Aim To develop a consensus curriculum describing what information service users should be given prior to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Design A Delphi study was undertaken. Following ...

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (eASCVD) and the prevalence of ...

Introduction Androgenetic alopecia (AGA), the most prevalent form of hair loss in clinical practice, affects 21.3% of the ...

Objective We hypothesised that all-cause mortality in elderly patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) was ...

Objectives To examine the relationship between uncertainty stress and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among junior high school students in Zhejiang Province, China, and to identify the ...

Objectives Latin American countries have long struggled with socioeconomic inequalities and health equity. In 2007, Ecuador implemented a health reform to address these issues by making public health ...

Objectives Several studies suggested that short-term variations in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) might be associated with the day of the week and holidays. However, most existing findings were ...

Objective Radiotherapy (RT) can cause a range of negative impacts in addition to the intended treatment impacts. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) may improve the physical and psychological conditions of ...

Introduction There remains little consensus or guidelines for the clinical management of traumatic orbital fractures (OFx). The OFx Registry aims to increase real-world clinical evidence for the ...

Objective Recent clinical studies have shown that anticoagulant therapy might be effective only in specific at-risk subgroups of patients with sepsis and coagulation dysfunction. The definition of ...

Objectives To (1) provide an up-to-date overview of shared decision making (SDM)-models, (2) give insight in the prominence of components present in SDM-models, (3) describe who is identified as ...

Objectives Nurses are generally present, and often influential, in supporting patient and family acceptance of medical futility and in assisting doctors in negotiating referral to palliative care. Yet ...