Challenges in Low Resource Settings
Benefits and challenges of EMR implementations in low resource settings: a state-of-the-art review
... A total of 32 reports remained for comprehensive full- text review. Seven proved a close fit to the review objec- tives, six about EMR implementations in Kenya and one about Cameroon experiences [6–12]. None specifically ...
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Methodological challenges in measuring vaccine effectiveness using population cohorts in low resource settings
... While no single set of definitions or analytical approach can address all possible biases and confounding, the careful a priori consideration of denominator, exposure and outcome definitions and of the analytical ...
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Typhoidal Salmonella human challenge studies: ethical and practical challenges and considerations for low resource settings
... Conclusions Typhoidal Salmonella challenge studies in endemic settings are potentially highly valuable and feasible, providing a plat- form to address a major global health concern in the setting most affected. In ...
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Challenges to diabetes self-management for adults with type 2 diabetes in low-resource settings in Mexico City: a qualitative descriptive study
... numerous challenges to man- aging ...and low health literacy need to be addressed in DSME ...financial challenges of adults with T2D will require multidisciplinary team- based ...of low income ...
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Breast Pump for Low-Resource Settings
... After defining the requirements and specifications, concept generation was done. A functional decomposition was generated to describe functions and sub-functions needed for the breast pump. Then, based on the ...
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Low-cost point-of-care diagnostic devices for low resource settings
... future challenges include decreasing the size of the surrounding instru- mentation and include sample pre-treatment to make the system more compact and easier to operate as POC device, through a standard product ...
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Designing Task Shifting Medical Devices for Low Resource Settings
... common challenges, states that “it is important to maintain engagement with traditional circumcisers and to avoid alienating them and to use this opportunity for promoting safer traditional ...
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Multi Task Learning for Argumentation Mining in Low Resource Settings
... Therefore, a natural question is how to handle new AM datasets in a new domain and with sparse data. Here, we investigate how existing AM datasets from different domains and with different con- ceptualizations of ...
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Prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in low-resource settings: current perspectives
... Dovepress Prevention of postpartum hemorrhage way for women with limited or no access to health facilities to have a PPH prevention intervention delivered at home, but the use of misoprostol for this purpose also ...
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A Low Cost Wearable Medical Device for Vital Signs Monitoring in Low-Resource Settings
... and challenges for low-cost health care," 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Buenos Aires, ...
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Challenges of stroke management in resource limited settings: A case based reflection
... health challenges on the path to better stroke management in low- resource settings Challenges Relevance for this case Implementation of proper stroke registers that could help for ...
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Feasibility of HIV point-of-care tests for resource-limited settings: challenges and solutions
... WS is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology at the University of the Witwatersrand; and the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) from 2003 to current. Her research ...
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Cervical cancer data and data systems in limited-resource settings: Challenges and opportunities
... Cervical cancer program monitoring requires totals or counts (i.e. aggregate data) that summarize the delivery and outcomes of ser- vicesprovidedtoindividualwomen.Summarydatafromeachfacility ...
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Management of multidrug resistant TB : novel treatments and their expansion to low resource settings
... Despite overall progress in global TB control, the rising burden of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) threatens to under- mine efforts to end the worldwide epidemic. Of the 27 countries classified as high burden for ...
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Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV-2 Infection: Recommendations for Management in Low-Resource Settings
... several low-income countries outside of West Africa with historical ties to ...many low-income settings, have no effect on ...and challenges of antiretroviral care in West Africa into ...
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The Challenges In The Management Of Cryptococcal Meningitis In Resource Poor Settings: Case Report
... countries, advances in diagnosis and anti-retroviral (ARV) options, availability of recommended antifungals and monitoring has reduced markedly the mortality and morbidity associated with cryptococcal meningitis when ...
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Statistical Machine Translation in Low Resource Settings
... Table 4: BLEU performance gains that target coverage and accuracy separately and together. We add the top-K ranked translations for each OOV source word. 0.31 BLEU points for Hindi to 0.54 for Tamil. Next, we ...
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Improving trauma care in low resource settings
... 4.2.4 Limitations of Survey Studies Although there are significant advantages to using survey research particularly when limited by resources there are some disadvantages. Survey studies are not suited for all types of ...
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Needle Disposal Device for Use in Low-Resource Settings
... for low-resource settings A safe, simple, on-the-counter, needle disposal device that would effectively leave the needle unusable (by bending, breaking, crushing or cutting it) and allow for needles ...
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Bayesian Modeling of Lexical Resources for Low Resource Settings
... for low-resource sequence labeling and segmentation tasks using lexical ...and low-resource settings have demon- strated its applicability to part-of-speech induction and ...
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