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Effectiveness of a pharmacist-delivered smoking cessation program in the State of Qatar: a randomized controlled trial
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BioMed Central
, 2017 , Article)
Background: Cigarette smoking is one of the major preventable causes of death and diseases in Qatar. The study objective was to test the effect of a structured smoking cessation program delivered by trained pharmacists on ...
How does culture affect experiential training feedback in exported Canadian health professional curricula?
(2017 , Article)
Objectives: To explore feedback processes of Western-based health professional student training curricula conducted in an Arab clinical teaching setting.Methods: This qualitative study employed document analysis of in-training ...
Using Zebrafish for Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
, 2018 , Article)
Over the last decade, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) has emerged as amodel organismfor cardiovascular research.Zebrafish have several advantages over mammalian models. For instance, the experimental cost of using zebrafish ...
A Call to Action to Transform Pharmacy Education and Practice in the Arab World.
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Aacp American Association of Colleges
, 2019 , Other)
Al-Ghananeem and colleagues recently evaluated health care and pharmacy education in some countries of the Arab world focusing on clinical pharmacy education and practice. They identified six key strategies to meet the ...
Investigating the incidence, nature, severity and potential causality of medication errors in hospital settings in Qatar
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020, The Author(s). Background Medication errors are a major public health concern that negatively impact patient safety and health outcomes. Effective and efficient medication error reporting systems and practices are ...
Framing diabetes public health information during Ramadan – a newspaper content analysis
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Objective: To evaluate health-related messages in printed media pertaining to diabetes care in Qatar during Ramadan. Methods: Qatar national newspapers (Arabic and/or English) published 6 weeks prior to and 4 weeks during ...
Views and experiences of decision-makers on organisational safety culture and medication errors
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Wiley
, 2020 , Article)
In 2017, the World Health Organization published “Medication Without Harm, WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge,” to reduce patient harm caused by unsafe medication use practices. While the five objectives emphasise the ...
Exploiting bluetooth vulnerabilities in e-health IoT devices
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Association for Computing Machinery
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Internet of Things (IoT) is an interconnected network of heterogeneous things through the Internet. The current and next generation of e-health systems are dependent on IoT devices such as wireless medical sensors. One of ...
Endoplasmic reticulum stress and oxidative stress drive endothelial dysfunction induced by high selenium
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Wiley
, 2020 , Article)
Selenium is an essential trace element important for human health. A balanced intake is, however, crucial to maximize the health benefits of selenium. At physiological concentrations, selenium mediates antioxidant, ...
Interplay between Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Large Extracellular Vesicles (Microparticles) in Endothelial Cell Dysfunction
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MDPI
, 2020 , Article)
Upon increased demand for protein synthesis, accumulation of misfolded and/or unfolded proteins within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a pro-survival response is activated termed unfolded protein response (UPR), aiming at ...