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BMC Health Serv Res
January 2025
Health Management Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Introduction: The financial stability of hospitals directly impacts their ability to fulfill their primary mission of enhancing healthcare. This study identifies and prioritizes cost reduction and revenue enhancement strategies for Iranian hospitals.
Method: This investigation employed a mixed-methods design, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Travel Med Infect Dis
January 2025
School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland; School of Medicine, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address:
Introduction: There has been limited literature reporting the nature of the consular assistance provided to travellers. This study aimed to describe the consular assistance activity of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.
Methods: Publicly available consular assistance data (2014-2023) were analysed descriptively.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
January 2025
School of Biological Sciences and Centre for Engineering Biology, University of Edinburgh, Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK.
Chronobiology is a multidisciplinary field that extends across the tree of life, transcends all scales of biological organization, and has huge translational potential. For the UK to harness the opportunities presented within applied chronobiology, we need to build our network outwards to reach stakeholders that can directly benefit from our discoveries. In this article, we discuss the importance of biological rhythms to our health, society, economy and environment, with a particular focus on circadian rhythms.
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January 2025
Dept. of Psychiatry, Aarupadai Veedu Medical College, Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation (VMRF-DU), Puducherry, India.
Background: Depression not only fosters the development of metabolic syndrome through behavioral, physiological, genetic, and treatment-related factors, but it also doubles the risk of experiencing metabolic syndrome. The objectives were to assess the sociodemographic and clinical profile of patients with depressive disorder, to assess the various metabolic parameters of metabolic syndrome in patients with depressive disorder, and to study the association between the severity of depression and metabolic syndrome.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among patients diagnosed with depression (n = 160) attending the Psychiatry outpatient department of a tertiary healthcare facility in Puducherry.
Mil Med
January 2025
Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Introduction: In current and anticipated future conflicts, including large-scale combat operations, medical teams are tasked to provide prolonged casualty care (PCC) or extended patient care that occurs when delays in evacuation exceed the team's capabilities. Although the principles of PCC are often taught to military medical providers using simulation, educators rarely dedicate the time to training required to simulate the prolonged nature of these encounters. Therefore, a lack of knowledge exists regarding which aspects of extended care may be lost in an accelerated training scenario.
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