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Newest firstBackground and importance Emergency Department (ED) crowding is an increasing public health concern, with evidence of harms to patients, the public and healthcare systems. When the number of patients requiring emergency care exceeds the capacity of EDs, operational decisions must be made regarding the best place of care for patients. It is not known if there is an association between place of escalation area care…
Open article record in new tab ↗Artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually transforming healthcare. However, despite its promised benefits, AI in healthcare also raises a number of ethical, legal and social concerns. Compliance by design (CbD) has been proposed as one way of addressing some of these concerns. In the context of healthcare, CbD efforts could focus on building compliance with existing clinical guidelines (CGs), given that they provi…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundThe Veterans Health Administration (VA) healthcare system cares for almost 200,000 Veterans with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). It is not known how this population fared regarding continuity of care quality measures and access over the past 6 years, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. This study aimed to evaluate temporal trends in heart failure care delivery and ide…
BACKGROUNDIt is assumed that there is universal provision of the maternal postnatal 6-8 week check (6WC) in primary care following the introduction of additional funding provided through the General Medical Services contract in 2020/21. Prior to the pandemic, it is estimated that 20-40% of women in England did not have a postpartum maternal check recorded in primary care. Concerned that changes in local appointmen…
Open article record in new tab ↗IntroductionGovernments create policies to address societal needs and then assess their effectiveness through policy metrics. The UK Rare Diseases Framework and its England Rare Diseases Action Plans aim to improve the lives of people with lived experience of rare diseases and their carers. Reaching these goals requires more effective engagement with those least likely to interact with NHS services. This paper out…
ObjectivesWe aimed to estimate how rheumatology healthcare use has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic and determine demographic characteristics associated with observed changes in healthcare use. MethodsUsing three primary and secondary care electronic health record datasets in England (with the approval of NHS England), Scotland, and Wales, we identified individuals with a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)…
Open article record in new tab ↗Attributed to poverty and resource constraint situations, the population in low- and middle-income sub-Saharan countries like Lesotho is at high risk of preventable non-communicable diseases such as hypertension. Literature showed a high burden of hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa. However, no study assessed the burden of hypertension and the situation of treatment-seeking among the household population of Lesoth…
Open article record in new tab ↗This study aims to determine the waiting time and the forms of access to specialized health services in public hospitals in Ecuador. A representative sample of 32 hospitals under the Ministry of Public Health was considered, with 26 selected by accessibility convenience. Data will be collected using a structured questionnaire. Patients will be asked about the number of days they waited for their medical appointmen…
Introduction and AimDiabetes is a global health emergency with increasing prevalence and diabetes-associated morbidity and mortality. One of the challenges in optimising diabetes care is translating research advances in this heterogenous disease into clinical care. A potential solution is the introduction of precision medicine approaches into diabetes care. We aim to develop a digital platform called intelligent D…
Background Recent work in the UK estimated the prevalence of current cannabinoid-based vaping to be higher than in the USA, a factor previously associated with e-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury (EVALI). Research in the USA has demonstrated that attendances to emergency departments relating to e-cigarettes began to rise before the EVALI outbreak, suggesting that vapers also experience milder forms of vap…
Open article record in new tab ↗To address the need for cost-of-care conversations in prenatal care, the CONTINUE (cost conversations in routine prenatal care) study was conducted with prenatal patients to better understand the benefits of implementing a cost-of-care conversation "cost" tool into routine obstetrics (OB) care. This research team conducted a multi-phase, mixed-methods research study to identify 18 target benefits of a cost tool to…
Open article record in new tab ↗This study examines the association between digital information technology (DIT) use and the utilization of transnational healthcare (THC) in older migrants, and investigates how this relationship depends on social integration or perceived discrimination in health services in the destination country. The data from a population-based study conducted in Finland in 2019, which targeted Russian-speaking residents aged…
Background Unhealthy lifestyles are strongly entrenched in healthcare universities and have sometimes been linked to stress or lack of sleep. This study investigated the prevalence of toxic habits (smoking, patterns of harmful alcohol use, and illicit drug use), stress levels, perceived health status, and sleep duration and assessed the connections between toxic habits and said well-being measures, as well as heal…
BackgroundThis study seeks to understand how and for whom COVID-19 disrupted cancer care to understand the potential for cancer health disparities across the cancer prevention and control continuum. MethodsIn this cross-sectional study, participants age 30+ residing in an 82-county region in Missouri and Illinois completed an online survey from June-August 2020. Descriptive statistics were calculated for all varia…
Introduction Insomnia diagnosis has been associated with a significant clinical and economic burden on patients and healthcare systems. This study examined changes in healthcare resource use (HCRU) and costs in insomnia patients before and after initiation of suvorexant treatment. Methods This retrospective cohort study analyzed Optum Clinformatics Data Mart claims data (Jan 2010-Dec 2018). Patients with ≥ 2 insom…
Background The significant contribution of community-based distribution (CBD) of family planning services and contraceptives to the uptake of contraceptives in hard-to-reach communities has resulted in the scaling-up of this approach in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, contextual factors need to be taken into consideration. For example, social network influence (e.g. spouse/partner, in-laws, and parents) on fe…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to considerable changes in the delivery of primary care in the UK, including rapid digitalisation, yet the extent to which these have impacted on marginalised migrant groups - already facing existing barriers to NHS care - is unknown. Understanding the perspectives and experiences of health professionals and migrants will support initiatives to deliver more effective health…
Open article record in new tab ↗Objective To compare the primary care quality among different health care structures in Tibet, China. Methods A self-administered questionnaire survey including Primary Care Assessment Tool-Tibetan version was used to obtain data from a total of 1386 patients aged over 18 years in the sampling sites in two prefectures in Tibet. Multivariate analysis was performed to assess the association between health care struc…