Primary and secondary care are using more telemedicine virtual professional collaboration to clear backlogs, reports Jacqui Wise. Using networks deliver care, better use of surgical beds, will be needed restore routine services after the pandemic

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – National budget only. Main source(s): Health Research Board. Background Statin therapy remains a gold standard in the primary and secondary prevention cardiovascular disease (CVD).[1] Poor statin compliance discontinuation due to intolerance (SI) pervasive clinical issue.[1] has demonstrated that prevalence SI is overe...

Abstract Fitness landscape analysis for optimisation is a technique that involves analysing black-box problems to extract pieces of information about the problem, which can beneficially inform design optimiser. Thus, algorithm aims address specific features detected during problem. Similarly, designer understand behaviour algorithm, even though problem unknown and performed via metaheuristic me...

Laback and Majdak (1) recently showed that interaural timedelay (ITD) sensitivity in bilateral cochlear implant (BiCI) users can be improved at high rates by diotic randomization of the electrical pulse timing. They ascribed their result to ‘‘restarting’’ of the binaurally adapted auditory system. However, an alternative explanation is that randomizing electrical pulse rate introduced low-rate ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Whether intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) survivors should restart antithrombotic drugs is unknown. We analyzed the frequency of restarting antithrombotic drugs in ICH survivors who had taken prophylactic antithrombotic drugs in atrial fibrillation or after thromboembolic disease in 5 cohorts and explored factors associated with doing so. METHODS We compared the characteri...

BACKGROUND About 30% of the patients initiated on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia default treatment. Some of these patients later restart treatment; however, the characteristics of these patients have not been well described and documented. The aim of this study was to describe and document the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who default and restart antiretroviral th...