Objectives This study aimed to investigate the associations of adolescents’ self-reported family financial stress, registry-based parental household income and parental education with adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms. Additionally, we adjust these associations for parental anxiety and depression symptoms and examine potential secular changes in these associations. Design Family linkage study, using two cross-sectional population-based health studies, the Young-HUNT study and the HUNT study. Registry-based data from Statistics Norway (SSB). Setting Northern part of Trøndelag…
Introduction Despite progress in primary care, access to oral health remains limited in India. Integrating oral health into primary care can improve oral health outcomes for communities, especially in rural areas. This study aims to develop an implementation model for integrating dental healthcare into primary healthcare systems in Chamarajanagar and Mysuru districts of Karnataka. Methods and analysis A mixed-methods implementation research approach will be adopted for this study, comprising three phases: formative, pilot and implementation and evaluation. A mixed-methods study at the district…
Introduction Adult-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D) is often misclassified as type 2 diabetes (T2D), resulting in delayed treatment, missed opportunities for referrals to specialists and increased risk of complications including diabetic ketoacidosis. An electronic medical record (EMR)-based algorithm—originally trained on a large national EMR dataset to identify likely misclassified adult-onset T1D cases—was tested and retrained on a health information exchange (HIE) dataset from HealthShare Exchange (HSX). Promising results were achieved on historical data, particularly when using the retrained…
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One of California’s largest healthcare unions is sponsoring two initiatives that would regulate community clinics and cap executive and managerial pay at hospitals and physician groups. In the most recent eruption of a long-standing feud, the measures have drawn fierce opposition from a wide swath of the medical industry.
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This cohort study examines emergency department visits and hospitalizations for cold-related illness among older adults experiencing homelessness compared with socioeconomically disadvantaged adults with housing in Ontario, Canada.
This secondary analysis of the 4 Intelligent Stewardship Prompts to Improve Real-Time Empiric Antibiotic Selection (INSPRE) cluster randomized clinical trials evaluates the association of computerized provider order entry prompts with clinicians’ antibiotic prescribing for patients with cancer who were hospitalized for infection.
This analysis of secondary outcomes of a randomized clinical trial investigates whether the provision of mass administration of azithromycin for infants aged 1 to 11 months improves growth outcomes.
This case-control study evaluates the association between current season influenza vaccination and laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infection and, among persons with laboratory-confirmed influenza, the association with influenza-associated death.
Thousands of men with prostate cancer are to be offered high-powered ‘precision’ radiotherapy on the NHS to target the disease more effectively, helping reduce side-effects and spare them 15 courses of treatment. NHS England has today announced that, for the first time, eligible men with early prostate cancer will be offered pioneering therapy known as […]
Ali Dianaty, MiniMed’s chief product and technology officer, believes the company is “clearly ahead” of the competition in developing automated insulin delivery systems that don’t require meal announcements.