Objective China has a high disease burden of low bone mass, and elderly men with excessive alcohol consumption may be underdiagnosed and undertreated given the adverse effects on skeletal health. This ...

Introduction One of the challenges in managing patients with hantavirus infection is accurately identifying individuals who are at risk of developing severe disease. Prompt identification of these ...

Objectives The objective of this study was to test whether an airtime reward increased tuberculosis (TB) Check screening uptake. This served as a feasibility study for the planned Phase 2, which aimed ...

Introduction Demographic change is resulting in a growing number of individuals requiring nursing care, while the ...

Introduction Globally, up to 15% of children and adolescents experience a mental health (MH) condition. In the UK, an increasing number of children and young people (CYP) are presenting to acute ...

1 Centre for Mental Health and Safety, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Objective Rates of hospital presentation for self-harm in England were compared using different national and local ...

Objectives Hospital-acquired bloodstream infections are known to increase the risk of death and prolong hospital stay, but precise estimates of these two important outcomes from well-designed studies ...

Objectives To assess how Dutch regional euthanasia review committees (RTE) apply the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) due care criteria in cases where the criteria are judged not to ...

4 Center for Epidemiologic Research in Asia, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Otsu, Japan Objectives To evaluate the impact of dietary sodium and potassium (Na–K) ratio on mortality from ...