Publications by authors named "Tokunbo Akande"
Background And Objectives: Patient identifiers are used in the opening lines of case presentations and written documentation in health care and medical education settings. These identifiers can reflect physicians' implicit biases, which are known to impact patient care. Yet, no clear recommendations for the use of patient identifiers to reduce bias and stigma in patient care and medical education learning environments currently exist.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Interventions aimed at modifying behavior for promoting health and disease management are traditionally resource intensive and difficult to scale. Mobile health apps are being used for these purposes; however, their effects on health outcomes have been mixed.
Objective: This study aims to summarize the evidence of rigorously evaluated health-related apps on health outcomes and explore the effects of features present in studies that reported a statistically significant difference in health outcomes.
Background. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global public health problem with known gender-related (male versus female) disparities. We reviewed the qualitative evidence (written/spoken narrative) for gender-related differences limiting TB service access from symptom onset to treatment initiation.
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- Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant global health issue, highlighting gender-related disparities in accessing TB services from the onset of symptoms to treatment.
- A systematic review analyzed data from 137 quantitative studies, focusing on barriers and delays in TB care, with a significant portion coming from African and Asian regions.
- While many studies reported no gender differences, those that did found that women often faced greater barriers (financial, physical, stigma, health literacy) and longer delays in diagnosis compared to men.
Importance: Trauma is known to be one of the strongest risk factors for pulmonary embolism (PE). Current guidelines recommend low-molecular-weight heparin therapy for prevention of PE, but trauma places some patients at risk of excess bleeding. Experts are divided on the role of prophylactic inferior vena cava (IVC) filters to prevent PE.
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