The Mobility Makeover: Exploring the Interest, Need and Feasibility of a Mobility Aid Personalisation Programme in Long-Term Care by Pauli Gardner, Jaclyn Ryder, Colleen Whyte, Norma Restivo

“…There are several important implications of this research including identifying the potential benefits of a device personalisation programme and how this might ‘work’ in a care home and providing insight into what may be lost in current systems where the function and efficiency of mobility device prescription are prioritised. …”
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Gestión de riesgos en la realización de pruebas de función pulmonar pospandemia by Luis Puente Maestu, Juana M. Martínez Llorens, José Luis Valera Felices, Yolanda Torralba García, Marian Gimeno Peribáñez, Eusebi Chiner, Roberto Cabestre, Juan Rodríguez Hermosa, Raúl Godoy Mayoral, Celeste Marcos, Ana Balaña Corberó, Carlos Almonacid

“…A ministerial order issued by the Ministry of Health is mentioned, which lifts the mandatory use of facemasks in certain settings, in alignment with the strategy to return to normalcy.The proposal provides an in-depth analysis of the infectious risk to healthcare workers and patients in pulmonary function laboratories, concluding that current practices —along with the use of surgical masks and viral filters— minimize the generation and transmission of infectious aerosols.Detailed recommendations are provided for risk management, including architectural controls, administrative measures, hygiene practices, and personal protective protocols, with the goal of safeguarding both healthcare professionals and patients.The cited bibliography reinforces the scientific evidence base underlying the proposed recommendations and demonstrates a careful and deliberate approach to the safe and efficient reintroduction of spirometry and other pulmonary function tests into routine healthcare.…”
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Development of a Serious Game to Simulate Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Experiences: Collaborative Quasi-Experimental Study by Yukihide Miyosawa, Koichi Hirabayashi, Kodai Yamada, Fumiya Kobayashi, Nanami Ogihara, Noa Takeda, Eri Okamura, Shogo Matsumura

“…ObjectiveTo address the educational gaps in neonatal care training, we aimed to develop and evaluate a serious game that provides a comprehensive NICU simulation experience for students and the general public. …”
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HIF-1 regulates mitochondrial function in bone marrow-derived macrophages but not in tissue-resident alveolar macrophages by Parker S. Woods, Rengül Cetin-Atalay, Angelo Y. Meliton, Kaitlyn A. Sun, Obada R. Shamaa, Kun Woo D. Shin, Yufeng Tian, Benjamin Haugen, Robert B. Hamanaka, Gökhan M. Mutlu

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Impressions of acute pain services in a tertiary care center in India – Enhancing perioperative outcomes beyond pain by Jyotsna Agarwal, Samiksha Khanuja, Mahima Gupta, Pratibha Panjiar, Megha Wadhwani, Mansi Jain

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Advancing cancer care through digital access in the USA: a state-of-the-art review of patient portals in oncology by Liz Salmi, Jessica Ancker, Lisa Diamond, Uday Suresh, Trent Rosenbloom, Bryan Steitz

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Opportunities, challenges, and requirements for Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation in Primary Health Care (PHC): a systematic review by Farzaneh Yousefi, Reza Dehnavieh, Maude Laberge, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Mohammad Mehdi Ghaemi, Mohsen Nadali, Najmeh Azizi

“…Abstract Background Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly reshaped Primary Health Care (PHC), offering various possibilities and complexities across all functional dimensions. …”
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Effectiveness and Economic Evaluation of Chiropractic Care for the Treatment of Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review of Pragmatic Studies. by Marc-André Blanchette, Mette Jensen Stochkendahl, Roxane Borges Da Silva, Jill Boruff, Pamela Harrison, André Bussières

“…<h4>Background context</h4>Low back pain (LBP) is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide and among the most common reasons for seeking primary sector care. Chiropractors, physical therapists and general practitioners are among those providers that treat LBP patients, but there is only limited evidence regarding the effectiveness and economic evaluation of care offered by these provider groups.…”
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The optimal system of care for the management of delayed sleep onset in adult ADHD in the UK: a modified Delphi consensus by Philip Asherson, Giovanni Giaroli, Paul Gringras, Heidi Phillips, Hugh Selsick, Michael Smith, Dietmar Hank

“…This should include effective treatments, such as melatonin, which could be initiated in primary care and monitored by general practitioners for newly diagnosed patients. …”
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Combined chiropractic care and Tai Chi for chronic neck pain: A protocol for a pilot randomized trial by Peter M. Wayne, Robert Vining, Cynthia R. Long, Wren M. Burton, Daniel Litrownik, Jacqueline Guzman, Karen Kilgore, Thomas J. Hagan, Pamela M. Rist, Matthew H. Kowalski

“…Two interventions, multimodal chiropractic care (MCC) and Tai Chi, have shown promise individually in managing CNP, and when combined may offer synergistic benefits. …”
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Confirmatory factor analyses of the Mandarin Chinese version of the perceived stressors in intensive care units among healthcare professionals by Yonge Gao, Xia Chen, Shuang Zhang, Jiawei Yang, Rui Liu, Wendy Moyle, Wendy Moyle, Lihui Pu, Wei Shen

“…BackgroundThe Perceived Stressors in Intensive Care Units (PS-ICU) scale was designed to assess both general and occupational stressors experienced by healthcare professionals (HCPs) under normal circumstances. …”
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Continuity of Ideas and Generations. Historical Facts About the Activities of the Sheremetev Hospital (for the 100th Anniversary of the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Eme... by S. A. Kabanova, Yu. S. Goldfarb, E. V. Grafova, E. E. Lukyanova, S. S. Petrikov, M. L. Rogal, M. Sh. Khubutiya

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Pathway-specific engineered mouse allograft models functionally recapitulate human serous epithelial ovarian cancer. by Ludmila Szabova, Sujata Bupp, Muhaymin Kamal, Deborah B Householder, Lidia Hernandez, Jerome J Schlomer, Maureen L Baran, Ming Yi, Robert M Stephens, Christina M Annunziata, Philip L Martin, Terry A Van Dyke, Zoe Weaver Ohler, Simone Difilippantonio

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Association between child and youth physical activity and family functioning: a systematic review of observational studies by Yasmine Forghani Soong, Heather Hollman, Ryan E. Rhodes

“…As the family unit is optimally placed during a critical time in development, it is pertinent to explore the relationship between family functioning and child and youth physical activity. Purpose: To synthesize and analyze the literature to determine the associations between general domains of family functioning (general family functioning, cohesion, communication, conflict, organization, family problem-solving ability, household chaos, and affective environment) and child and youth (children: aged five to 12, youth: aged 13 to 17) physical activity. …”
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Abnormal Brain Functional Connectivity in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Correlations with Clinical and Cognitive Parameters by Han KI, Yeo Y, Jo HJ, Jo MJ, Park Y, Park TS, Jung SJ, Bae JH, Jang SH, Choi J, Park DW, Kim TH

“…A total of 184 resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) maps were generated for all seed points. …”
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Functional limitations and coping mechanisms of women aged 60 years and older with self-reported hand osteoarthritis by J. McIntyre, R.W.E. Joubert, S.S. Ramklass

“…Seventy-two per cent accessed health care at the primary healthcare clinic at a seniors’ service centre. …”
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Importance and added value of functional impairment to predict mortality: a cohort study in Swedish medical inpatients by Gustav Torisson, Elisabet Londos, Lars Stavenow, Lennart Minthon

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Monitoring Quality of Care in the WHO Africa Region-A study design for measurement and tracking, towards UHC attainment by Regina Titi-Ofei, Doris Osei-Afriyie, Humphrey Karamagi

“…This paper reports on the design of a study to generate a quality of care index for countries in the World Health Organization Africa Region. …”
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5G-MobiCare: A Secure 5G Assisted Remote Mobile Health Monitoring Platform by Hemangi Goswami, Tarun Pandey, Hiten Choudhury

“…In critical scenarios like ambulance care, quick and reliable authentication becomes crucial as devices remain in motion. …”
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Expert review in diagnostic, therapeutic and follow-up of Fabry disease in Latin America based on patient care standards by Roberto Giugliani, Juan Politei, Ana Martins, Nelson Murillo, Paula Rozenfeld, Mauricio Lopera, Sergio Salgado, Gustavo Quirós, Charles Marques Lourenço, Osvaldo Vieira, Hernán Amartino, Fernando Perretta, Sandra Marques e Silva, Joseph Brooks, Laura Titievsky, Jacobo Villalobos, Cassiano Braga, Harris A. Peñaranda

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