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Health insurance enrollment strategies during the Affordable Care Act (ACA): a scoping review on what worked and for whom.
(BMC part of Springer Nature, 2021-07-12)BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided an opportunity for millions of people in the U.S. to get coverage from the publicly funded Medicaid program or private insurance from the newly established marketplace. ... -
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Hypofractionation: The standard for external beam breast irradiation.
(2023-06)This overview provides the historical perspective of external beam breast hypofractionation over the last 50 years. It highlights the serious harm suffered by patients with breast cancer in the 1970's and 1980's because ... -
Illuminating black holes. Part 2: Vortices, soap stars, and bubble galaxies
(IOP Publishing, 2017-05-01)The addition of soap to vortexing water produces bubble structures around the vortices' 'throats' that resemble galaxies of stars. Such soap-bubble models can be used to suggest the prediction that, at the heart of spiral ... -
Immediate newborn care and breastfeeding: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study.
(BioMed Central, 2021-03-26)BACKGROUND: Immediate newborn care (INC) practices, notably early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF), are fundamental for newborn health. However, coverage tracking currently relies on household survey data in many settings. ... -
Impact of implementing the aseptic compounding management system, Medcura, on internal error rates within an oncology pharmacy aseptic unit: a mixed methods evaluation.
(2022-10-14)BACKGROUND: As cancer survivorship improves, pressure on oncology services to provide safe, timely treatments increases. Traditional manual compounding processes are error prone, putting patients at risk. Additionally, ... -
Implementing Germ Defence digital behaviour change intervention via all primary care practices in England to reduce respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemic: an efficient cluster randomised controlled trial using the OpenSAFELY platform.
(2023-12-04)BACKGROUND: Germ Defence ( www.germdefence.org ) is an evidence-based interactive website that promotes behaviour change for infection control within households. To maximise the potential of Germ Defence to effectively ... -
The importance of different frailty domains in a population based sample in England
(BioMed Central, 2020-01-15)Background: The aim was to estimate the prevalence of frailty and relative contribution of physical/balance, nutritive, cognitive and sensory frailty to important adverse health states (falls, physical activity levels, ...