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Newest firstBackgroundPalliative care services improve quality of life and health outcomes for individuals living with chronic and life-limiting illnesses. Although these services have expanded considerably in urban areas, their availability remains limited in many rural communities. This study aimed to identify key components of integrated palliative care services and examine how these elements are implemented within rural h…
Open article record in new tab ↗Background and Objectives: The worldwide shift toward psychiatric deinstitutionalization has aimed to enhance patient autonomy, social integration, and overall quality of life. However, limited studies have examined how concurrent substance use-particularly alcohol, marijuana, and inhalable drugs-affects clinical outcomes in these populations. This study aimed to evaluate psychiatric patients with varying degrees…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundMaking Every Contact Count (MECC) is a person-centred approach to health behaviour change, utilising behavioural science to promote healthy lifestyle choices. Weight-related conversations in mental health settings are particularly important, with users noting gaps in information on medication-related weight gain and support needs. MECC training can address these gaps by improving staff confidence and ser…
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…
ObjectiveArtificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are widely used in healthcare, primarily for clinical tasks like diagnostics and decision support. However, their role in organization- and system-level processes, such as resource allocation and workforce planning, remains underexplored. This scoping review aims to review AI and ML applications at the meso- and macro-levels of primary health care (PH…
Open article record in new tab ↗ObjectivesThe Sparkbrook Childrens Zone (SCZ) is an integrated model of care for children and young people in an economically marginalised area of Birmingham, United Kingdom. It is an early example of the National Health Services planned shift toward Neighbourhood Multi-Disciplinary Teams. This work presents early data on the uptake and impact of the three key components of the SCZs care offer: Preventative care,…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundPatient satisfaction feedback is crucial for hospital service quality, but manual reviews are not possible due to their time-consumption, and traditional natural language processing methods remain inadequate. Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise but are prone to logical hallucinations--fabricated or illogical outputs that limit their reliability (inconsistent performance across repeated uses) and va…
BackgroundSame-day testing and treatment of curable sexually transmitted infections (STI) is a strategy to reduce infection duration and onward transmission. South African primary healthcare facilities often lack sufficient waiting spaces. This study aimed to assess the proportion of, and factors influencing, pregnant women waiting for on-site STI test results before and after the installation of clinic-based wait…
Background:Criminal justice involvement (CJI) is a social risk in adults with both diabetes and substance use, however, the relationship between CJI, diabetes, and substance use disorders is not well studied.Methods:Data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults with diabetes from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (2015–2018) were used to establish the prevalence of the following substance us…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the fractures of healthcare systems around the world, particularly in relation to the healthcare workforce. Frontline staff have been exposed to unprecedented strain and delivering care during the pandemic has impacted their safety, mental health and wellbeing. Rapid Research methods and big qualitative data offered a unique opportunity to gain insight into percept…
BackgroundClinic non-attendance rates are high across the African continent. Emerging evidence suggests that phone-based reminder messages could make a small but important contributing to reducing non-attendance. We used behavioral economics principles to develop an SMS and voice reminder message to improve attendance rates in a school-based eye screening programme in Botswana. MethodsWe will test a new theory-inf…
BACKGROUND: Mental health policy makers require evidence-based information to optimise effective care provision based on local need, but tools are unavailable. AIMS: To develop and validate a population-level prediction model for need for early intervention in psychosis (EIP) care for first-episode psychosis (FEP) in England up to 2025, based on epidemiological evidence and demographic projections. METHOD: We used…
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted primary care in Canada, with many walk-in clinics and family practices initially closing or being perceived as inaccessible, pharmacies remaining open with restrictions on patient interactions, rapid uptake of virtual care, and reduced referrals for lab tests, diagnostics, and specialist care. The PUPPY Study (Problems Coordinating and Accessing Primary Care…
Background Priority dispatch accuracy is a key issue in optimizing the match between patients' medical needs and pre-hospital resources. This study measures the accuracy of a Criteria Based Dispatch (CBD) system, by evaluating discrepancies between dispatch priorities and ambulance crews' severity evaluations. Methods This is a retrospective study conducted from January 2011 to December 2011. We ruled that a Natio…