Objectives This study represents a pioneering attempt to quantify the contribution of age, sex and socioeconomic status (SES) to the observed inequalities in lipid profile components. Design ...

Objective To clarify the effects of smoking on the disposition of two commonly used antipsychotics, olanzapine and clozapine, and to create standards to adjust the doses of these drugs in clinical ...

Background Around 463 million people globally have diabetes, of which over 90% have type 2 diabetes (T2D). Projections indicate an expected increase to 700 million by 2045. The COVID-19 pandemic ...

1 School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Objectives The fear-avoidance model describes how the belief that pain is a sign of damage leads ...

Objective To investigate the relationship between temperature extremes and daily number of deaths in Jinan, a temperate city in northern China. Methods Data ondaily number of deaths and meteorological ...

1 NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands Objectives To minimise adverse events in healthcare, various large-scale incident reporting and learning systems ...

Objective To understand what leads to the non-adherence to the cervical cancer screening (CCS) recommendations during a consultation. Design For this qualitative study, in-depth semistructured ...

Objectives China launched the National Healthcare Improvement Initiative (NHII) in 2015 to improve patient experiences in healthcare. This study aimed to generate evidence of hospital care quality ...

Background Cancer pain management is critical, especially at advanced stages. This is particularly important in Africa as most cancers are typically diagnosed at advanced stages. Given the central ...

Protocol: Association between sedentary time, physical activity, biochemical markers in the blood (heart and muscles) and heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease: a study protocol of a ...

Objective To describe available evidence from systematic reviews of alternative healthcare delivery arrangements relevant to high-income countries to inform decisions about healthcare system ...

Background Even if promoting antenatal exercises is an evolving concept worldwide, there is a scarcity of qualitative exploratory studies which directly focus on pregnant mothers’ views about ...