Morshed Nasir, M S Chowdhury, Tahmina Zahan
Background: Self-medication is a common practice in Bangladesh as it provides a low-cost alternative for people, which involves inappropriate and injudicious use of medicines treat self-recognized symptoms by the people.Methods: A cross sectional online survey was conducted on 626 citizens by struct...
Morshed Nasir, Md Anisuz Zaman, Touhidul Karim Majumder, Faruque Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are one of the vital and persuading means of information, prevention and control, and incentive of vaccination to content a pandemic. Therefore, knowing the status of HCPs' perception about symptoms, transmission, preventive measures, and attitudes towards...
Morshed Nasir, Khandaker Abu Talha, M S Chowdhury, Tahmina Zahan et al.
Abstract Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 is putting a massive strain on vulnerable healthcare system in low and middle-income countries like Bangladesh. Inequitable access to healthcare is further widened by the socio-economic gap and sense of insecurity during this pandemic. Se...
Muhammad Nasir, Mahmudul Mannan, Chowdhury ASM, Tahmina Zahan et al.
Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 is putting a massive strain on the vulnerable healthcare systems in low and middle-income countries like Bangladesh. Inequitable access to healthcare is further widened by the socio-economic gap and sense of insecurity during this pandemic. Self-m...
Morshed Nasir, Rawshan Ara Perveen, Rumana Nazneen, Tahmina Zahan et al.
Abstract Background The study aimed to analyze the demographic, comorbidities, biomarkers, pharmacotherapy, and ICU-stay with the mortality outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted in the intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital in a low-middle income country, Bangladesh. Methods The retrospecti...
Morshed Nasir, Tahmina Zahan, Rowshan Ara Parvin, Nadia Farha et al.
Self-medication is widespread in Bangladesh and clinically inappropriate and inefficient use of medicines is a serious problem as a whole. Self-medication involves the use of medicine by the people who want to treat self-recognized symptoms by themselves. A cross sectional survey was conducted by 40...
Tahmina Zahan, Morshed Nasir, Rawshan Ara Perveen, Afzal Akhtar et al.
Background: The first recognition of a cluster of COVID-19 patients in China in late 2019, has become a major concern due to its greater transmissibility and vulnerability of the patient to turn to fever, cough, breathlessness, pneumonia then eventually severe acute respiratory distress syndrome req...
Morshed Nasir, Tahmina Zahan, Nadia Farha, M S Chowdhury
Background: Pharmacovigilance is proven as an effective monitoring mechanism for safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products with the assistance of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to avoid undue physical, mental and financial suffering of patients. Thus, this s...
Tahmina Zahan, Nargis Akhter, Mohammad S. I. Mullick, Zasmin Fauzia
The second generation antipsychotic agents, although exhibit superior safety profile, is associated with metabolic adverse effects including weight gain, diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidaemia. These adverse effects are not only the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus but ma...
Saleh Ahmad, Jannatul Ferdous, Tahmina Zahan, Md Jouel Ahamed et al.
This case report presents a 40-year-old male patient, Mr. Mizan, who attended Upasham Health Point, Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 1st, 2024, with complaints of left knee joint pain and swelling accompanied by a persistent cough. His diagnostic investigations revealed a multifactorial pat...
Israt Zahan Ima, Ishtiaq Azad, Md Kabir Alam, Tahmina Haque et al.
Nephrotic syndrome is a frequent childhood kidney disease in which proteinuria is a significant characteristic. Proteinuria can be a benign condition as well as indicates severe underlying renal or systemic diseases. The variation in the prevalence of proteinuria may occur based on the definition us...
Tahmina Zahan, Morshed Nasir, Afzal Akhtar, A. F. M. Mohibur Rahman et al.
Parallel symptoms and laboratory findings between dengue and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pretense a diagnostic contest in some dengue-endemic countries in Asia. In this study, we described ten cases of suspected COVID-19-dengue co-infection in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh. Serologi...
Rawshan Ara Perveen, Morshed Nasir, Saima Parveen, Tahmina Zahan et al.
Background: Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease worldwide. The number of new cases and mortality in Bangladesh increased in recent years. This study aims to observe the difference between demographic data, warning signs, high-risk co-morbidity, treatment pattern, and laboratory investigations i...
Rawshan Ara Perveen, Morshed Nasir, AFM M Rahman, Tahmina Zahan et al.
Objective: With the rapid increase in the rate of infection, repurposing use of many drugs like antivirals, antibiotics, LMWH, steroid, oxygen therapy were considered as an option to find promising anti-COVID therapeutics. In this study, we aim to observe the extent and variety of drugs used in diff...
Tahmina Zahan, Md. Monzur Rahman Bhuiyan, Md Ismail Khan
A prescription - a written instruction of doctors to pharmacist to supply drugs in particular form to a patient and the directions to the patients regarding the use of medicines.This study was undertaken to observe the prescribing patterns of the practitioners in Bangladesh, 500 prescriptions were c...