Anticancer Agents Med Chem
January 2025
In women globally, breast cancer ranks as the second most frequent cause of cancer-related deaths, making up about 25% of female cancer cases, which is pretty standard in affluent countries. Breast cancer is divided into subtypes based on aggressive, genetic and stage. The precise cause of the problem is still unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccording to Chinese Medicine system, Chinese honeysuckle have a lot of valuable metabolites which have a various potential like anti-inflammatory action, antidiabetic, analgesics, antipyretic, eliminates pollutants etc. According to Chinese Medicinal System, the plant is mentioned to cure various diseases like peptic ulcer, diabetes, inflammation etc. It is frequently given for patients with colds that include fever, headaches, and sore throats, but it may also be used to help people who are overheated or under stress chill down.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntiinflamm Antiallergy Agents Med Chem
June 2024
The global scale and unpredictable nature of the current COVID-19 pandemic have put a significant burden on health care and public health leaders, for whom preparedness plans and evidence-based guidelines have proven insufficient to guide actions. This article presents a review of empirical articles on the topics of "crisis leadership" and "pandemic" across medical and business databases between 2003 (since SARS) and-December 2020 and has identified 35 articles for detailed analyses. We use the articles' evidence on leadership behaviors and skills that have been key to pandemic responses to characterize the types of leadership competencies commonly exhibited in a pandemic context.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The incidence, presentation and outcomes of lupus nephritis (LN) vary with geography, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and gender. There are relatively few data on LN in the non-Caucasian populations in Australia.
Aims: To describe the clinical presentation, histological features, natural history, and outcomes of a historical cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people in Far North Queensland with biopsy-proven LN.
Objectives: In recent years, Lean manufacturing principles have been applied to health care quality improvement efforts to improve wait times. In Ontario, an emergency department (ED) process improvement program based on Lean principles was introduced by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care as part of a strategy to reduce ED length of stay (LOS) and to improve patient flow. This article aims to describe the hospital-based teams' experiences during the ED process improvement program implementation and the teams' perceptions of the key factors that influenced the program's success or failure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objective: In recent years, lean principles have been applied to improve wait times in the emergency department (ED). In 2009, an ED process improvement program based on lean methods was introduced in Ontario as part of a broad strategy to reduce ED length of stay and improve patient flow. This study seeks to determine the effect of this program on ED wait times and quality of care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed Care Res Rev
February 2014
Improving hospital efficiency is a critical goal for managers and policy makers. We draw on participant observation of the perioperative coaching program in seven Ontario hospitals to develop knowledge of the process by which the content of change initiatives to increase hospital efficiency is defined. The coaching program was a change initiative involving the use of external facilitators with the goal of increasing perioperative efficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical guidelines are important tools for managing health care quality. Research on the origins of guidelines primarily focuses on the institutional causes of their emergence and growth. Individual medical researchers, however, have played important roles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical guidelines and quality measures are important new paradigms for conceptualizing and managing quality in the United States. Researchers have proposed that professional elites-including members of academic medicine-were an important cause of the shift to guidelines and measures. This paper draws on content analysis of abstracts focused on quality in major American medical journals between 1975 and 2009 to empirically assess whether and how paradigms for managing quality changed in academic medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper examines the impact of institutional change on patient care. Using panel data on obstetric deliveries from the state of California in the United States between 1983 and 2001, it develops and tests hypotheses predicting impacts of three features of institutional change-managed care insurance, changing professional controls and public attention to cost-control practices-on cesarean use and geographic variation in cesarean deliveries. It finds that managed care insurance promotes the diffusion of cost-effective patient care practices, reducing cesarean use and increasing variation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Focusing on guidelines governing medication use in nursing homes, in this study we explore the ways in which clinical professionals perceive and apply treatment guidelines, and how interprofessional interactions shape the delivery of pharmacotherapies to residents.
Design And Methods: Seventeen semistructured interviews were conducted with physicians, nursing staff, and consultant pharmacists in 4 purposefully selected nursing homes in Michigan.
Results: Perceptions of guidelines varied by clinical groups, with physicians perceiving them as reference tools, whereas nurses and consultant pharmacists saw them as rules to which clinical practices should adhere.