4,999,618 papers found

BACKGROUND: Chronic pain in adults is a frequent clinical symptom with a significant impact on patient well-being. Therefore, sufficient pain management is of utmost importance. While tramadol is a commonly used pain medication, the quality of evidence supporting its use has been questioned considering the observed adv…

INTRODUCTION: Health inequalities are unfair, systematic differences in health between people. In the UK, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 recognised health inequalities as a responsibility of the National Health Service (NHS). Health inequalities were foregrounded in the publication of 2019 NHS Long Term Plan and d…

BACKGROUND: Inflammaging, a chronic low-grade inflammation, is considered as the basis of age-related diseases. Mindfulness is involved in protecting telomeres, whose shortening causes aging. This paper reports a protocol for the meta-analysis and systematic review to bond the causality between the mindfulness practice…

UNLABELLED: The aim of this scoping review is to provide an overview of the existing qualitative research concerning the lived experiences of children and young people currently in foster care. INTRODUCTION: Lived experience of foster care is an area of limited research. Studies tend to focus on foster caregiver reten…

INTRODUCTION: The charge nurse (CN) holds a position in clinical-administrative management and is essential for improving the quality and safety of care in healthcare institutions. The position requires five essential skills: leadership; interpersonal communication; clinical-administrative caring; problem solving; and…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this scoping review is to describe the literature reporting on ethical challenges faced by nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the contextual characteristics of ethical challenges, and the strategies to address these challenges. INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic presented many ethica…

This study is aimed at describing a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the effect of nontechnical skills training on the acquisition of knowledge, skills or attitudes, and changes in behavior at the workplace, of healthcare professionals working in intensive care units (ICUs), as well as the e…

INTRODUCTION: Migration creates new health vulnerabilities and exacerbates pre-existing medical conditions. Migrants often face legal, system-related, administrative, language and financial barriers to healthcare, but little is known about factors that specifically influence migrants' access to medicines and vaccines.…

INTRODUCTION: Increasing economic opportunities have attracted people from sub-Saharan Africa to migrate to the Asia-Pacific region in the last two decades. The information on the health situation of these migrants is limited. We aim to assess scientific evidence on the health of sub-Saharan African migrants in the Asi…

INTRODUCTION: The concept of personhood is particularly important in person-centred dementia care because its overall aim is to maintain the personhood of people living with dementia despite disease progression. In a previous review on autonomy for people with dementia, two different underlying concepts of personhood w…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this scoping review is to chart the extent and type of literature available worldwide on cohousing communities and older adults' social determinants of health, to identify and categorize key evidence on this topic, and to highlight gaps to guide further research. INTRODUCTION: The rapidly a…

BACKGROUND: The appropriate use of surgery or chemoradiotherapy-based approaches for organ preservation has been the subject of much debate. Unfortunately, there has been a lack of improvement in overall survival for patients with laryngeal carcinoma. In this study, we performed a protocol for systematic review and met…

BACKGROUND: Low use of contraceptives has many consequences. Despite this effect, less emphasis is given to women's decision-making on family planning use in Ethiopia. Although there are studies conducted in different parts of the country on women's decision-making regarding family planning use, there are inconsistent…

INTRODUCTION: Exposure to gender-based violence (GBV) has devastating psychological outcomes for victims/survivors. Particularly in conditions where GBV intersects with multiple forms of oppression, the negative impacts of violence are more challenging to overcome and potential pathways for recovery become less accessi…

INTRODUCTION: Historically, dissection is considered the 'gold standard' for teaching foundational anatomy to student occupational therapists. However, many programmes no longer have access to gross anatomy laboratory resources, as it is considered too costly. To address this limitation, applied anatomy instructors hav…

BACKGROUND: Cancer is an important public health problem with an increasing global incidence in the recent decades. Breast cancer has become the leading cause of death in women worldwide. Women suffering from breast cancer, as well as survivors, may experience some adverse effects of treatment-including cancer-related…

BACKGROUND: Several studies have reported positive therapeutic effects of electroacupuncture, warm needling, or a combination of the 2 for heel pain; however, the quality of the evidence is limited by methodological limitations. Given that there are no high-quality meta-analyses or reviews incorporating the available e…

INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular disorders are increasingly recognised as important fall risk factors in older adults. Falls are a major public health problem in older adults, and therefore, effective interventions for reducing falls are essential for this population. Cardiovascular disease is a clinically relevant (but of…

INTRODUCTION: Rabies is one of the priority zoonotic diseases in Bangladesh. Though the rabies cases have been reduced over the years due to the mass dog vaccination programme since 2011 throughout the country, it is still a major health problem in Bangladesh with an annual estimated 200 000 animal bite cases and over…