Publications by authors named "Thanh Thuy Pham"
Objectives: The World Health Organization recommends empowering patients/families to remind healthcare workers (HCWs) to perform hand hygiene (HH). We sought to understand acceptability of a family empowerment strategy in a Vietnamese pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
Methods: With end-user input, we designed a tool to help families in a PICU in Vietnam to remind HCWs to perform HH.
Background: Guidelines recommend empowering patients and families to remind healthcare workers (HCWs) to perform hand hygiene (HH). The effectiveness of empowerment tools for patients and their families in Southeast Asia is unknown.
Methods: We performed a prospective study in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a Vietnamese pediatric referral hospital.
Many user localization technologies and methods have been proposed for either indoor or outdoor environments. However, each technology has its own drawbacks. Recently, many researches and designs have been proposed to build a combination of multiple localization technologies system which can provide higher precision results and solve the limitation in each localization technology alone.
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- Despite increased access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Asia, many HIV-positive patients still start treatment at advanced stages of the disease, indicated by low CD4 levels.
- A study of 2,737 ART-naïve patients revealed that the median CD4 count at ART initiation rose from 115 cells/mm³ in 2008 to 302 cells/mm³ after 2011, and late ART initiation dropped from 79.1% to 36.3% during the same period.
- Factors influencing late ART initiation included the year of treatment start, male sex, and certain risk behaviors, while those who began treatment late faced higher mortality rates after starting ART.