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Point-of-care tests to strengthen health systems and save newborn lives: The case of syphilis
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Poor rural populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have access to diagnostic laboratories. Until recently, this has meant that they could not be screened for asymptomatic infections such as HIV or ...
Standard set of health outcome measures for older persons
(BioMed Central, 2018)
BACKGROUND: The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) was founded in 2012 to propose consensus-based measurement tools and documentation for different conditions and populations.This article ...
Social network analysis identified central outcomes for core outcome sets using systematic reviews of HIV/AIDS
(Elsevier, 2015)
OBJECTIVES: Methods to develop core outcome sets, the minimum outcomes that should be measured in research in a topic area, vary. We applied social network analysis methods to understand outcome co-occurrence patterns in ...
The WPA-Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Future of Psychiatry
(Elsevier, 2017)
Background. This Commission addresses several priority areas for psychiatry over the next decade, and into the 21st century. These represent challenges and opportunities for the profession to sustain and develop itself to ...
Patient perspectives on the promptness and quality of care of road traffic incident victims in Peru: A cross-sectional, active surveillance study
(F1000 Research, 2013)
Background: Road injuries are the second-leading cause of disease and injury in the Andean region of South America. Adequate management of road traffic crash victims is important to prevent and reduce deaths and serious ...
Achieving remission or low disease activity is associated with better outcomes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A systematic literature review
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
Background Remission and low disease activity (LDA) have been proposed as the treatment goals for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Several definitions for each have been proposed in the literature. Objective ...
Key performance indicators for stroke from the Ministry of Health of Brazil: benchmarking and indicator parameters
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2017-06)
The present study aimed to analyze the stroke units in two centers for the key performance indicators (KPIs) required by the Ministry of Health in Brazil.