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Emerg Med Int
January 2025
Emergency Medicine Department, National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Emergency medicine practitioners encounter significant challenges related to patients who leave emergency departments (EDs) without being seen (LWBS) in the ED. We aimed to assess the characteristics, reasons, and rate of patients who left without being seen in the tertiary teaching hospital ED of King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A qualitative prospective observational study was conducted from January 4, 2023, to May 17, 2023, among patients who left the ED without being seen in the King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University Medical City, a tertiary hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAbstract: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a debilitating condition that reduces quality of life (QoL). In the United Kingdom, there is currently no standardised treatment pathway for women suffering from CPP. Therefore, it is essential to understand individuals' concerns regarding CPP, their treatment experiences and what they seek from treatment.
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January 2025
Department of Family Medicine & Population Health, Belgium, University of Antwerp, Antwerp.
Background: Illness severity, comorbidity, fever, age and symptom duration influence antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections (RTI). Non-medical determinants, such as patient expectations, also impact prescribing.
Aim: To quantify the effect of general practitioners' (GPs') perception of a patient request for antibiotics on antibiotic prescribing for RTI and investigate effect modification by medical determinants and country.
BMC Health Serv Res
January 2025
Innovation Lab for Policy Leadership in Agriculture and Food Security (PiLAF), University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Background: Not much is known about hypertension patients' preferences for attributes of public medical facilities in Nigeria and how these preferences influence their choices of medical facilities for treatment. An understanding of what these patients want especially in terms of service delivery could contribute to improved hypertension control.
Objective: This study aimed to determine hypertension patients' preferences for attributes of a public medical facility in Ibadan, Nigeria.
J Cancer Surviv
January 2025
Macquarie University Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University & Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
Purpose: Perceived cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) has been reported in prostate cancer survivors. Little is known about how CRCI impacts occupational functioning in working-aged prostate cancer survivors (PCS). This study aimed to investigate the association between CRCI and occupational functioning in PCS.
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