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BMJ Open
December 2024
Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Science, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Objectives: Centres of clinical excellence (CoCE) are healthcare facilities that provide excellent healthcare. However, despite their increasing prevalence, it is unclear how CoCE are identified and monitored. This paper explores how CoCE has been described in the literature, including its defining characteristics and selection and monitoring processes.
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December 2024
School of Nursing and Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Objectives: This study explored the perceptions and experiences of self-advocacy among patients who had a stroke in China.
Design: A descriptive phenomenological qualitative study was performed. Colaizzi's seven-step method was used to analyse the data.
BMC Cancer
January 2025
Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu- Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Background: Globally, estimates of cancer cases and deaths have increased since 2018, particularly in Latin America and Caribbean countries. In Antigua and Barbuda, understanding the burden of common cancers such as female breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate cancers is critical. This study aimed to assess the incidence, trends, and patterns of these four cancers from 2017 to 2021.
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January 2025
Yale Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA; Mid-Norway Center for Sepsis Research, Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Rationale & Objective: Observational studies suggest that uromodulin, produced by the kidneys, is associated with a reduced the risk of upper urinary tract infections, but inferences are limited by potential confounding factors. This study sought to explore further the validity of this association using Mendelian randomization.
Study Design: Two-sample Mendelian randomization study.
PLoS One
January 2025
Concord Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Objectives: Clinical breast examination (CBE) open the pathway to early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. This study examined barriers to CBE uptake in seven sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries.
Methods: Data from the most current Demographic and Health Surveys of Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Kenya Mozambique, Senegal and Tanzania was used.
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