Original research: Assessing global access to continuing professional development for rehabilitation professionals: a mixed methods study of current practices and perceived needs (5 November, 2024) ...

Objectives This study represents a pioneering attempt to quantify the contribution of age, sex and socioeconomic status (SES) to the observed inequalities in lipid profile components. Design ...

Objective To clarify the effects of smoking on the disposition of two commonly used antipsychotics, olanzapine and clozapine, and to create standards to adjust the doses of these drugs in clinical ...

1 School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Objectives The fear-avoidance model describes how the belief that pain is a sign of damage leads ...

1 NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands Objectives To minimise adverse events in healthcare, various large-scale incident reporting and learning systems ...

Objective To investigate the relationship between temperature extremes and daily number of deaths in Jinan, a temperate city in northern China. Methods Data ondaily number of deaths and meteorological ...

Objectives China launched the National Healthcare Improvement Initiative (NHII) in 2015 to improve patient experiences in healthcare. This study aimed to generate evidence of hospital care quality ...

Background Cancer pain management is critical, especially at advanced stages. This is particularly important in Africa as most cancers are typically diagnosed at advanced stages. Given the central ...

Background Even if promoting antenatal exercises is an evolving concept worldwide, there is a scarcity of qualitative exploratory studies which directly focus on pregnant mothers’ views about ...

Objectives To determine the effect of computerised cognitive training (CCT) on improving cognitive function for older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Design Systematic review and ...

Introduction Given the promising advantages of upper extremity home-based programmes in children with cerebral palsy (CP), a systematic review of the available literature on this topic is warranted.

Objective The statistical analysis for a 2-arm randomised controlled trial (RCT) with a baseline outcome followed by a few assessments at fixed follow-up times typically invokes traditional analytic ...