Objective This longitudinal study aimed to document shifts in specialty preferences, career pathways and intended practice locations among medical students following the implementation of structured ...

1 Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 2 Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia 3 ...

Objectives Over-the-counter (OTC) pharmacy medicines are considered relatively safe in contrast to prescribed and illicit substances, but their abuse and addiction potential is increasingly recognised ...

Objective To examine whether gender differences in primary care consultation rates (1) vary by age and deprivation status and (2) diminish when consultation for reproductive reasons or common ...

1 Centre for Medical Education Research, School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Durham, UK 2 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, ...

Objective To clarify the effects of smoking on the disposition of two commonly used antipsychotics, olanzapine and clozapine, and to create standards to adjust the doses of these drugs in clinical ...

Objectives To identify, appraise and synthesise existing design evidence for inpatient stroke rehabilitation facilities; to identify impacts of these built environments on the outcomes and experiences ...

Design Retrospective cohort analysis of electronic records of patients from Clinical Practice Research Datalink, linked with Hospital Episode Statistics’ secondary care datasets. Setting Clinical ...

Objectives The study was aimed at assessing the prevalence of syphilis and associated factors among pregnant women with antenatal care follow-up. Design A health facility-based, cross-sectional study.

Introduction Observational studies represent an alternative to estimate real-world causal effects in the absence of available randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Target trial emulation is a framework ...

Objectives The aim of the current study was to conduct a systematic review of lay perspectives of successful ageing (SA), synthesise these data using a metaethnographic framework and to provide a ...

2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Objectives Owing to a lack of data, our aim was to evaluate and compare the impact of various common ...