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Mapping hospital antimicrobial stewardship programmes in the Gulf Cooperation Council states against international standards: a systematic review
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article Review)
BackgroundWhile there is evidence of implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, there has been limited benchmarking and mapping to international standards ...
Impact of pharmacist interventions on medication errors in hospitalized pediatric patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Springer
, 2020 , Article Review)
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Background Medication errors are avoidable events that may occur at any stage of the medication use process. Implementing a clinical pharmacist is one strategy that is believed to ...
Recent advances in stimuli-responsive drug release and targeting concepts using mesoporous silica nanoparticles
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Springer
, 2020 , Article Review)
Being a developed and promising approach, nanotechnology has attracted a lot of attention in biomedical and pharmaceutical therapy applications. Among nanostructured materials, mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) are ...
Caffeine for the Treatment of Apnea in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Overview of Meta-Analyses
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Springer
, 2020 , Article Review)
Background: Caffeine is a common treatment for neonatal intensive care management of the developmental complication of apnea of prematurity in preterm infants. There are several systematic reviews (SRs) on the performance ...
Algae-derived bioactive compounds with anti-lung cancer potential
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MDPI
, 2020 , Article Review)
Lung cancer is one of the major causes of death worldwide. Natural molecules with anti-lung cancer potential are of a great interest and considered as very promising alternative to substitute or enhance the efficiency of ...
A systematic review of pharmacist input to metabolic syndrome screening, management and prevention.
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Springer
, 2020 , Article Review)
Background Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of factors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and include: diabetes and prediabetes, abdominal obesity, elevated triglycerides, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ...
CTLA4-Ig (abatacept): a promising investigational drug for use in type 1 diabetes.
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Taylor & Francis
, 2020 , Article Review)
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that results from the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas; it leads to the under or nonproduction of insulin. T1D is associated with numerous ...
The impact of pharmacist care on diabetes outcomes in primary care settings: An umbrella review of published systematic reviews
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article Review)
Objective: To systematically review published systematic reviews (SRs) examining the impact of pharmacist interventions in multidisciplinary diabetes care teams on diabetes-related clinical, humanistic, and economic outcomes ...
A Review of Clinical Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Relationships and Clinical Implications for Drugs Used to Treat Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis
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Springer
, 2020 , Article Review)
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is becoming a global health crisis. The World Health Organization has released new guidelines for the use of tuberculosis-active drugs for the treatment of patients with MDR-TB. ...
Perceptions of who is in the healthcare team? A content analysis of social media posts during COVID-19 pandemic
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2020 , Article Review)
Social media posts can be used to explore public perceptions of interprofessional teams and healthcare professionals. The aim of this study was to use social listening technique to explore unfiltered public perceptions of ...