Background: Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) have an array of multi-organ involvement, including cardiovascular disease. CD4 count is one of the best parameters to monitor the severity of HIV disease. The arrythmogenic potential of HIV disease has not been well defined. The aim of the study is to establish whether an association between the severity of HIV and atrial fibrillatio...

BACKGROUND Policy initiatives and an increasing amount of the literature within higher education both call for students to become more involved in creating their own learning. However, there is a lack of studies in undergraduate nursing education that actively involve students in developing such learning material with descriptions of the students' roles in these interactive processes. METHOD ...

Abstract Objectives This study aims to identify the roles of various universities in Indonesia providing education that helps develop digital entrepreneurship: this includes implications, contributions, and challenges digitalization; identification impact entrepreneurship on businesses within Indonesia; an examination opportunities for Indonesian universities. Methodology The research adopted a...

BACKGROUND During postgraduate training, general practitioners and other specialists must learn how to deliver shared care to patients; however, the development of formal intraprofessional education is often hampered by curricular constraints. Delivering shared care in everyday work provides trainees with opportunities for informal learning from, about and with one another. METHODS Twelve sem...

OBJECTIVES To understand how the policy of user involvement is interpreted in health service organisations and to identify factors that influence how user involvement is put into practice. DESIGN Ethnographic study using participant observation, interviews, and collection of documentary evidence. SETTING A multiagency modernisation programme to improve stroke services in two London boroughs...

abstractâ during past sixty years, the world has seen significant changes in the ways of travel from one place to another. in this time period, not only travel mode, but also tourism destinations, motivation and the number of these travels have been changed. one of those changes is the specific kind of tourism called ecotourism which has had so rapid growth in the recent years and has become on...

efforts to achieve effective and meaningful patient and public involvement (ppi) in healthcare have existed for nearly a century, albeit with limited success. this brief commentary discusses a recent paper by carter and martin exploring the “challenges facing healthwatch, a new consumer champion in england,” and places these challenges in the context of the broader struggle to give a voice to h...

BACKGROUND Nurses' involvement in family meetings in the intensive care unit is central to supporting consistent communication and shared understanding within the care team and with patients and patients' family members. Evidence suggests the existence of major barriers to the effective participation and contribution of nurses during family meetings. OBJECTIVES To characterize the nature and ...