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Hospital preparedness for disaster and mass casualty management in Pakistan: A cross-sectional evaluation study (2019)
Journal Article
Ul-Haq, Z., Hussain Shah, B., Ishaq Khattak, M., Fazid, S., Basharat, S., Hayat Khan, S., …Huda, Q. (2019). Hospital preparedness for disaster and mass casualty management in Pakistan: A cross-sectional evaluation study. American Journal of Disaster Medicine, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2019.0330

Background: World Health Organization has advocated preemptive readiness of health systems to manage disastrous events. Pakistan is known to be highly susceptible to disasters on the one hand and significantly lacking in coping ability on the other.... Read More about Hospital preparedness for disaster and mass casualty management in Pakistan: A cross-sectional evaluation study.

Screening for thyroid disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: An evaluation of current practice (2019)
Journal Article
Heald, A. H., Palit, T., Livingston, M., Duff, C., & Fryer, A. (2019). Screening for thyroid disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: An evaluation of current practice. International Journal of Clinical Practice, https://doi.org/10.1111/IJCP.13302

The above article from International Journal of Clinical Practice, published online on 7th December 2018 in Wiley Online Library (http://wileyonlinelibrary.com) has been withdrawn by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief, Leslie... Read More about Screening for thyroid disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: An evaluation of current practice.

Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Associated Work-Related Factors among Indoor Workers in a Multi-Ethnic Southeast Asian Country (2019)
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Divakar, U., Sathish, T., Soljak, M., Bajpai, R., Dunleavy, G., Visvalingam, N., …Car, J. (2019). Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Associated Work-Related Factors among Indoor Workers in a Multi-Ethnic Southeast Asian Country. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(1), Article 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010164

Little is known about the effect of working conditions on vitamin D status in Southeast Asia, where vitamin D deficiency is common despite the presence of sunlight all year round in most places. We examined the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and... Read More about Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Associated Work-Related Factors among Indoor Workers in a Multi-Ethnic Southeast Asian Country.

Excised Femoral Heads in Hip Fracture Patients: Is Osteoporosis Worse Than Cancer? (2019)
Journal Article
Salar, O., Crosswell, S., Ghani, R., Rao, P., Meyer, C., Hay, S., …Cool, P. (2019). Excised Femoral Heads in Hip Fracture Patients: Is Osteoporosis Worse Than Cancer?. Cureus, 11(12), Article e6455. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6455

Introduction Annually 80,000 hip fractures are treated at an estimated cost of two billion pounds. The 2011 guidance from the Royal College of Pathologists recommended all specimens where there is fracture through or below the articular surface shou... Read More about Excised Femoral Heads in Hip Fracture Patients: Is Osteoporosis Worse Than Cancer?.

Outcomes of patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention with covered stents for coronary perforation: A systematic review and pooled analysis of data (2019)
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(2019). Outcomes of patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention with covered stents for coronary perforation: A systematic review and pooled analysis of data. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.28646

OBJECTIVES: This review aims to evaluate the adverse outcomes for patients after treatment with covered stents. BACKGROUND: Coronary perforation is a potentially fatal complication of percutaneous coronary revascularization which may be treated using... Read More about Outcomes of patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention with covered stents for coronary perforation: A systematic review and pooled analysis of data.

Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Promotion Interventions for Nurses: A Systematic Review. (2019)
Journal Article
Shivji. (2019). Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Promotion Interventions for Nurses: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010017

BACKGROUND: Prior research has investigated various strategies to improve health, wellbeing and the job-related outcomes of nurses. However, the scope of this evidence is not clear and the types of intervention most likely to have positive outcomes a... Read More about Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Promotion Interventions for Nurses: A Systematic Review..

Time-saving opportunities in knee osteoarthritis: T2 mapping and structural imaging of the knee using a single 5-min MRI scan. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Time-saving opportunities in knee osteoarthritis: T2 mapping and structural imaging of the knee using a single 5-min MRI scan. European Radiology, 1 -10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-019-06542-9

OBJECTIVES: To assess the discriminative power of a 5-min quantitative double-echo steady-state (qDESS) sequence for simultaneous T2 measurements of cartilage and meniscus, and structural knee osteoarthritis (OA) assessment, in a clinical OA populati... Read More about Time-saving opportunities in knee osteoarthritis: T2 mapping and structural imaging of the knee using a single 5-min MRI scan..