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Evaluation of disaster medicine preparedness among healthcare profession students: A cross-sectional study in pakistan
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
, 2020 , Article)
Background: Disasters are devastating incidents, especially when occurring suddenly and causing damage, great loss of life, or suffering. Disasters can affect health and the social and economic development of a nation. The ...
Poisoning emergency visits among children: a 3-year retrospective study in Qatar
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BioMed Central
, 2015 , Article)
Background
Poisoning in toddlers and infants is almost always unintentional due to their exploratory behavior, which is different from adults. The prevalence and background of childhood poisoning in Qatar is still unknown. ...
Diversity in health professional education scholarship: a document analysis of international author representation in leading journals
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NLM (Medline)
, 2020 , Article)
Objectives The global distribution of health professionals and associated training programmes is wide but prior study has demonstrated reported scholarship of teaching and learning arises from predominantly Western ...
Smoking cessation intervention: Can diabetic patients’ change their motivation to quit and nicotine dependence?
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PharmaInfo Publications
, 2018 , Article)
Introduction: Considering smoking tobacco is a bad habit that drive smokers to nicotine dependence; that argue an urgent need to evaluate factors keep them smoke and how a smoking cessation intervention can affect these ...
Public's attitudes towards community pharmacy in Qatar: A pilot study
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Dove Medical Press Ltd
, 2011 , Article)
Objectives: To assess the public's attitudes towards the community pharmacist's role in Qatar, to investigate the public's use of community pharmacy, and to determine the public's views of and satisfaction with community ...
The Efficacy of Etoposide on H9c2 Cardiomyoblasts Against Doxorubicin Induced Cardiotoxicity
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OMICS International
, 2015 , Article)
Background: Doxorubicin (DOX), a widely used anticancer drug, has been associated with cardiotoxicity.
Recently, DOX-induced cardiotoxicity has been attributed to topoisomerase II (TOPII)-β expression and activity. In
our ...
University-Based Smoking Cessation Program Through Pharmacist-Physician Initiative: An Economic Evaluation
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JCDR Research and Publications
, 2016 , Article)
Introduction
Annually, especially in poor resourced countries, significant amount of money is spent to treat chronic diseases. The money instead could be saved by spending on health promotion programs for preventing ...
Important steps for introducing interprofessional education into health professional education
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
Interprofessional education (IPE) engages students from different healthcare professions for learning with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and quality of care. Recognizing the complexity of designing ...
Quality assurance, accreditation, and glocalisation of pharmacy programmes
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International Pharmaceutical Federation
, 2018 , Article)
Pharmacy programmes assessment is one of the most essential elements of quality assurance and a means of producing competent graduates. This short communication emphasises the need for the quality and monitoring of franchised ...
Pharmacoeconomic evaluation of voriconazole vs. liposomal amphotericin B in empiric treatment of invasive fungal infections in Turkey
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BMC
, 2013 , Article)
Background: Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are associated with considerable expense and mortality on healthcare systems. There is a need to provide evidence of both clinical efficacy and value for money with any health ...