‘I got discharged and they advised me that I will start taking the treatment at my local clinic. So, they transferred me to my local clinic. If I can just be honest, men don’t go to clinics…… My local clinic is by our local taxi rank (where taxis queue for passengers), so yo...
When reflecting on why he did not do this, he described how difficult it is for men to go to clinics: 'I got discharged and they advised me that I will start taking the treatment at my local clinic. So, they transferred me to my local clinic. If I can just be honest, men don't...
Several guidelines on prescribing for the elderly exist, especially for conditions often affecting them such as management of constipation, chronic pain and rational usage of benzodiazepines, anticholinergics and anti-psychotics [50]. Guidelines for the management of patients with multiple chronic condition...
Orchiectomies performed as part of gender reassignment surgery are usually done in clinics that specialize in genital surgery. The standards of care defined by the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association stipulate that the surgeon should be a board-certified urologist, gynecologist, pl...
In that case, there has been an exploration of the virtual observed therapy market of using an app on a smartphone to record when a patient takes their medication. Mimicking what is done with directly observed therapy for conditions like Tuberculosis or methadone clinics, the phone replaces the...
Medication dis- crepancies owing to changes in medications dur- ing hospital admission can be intentional, attributed to the condition which caused the admission or unrelated to the reason for hospi- talisation, such as to improve the management of existing chronic illnesses. Importantly, any ...
(counselling, videos, incentives, text messaging, lifestyle intervention, specialist clinics). Several studies used inadequate sample sizes to assess intervention effectiveness. There was also inadequate reporting of interventions tested. While many described their intervention in broad terms, only two ...
In Quebec (Canada), the Medical Office of the 21st Century (MOXXI) [47], an integrated drug management system, provides near real-time information (within one hour) on dispensed prescriptions from community phar- macies through a secure virtual private network that links to the prescription ...
(n = 500, Sweden), it was revealed that there were no relevant changes in people’s use of self-management strategies in the prevention of acute illness. Even though the number of people who consulted a medical doctor was low, all consultations were with health care providers for the ...