Christopher J L Murray, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja Abbas, Mohammad Hossein Abbasi et al.
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes, a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses. GBD 2019 covered 204 countries and territories, as well as first ...
Matthew J. Eckelman, Kaixin Huang, Robert S. Lagasse, Emily Senay et al.
An up-to-date assessment of environmental emissions in the US health care sector is essential to help policy makers hold the health care industry accountable to protect public health. We update national-level US health-sector emissions. We also estimate state-level emissions for the first time and e...
S Campbell, Marion Campbell, Jeremy Grimshaw, Alison Walker
BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to review systematically the literature measuring the accuracy of routine UK hospital statistics that classify patients on discharge. METHODS: A systematic review was carried out of studies comparing routine discharge statistics about an episode of hospital care ...
Mohammad Sofiqur Rahman, Naoko Yoshida, Hirohito Tsuboi, Naoki Tomizu et al.
OBJECTIVES: To analyse and present the literature describing the health consequences of falsified medicines, focusing on mortality and morbidity, as well as the scale of the issue, the geographic extent, the medicines affected, and the harm caused at both the individual and population levels. METHOD...
Katherine Neuhausen, A. Davis, Jack Needleman, Robert H. Brook et al.
Safety-net hospitals rely on disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) payments to help cover uncompensated care costs and underpayments by Medicaid (known as Medicaid shortfalls). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) anticipates that insurance expansion will increase safety-net hospitals' revenues and will re...
David Osrin, Kishwar Azad, Armida Fernandez, Dharma Manandhar et al.
Public health interventions usually operate at the level of groups rather than individuals, and cluster randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are one means of evaluating their effectiveness. Using examples from six such trials in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Nepal, we discuss our experience of the et...
Aashna Mehta, Wireko Andrew Awuah, Jyi Cheng Ng, Mrinmoy Kundu et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on several aspects of global healthcare systems, particularly surgical services. New guidelines, resource scarcity, and an ever-increasing demand for care have posed challenges to healthcare professionals, resulting in the cancellation of many surgeries...
Jannatul Ferdush, Mahbuba Begum, Sakib Tanvir Hossain
This study examines ChatGPT's role in clinical decision support, by analyzing its scope, application, and limitations. By analyzing patient data and providing evidence-based recommendations, ChatGPT, an AI language model, can help healthcare professionals make well-informed decisions. This study exa...
Vivekanand Jha, Harun Ur Rashid, Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Syed Fazal Akhtar et al.
Kidney disease attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life years have risen rapidly in South Asia. Diabetes is the commonest cause of kidney disease, but a substantial burden of disease is due to unmeasured risk-factors. Supported by governments, dialysis is growing but needs better oversight. ...
Jonathan Sherbino, Jason R. Frank, Leslie Flynn, Linda Snell
Aminu K. Bello, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Ezequiel Bellorín-Font et al.
Reliable governance and health financing are critical to the abilities of health systems in different countries to sustainably meet the health needs of their peoples, including those with kidney disease. A comprehensive understanding of existing systems and infrastructure is therefore necessary to g...
Jocalyn Clark
There is growing recognition of the massive global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) due to their prevalence, projected social and economic costs, and traditional neglect compared to infectious disease. The 2011 UN Summit, WHO 25×25 targets, and support of major medical and advocacy organis...
Adam Oliver, J. Grimley Evans
The notion of choice and its individualistic underpinnings is fundamentally inconsistent with the collectivist NHS ethos In both the policy1 and academic2 literatures, the issue of extending patient choice in the UK National Health Service (NHS) is currently a much discussed issue. From December 20...
Roberto Ferrari, Oliver Kwan
There are many controversial disability syndromes, representing medicolegal and social dilemmas for a variety of medical disciplines. Health care professionals are at a loss to cure these patients, and judges and disability review boards struggle to be fair while at the same time trying to understan...
Matt Oxman, Laurence Habib, Gro Jamtvedt, Bente Kalsnes et al.
Healthcare students and professionals, as well as patients and everyone else, are exposed to countless health claims—particularly claims about the effects of interventions—spreading further and faster than ever, via the Internet. Many of the claims are unreliable, such as those that conflate correla...