Original research: Theoretically informed codesign of a tailored intervention to support pressure ulcer prevention behaviours by older people living in their own homes in the UK and their lay carers: ...

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 ...

Objective To investigate the efficacy of esketamine as an adjuvant to epidural ropivacaine for labour analgesia by determining its effect on the median effective concentration (EC 50) in a 20 ml ...

Background Around 463 million people globally have diabetes, of which over 90% have type 2 diabetes (T2D). Projections indicate an expected increase to 700 million by 2045. The COVID-19 pandemic ...

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 ...

Background Behavioural interventions are closely associated with immunosuppressive medication (IM) adherence. We aimed to explore the relationship between physical activity and IM adherence among ...

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 ...

2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Objectives Owing to a lack of data, our aim was to evaluate and compare the impact of various common ...

Objectives Inadequate postoperative pain control is common and is associated with poor clinical outcomes. This study aimed to identify preoperative predictors of poor postoperative pain control in ...

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 ...

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 ...