Publications by authors named "J W EAMES"
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- Canine distemper virus (CDV) poses a significant threat to endangered carnivores in rural Cambodia, with domestic dogs potentially acting as a source of the virus.
- Blood samples from free-roaming dogs showed a 40% seroprevalence of CDV, marking the first documentation of the virus in crucial protected areas.
- The findings indicate a high risk of disease transmission to wildlife, necessitating further research on the impact of dogs and the potential implementation of vaccination programs for domestic dogs in these regions.
India's rapid economic growth has been accompanied by slower improvements in population health. Given the need to reconcile the ambitious goal of achieving Universal Coverage with limited resources, a robust priority-setting mechanism is required to ensure that the right trade-offs are made and the impact on health is maximised. Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is endorsed by the World Health Assembly as the gold standard approach to synthesizing evidence systematically for evidence-informed priority setting (EIPS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBoth the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) can be used to examine motor vehicle crash (MVC) deaths. These 2 data systems operate independently, using different methods to collect and code information about the type of vehicle (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe developed a method to estimate population abundance from simultaneous counts of unmarked individuals over multiple sites. We considered that at each sampling occasion, individuals in a population could be detected at 1 of the survey sites or remain undetected and used either multinomial or binomial simultaneous-count models to estimate abundance, the latter being equivalent to an N-mixture model with one site. We tested model performance with simulations over a range of detection probabilities, population sizes, growth rates, number of years, sampling occasions, and sites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUse of Harvey® the Cardiopulmonary Patient Simulator in Physician Assistant Training.
J Physician Assist Educ
March 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate physician assistant students' confidence levels in detection of heart murmurs following instruction with Harvey(R) the Cardiopulmonary Patient Simulator compared with a classroom heart sounds activity.
Methods: Cohort 1 (n = 33) participated in the classroom heart sounds activity and then participated in the Harvey simulation exercise. Cohort 2 (n = 34) first participated in the Harvey simulation activity and then in the classroom heart sounds activity.