Publications by authors named "A P Finnegan"
Introduction: Primary healthcare (PHC) patient medical records contain Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) that include information regarding diagnosis, demographics and veterans' status. This study intended to identify, analyse and compare the prevalence of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dementia and smoking tobacco in veterans and non-veterans, including stratification by age and gender.
Methods: The authors partnered with 13 PHC practices with a population of 137 410 patients.
In this study we replicated a typical high-quality post-consumer polypropylene (PP) recycling process to investigate its losses and emissions and study potential improvements. To our knowledge this is the first time that quantitative measurements on all process steps have been performed instead of an accumulated yield and emissions in water. In the process an overall PP yield of 85 wt% based on pure PP input is achieved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: In this paper we report how the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) search filters for treating and managing COVID-19 were validated for use in MEDLINE (Ovid) and Embase (Ovid). The objective was to achieve at least 98.9% for recall and 64% for precision.
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- A study compared contraceptive access between women with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities in North Carolina's Medicaid program.
- It found that only 30.1% of women with disabilities received effective contraception, compared to 36.3% of those without, indicating significant disparities.
- Additionally, women with disabilities who used effective contraception were more likely to have menstrual disorders, highlighting the need for improved reproductive health services for this population.