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Profiling the injuries of law enforcement recruits during academy training: a retrospective cohort study
BackgroundInjuries within law enforcement are a significant issue as they increase organisational costs and workforce strain. As one of the biggest...
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Adolescent Family and Dating Violence and the Criminal Law Response
The criminal law response to adolescent family and dating violence is understudied in Australia. The aim of the present study was to examine the...
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Rib-to-spine and rib-to-pelvis magnetically controlled growing rods: does the law of diminishing returns still apply?
PurposeThe Law Of Diminishing Returns (LODR) has been demonstrated for traditional growing rods, but there is conflicting data regarding the...
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The Effects of Introducing a Harm Threshold for Medical Treatment Decisions for Children in the Courts of England & Wales: An (Inter)National Case Law Analysis
The case of Charlie Gard sparked an ongoing public and academic debate whether in court decisions about medical treatment for children in England &...
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Agenda setting and socially contentious policies: Ethiopia’s 2005 reform of its law on abortion
BackgroundIn 2005, Ethiopia took a bold step in reforming its abortion law as part of the overhaul of its Penal Code. Unsafe abortion is one of the...
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Cases of fatal electrocution due to contact between carbon fibre fishing rods and overhead power lines
BackgroundElectrocution caused by electricity conducted via overhead power lines carries a high risk to health and life. With the introduction and...
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Does power distance in healthcare teams linked to patient satisfaction? A multilevel study of interprofessional care teams in a referral hospital in Indonesia
BackgroundInterprofessional care teams collaborate to provide care to patients in hospitals to ensure their full recovery. To provide quality patient...
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Power calculation for detecting interaction effect in cross-sectional stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials: an important tool for disparity research
BackgroundThe stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial (SW-CRT) design has become popular in healthcare research. It is an appealing alternative to...
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How AI can learn from the law: putting humans in the loop only on appeal
While the literature on putting a “human in the loop” in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has grown significantly, limited...
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Power and sample sizes estimation in clinical trials with treatment switching in intention-to-treat analysis: a simulation study
BackgroundTreatment switching, also called crossover, is common in clinical trials because of ethical concerns or other reasons. When it occurs and...
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Evaluation of lesion characteristics and baseline impedance on high-power short-duration radiofrequency catheter ablation using computer simulation
Myocardium baseline impedance (BI) is an important factor in ablation effectiveness. This study examined the performance of low-power and...
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Clinical and radiographic effectiveness of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) partial pulpotomy with low power or high power diode laser irradiation in deciduous molars: a randomized clinical trial
This study investigated the clinical and radiographic effectiveness of MTA partial pulpotomy with low power or high power diode laser irradiation in...
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“We need to confirm at least from two or three”: Healthcare workers’ discretion as gatekeepers in the context of the Ethiopian abortion law
IntroductionWomen’s access to legal and safe abortion is a vital means to reduce unsafe abortion, which in turn is known to reduce maternal morbidity...
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The origins of California’s gun violence restraining order law: a case study using Kingdon’s multiple streams framework
BackgroundFirearm violence is a major public health problem in the United States, yet most states lack a mechanism to temporarily remove firearms...
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Tools for public health policy: nudges and boosts as active support of the law in special situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic
In recent years, “nudging” has become a standard behavioral intervention at the individual level and for the design of social policies. Although...
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Does Religious Worldview Benefit Life Satisfaction? Examination of the Incremental Predictive Power, Underlying Mechanism, and Temporal Relationship in Hong Kong and the USA
The benefits of religion have predominantly focused on personal religious identities and experiences, while the broader context of religious...
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Impact of abortion law reforms on women’s health services and outcomes: a systematic review protocol
BackgroundA country’s abortion law is a key component in determining the enabling environment for safe abortion. While restrictive abortion laws...
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COVID-19 and the law in Uganda: a case study on development and application of the public health act from 2020 to 2021
BackgroundDespite the discovery of vaccines, the control, and prevention of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) relied on non-pharmaceutical...
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Embedding routine health care data in clinical trials: with great power comes great responsibility
Randomised clinical trials (RCTs) are vital for medical progress. Unfortunately, ‘traditional’ RCTs are expensive and inherently slow. Moreover,...
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The effects of low power laser light at 661 nm on wound healing in a scratch assay fibroblast model
Wound treatment, especially for chronic and infected wounds, has been a permanent socio-economical challenge. This study aimed to investigate the...
