Background: This study assessed women from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for: (i) their level of knowledge of cervical cancer and attitudes and practices concerning cervical screening (KAP); and (ii) differences in KAP between rural and urban groups. Methods: In a descriptive cross-sectional study, a purposive sample of 200 women in 6 provinces of DPRK (rural: n=99, urban: n=101) we...

It is well-known that informal workers in developing countries run a high risk of Occupational Safety and Health Problems (OSH problems). However, little known about their perception the preventability these problems. This study explores how automobile artisans Nigeria perceive OSH problems possible barriers to prevention. 43 were purposively interviewed. Only one third participants perceived a...

Previous medico-legal autopsy diagnoses after sportrelated deaths in our personal experience in Durban included cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, Marfan’s syndrome and ruptured cerebral berry aneurysms. It is regrettable that autopsies were not performed in the above cases. Whether they should have been considered natural or unnatural may be debatable, but postmortem examinations could h...

Mortality is the most widely measured outcome parameter. Improvement of this outcome parameter in critical care is nowadays expected not to come from new technologies or treatment, but from delivering the right care at the right moment in a safe way. The measurement of mortality as an outcome parameter confronts us with a problem in providing follow-up to the results. Especially when proven str...

Elderly patients are at increased risk for Adverse Drug Events (ADEs). Proactively screening elderly people visiting the emergency department possibility of their hospital admission being drug-related helps to improve patient care as well prevent potential unnecessary medical costs. Existing routine ADE assessment heavily relies on a rule-based checking process. Recently, machine learning metho...