Can surgical research improve health?

Can action research strengthen district health management and improve health workforce performance? A research protocol

INTRODUCTION The single biggest barrier for countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to scale up the necessary health services for addressing the three health-related Millennium Development Goals and achieving Universal Health Coverage is the lack of an adequate and well-performing health workforce. This deficit needs to be addressed both by training more new health personnel and by improving the ...

Can Coffee Improve Surgical Robot Accuracy?

Transnasal skull base and sinus surgery is often assisted via image guidance systems (e.g. the Brainlab Kolibri [1] – Fig. 1) which show the real-time locations of surgical instruments with respect to the 3D map provided by preoperative volumetric medical images. Image guidance systems often employ optical tracking to measure in real time the locations of both surgical instruments and the patie...

Judging nudging: can nudging improve population health?

Can dental treatments improve oral health-related quality of life? A systematic review

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) is a practically new but rapidly growing approach. The concept of OHRQoL can become a tool to explain and shape the state of clinical practice. This study was aimed to do a systematic review about the impacts of different dental treatments on OHRQoL. METHODS:</strong...

Research Paper: Can Cognitive Biases during Consumer Health Information Searches Be Reduced to Improve Decision Making?

OBJECTIVE To test whether the anchoring and order cognitive biases experienced during search by consumers using information retrieval systems can be corrected to improve the accuracy of, and confidence in, answers to health-related questions. DESIGN A prospective study was conducted on 227 undergraduate students who used an online search engine developed by the authors to find health informat...