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(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2024-03)Given the international growth of physician associate/physician assistant (PA) and PA-comparable professions, it is crucial to understand the educational curricula of PA/PA-comparable professions worldwide. This article ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-03)BACKGROUND : Illicit drug use results in considerable global morbidity, but there is little data on its trends and factors associated with it in sub-Saharan Africa. We consider these questions using national data from ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)After nearly a decade of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) rollout in sub-Saharan Africa, there has been limited study of PrEP messaging in news media. We selected twenty South African newspapers with the highest circulation ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-04)PURPOSE : This study assesses risk factors of loss to follow-up (LTFU) and estimates mortality risk among female sex workers (FSW) with HIV in Durban, South Africa, in 2018–2021. METHODS : We used data from the ...
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(Elsevier, 2023)OBJECTIVES : To assess the rates of failed insertion, expulsion, and perforation when intrauterine device (IUD) insertions were done by newly trained clinicians, and to examine factors that may affect these outcomes. STUDY ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2023-05)BACKGROUND : We report the yield of targeted universal tuberculosis (TB) testing of clinic attendees in high-risk groups. METHODS : Clinic attendees in primary healthcare facilities in South Africa with one of the following ...
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(Sage, 2024)BACKGROUND : The COVID-19 pandemic has strained already struggling health systems in low- and middle-income countries such as Malawi. To slow the spread of the virus, the World Health Organization recommended non-pharmaceutical ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Preamble: The ongoing professional development of India’s lean cadre of 250,000 General Practitioners and 30,000 Government doctors is constrained by limited options to update themselves. This negatively impacts on the ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-12)BACKGROUND : The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed immense pressure on frontline doctors. Burnout is a psychological syndrome that develops in response to chronic work stress. It consists of emotional ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-09-05)BACKGROUND : The use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an essential skill in the practice of emergency medicine (EM), with benefit to patient care by improving diagnostic accuracy. Despite this, there exists little ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-09-05)BACKGROUND : Temporary shelters were established for street-based people during the national level 5 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown. However, street-based substance users’ need to access substances was not ...
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(South African Medical Association, 2023-09)BACKGROUND : People experiencing homelessness are among the most socially and medically vulnerable populations. Objectives. To assess the prevalence of comorbid disease and associated risk factors among homeless people ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2023)Acute limb compartment syndrome can occur with cytotoxic snake envenomation. Ultrasound (US) assessment of the affected limb has been suggested as an adjunct to the administration of snakebite polyvalent antivenom to ...
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(South African Medical Association, 2023-04)BACKGROUND : In Malawi, only 1 072 229 people out of a national target population of 13 546 324 had received at least one dose of the AstraZeneca COVID‑19 vaccine by 26 December 2021, and only 672 819 people were classified ...
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(South African Medical Association, 2023-07)This article explores the management of snakebite in vulnerable patient groups, namely children and pregnant women, as well as providing detail on the current best practice when caring for venom ophthalmia and surgical ...
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(South African Medical Association, 2023-06)Snakebite management is largely driven by expert opinion and consensus. However, there are a few large retrospective studies and randomised controlled trials that have improved the quality of medical guidance currently ...
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(American Medical Association, 2023-05)Social determinants of health are increasingly recognized as important factors in individual and public health outcomes and are therefore of interest to both health care systems and medical schools. However, teaching ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)The personal health behaviours, including physical activity, of healthcare professionals influence their counselling practices as they relate to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, despite the importance of producing ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2022-04)BACKGROUND : Limitations in laboratory testing capacity undermine the ability to quantify the overall burden of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. METHODS : We undertook a population-based ...
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(Springer, 2023-04)Occupational therapy is a holistic profession that assists clients to restore meaning to their lives—a vital spiritual task. Spirituality is a multifaceted and multidimensional construct that occupational therapists need ...
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