BMJ13d
Impact of financial incentives introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing staff: a mixed-method protocol
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on nursing staff, resulting in alarming turnover rates. As part of the Quebec (Canada) government’s response to the pandemic, nurses have been ...
BMJ11d
Association between sleep quality and uncertainty stress among healthcare professionals in hospitals in China: a nationwide cross-sectional survey
Objectives Sleep quality is a critical concern among healthcare professionals, yet the role of uncertainty stress has been inadequately explored. This study aims to explore the associations between ...
BMJ6d
Smoker, ex-smoker or non-smoker? The validity of routinely recorded smoking status in UK primary care: a cross-sectional study
Objective To investigate how smoking status is recorded in UK primary care; to evaluate whether appropriate multiple imputation (MI) of smoking status yields results consistent with health surveys.
BMJ9d
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Protocol: Addition of prophylactic compression garments to standard care to prevent irreversible lower limb lymphoedema after gynaeco-oncological therapy (Gynolymph): protocol for a randomised ...
BMJ5d
The impact of temperature extremes on mortality: a time-series study in Jinan, China
Objective To investigate the relationship between temperature extremes and daily number of deaths in Jinan, a temperate city in northern China. Methods Data ondaily number of deaths and meteorological ...
BMJ11d
The I-DECIDED clinical decision-making tool for peripheral intravenous catheter assessment and safe removal: a clinimetric evaluation
Objective To describe the clinimetric validation of the I-DECIDED tool for peripheral intravenous catheter assessment and decision-making. Design and setting I-DECIDED is an eight-step tool derived ...
BMJ9d
Use of probiotics to correct dysbiosis of normal microbiota following disease or disruptive events: a systematic review
Objective To assess the evidence for the claim probiotics can correct dysbiosis of the normal microbiota resulting from disease or disruptive events. Setting Systematic review of published clinical ...
BMJ2d
Long-term antibiotics for prevention of recurrent urinary tract infection in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials
Objective To address clinical uncertainties about the effectiveness and safety of long-term antibiotic therapy for preventing recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) in older adults. Design ...
BMJ8d
The increased risks of death and extra lengths of hospital and ICU stay from hospital-acquired bloodstream infections: a case–control study
Objectives Hospital-acquired bloodstream infections are known to increase the risk of death and prolong hospital stay, but precise estimates of these two important outcomes from well-designed studies ...
BMJ6d
Multimorbidity of cardiometabolic diseases: prevalence and risk for mortality from one million Chinese adults in a longitudinal cohort study
Objectives The evolution of multimorbidity describes the continuum from a healthy status to the development of a single disease and further progression to multimorbidity with additional diseases. We ...
BMJ6d
Nutritional indicators for gastrointestinal symptoms in female runners: the ‘Marikenloop study’
1 Radboud University Medical Centre, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 HAN, University of Applied Sciences Nijmegen, Institute of Health Studies, Nijmegen, ...