This paper analyzes the results of an evaluative study in the city of Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil, on primary health care for patients with hypertension and/or diabetes. The ethnographic approach used access to services and comprehensiveness of health care as core analytical categories, comparing the health practices developed by Family Health Program (FHP) units with traditional non-FHP pri...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to search and synthesize qualitative studies exploring the perspectives of older people living in long-term care facilities and of their family members about advance care planning (ACP) discussions. METHODS The enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research (ENTREQ) framework was used to guide the review and report its results. PubMed, CINAHL, and...

Despite our growing reliance on mobile phones for a wide range of daily tasks, their operation remains largely opaque. A number of previous stud­ ies have addressed elements of this problem in a par­ tial fashion, trading off analytic comprehensiveness and deployment scale. We overcome the barriers to largescale deployment (e.g., requiring rooted devices) and comprehensiveness of previous effor...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships among different performance scores for each of four diagnostic decision support systems (DDSSs). DESIGN Intercorrelations among seven performance scores on a set of 105 cases for each of four DDSSs (DXplain, Iliad, Meditel, QMR) were computed. METHODS The performance scores for each case reflected: 1) presence or absence of the case diagnosis in the DD...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) bans all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. The comprehensiveness of this ban has yet to be tested by online social networking media such as Facebook. In this paper, the activities of employees of the transnational tobacco company, British American Tobacco, (BAT) on Facebook and the...

Blue native (BN) gel electrophoresis is a powerful method for protein separation. Combined with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), it enables large scale identification of protein complexes and their subunits. Current BN-MS approaches, however, are limited in size resolution, comprehensiveness, and quantification. Here, we present a new methodology combining defined sub-...

BACKGROUND Incorporating longitudinal information into risk-adjustment models has been considered important. This study aimed to evaluate how morbidity trajectories impact risk-adjustment models in identifying high-cost cases. METHODS Claims-based risk adjusters, with or without morbidity trajectories derived from 3-year claims from Taiwan's National Insurance System, were used to predict bei...

The Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program is a Brazilian government program that aims to expand access to medical care and thus improve the quality of primary healthcare delivery. This study aims to analyze the perceptions of nondoctor members of the Family Health Strategy teams regarding comprehensiveness of care after the inclusion of doctors from the program. The study encompassed 32 poor muni...

Given the role philosophical mentality can fulfill in bringing individuals the essential skills of wisdom and well thinking, the present paper, by applying Smith’s (2007) theoretical framework, strived to explore the extent philosophic-mindedness exists among the participants. Considering the fact that, a philosophic mind begets philosophical answers, the participants’ philosophical thi...