Aim: The aim of this study is to explore pharmacist perspectives of the implementation of a community pharmacy-based ear health service in rural communities. Method: A community pharmacy-based health service model was designed and developed to provid...
This article examines autotheory and clinical trauma theory in relation to the author’s studio-based visual arts practice. This is addressed through surveying the development of the drawing series An open love letter. This ongoing series stems...
Pharmaceutical care is a concept which has moved the pharmacy profession from their primary focus on the product to optimising drug therapy for the individual patient. Expanded pharmacy practice beyond pharmaceutical care will further challenge the r...
Thirty-one U.S. states and the District of Columbia currently authorize pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraception. Expansion of pharmacist scope of practice into areas such as contraceptive prescribing represents an extension beyond traditional...
Introduction: Osimertinib is a third-generation, irreversible epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor that has demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in prospective clinical...
Urbanization and the expansion of impervious surfaces have increased stormwater runoff volumes, altered runoff timing, and degraded water quality and aquatic ecosystems. Runoff from urban areas carries pollutants such as nitrogen, phosphorus, sedimen...
The Lisa and John Slideshow is a theatrical response to my own earlier photographic project, Pictures from the Real World. Colour Photographs, 1987–88, interrogating recurring theoretical questions that challenge the discourse of social documen...
Aspects of increasing digitalization reinforce tendencies to normalize youth, which is reflected in underestimating and misinterpreting mistrust and stress. Creative means of interacting in public urban situations encourages physical and object-relat...
15 June 2021
Unaddressed hearing loss affects an estimated 466 million people worldwide, costing over $750 billion globally, with rural communities being particularly disadvantaged, due to the greater inequity in access to healthcare services. This mixed-methods...
Background: The role of community pharmacists has evolved beyond the dispensing of medicines. The aim of this scoping review was to describe the interventions that expand the pharmacist’s scope of practice within a community pharmacy setting an...
Accessing essential healthcare services presents a challenge for consumers living in rural and remote communities, leading to higher rates of chronic disease and poorer health outcomes. Community pharmacists are well positioned to address this lack o...
Access to a registered dietitian experienced in celiac disease (CD) is still limited, and consultation when available focuses primarily on the elimination of gluten from the diet. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the nutritional value of a...
Based on the results of the CheckMate 017 and CheckMate 057 studies, nivolumab therapy has become a new standard treatment for both squamous and non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, due to the specific inclusion criteria of these...
Aims: We aimed to explore pharmacists’ attitudes and support toward medically assisted dying (MaiD) through the End of Life Choice Act 2019 (EOLC), their willingness to provide services in this area of practice, and the influences on their deci...
The pharmacist prescribing service was legally permitted in 2019 in Switzerland to face challenges in the health system; however, there has been a lack of implementation. The aims of this study were to identify implementation factors and to evaluate...
In Austria, community pharmacists may dispense prescription-only drugs in exceptional emergency cases. Hospital pharmacists are permitted to adapt or discontinue therapy with prior physician approval. This mixed-methods study explores how Austrian ph...
Background/Objectives: Health promotion (HPr) is increasingly recognized as an essential component of modern pharmacy practice. In developing countries like Pakistan, pharmacists’ roles are evolving from traditional dispensing toward extended p...
Minimally invasive techniques have gained immense importance in cardiovascular surgery. While minimal access strategies for coronary and mitral valve surgery are already widely accepted and often used as standard approaches, the application of minima...
Diabetes mellitus, particularly type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), represents a rapidly expanding global health challenge with substantial public health and economic consequences. Recent advances in antidiabetic therapy—including dipeptidyl pepti...
Rising recognition of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults and children is reshaping how Australian health systems organise diagnosis, prescribing and long-term management. This has coincided with sharp increases in ADHD medicine...
This article reflects on the translation of gallery space into a virtually immersive experience in an era of remote access. Curators and scholars such as Mary Nooter Roberts, Susan Vogel, Carol Duncan, Tony Bennet, Stephen Greenblatt, Judith Mastai,...
Underexpansion of a self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve (TAVI) is a critical issue that can negatively impact long-term outcomes, including paravalvular leak, valve thrombosis, and increased mortality. This paper provides a comprehensive review...
Bourdieu’s theory of practice is a useful tool to understand people’s everyday behaviours, dispositions and habits. However, this theory struggles to explain how some people diverge from the social norms that structure their habitus. This...
(1) Background: Bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) for the treatment of relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (R/R DLBCL) can be delivered in ambulatory healthcare settings; however, the safe and effective management of potential side effects,...
Following the development of a value of vaccination (VoV) framework for health technology assessment/cost-effectiveness analysis (HTA/CEA), and identification of three vaccination benefits for near-term inclusion in HTA/CEA, this final paper provides...
The rapid growth of green patent applications has raised concerns about a quantity–quality paradox in green innovation: rising patent application volumes do not necessarily translate into genuine technological progress or environmental value. I...
While pharmacy technician roles in some practice settings are expanding beyond the traditional dispensing activities to include advanced or specialized tasks such as immunization administration, medication history collection, and final product verifi...
Sustainability is expanding the discipline and practice of systems engineering [...]
Introduction: Existing evidence on why children miss vaccines after infancy has focused on the demand side, that is, on the attitudes and circumstances of caregivers. The supply side, meaning the system’s capacity to make vaccines available, ac...
Background: For decades, U.S. rural areas have experienced shortages of primary care providers. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are helping to reduce that shortage. However, NP scope of practice regulations vary from state-to-state ranging from autonomous...
From genre to interdisciplinary and trans-medial artistic practice, “autotheory” has attracted great attention for formally distilling a troublesome contradiction of dualistic opposition between theory and practice in arts and attempting...
Innovation supports the development of Sustainable Supply Chains (SSCs) through Sustainability-Oriented Innovation (SOI) practices. This study aims to validate and further develop, through its practical application, a baseline SOI practices framework...
In the United States, pharmacists’ scope of practice continues to expand, with increasing opportunities for pharmacists in all practice settings to enhance health in society. In ambulatory care, pharmacists remain integral members on the healthcare t...
In recent decades, residential energy consumption has grown in Mexico despite high poverty levels. While inequalities in energy have been documented, less attention has been paid to practices of consumption. Particularly, we sustain that it is necess...
This study aims to assess the feasibility of expanding the powder size distribution (PSD) of Ti-6Al-4V grade 5 powder for LPBF to achieve cost reduction. Parameter optimization to minimize the degradation of mechanical properties due to the expanded...
The scientific literature has revealed that there is often a discrepancy between urban planning initiatives and the actual development of cities. Urban development is a complex process strongly affected by the self-organisation of citizens and entrep...
Background/Objectives: The role of the primary health care nurse has evolved since the Spanish Ministry of Health officially established the professional profile of the nurse specialist in Primary Health Care in 2005. Despite the potential benefits o...
Innovations and emerging trends in Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery—as well as in Aesthetic Medicine—are continuously expanding the frontiers of modern clinical practice [...]
Background/Objectives: Vaccines delivered after infancy remain vulnerable to missed uptake. Less is known about the determinants of second-year-of-life vaccine uptake in Malawi. This study assessed the completion of vaccines due after 12 months of ag...
In order to study the diffusion and sealing mechanism of an innovative grouted material tentatively called “expandable particulate grout material”, the diffusion process was simulated by the numerical method of CFD-DEM coupling. A numeric...
The presented paper is focused on studying electrically conductive composites based on an elastomeric matrix and expanded graphite as the filler. A potential application as an environmental remote detector was studied. The influence of filler particl...
Enhancing the thermal stability of plasticized PVC (Bashkir Soda Company Caustic
JSC, Sterlitamak, Russia) is a critically important task for expanding its areas of practical application [...]
Over the past 25 years, pharmaceutical sciences have witnessed numerous groundbreaking discoveries that have transformed medical practice, improved patient outcomes, and expanded our understanding of disease mechanisms [...]
23 February 2022
(1) Background: homeless people are characterized by serious social vulnerability and difficulty in accessing health services worldwide. In Brazil, this population is supported by the Street Clinic teams who are challenged to establish intersectoral...
3 June 2021
Research points to the health benefits of rehabilitation in urban green spaces. Nevertheless, more studies indicate complexity of utilising urban green spaces in an established health system context. An understanding of challenges related to rehabili...
This paper is a feminist, posthumanist exploration of subjectivity, through an artistic practice developed in response to embodied encounters with geo-political sites of extraction. Contextualised in a time of ecological breakdown, the artist’s...
Mining practices and operating conditions are continually evolving, and the respirable fraction of coal mine dust is accordingly expected to change in composition and particle characteristics over time. Between the early 2000s and late 2010s, several...
This article examines the emergence of live doc as a performative modality of documentary practice within Brazilian experimental live cinema. While live cinema has been widely recognized as an expanded audiovisual form, its intersections with documen...
Cortical representations expand during skilled motor learning. We studied a unique model of motor learning with cellular phone texting, where the thumbs are used exclusively to interact with the device and the prominence of use can be seen where 3200...
28 June 2020
Strategies are urgently needed to foster rural general practitioners (GPs) with the skills and professional support required to adequately address healthcare needs in smaller, often isolated communities. Australia has uniquely developed two national-...
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