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What do health care professionals want to know about assisted dying? Setting the research agenda in New Zealand
BackgroundNew Zealand recently introduced law permitting terminally ill people to request and receive assisted dying (AD) in specified circumstances....
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“Better than having no evaluation done”: a pilot project to conduct remote asylum evaluations for clients in a migrant encampment in Mexico
BackgroundAsylum evaluations are highly specialized medico-legal encounters to collect physical or mental health evidence for use in immigration...
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Ethics of Managing an Adolescent Living with Disability
An ethical challenge arose when the parents of an adolescent girl living with severe intellectual disability requested for a permanent surgical...
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Fostering guardians for frontline medical disputes: a government-led medical dispute mediator training program in Taiwan
BackgroundMediation is increasingly used for medical dispute resolution, and the particularity of such mediation necessitates specialized training....
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Video-based Coaching: Current Status and Role in Surgical Practice, Part II- Practical Implementation and Risk Mitigation from the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Health Care Quality and Outcomes Committee
IntroductionVideo-based surgical coaching is gaining traction within the surgical community. It has an increasing adoption rate and growing...
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Increasing the psychosocial focus in child developmental assessments: a qualitative study
BackgroundPrevious studies have indicated a need for increased psychosocial focus on children and their families to improve children’s wellbeing and...
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A health systems approach to critical care delivery in low-resource settings: a narrative review
There is a high burden of critical illness in low-income countries (LICs), adding pressure to already strained health systems. Over the next decade,...
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Intraoperative neurophysiology in pediatric neurosurgery: a historical perspective
IntroductionIntraoperative neurophysiology (ION) has been established over the past three decades as a valuable discipline to improve the safety of...
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Sexual Assault of Women in the region of Kairouan, Tunisia: an 8-year retrospective study on epidemiological and medicolegal characteristics
BackgroundDespite the abundance of studies reporting the prevalence of women's sexual abuse all over the world, there is a real lack of such reports...
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Implementing the Street Psychiatry Model in New Haven, CT: Community-Based Care for People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness
“Street psychiatry” is an innovative model that serves people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, a vulnerable population with increased rates of...
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Current status of digital health interventions in the health system in Burkina Faso
BackgroundDigital health is being used as an accelerator to improve the traditional healthcare system, aiding countries in achieving their...
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Understanding the integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare organisations and systems through the NASSS framework: a qualitative study in a leading Canadian academic centre
BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) technologies are expected to “revolutionise” healthcare. However, despite their promises, their integration...
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Evaluation of a mobile mammography unit: concepts and randomized cluster trial protocol of a population health intervention research to reduce breast cancer screening inequalities
BackgroundBreast cancer is the leading cancer in women in France both in incidence and mortality. Organized breast cancer screening (OBCS) has been...
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Sco** review: map** clinical guidelines and policy documents that address the needs of women who are dependent on drugs during the perinatal period
BackgroundWomen who use or are in treatment for drug use during the perinatal period often have complex needs and presenting comorbidity. Women who...
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Management of unidentified and unclaimed bodies: a comparison of model from four countries in the Asia Pacific Region
Managing mass fatality incidents or disasters involving multiple deaths are not uncommon among forensic practitioners. In fact, management of...
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Dermatology and medical law: the effect of legal issues on the treatment of patients in dermatological practices in southern Germany
BackgroundUsage of modern therapies in the treatment of chronic dermatological diseases has proven to be effective but associated with high costs....
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Telemedicine-Rehabilitation and Virtual Reality in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
IntroductionTele-rehabilitation is a method of delivering rehabilitation services using information, technology and communication to everyone,...
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Perceptions of Hospital-at-Home Among Stakeholders: a Meta-synthesis
BackgroundHospital-at-home (HaH) provides acute healthcare in patients’ homes as an alternative to traditional hospital inpatient care. HaH has been...
