Pharmaceutical Care in Primary Healthcare-A Study of Nurses', Pharmacists', and Physicians' Experiences of Interprofessional Collaboration.

Implementation of pharmaceutical care for the benefit of patients and health services has been highlighted worldwide. Interprofessional collaboration between nurses, pharmacists, and physicians may contribute to raising awareness of pharmacological challenges, increasing quality, and minimising errors in pharmaceutical care. This study aimed to investigate how nurses, pharmacists, and physicians experience interprofessional collaboration in pharmaceutical care within community healthcare in Norway.

Characterization of an advanced cone beam CT (CBCT) reconstruction algorithm used for dose calculation on Varian Halcyon linear accelerators.

In this study, the performance of a new iterative reconstruction algorithm, the pre-clinical AcurosXB iCBCT algorithm, has been characterized on Varian Halcyon linear accelerators with respect to the potential of radiotherapy dose calculations on CBCT images. The study utilized various phantom setups to verify the accuracy of the pre-clinical algorithm under different scatter conditions and compared dose calculations performed on CBCT images reconstructed with the pre-clinical algorithm to those performed on typical planning CT images. The results indicated that despite showing improvements compared to the existing iCBCT protocol, certain restrictions should be introduced when the pre-clinical AcurosXB iCBCT algorithm was used for dose calculations.

Repeatability of hypoxia dose painting by numbers based on EF5-PET in head and neck cancer.

Background: Hypoxia dose painting is a radiotherapy technique to increase the dose to hypoxic regions of the tumour. Still, the clinical effect relies on the reproducibility of the hypoxic region shown in the medical image. F-EF5 is a hypoxia tracer for positron emission tomography (PET), and this study investigated the repeatability of F-EF5-based dose painting by numbers (DPBN) in head and neck cancer (HNC).

The Global Brain Health Survey: Development of a Multi-Language Survey of Public Views on Brain Health.

Brain health is a multi-faceted concept used to describe brain physiology, cognitive function, mental health and well-being. Diseases of the brain account for one third of the global burden of disease and are becoming more prevalent as populations age. Diet, social interaction as well as physical and cognitive activity are lifestyle factors that can potentially influence facets of brain health.

The Priest, the Sex Worker, and the CEO: Measuring Motivation by Job Type.

This study uses latent semantic analysis (LSA) to explore how prevalent measures of motivation are interpreted across very diverse job types. Building on the Semantic Theory of Survey Response (STSR), we calculate "semantic compliance" as the degree to which an individual's responses follow a semantically predictable pattern. This allows us to examine how context, in the form of job type, influences respondent interpretations of items.