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BMJ Open
January 2025
Department of Health Policy Planning and Management, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
Objectives: Empowering communities through identifying and unlocking community capacities and capabilities is vital for improving community health systems. This study assessed the community health system's status quo and readiness for implementing a government-led, partner-supported community health worker project.
Design: A mixed methods cross-sectional study.
Eur J Hosp Pharm
January 2025
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Objectives: This paper combines the concepts of design thinking and benchmarking in an aseptic manufacturing context. Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that aims to understand user needs, generate ideas, prototypes and test solutions. There are no published examples in the Irish healthcare setting.
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January 2025
Department of Infectious Diseases, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK; Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary, and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. Electronic address:
Background: Procalcitonin is a rapid response biomarker specific for bacterial infection, which is not routinely used in the UK National Health Service. We aimed to assess whether using a procalcitonin-guided algorithm would safely reduce the duration of antibiotic therapy compared with usual care, in which C-reactive protein is the commonly used biomarker.
Methods: The BATCH trial was a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, parallel, two-arm, individually randomised, controlled trial conducted in 15 hospitals in England and Wales.
Intensive Crit Care Nurs
January 2025
Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Electronic address:
Background: Physical restraints are frequently used in ICU patients, while their effects are unclear.
Objective: To explore differences in patient reported mental health outcomes and quality of life between physical restrained and non-physical restrained ICU patients at 3- and 12-months post ICU admission, compared to pre-ICU health status.
Research Methodology/design: Prospective cohort study.
Clin Drug Investig
January 2025
Department of Medicine, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Purpose: The REDUCE-IT randomized trial demonstrated a cardiovascular benefit of icosapent ethyl (IPE) but also raised potential safety signals for atrial fibrillation (AF) and serious bleeding. We aimed to evaluate the real-world safety of IPE versus mixed omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (OM-3) formulations.
Methods: This retrospective active comparator new-user cohort study compared rates of new-onset AF and major bleeding (MB) among adult new users of IPE versus OM-3 in 2020-2024 US Veterans Affairs data.
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