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Fam Pract 2021 Mar 4. Epub 2021 Mar 4.

University of Utah, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA.

Purpose: Team-based care offers potential improvements in communication, care coordination, efficiency, value and satisfaction levels of both patients and providers. However, the question of how to balance the need for information in team-based care without disregarding patient preferences remains unanswered. This study aims to determine patients' perceptions of information sharing via electronic health records (EHRs) in team-based care. Read More

Rev Bras Enferm 2021 3;74(1):e20190793. Epub 2021 Mar 3.

Universidade Federal de São Carlos. São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.

Objectives: To analyze the motivation of neonatal intensive care nurses and the meanings attributed to the continuity of professional training.

Methods: qualitative study, developed between August and December 2018, based on interviews with 16 nurses working in Neonatal Intensive Care in cities in seven Health Regions in the State of São Paulo. The theory of self-determination and narrative analysis supported this study. Read More

Front Public Health 2021 12;9:594894. Epub 2021 Feb 12.

Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.

With South Africa's tumultuous history and resulting burden of disease and disability persisting post-democracy in 1994, a proposed decentralization of heath care with an urgent focus on disease prevention strategies ensued in 2010. Subsequently a nationwide call by students to adapt teaching and learning to an African context spoke to the need for responsive health professions training. Institutions of higher education are therefore encouraged to commit to person-centered comprehensive primary health care (PHC) education which equates to distributed training along the continuum of care. Read More

J Family Med Prim Care 2020 Dec 31;9(12):5872-5880. Epub 2020 Dec 31.

National Professional Officer, Department of Health Systems, World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office for India, New Delhi, India.

The first Mohalla or Community clinic was set up in July 2015 in Delhi, India. Four hundred and eighty such clinics were set up in Delhi, since then. This review was conducted to synthesize evidence on access, utilization, functioning, and performance of Mohalla clinics. Read More

EPMA J 2021 Mar 3:1-14. Epub 2021 Mar 3.

Predictive, Preventive Personalised (3P) Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

Chronic liver disease management is a comprehensive approach requiring multi-professional expertise and well-orchestrated healthcare measures thoroughly organized by responsible medical units. Contextually, the corresponding multi-faceted chain of healthcare events is likely to be severely disturbed or even temporarily broken under the force majeure conditions such as global pandemics. Consequently, the chronic liver disease is highly representative for the management of any severe chronic disorder under lasting pandemics with unprecedented numbers of acutely diseased persons who, together with the chronically sick patient cohorts, have to be treated using the given capacity of healthcare systems with their limited resources. Read More