Objective This study aimed to assess the length of hospital stay after caesarean delivery and the associated factors from 15 March to 15 May 2021. Design We conducted an institution-based, ...

Objective POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein and skin changes) syndrome is a rare multisystem disease characterised by plasma cell dyscrasia and overproduction of vascular ...

Setting Community-based study conducted in Ilam municipality, Nepal, from October to November 2019. Participants The study was conducted among 164 people with physical, hearing and vision-related ...

Objective Better knowledge of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection prevalence at the national level can help to implement pertinent strategies to address HBV related burden. The aim was to estimate the ...

1 Primary Care & Population Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK 2 Department of Urology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, Hampshire, UK 3 Department ...

5 Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore 6 Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, ...

Background General practitioners (GPs) manage the drug therapies of people with chronic diseases, and poor adherence to medication remains a major challenge. Objective This qualitative study examined ...

Objectives Elevated risk factors for a number of chronic diseases have been identified in lorry drivers. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as a lack of physical activity (PA) and high levels of ...

1 Centre for Applied Health Economics, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia 2 Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine, The University of Nottingham, ...

Data sources We performed a literature search of the electronic databases CINAHL Plus, EMBASE, MEDLINE (Ovid) and Web of Science from database inception to May 2021 as well as hand searching of trial ...

2 Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 3 Department of Statistics, Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå ...

Objectives The purpose of this study was to use easily obtained and directly observable clinical features to establish predictive models to identify patients at increased risk of stroke. Setting and ...