Mobile Communications, physical distance and access to follow-up healthcare service in Lagos Metropolis

Mobile Phone Text Messaging and Telephone Follow-Up in Iranian Type 2 Diabetic Patients for 3 Months: A Comparative Study

OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to compare the effectiveness of two methods of follow-up: Short Message Service (SMS) versus telephone call on glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in type 2 diabetes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This semi-experimental study consisted of 77 patients with type 2 diabetes who were randomly assigned into two groups: telephone follow-up (n = 39) and Short Message Service ...

Valuation Inaccuracy: An Examination of Causes in Lagos Metropolis

Factors Influencing the Growth of Slums in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria

In the last few decades, urban development in Lagos Metropolis had posed great challenges resulting from increasing population growth, decay and degradation of inner city, urban sprawl including slums. Data on factors that influence the growth of slums were sourced through variables such as % no of respondents who were non-indigenes, % no of buildings whose age were above 10 years, % no of resp...

[Access to pulmonary rehabilitation programs within the public healthcare service].

I congratulate the authors for providing the “Clinical Practice Guidelines: physical therapy practice among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)”1. These guidelines, together with other national and international studies, have successfully shown, with strong evidence, the role of physical therapists in this growing public health problem. However, routine access to such pro...

Surgery in Cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up

Background: During last decades, many otologists attempted to make a long standing dry ear, resulting in better hearing after cholesteatoma surgery. This study evaluated the prognosis of two common methods of cholesteatoma ear surgery considering ten years follow-up. Methods: This retrospective analysis was done using medical records of 108 adult patients with cholesteatoma. After ten years of ...