Objective To evaluate the impact of an Australian Virtual Care service on low-acuity patient presentations to emergency departments (EDs) across a local health district. Design This was a ...

Introduction Glucomannan (GNN), a water-soluble dietary fibre derived from the plant Amorphophallus konjac, is marketed for weight reduction. The exact mechanisms by which GNN might exert its actions ...

Introduction Current international guidelines recommend exercise as a first-line treatment of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA).

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of sickle cell trait, sickle cell disease, beta-thalassaemia minor and ...

Objective This systematic review aimed in assessing the effects of different weaning protocols in people with neuromuscular disease (NMD) receiving invasive mechanical ventilation, identifying which ...

Objective In the 10 most common primary types with bone metastases, we aimed to examine survival, further stratifying on bone metastases only or with additional synchronous metastases. Methods We ...

Objectives To describe healthcare providers’ symptoms evoked by patient safety incidents (PSIs), the duration of these symptoms and the association with the degree of patient harm caused by the ...

1 Department of Occupational Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan 2 Health Administration Centre, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Background The impulse oscillometry ...

Setting A systematic literature review of all statin trials that presented all-cause survival curves for treated and untreated. Intervention Statin treatment compared to placebo. Primary outcome ...

Objectives Kaizen, or continuous improvement, lies at the core of lean. Kaizen is implemented through practices that enable employees to propose ideas for improvement and solve problems. The aim of ...

1 School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia 2 Hunter New England Population Health, Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia Introduction ...

Objective Most of the Chinese occupational population are becoming at risk of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). However, there is a limited number of literature reviews on occupational NIHL in China.