RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Use of unplanned health care has long been increasing, and not enough is known about which interventions may reduce use. We aimed to review the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the use of unplanned health care by rural populations. METHODS The method used was systematic review. Scientific databases (Medline, Embase and Central), grey literature and selec...

Knee stability during a functional assessment of the stop-jump task is a key factor to determine if an athlete is adequately rehabilitated after knee ligamentous injury. This study aimed to investigate knee stability due to the effect of anticipation on landing maneuvers during planned and unplanned stop-jump tasks. Knee kinematics of ten healthy male participants were collected using an optica...

BACKGROUND Unplanned admissions to hospital are a challenge for healthcare systems internationally. In the UK variation in unplanned admission rates across geographical areas, general practices and GPs remains largely unexplained. AIM To identify factors influencing professional decision making around unplanned hospital admission. DESIGN AND SETTING Qualitative study with a purposive sampl...

conclusions in spite of risk of pregnancy and unintended pregnancy in this age group, about a half of them used less effective contraceptive methods, hence family planning education, and counseling to older women should be a priority in health centers. results the mean age of women was 39.8 ± 4.2 years. the most popular contraceptive methods used in this age group were oral contraceptive pills ...

Patient discharge from the ICU is indicated on the basis of clinical evidence and the result of strategies aimed at improving health care. Nevertheless, some patients might be discharged too early. We attempted to identify risk factors for unplanned ICU readmission, using a score for risk assessment, designated the Stability and Workload Index for Transfer (SWIFT) score. We evaluated 100 patien...

Children born after an unplanned pregnancy have poorer developmental scores. This could arise from less favorable parenting but also could reflect confounding from the socioeconomic circumstances. In a large representative sample in the United Kingdom, the Millennium Cohort Study (2001-2005), cognitive delay at 3 years was explored with the Bracken Assessment. Its association with unplanned pre...

BACKGROUND Although teenage pregnancies in South Africa have declined, the short and longer term health and social consequences are a potential public health concern. This longitudinal study aimed to describe the range of risk and protective factors for incident unwanted and unplanned pregnancies occurring over 2 years of follow-up among a cohort of adolescent women in the Eastern Cape, South A...

Fisheries can double the production of protein and revenue by abandoning current single-species management. This provocative prediction is the implication of the work in PNAS by Szuwalski et al. (1). Using the East China Sea as a case, they show how an indiscriminate fishery can support unexpectedly large catches by removing predators from the ecosystem. Such ecosystem engineering stands in sta...