A blended model to support brief interventions in primary care: A qualitative study of usability and acceptability of HealthEir in community pharmacy.

Background: Brief interventions for lifestyle behaviour change are effective health promotion interventions. Primary care settings, including pharmacies, are the most frequently visited healthcare facilities and are well placed to provide brief health interventions. However, despite the evidence-based and policy guidance, barriers to brief interventions have limited their implementation.

Medication safety incidents associated with the remote delivery of primary care: a rapid review.

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered rapid, fundamental changes, notably increased remote delivery of primary care. While the impact of these changes on medication safety is not yet fully understood, research conducted before the pandemic may provide evidence for possible consequences. To examine the published literature on medication safety incidents associated with the remote delivery of primary care, with a focus on telemedicine and electronic prescribing.

Research methods from human-centered design: Potential applications in pharmacy and health services research.

Challenges faced by health systems have become increasingly complex, and expanding the range of methodological options available via interdisciplinary collaboration is important to enable researchers to address them. As complexity increases, it can be more difficult to ensure solutions remain patient-centered. Human-centered design is an approach that focuses on engaging with and understanding the needs of all services users while retaining a systems perspective.

The outcomes of triple-valve surgery: eleven years' experience from a single center.

Background And Aim Of The Study: Triple-valve surgery is a challenging and complex procedure with significant risk, even at centers experienced at performing such operations. The study aim was to investigate the early and late outcomes of this surgery, performed at a single center for the past 11 years.

Methods: A total of 45 consecutive patients (19 males, 26 females; mean age 69.

Using online peer-mentoring to empower young adults with end-stage renal disease: a feasibility study.

Patients with end-stage renal disease must receive a kidney transplant or live on dialysis. Either treatment option introduces radical changes to their lifestyles and may result in significant psychosocial disruptions. Among these patients, young adults (YAs)-between age 18 and 30-are confronted with unique challenges because their life course is yet to be defined and their adulthood identity has not fully emerged.

Casepedia: a Web 2.0 case repository enabling collaborative learning.

Clinical cases play an instrumental role in medical school education and the continuing education of practicing physicians. To date, few case repositories are available that are interdisciplinary, searchable, or have properties enabling user contribution and feedback. In this research, we explored the design of such a system called Casepedia, using contextual inquiry and rapid prototyping techniques.

Cognitive function and brain structure in females with a history of adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa.

Objective: Abnormalities in cognitive function and brain structure have been reported in acutely ill adolescents with anorexia nervosa, but whether these abnormalities persist or are reversible in the context of weight restoration remains unclear. Brain structure and cognitive function in female subjects with adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa assessed at long-term follow-up were studied in comparison with healthy female subjects, and associations with clinical outcome were investigated.

Patients And Methods: Sixty-six female subjects (aged 21.

Cerebral white matter deficiencies in pedophilic men.

The present investigation sought to identify which brain regions distinguish pedophilic from nonpedophilic men, using unbiased, automated analyses of the whole brain. T1-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRIs) were acquired from men who demonstrated illegal or clinically significant sexual behaviors or interests (n = 65) and from men who had histories of nonsexual offenses but no sexual offenses (n = 62). Sexual interest in children was assessed by participants' admissions of pedophilic interest, histories of committing sexual offenses against children, and psychophysiological responses in the laboratory to erotic stimuli depicting children or adults.

Oxytocin infusion reduces repetitive behaviors in adults with autistic and Asperger's disorders.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by dysfunction in three core behavioral domains: repetitive behaviors, social deficits, and language abnormalities. There is evidence that abnormalities exist in peptide systems, particularly the oxytocin system, in autism spectrum patients. Furthermore, oxytocin and the closely related peptide vasopressin are known to play a role in social and repetitive behaviors.

Strong induction needed for fairness in new code.

Further to your coverage of the recent UKCC consultative conference in Belfast on the new Code of Professional Conduct (news May 23), the point I wished to make about the role of lay members in professional conduct cases is that a strong induction programme will be needed for all those who will sit in judgement on such cases brought before the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Oxygen atom detection using third harmonic generation.

Unlabelled: Atomic oxygen has been detected using the four-wave mixing technique of third harmonic generation (THG). Ground state O((3)P(j)) atoms, generated using a microwave discharge, were monitored by focusing a 391-nm dye laser beam into the post-discharge region and observing radiation at 130 nm, near resonant with the 3s (3)S(0)(1)? 2p(4)(3)P(j) transition, produced along the laser propagation direction. The observed concentration dependent frequency shifts of the laser excitation spectrum verified the assignment of THG.