Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Varuni Kumari, Masuma Hoque, Rasa Ruseckaite et al.
BACKGROUND: Clinical quality registries (CQRs) are playing an increasingly important role in improving health outcomes and reducing health care costs. CQRs are established with the purpose of monitoring quality of care, providing feedback, benchmarking performance, describing pattern of treatnt, r...
Tahmina Begum, Aminur Rahman, Herfina Nababan, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque et al.
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Caesarean section (C-section) is a major obstetric intervention for saving lives of women and their newborns from pregnancy and childbirth related complications. Un-necessary C-sections may have adverse impact upon maternal and neonatal outcomes. In Bangladesh there is paucit...
Shams El Arifeen, Lauren S. Blum, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, E. Chowdhury et al.
Background We report the preliminary findings from a continuing cluster randomised evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy in Bangladesh. Methods 20 first-level outpatient facilities in the Matlab sub-district and their catchment areas were randomised to either I...
Nazia Binte Ali, Tazeen Tahsina, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan et al.
INTRODUCTION: Dietary diversity score (DDS) is a proxy indicator for measuring nutrient adequacy. In this study, we aimed to identify the nutritional statuses and current patterns of DDS among children between 6-59 months old and their associations with different individual and household level facto...
Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Janet Perkins, Sajia Islam, Abu Bakkar Siddique et al.
BACKGROUND: Access to skilled health services during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period for obstetric care is one of the strongest determinants of maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes. In many countries, husbands are key decision-makers in households, effectively determining women's ac...
Pauline Scheelbeek, Muhammad Chowdhury, Andy Haines, Dewan S Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Millions of coastal inhabitants in Southeast Asia have been experiencing increasing sodium concentrations in their drinking-water sources, likely partially due to climate change. High (dietary) sodium intake has convincingly been proven to increase risk of hypertension; it remains unknow...
Shams El Arifeen, Jennifer Bryce, Eleanor Gouws, A. H. Baqui et al.
OBJECTIVE: The multi-country evaluation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) effectiveness, cost and impact (MCE) is a global evaluation to determine the impact of IMCI on health outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. MCE studies are under way in Bangladesh, Brazil, Peru, Uganda and th...
Adnan Ansar, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Lorena Romero, Mohammad Rifat Haider et al.
Introduction Clubfoot is a common congenital birth defect, with an average prevalence of approximately 1 per 1000 live births, although this rate is reported to vary among different countries around the world. If it remains untreated, clubfoot causes permanent disability, limits educational and empl...
Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Afrin Iqbal, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Md Moinuddin et al.
INTRODUCTION: Sepsis is dysregulated systemic inflammatory response which can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death. With an estimated 30 million cases per year, it is a global public health concern. Severe infections leading to sepsis account for more than half of all under five deaths an...
Gazi Jannatul Ferdous, Khaleda Akhter Sathi, Md. Azad Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque et al.
Current deep learning-assisted brain tumor classification models sustain inductive bias and parameter dependency problems for extracting texture-based image information. Thereby concerning these problems, the recent development of the vision transformer model has substituted the DL model for classif...
Md Moinuddin, Aliki Christou, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Tazeen Tahsina et al.
BACKGROUND: Birth preparedness and complication readiness aims to reduce delays in care seeking, promote skilled birth attendance, and facility deliveries. Little is known about birth preparedness practices among populations living in hard-to-reach areas in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVES: To describe levels...
Shumona Sharmin Salam, Olakunle Alonge, Md Irteja Islam, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque et al.
The aim of the paper is to quantify the burden and risk factors of fatal and non-fatal suicidal behaviors in rural Bangladesh. A census was carried out in seven sub-districts encompassing 1.16 million people. Face-to-face interviews were conducted at the household level. Descriptive analyses were do...
Chihurumnanya Belema Nwankwo, M. A. Hoque, Md. Atikul Islam, Ashraf Dewan
Abstract The use of groundwater, a major source of potable water, in developing countries has proven to be an invaluable resource for local populations. The ability to safely use this water for drinking, however, depends on its chemical quality, a factor primarily controlled by various aquifer attri...
Farhana Karim, Nazia Binte Ali, Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan, Aniqa Hassan et al.
BACKGROUND: Caesarean section (C-section) is a major obstetric life-saving intervention for the prevention of pregnancy and childbirth related complications. Globally C-section is increasing, as well as in Bangladesh. This study identifies the prevalence of C-section and socio-economic and health ca...
Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Shams El Arifeen, Muntasirur Rahman, E. Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy includes guidelines for the management of sick children at first-level facilities. These guidelines intend to improve quality of care by ensuring a complete assessment of the child's health and by providing algorithms that co...