Introduction Evidence from individual longitudinal studies suggests that anxiety and depression may impact quality of life. However, systematic reviews synthesising current evidence have mainly ...

Introduction Postoperative delirium (POD) is a frequent complication in elderly surgical patients, leading to increased morbidity and mortality. Previous studies have shown that noise isolation is ...

Introduction There is now emerging evidence to suggest a longitudinal association between specific neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs) in childhood or adolescence (ie, autism, attention deficit ...

4 Xinjiang Medical University Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Urumqi, China Objectives To investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of patients with ischaemia with ...

Objective Over 850 000 people live with dementia in the UK. A proportion of these people are South Asians, who make up over 5% of the total UK population. Little is known about the prevalence, ...

Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy and effectiveness of using 3D printing to develop medical devices across all medical fields. Design Systematic review compliant with Preferred Reporting ...

Background General practitioners (GPs) manage the drug therapies of people with chronic diseases, and poor adherence to medication remains a major challenge. Objective This qualitative study examined ...

Objective To examine the key themes of positive and negative feedback in patients’ online feedback on NHS (National Health Service) services in England and to understand the specific issues within ...

Objectives This study investigates risk of mortality associated with nurses’ assessments of patients by physiological system. We hypothesise that nursing assessments of in-patients performed at entry ...

Objective A ‘cluster’ is an area with a higher occurrence of tuberculosis (TB) than would be expected in an average random distribution of that area. Tuberculosis clustering is commonly reported in ...

Protocol: The role of artificial intelligence in the prediction, identification, diagnosis and treatment of perinatal depression and anxiety among women in LMICs: a systematic review protocol (27 ...

Introduction The field of mental well-being interventions includes numerous studies of smartphone app-based programs, but there is a research-to-retail gap where many studies pertain to apps that are ...