Health Care Waste (HCW) – just one of the numerous terms used to describe the wide range of waste streams emanating from any health care facility in the world. In fact, this waste can also be generated in non-traditional settings such as the home (diabetic self-injectors), tattoo and bo...
Demographic changes will lead to a growing demand for healthy, motivated healthcare workers (HCW) in the years ahead. Along with well-targeted prevention, knowledge of occupational health and safety and infection precaution is essential for a healthy working life. In this context back-friendly worki...
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Ma et al. Military Medical Research (2020) 7:7 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40779-020-00238-8 REVIEW Open Access Methodological quality (risk of bias) assessment tools for primary and secondary medical studies: what are they and which is better? Lin-Lu Ma1, Yun-Yun Wang1,2, Zhi-Hua Yang...
Methodological quality (risk of bias) assessment is an important step before study initiation usage. Therefore, accurately judging study type is the first priority, and the choosing proper tool is also important. In this review, we introduced methodologi
A tool to assess nutritional status in older persons was really needed. It took 5 years to design the MNA® (Mini Nutrition Assessment) tool, complete
N95-masked health-care workers (HCW) were significantly more likely to experience headaches. Face mask use in HCW was not demonstrated to provide benefit in terms of cold symptoms or getting colds. Cowling, B. et al. (2010) “Face masks to prevent transmission of influenza virus: A systemati...
Figure 1 illustrates such CPP-assisted strategies in achieving intracellular delivery of the drug payloads. 2.1. Covalent Conjugation of Therapeutic Agents with CPP The commonly used strategy for CPP-assisted drug delivery is by covalent conjugation, either chemically or biologically, of CPPs with the...