Publications by authors named "Amina Begum"

Article Synopsis
  • Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are essential digital tools in clinical practice that store patient health information and can enhance research studies, particularly platform trials, which utilize multiple treatment options under one protocol.
  • Despite their potential, challenges like incomplete records and complex eligibility criteria must be addressed for effective use of EHRs in research.
  • The EU-PEARL project aims to develop methods and tools for better assessing EHR protocol feasibility, selecting clinical sites, and efficiently pre-screening patients for platform trials, using a consensus-based readiness survey and interoperable queries.
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Background And Aim Of The Work: There has been an increasing amount of evidence to suggest a link between Clozapine and pneumonia. Whilst an exact mechanism for disease causation has not been identified excess salivation, impaired swallowing and abnormalities within the immune system have all been implicated. Within forensic services there is often a need to treat complex patients with Clozapine, even when a past history of pneumonia is present.

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Purpose: The study aimed to confirm the very high content of aluminum in tobacco and cannabis and to provide for the first time evidence that such aluminum could be biologically available.

Methods: Complete digestion of tobacco and cannabis was achieved using a 50:50 mixture of 14 M HNO3 and 0.1 M NaF.

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