Background: Safer-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic altered structure of clinical care for Huntington’s disease (HD) patients. This shift provided an opportunity to identify limitations in current healthcare infrastructure and how these may impact health well-being persons with HD. Objective: The study objectives were assess feasibility remote delivery HD patients, socioeconomic facto...

Abortion is illegal in Uganda except to save the life of the woman. Nevertheless, the practice is quite common: about 300,000 induced abortions occur annually among Ugandan women aged 15-49 (Singh et al., 2005) and a large proportion of these women require treatment for post-abortion complications. In the male-dominant culture of Uganda, where men control most of the financial resources, men pl...

background patient safety is one of the major issues which are concerned with the world health organization (who) and the medical community in developing and developed countries. based on studies, about 10 % of patients admitted in hospitals will be damaged. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate patient safety climate among nurses and their roles for predicting medical errors. patien...

This randomized clinical trial tested a new self-directed educational intervention to improve caregiver competence to create a safer home environment for persons with dementia living in the community. The sample included 108 patient/caregiver dyads: the intervention group (n = 60) received the Home Safety Toolkit (HST), including a new booklet based on health literacy principles, and sample saf...

BACKGROUND Despite the vast literature examining disparities in medical care, little is known about racial/ethnic and mental health disparities in sexual health care. The objective of this study was to assess disparities in safe sex counseling and resultant behavior among a patient population at risk of negative sexual health outcomes. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis among a s...

More than seven of 10 adults believe the U.S. health system needs fundamental change or complete rebuilding. Most adults surveyed reported difficulties accessing care, poor care coordination, and struggles with the costs and administrative hassles of health insurance. In addition, the survey finds substantial evidence of inefficient and wasteful delivery of health services. When looking toward ...

There are three basic means of avoiding smoking-related diseases: never starting to smoke, quitting, and avoiding smoke-filled environments. Recently, a fourth possibility has emerged: use of new, ostensibly less toxic products by smokers who cannot or will not quit, including "reduced toxin" cigarettes and novel smokeless tobacco products. To their purveyors, these new "tobacco harm reduction"...

The use of nanomaterials in medicine has grown very rapidly, leading to a concern about possible health risks. Surely, the application of nanotechnology in medicine has many significant potentialities as it can improve human health in at least three different ways: by contributing to early disease diagnosis, improved treatment outcomes and containment of health care costs. However, toxicology o...

Two years ago, more than 300 people gathered outside Washington, D.C. to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in healthcare— making infusion devices and systems safer. What’s changed? The AAMI/FDA Infusion Device Summit in October of 2010 has proven to be a catalyst for healthcare professionals who care about one of the most important safety issues of our time— infusing patients safely. T...

The pandemic year of 2020 brought unparalleled and swift changes to health care processes within Australia. All registered nurses in the Post Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU) a regional tertiary referral hospital had make routine personal protective equipment (PPE) practice accommodate safer environment for both staff patients. Changes PPE practices included addition heat moisture exchange (HME) fi...