Recommendations for the Quality Management of Patient-Generated Health Data in Remote Patient Monitoring: Mixed Methods Study.

Background: Patient-generated health data (PGHD) collected from innovative wearables are enabling health care to shift to outside clinical settings through remote patient monitoring (RPM) initiatives. However, PGHD are collected continuously under the patient's responsibility in rapidly changing circumstances during the patient's daily life. This poses risks to the quality of PGHD and, in turn, reduces their trustworthiness and fitness for use in clinical practice.

Antioxidant Therapeutic Strategies in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

The distinguishing pathogenic features of neurodegenerative diseases include mitochondrial dysfunction and derived reactive oxygen species generation. The neural tissue is highly sensitive to oxidative stress and this is a prominent factor in both chronic and acute neurodegeneration. Based on this, therapeutic strategies using antioxidant molecules towards redox equilibrium have been widely used for the treatment of several brain pathologies.

Identifying and dismantling racism in Australian perinatal settings: Reframing the narrative from a risk lens to intentionally prioritise connectedness and strengths in providing care to First Nations families.

Introduction: The perinatal period is a time when provision of responsive care offers a life course opportunity for positive change to improve health outcomes for mothers, infants and families. Australian perinatal systems carry the legacy of settler-colonialism, manifesting in racist events and interactions that First Nations parents encounter daily.

Objective: The dominance of a western risk lens, and conscious and unconscious bias in the child protection workforce, sustains disproportionately high numbers of First Nations infants being removed from their parents' care.

Patient-generated health data management and quality challenges in remote patient monitoring.

Background: Patient-Generated Health Data (PGHD) in remote monitoring programs is a promising source of precise, personalized data, encouraged by expanding growth in the health technologies market. However, PGHD utilization in clinical settings is low. One of the critical challenges that impedes confident clinical use of PGHD is that these data are not managed according to any recognized approach for data quality assurance.

Quality Assurance of Health Wearables Data: Participatory Workshop on Barriers, Solutions, and Expectations.

Background: The ubiquity of health wearables and the consequent production of patient-generated health data (PGHD) are rapidly escalating. However, the utilization of PGHD in routine clinical practices is still low because of data quality issues. There is no agreed approach to PGHD quality assurance; therefore, realizing the promise of PGHD requires in-depth discussion among diverse stakeholders to identify the data quality assurance challenges they face and understand their needs for PGHD quality assurance.

The impact of walk-in centres and GP co-operatives on emergency department presentations: A systematic review of the literature.

Background: Internationally, non-urgent presentations are increasing the pressure on Emergency Department (ED) staff and resources. This systematic review aims to identify the impact of alternative emergency care pathways on ED presentations - specifically GP cooperatives and walk-in clinics.

Methods: Based on a structured PICO enquiry with either walk-in clinic or GP cooperative as the intervention, a search was made for peer-reviewed publications in English, between 2000 and 2014.

Safinamide for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

The major unmet needs in the medical treatment of Parkinson disease (PD) are reduction of motor side effects from dopaminergic drugs, management of non-motor symptoms and disease modification. Areas covered: Motor fluctuations and OFF periods are a significant determinant of quality of life in PD and reducing their duration and severity can significantly improve motor function. This aim may be partly facilitated by the development of effective adjunctive drugs for dopamine replacement.

'This child is a planned baby': skilled migrant fathers and reproductive decision-making.

Aim: This study analyses discourses that migrant fathers in New Zealand draw on to explain their decision to have a child.

Background: Little is known about migrant men's reproductive decisions in the context of contemporary/active fatherhood.

Design: A discourse analytic research study.

One woman's empowerment is another's oppression: Korean migrant mothers on giving birth in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Purpose: To critically analyze the power relations underpinning New Zealand maternity, through analysis of discourses used by Korean migrant mothers.

Design: Data from a focus group with Korean new mothers was subjected to a secondary analysis using a discourse analysis drawing on postcolonial feminist and Foucauldian theoretical ideas.

Results: Korean mothers in the study framed the maternal body as an at-risk body, which meant that they struggled to fit into the local discursive landscape of maternity as empowering.

Regulating migrant maternity: nursing and midwifery's emancipatory aims and assimilatory practices.

In contemporary Western societies, birthing is framed as transformative for mothers; however, it is also a site for the regulation of women and the exercise of power relations by health professionals. Nursing scholarship often frames migrant mothers as a problem, yet nurses are imbricated within systems of scrutiny and regulation that are unevenly imposed on 'other' mothers. Discourses deployed by New Zealand Plunket nurses (who provide a universal 'well child' health service) to frame their understandings of migrant mothers were analysed using discourse analysis and concepts of power drawn from the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault, read through a postcolonial feminist perspective.

Demographic predictors of cervical cancer screening in Chinese women in New Zealand.

Objective: This pilot study examined the cervical cancer screening practices of Chinese women living in Auckland and the association with social demographic factors.

Methods: A community-based survey was conducted and 234 questionnaires were administrated to ascertain the uptake of cervical screening. Participants were asked whether they had ever been screened in New Zealand and whether it had occurred in the previous 3 years.

Urinary tract infection in the renal transplant patient.

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common type of bacterial infection contracted by recipients of renal allografts in the post-transplantation period. Fungi and viruses can also cause UTIs, but infections caused by these organisms are less common than those caused by bacteria. Both the lower and upper urinary tract (encompassing grafted or native kidneys) can be affected.

Transforming possibilities of care: Goan migrant motherhood in New Zealand.

Little is known about the maternity experiences of migrant mothers in Aotearoa/New Zealand--and in particular the ways in which women adapt and survive when separated from traditional postnatal practices and family support. This paper reports on a study of the maternity care experiences of women from Goa (India) in Auckland, New Zealand. Multiple research strategies were incorporated into the process to prevent reproduction of deficiency discourses.