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OBJECTIVE: This scoping review will map and summarize the available evidence on peer clinical supervision among nurses in clinical practice settings, identifying its purposes, models, outcomes, and implementation contexts. INTRODUCTION: Peer clinical supervision is increasingly recognized as a valuable approach to pro…

INTRODUCTION: Mental health problems constitute a significant global health challenge due to their rising prevalence and substantial treatment gap. Digital Mental Health Interventions (DMHIs) including mental health chatbots have emerged as promising solutions due to their effectiveness and scalability. Recent advances…

INTRODUCTION: Non-inferiority (NI) trial designs, which assess whether an experimental intervention is no worse than the standard of care, have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Current thinking suggests that the intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis is considered anti-conservative in the presence of protocol…

INTRODUCTION: Vaccination has been an effective public health intervention for immunising individuals against many common communicable and non-communicable diseases. However, there is limited information on the efficacy of vaccination among patients undergoing dialysis or patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The…

A realist synthesis or review is a theory-driven, realist-informed interpretive approach to synthesizing secondary data, informing evidence-based practice, and explaining social phenomena. Realist syntheses use flexible and iterative methods to achieve this goal, including drawing on stakeholders' knowledge. Thus, real…

INTRODUCTION: People with multiple sclerosis (MS) live with a progressive condition that can result in complex disability support needs. Consequently, they may require specialised care and assistive technology to maintain independence at home. It is essential to develop an understanding of the support needs and prefere…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the scoping review will be to understand and describe risk factors associated with surgical site infection (SSI) in an orthopaedic surgery population in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa. This paper describes the protocol that will be used for the scoping review. METHOD: A comprehensive l…

BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals have put emphasis on equitable healthcare access for marginalised groups and communities. The number of women with disabilities (WWD) to marry and have children is rapidly increasing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, these women experience multifaceted c…

BACKGROUND: There continues to be growing interest in the Science of Learning including identifying applications for findings from this work outside the laboratory to support learning. Presently, there exists a gap in our understanding of learning during healthy adulthood as well as effective ways in which that learnin…

In response to the letter from Drs. Mataro and La Padula addressing our systematic review entitled "Adverse Events Associated with Hyaluronic Acid Filler Injection for Non-surgical Facial Aesthetics: A Systematic Review of High Level of Evidence Studies", we emphasize the deliberate scope of our research. Our review, g…

Systematic reviews rely on identification of studies, initially through electronic searches yielding potentially thousands of studies, and then reviewer-led screening studies for inclusion. This standard method is time- and resource-intensive. We designed and applied an algorithm written in Python involving computer-ai…

INTRODUCTION: Indigenous peoples across the globe face inequitable access to high-quality care. Emergency departments are the first point of access for many Indigenous peoples and are the interface between the individual and the healthcare system. There is a reliance on emergency services due to a lack of primary healt…