mokhele, Cornelius Nattey, Nozipho Musakwa et al. • BMJ Open Quality (2025)

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 ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2024-003212

Surface Modified Activated Carbons: Sustainable Bio-Based Materials for Environmental Remediation

Manoj Kumar Jha, Sahira Joshi, Ram Kumar Sharma, Allison A Kim et al. • Nanomaterials (2021)

Global warming and water/air contamination caused by human activities are major challenges in environmental pollution and climate change. The improper discharge of a large amount of agro-forest byproduct is accelerating these issues mainly ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/nano11113140

Smoking and home oxygen therapy: a review and consensus statement from a multidisciplinary Swedish taskforce

Zainab Ahmadi, Joar Björk, Hans Gilljam, Madhuri Gogineni et al. • European Respiratory Review (2024)

Background: Home oxygen therapy (HOT) improves survival in patients with hypoxaemic chronic respiratory disease. Most patients evaluated for HOT are former or active smokers. Oxygen accelerates combustion and smoking may increase the risk o...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1183/16000617.0194-2023

Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators to Sharing Patient-Generated Health Data Using Digital Technology for People Living With Long-Term Health Conditions: A Narrative Review

Emma Simpson, Richard Brown, Elizabeth Sillence, Lynne Coventry et al. • Frontiers in Public Health (2021)

Using digital technology to share patient-generated health data has the potential to improve the self-management of multiple long-term health conditions. Sharing these data can allow patients to receive additional support from healthcare pr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.641424

Conceptualisation and design of a protocol for a novel social drivers and primary care screening tool in paediatric orthopaedics: a quality improvement initiative

Devika A Shenoy, Kathryn Radulovacki, Christian Zirbes, Rachelle Shao et al. • BMJ Open Quality (2025)

Introduction Paediatric patients with elevated healthcare needs have limited access to care, contributing to insufficient preventive services. Social drivers of health (SDOH), such as inadequate nutrition and poor community support, contrib...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2025-003454

Healthcare Management for Healthy Society

Sagar Shinde, MANJUSHA A. BHANGE • International Conference on Healthcare Innovations, Software and Engineering Technologies (HISET) (2024)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/hiset61796.2024.00044

A Review Study on Healthcare Management

Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Megha Shankar Jha, Shubham Kumar • Applied Science and Biotechnology Journal for Advanced Research (2023)

Healthcare is an integral part of the mankind development. Managing the Healthcare sector has its own sphere of challenges. There are players in the market who have been contributing quit well towards healthcare. These Entrepreneurs who ent...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.31033/abjar.2.5.4

A mapping of facilitators and barriers to evidence-based management in health systems: a scoping review study

Tahereh Shafaghat, Mohammad Hasan Imani Nasab, Mohammad Amin Bahrami, Zahra Kavosi et al. • Systematic Reviews (2021)

Abstract Background Healthcare settings are complex, and the decision-making process is usually complicated, too. Precise use of best evidence from different sources for increasing the desired outcomes is the result of EBM. Therefore, this ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13643-021-01595-8

Assessing the health impacts of parenthood on people with cystic fibrosis: the HOPeCF prospective cohort protocol

MinJae Lee, Anna M Georgiopoulos, Raksha Jain, Traci M Kazmerski et al. • BMJ Open Respiratory Research (2024)

Introduction People with cystic fibrosis (CF) are living longer and healthier lives with a growing number considering and pursuing parenthood. The decision of whether to become a parent is complex for people with CF, and CF is a major facto...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjresp-2024-002383

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

Sachin Kamble, Angappa Gunasekaran, Milind Goswami, Jaswant Manda • International Journal of Healthcare Management (2018)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20479700.2018.1531606

A Review of the Healthcare-Management (Modeling) Literature Published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Pınar Keskinocak, Nicos Savva • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2019)

Healthcare systems throughout the world are under pressure to widen access, improve efficiency and quality of care, and reduce inequity. Achieving these conflicting goals requires innovative approaches, utilizing new technologies, data anal...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2019.0817

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

Mina Mahami-Oskouei, Vahideh Zarea Gavgani, Faranak Kazemi Majd • Journal of Caring Sciences (2026)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.34172/jcs.026.36567

Clinical Features and Pathogenesis of Noma: A Narrative Review Highlighting the Emerging Strategies for Prevention and Management

Bhagyesh Sapkale, Sonali Choudhari • Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research (2026)

Noma, also known as cancrum oris, is a rapidly progressive gangrenous infection that affects the oral and facial tissues of malnourished children in impoverished regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease typically begins as a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2026/82789.22726

Healthcare management

Patricia Cronin. • Postgraduate Medical Journal (1997)

My first pessimistic thought on being asked to review this book was that it sounds thick and uninteresting.It is neither.Firstly, it is concise, being both brief and informative, and secondly it is written by people 'doing the job' and larg...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.73.863.606

Tracking the healthcare management landscape: implications for integrated healthcare management and practice

A. Dwivedi, R.K. Bali, Raouf N.G. Naguib, Vikraman Baskaran et al. • Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (2004)

The objective of this paper is to examine the feasibility of incorporating the Knowledge Management (KM) paradigm in healthcare. We discuss whether it would be beneficial for healthcare organisations to adopt the KM paradigm so as to facili...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/iembs.2003.1279480

Healthcare Management

William R. Roche • Oxford University Press eBooks (2018)

Doctors are familiar with the professional regulation of their practice and behaviour through the General Medical Council and for their liabilities under civil law in the event that a patient comes to harm. The public outcry in response to ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198749851.003.0012