DEVELOPING AND DELIVERING HIGH QUALITY SURGERY INTO COMMUNITY IN LMIC: EXPERIENCE IN KERALA, INDIA


An epidemiologic model to project the impact of changes in glomerular filtration rate on quality of life and survival among persons with chronic kidney disease

Adrian R Levy,1,2 Robert M Perkins,3 Karissa M Johnston,2 Sean D Sullivan,4 Vipan C Sood,5 Wendy Agnese,5 Mark A Schnitzler61Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; 2Oxford Outcomes Ltd, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 3Center for Health Research and Division of Bras Nephrology, Geisinger Health System, Da

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The Use of SMAV Model for Computing Fragility Curves

Among the buildings with strategic role for civil protection purposes part of them were built before the introduction of modern seismic codes.Aiming to guarantee their operability in case of seismic events, they have to be assessed and, hopefully, seismically upgraded.This aspect arises the necessity of reliable low computational demanding numerica

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A Customized Social Network Platform (Kids Helpline Circles) for Delivering Group Counseling to Young People Experiencing Family Discord That Impacts Their Well-Being: Exploratory Study

BackgroundIt has often been reported that young people are at high risk of mental health concerns, more so than at any other time in development over their life span.The situational factors that young people report as impacting their well-being are not addressed as often: specifically, family discord.Kids Helpline, a national service in Australia t

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