Introduction Maintaining normal fluid status is critical to health and well-being. Older people are vulnerable to abnormal fluid status and associated complications, morbidity and mortality. Care home ...

Objective Unplanned hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge measure the quality of healthcare. This study aims to ...

Introduction Burnout among healthcare professionals remains a critical public health issue linked to impaired cognition, emotional exhaustion and diminished clinical performance. Structured breathing ...

Objective India had an estimated three to five million excess deaths from causes attributable to SARS-CoV-2 during 2020–2021, ...

Objective To investigate the associations of oxidative balance score (OBS) with all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence in two large, population-based ...

Objective Findings of previous studies on associations between dairy consumption and metabolic health status were inconsistent. This study aimed to assess the link between consumption of dairy foods ...

2 Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 3 Department of Statistics, Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå ...

Introduction Previous reviews have investigated the relationship between empathy and burnout. However, these are now out of date, did not capture the effect of the pandemic, did not include healthcare ...

Objective To develop and validate a new scale to assess treatment burden (the effort of looking after one’s health) for patients with multimorbidity. Design Mixed-methods. Setting UK primary care.

Objectives The optimal maternal age at childbirth has been a topic of bourgeoning literature, with earlier ages offering physiological benefits for maternal recovery. In contrast, later ages to give ...

Background There is relatively limited knowledge about the practitioners who provide acupuncture treatment within the UK, what conditions patients consult for and the treatment provided. Objectives To ...

1 Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences (RIHS), Nijmegen, The Netherlands Design We show how the prediction interval can help understand the uncertainty about ...