Preventive care recommendations to promote health equity.

Background: Avoidable disparities in health outcomes persist in Canada despite substantial investments in a publicly funded health care system that includes preventive services. Our objective was to provide preventive care recommendations that promote health equity by prioritizing effective interventions for people experiencing disadvantages.

Methods: The guideline was developed by a primary care provider-patient panel, with input from a patient-partner panel with diverse lived experiences.

Touch localization after nerve repair in the hand: insights from a new measurement tool.

Errors of touch localization after hand nerve injuries are common, and their measurement is important for evaluating functional recovery. Available empirical accounts have significant methodological limitations, however, and a quantitatively rigorous and detailed description of touch localization in nerve injury is lacking. Here, we develop a new method of measuring touch localization and evaluate its value for use in nerve injury.

Assessment of eye drop instillation techniques among patients with primary open angle glaucoma in a Nigerian tertiary hospital.

Purpose: To assess the technique of eye drop instillation and its determinants among patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) attending a Nigerian tertiary hospital.

Methods: This study was a cross-sectional observational study conducted among 130 participants. Systematic sampling technique was used.

Correlation between clinical and cytological parameters of dry eye among diabetics in a Nigerian tertiary hospital.

Purpose: To correlate the clinico-cytological features of dry eye among diabetic patients attending Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional, comparative study among 104 diabetic and 104 age-/sex-matched non-diabetic participants. Demographics were obtained using interviewer-administered questionnaire.