Text Messaging, Telephone, or In-Person Outpatient Visit to the Surgical Clinic: A Randomized Trial.

Introduction: Routine outpatient follow-up visits for surgical patients are a source of strain on health-care resources and patients. With the COVID-19 pandemic adding a new urgency to finding the safest follow-up arrangement, text message follow-up might prove an acceptable alternative to a phone call or an in-person clinic visit.

Methods: An open-label, three-arm, parallel randomized trial was conducted.

Religion and gender behavior: understanding the variations in risk to urinary schistosomiasis among farmers.

Unlabelled: Urinary schistosomiasis is a chronic and acute disease that is widely spread among the poor. It is caused by blood fluke of the genus , and transmitted to humans through water related activities by way of skin penetration. While schistosomiasis is rarely fatal, it could impact negatively on the economy and health status of infected individual.

Improved phenol sequestration from aqueous solution using silver nanoparticle modified Palm Kernel Shell Activated Carbon.

Modified Palm Kernel Shell Activated Carbon (PKSAC) using silver nanoparticle (Ag-NPs-PKSAC) was investigated on phenol uptake from aqueous solution. Effects of temperature (500-700 °C), time (90-120 min), and alkaline concentration (0.1-0.

Sigmoid Perforation Secondary to Accidental Ingestion of a Chicken Bone.

Presentation We describe an unusual presentation of sigmoid colon perforation secondary to an ingested chicken bone. Diagnosis The patient presented with a 4 day history of abdominal pain and distension. On examination there were signs of peritonism.

Appraisal of Health Maintenance Organisations' Performance in the Nigerian Healthcare Service Sector.

The quality of healthcare service delivery under the existing health maintenance organisations (HMOs) in Nigeria has been a major concern to enrollees who have contested the value received from their respective HMO accredited hospitals under the program. This paper appraised health maintenance organisations' performance in the Nigerian healthcare service sector capturing enrollees' experience on the issues of access, responsiveness, and quality of healthcare service choice to measure the success or failure of the program since inception. The study adopted survey design with three hundred forty enrollees of ten leading HMOs in Nigeria that operate in different parts of Lagos Metropolis.