Introduction: Almost a quarter of patients with tuberculosis (TB) in Pakistan may also have diabetes, with an additional quarter in a pre-diabetic state. Diabetes is a risk factor for TB. When it co-occurs with TB, it leads to poorer outcomes for both conditions, considerably increasing the burden on individuals, families and the healthcare system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFViolence, aggression, and patient assaults result in a considerable number of job-related accidents in psychiatry. We describe a patient-oriented training program for managing aggression and violence in psychiatry. Ratings by 335 training participants indicate high to very high acceptance.
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