Objectives This study was conducted to examine urban–rural differences in the real-world prescribing pattern of oral ...

Introduction Suicidal behaviour is a major public health concern in Africa and a cause of premature mortality. The availability of community epidemiological data in Ethiopia is limited. This study ...

Background Childhood adversity is associated with a host of negative health and socioeconomic outcomes far into adulthood. The process of avoiding such outcomes is often referred to as resilience.

Introduction Patients with advanced cancer frequently suffer from chronic, severe disabling pain. Opioids such as morphine and fentanyl are commonly used to manage this pain. Transdermal drug delivery ...

Objectives To evaluate mental health-related outcomes of police officers 5.5 years after implementing a new alternating shift schedule which was supposed to improve their health and work–life balance.

Objectives To pilot test a co-designed intervention that enhances patient participation in hospital discharge medication communication. Design Pilot randomised controlled trial. Setting One tertiary ...

Objectives Childhood asthma is a complex condition where many environmental factors are implicated in causation. The aim of this study was to complete a systematic review of the literature describing ...

Objectives This study aims to analyse the disease composition of primary care visits rather than specialist visits, the former of which had scarcely been studied. We adopted specific disease ...

Objective Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is acknowledged as an increasingly important issue worldwide. Hospital managers are increasingly paying attention to ED crowding in order to provide ...

8 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Background With the potential to identify a vast number of rare diseases soon after birth, genomic newborn screening (gNBS) could ...