OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to determine how the elderly in an urban public housing area intends to utilize health consultation services. METHODS In December 2011, a cross-sectional posting survey was carried out on 2000 randomly selected elderly residents in an urban public housing area in Japan. The survey included information on the intention of use of health consultation se...

The analgesic role of PBMT for breastfeeding women with nipple pain is inconclusive. This study aimed to determine the efficacy at 660 nm in postnatal planning exclusively breastfeed. A randomised, placebo-controlled clinical was initiated a tertiary hospital Brisbane, Australia on inpatient maternity wards from May 2020 September 2020. Eligible participants were randomised into two groups, an ...

BACKGROUND Observational studies have reported an association between maternal use of paracetamol in pregnancy and childhood asthma, which was not explained by measured confounding factors. However, it is possible that this relation might be confounded by unmeasured behavioural factors linked to paracetamol usage; if that were the case, effects of similar magnitude of partner's paracetamol use ...

BACKGROUND Patients with an advanced incurable disease are often hospitalised for some time during the last phase of life. Care in hospitals is generally focussed at curing disease and prolonging life and may therefore not in all cases adequately address the needs of such patients. We present the COMPASS study, a study on the effects and costs of consultation teams for palliative care in hospit...

BACKGROUND In single-center studies, consultation by an anesthesiologist days to weeks before surgery was associated with reduced patient anxiety, case cancellations on the day of surgery, and duration of hospitalization. Nonetheless, the impact of anesthesia consultation on outcomes in the population remains unclear. METHODS We used population-based, linked, administrative databases to condu...

BACKGROUND Given the increasing use of telephone consultation it is important to determine the factors which influence the length of a telephone consultation. METHOD Analysis of 128717 telephone consultations during January to December 2011 to a National Health Service (NHS) out-of-hours primary care service provider in Shropshire and Telford and Powys, England, involving 102 General Practiti...