Presenteeism In Case of A Disease Or Illness And Its Relationship With Anxiety And Depression Amongst Doctors In A Tertiary Care Hospital In Karachi, Pakistan: A cross sectional st... by Chooni Lal, Tooba Adil, Javeria Arif Siddiqui, Humna Aamar, Syed Abdul Basit Naqvi, Ikran Abdi, Marium Hassan, Afrah Hassan, Tayyaba Ihsan, Fatima Wiquar

“…Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted through a questionnaire, which was administered to medical doctors of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Karachi Pakistan (n=278) in May, June, and July 2023. …”
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Infusion of Autologous Retrodifferentiated Stem Cells into Patients with Beta-Thalassemia by Ilham Saleh Abuljadayel, Tasnim Ahsan, Huma Quereshi, Shakil Rizvi, Tamseela Ahmed, Sabiha Mirza Khan, Jawaid Akhtar, Ghazi Dhoot

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Sociodemographic and clinical predictors of quality-of-life outcome in children and young people with primary brain tumour in Karachi, Pakistan: a prospective cohort study by Nick Brown, Sadaf Altaf, Salman Kirmani, Nida Zahid, Iqbal Azam, Faiza Kausar, Syed Ather Enam, Thomas Mårtensson, Naureen Mushtaq, Mariya Moochhala, Aneesa Hassan, Saqib Bakhshi, Lal Rehman, Farrukh Javeed, Muhammad Nouman Mughal

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THE FREQUENCY OF TESTICULAR LESION IN ATERTIARY CARE CENTER by Prih Bashir, Noshaba Rahat, Humera Shahzad, Asma Jalbani, Farhana Zulfiqar, Bhawani Shankar

“…Methods: This study was conducted in the Pathology Department, Basic Medical Sciences Institute of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, during the period of 2016 to 2021. …”
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Depression Paradox in Cardiovascular Outcomes of Adult Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Insights from 2 Million Nationwide Hospitalizations by Rupak Desai, Sashwath Srikanth, Shaylika Chauhan, Zainab Gandhi, Warda Shahnawaz, Aleen Rahman, Bisharah Rizvi, Akhil Jain

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Impact of pharmacist-led educational intervention on knowledge of self-management among asthmatic patients: a prospective cohort study by Ahmad Khan, Saima Mushtaq, Amjad Khan, Nafees Ahmad, Shahzadi Sidra Saleem, Rubina Aman, Shahzadi Sadia Saleem, Ayesha Bibi, Saifullah Mehsud, Ivan R Green, Sheikh Abdur Rashid, Kifayat Ullah Shah

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Helping people with psychosis with a low-cost intervention DIALOG+: protocol for the economic evaluation in a randomised control trial in India and Pakistan by Victoria Jane Bird, Sara Evans-Lacko, Lakshmi Venkatraman, Padmavati Ramachandran, Ashar Muhammad Malik, Renata Peppl, Sana Zehra Zehra Sajun, Onaiza Qureshi, Krishna Priya, Hufsa Sarwar

“…The economic evaluation will support efforts to scale up low-cost healthcare interventions such as DIALOG+ to rural and unserved areas, which is otherwise challenging in the resource-constrained health systems in many LMICs.Conclusion The evidence on the cost-effectiveness of DIALOG+ will contribute to efforts to improve community-based care and the quality of life for millions of people suffering from mental health problems in India and Pakistan who experience psychosis.Ethics and dissemination This study is approved by the Queen Mary Ethics of Research Committee (UK), Institutional Ethics Committee of SCARF (India), IRD’s Independent Institutional Review Board (IRD_IRB_2021_01_005) (Pakistan), Karawan-e-Hayat Management Committee (Institutional Approval) (Pakistan), Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Research Committee (NO.F.2-81/2021-GENL/60224/JPMC) (Pakistan), Aga Khan’s Ethics Research Committee (2021-5933-17533) (Pakistan) and National Bio-Ethics Committee, Pakistan (Ref: No.4–87/NBC-774/22/2037 Date: 17 May 2022).The findings of this research will be widely disseminated through research publications and engagement with the communities and the healthcare providers in the public and not-for-profit sectors.Trial registration number ISRCTN13022816.…”
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Safety and feasibility evaluation of planning and execution of surgical revascularisation solely based on coronary CTA and FFRCT in patients with complex coronary artery disease: s... by Daniele Andreini, Kaoru Tanaka, Hideyuki Kawashima, Ronny R Buechel, William Wijns, Torsten Doenst, Jonathon Leipsic, Gregg W Stone, Giulio Pompilio, Antonio L Bartorelli, Saima Mushtaq, Enrico Ferrari, Francesco Maisano, Mark La Meir, Johan De Mey, Ulrich Schneider, Ulf Teichgräber, Faisal Sharif, Robbert de Winter, Brian Thomsen, Charles Taylor, Campbell Rogers, Yoshinobu Onuma, Patrick W Serruys

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Epidemiology and outcomes of out of hospital cardiac arrest in Karachi, Pakistan – A longitudinal study by Uzma Rahim Khan, Noor Baig, Kamlesh M. Bhojwani, Ahmed Raheem, Rubaba Khan, Ayaz Ilyas, Munawar Khursheed, Mohammad Ahraz Hussain, Junaid A. Razzak, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Fareed Ahmed, Bashir Hanif, Ghazanfar Saleem, Seemin Jamali, Ali Kashan, Alvia Saad, Salima Kerai, Syeda Kanza, Saadia Sajid, Nadeem Ullah Khan

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