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BackgroundIn China, which has the world’s largest and one of the fastest-aging populations, multimorbidity has become a major public health challenge. Older individuals with multiple chronic conditions experience poor ...

Abstract Background Inpatient care improves and maintains population health but requires a clear understanding of the drivers of inpatient care utilization. In Germany, inpatient cases increased from 16.5 to 19.4 million...

BackgroundPharmaceutical services play a critical role in safeguarding medication safety and optimizing therapeutic outcomes. Their value is increasingly recognized in China, where recent policy reforms have introduced n...

Abstract Background To evaluate whether performance-based sequencing of clinical placements improves learning outcomes compared with randomized sequencing in undergraduate physiotherapy education. Methods Undergraduate p...

Objective:  This study aimed to analyze the quality of inpatient services at Labuang Baji Hospital, Makassar, using the SERVQUAL model to identify the gap between patient expectations and perceptions across five service...

INTRODUCTION: Poisoning cases constitute approximately 0.7-5% of emergency department visits in Türkiye. This study aimed to investigate the demographic, etiological, and clinical characteristics of poisoning cases pres...

Objective: To identify risk factors for post-radiation xerostomia and to evaluate the tolerance to doses administered to the parotid gland in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Methods: A total of 462 patients...

To explore the benefits and drawbacks of pediatric hospitalization of adolescents with anorexia nervosa prior to psychiatric hospitalization.

BackgroundThis study evaluated two models of routine HIV testing of hospitalized children in a high HIV-prevalence resource-constrained African setting. Both models incorporated "task shifting," or the allocation of task...

Introduction: Informal workers are a priority for health equity. However, Indonesian employment laws provide limited legal social protection to informal workers, which may constrain access to health insurance. From the s...

Many cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections are caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae (K.pn), an infectious disease bacterium. Hospital inpatients can be exposed to this occurrence; MDR has transformed 26.96% ...

IntroductionThe MIRACLE Task Force is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional work group comprising immunology, genetics, obstetrics/gynecology, and maternal fetal medicine providers dedicated to understanding reproduct...

Abstract Background Economic dimensions of implementing quality improvement for diabetes care are understudied worldwide. We describe the economic evaluation protocol within a randomised controlled trial that tested a mu...

Abstract Background There is no standardized methodology to measure antibiotic drug use (AU) in small animal veterinary hospitals. Objectives To estimate AU prevalence in a small animal veterinary teaching hospital and c...

BackgroundGlobal population aging is accelerating, and China faces a significant challenge with “aging before affluent.” The disabled older adults population in China is projected to reach 58 million by 2050. Early i...

BackgroundThe adverse impacts of chronic pain extend far beyond the physical sensation itself. Chronic pain, an age-related condition, exacerbates geriatric disease burden and drives a central sensitivity-neuropsychiatri...

Abstract Background Respect for patients’ rights is a cornerstone of quality, patient-centred health care and effective healthcare governance. Ghana’s Patients’ Rights Charter (PRC), introduced in 2002, provides a ...

Acute renal failure (ARF) is one of the most important predictors of mortality in Crush syndrome. The aim of our study was to investigate the early predictors of in-hospital mortality in patients presenting with myoglobu...

ABSTRACT Background and Aims The world has been devastated by the pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) from 2019 to 2023 which necessitated stratifying patients into mild, m...

ObjectiveTo examine whether China’s Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) payment reform is associated with low-value inpatient admissions—defined as entire hospitalizations of questionable necessity—and to identify the pr...

Yufeng Sun, Xiaobo Tian, Jiaguo Wu, Yuting Xue, Yichuan Qin, Xiangyi Liu Departments of Clinical Laboratory, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100176, People’s Republic of ChinaCorresponden...

Abstract BackgroundIndividuals with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder face a significantly elevated risk of obesity, primarily due to weight gain associated with psychiatric medications and lifestyle factors....

Objective: The use of irrational antibiotics occurs in many hospitals and is associated with an increase of antibiotic resistance worldwide. WHO has described that there is currently a “crisis” of antibiotic resistan...

Abstract Objective To describe healthcare resource use in rural Mozambique among postpartum women with HIV, their seroconcordant male partners (MPs), and their infants to estimate costs and inform program planning. Metho...