Background: A digital adaptation of the nine-hole peg test (9HPT) was developed with the potential to provide novel disability features for patients with multiple sclerosis (PwMS).
Objectives: The objectives were to evaluate the 9HPT features based on reliability, prognosis, and discrimination between treatment groups.
Methods: The MS partners Advancing Technology and Health Solutions (MS PATHS) cohort data were used to derive new features including completion time and speed.
Background: Pharmacists play a key role in combating the opioid-related overdose epidemic in the United States (US), but little is known about their experience and willingness to deliver preventive services for opioid use disorder (OUD).
Aims: This study seeks to identify correlates of pharmacists' concerns about drug use problems (prescription drug misuse/use disorder and illicit drug use/use disorder) as well as their practice experience delivering preventive services for OUD (e.g.
Objective: To understand barriers and facilitators for strengthening health systems for person-centred care of people with multiple long-term conditions-multimorbidity (MLTC-M) at the primary healthcare (PHC) level in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Design: A scoping review.
Methods: We adopted a systematic scoping review approach to chart literature guided by Arksey and O'Malley's methodological framework.
The care of people with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) is complex and time-consuming, often denying them the agency to self-manage their conditions-or for the clinician they visit to provide streamlined, person-centred care. We reconfigured The Practical Approach to Care Kit, our established, evidence-based, policy-aligned clinical decision support tool for low-resource primary care settings, to provide consolidated clinical guidance for a patient journey through a primary care facility. This places the patient at the centre of that journey and shifts the screening, monitoring and health education activities of multimorbidity care more equitably among the members of the primary care team.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: HIV is characterised by high rates of comorbidity with mental health conditions including depression, as such, the detection and treatment of comorbid depression is critical to achieve viral load suppression. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a collaborative care intervention for depression among adults with comorbid depression symptoms receiving ART in primary health care (PHC) facilities.
Methods: We conducted a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial in 40 clinics in the North West province of South Africa.