Navindra Persaud

Personality traits and the managerial capacity of community-based facilities providing HIV services to key populations in Kenya and Malawi

José Luis Figueroa, Julius Korir, Alice Olawo, Navindra Persaud et autres

Community-based facilities delivering HIV services to key populations often face significant operational and financial challenges, making the quality of management in these organizations particularly important. A growing body of evidence links management quality to health facility performance. However, research on management in …

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Clustering of countries based on national essential medicines lists: cross-sectional study

Adelaide Buadu, Moizza Zia Ul Haq, Camila Heredia, Amal Rizvi et autres

INTRODUCTION: National essential medicines lists (NEMLs) guide medicine selection and procurement and are key tools for promoting equitable access. While countries adapt their lists to national priorities, underlying medical needs are broadly similar across settings; however, factors beyond epidemiological need influence which …

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Personality traits and the managerial capacity of community-based facilities providing HIV services to key populations in Kenya and Malawi

Andrea Salas‐Ortiz, Marjorie Opuni, J.L. Figueroa, Louis Masankha Banda et autres

Community-based facilities delivering HIV services to key populations often face significant operational and financial challenges, making the quality of management in these organizations particularly important. A growing body of evidence links management quality to health facility performance. However, research on management in …

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Pharmaceutical governance system for costly drugs through human rights due diligence

Trudo Lemmens, Kanksha Mahadevia Ghimire, Katrina Perehudoff, Jillian Clare Köhler et autres

The obligations and responsibilities of governments and drug companies to increase access to costly new drugs should be grounded in international human rights, write Trudo Lemmens and colleagues

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A practical approach to measuring MPDSR implementation: findings from a cross-sectional assessment in regional referral hospitals in Uganda

Richard Kagimu, Pius Okong, Navindra Persaud, Nathan Tumeswigye et autres

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A practical approach to measuring MPDSR implementation: findings from a cross-sectional assessment in regional referral hospitals in Uganda

Brenda Kharono, Marya Plotkin, Phillip Wanduru, Elikem Togo et autres

BACKGROUND: Uganda adopted maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) in 2017 and has put concerted effort into scaling up and using data on MPDSR to avert preventable deaths. However, formal analysis of MPDSR implementation processes among health facilities in Uganda …

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Assessing the Effect of a Food Voucher on the Dietary Intake of Patients with Diabetes Using the Canadian Diet History Questionnaire III: A Randomized Control Trial

Adelaide Buadu, Areesha Sabir, Enza Gucciardi, Navindra Persaud

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The high cost of healthy foods makes it difficult for people with a low income to manage diabetes. This study examined the effects of a monthly grocery voucher on the dietary intake, assessed through the Canadian Diet History Questionnaire III, of …

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279 Women Fare Better Than Men After Cardiac Arrest Secondary to Pulseless Electrical Activity

Navindra Persaud, Latha Ganti, Prithwijit Banerjee, Anuradha Banerjee

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Canadian Adaptive Platform Trial of Treatments for COVID in Community Settings (CanTreatCOVID): protocol for a randomised controlled adaptive platform trial of treatments for acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in community settings

Banafshe Hosseini, Amanda Condon, Bruno R. da Costa, Peter Daley et autres

INTRODUCTION: SARS-CoV-2 is now endemic and expected to remain a health threat, with new variants continuing to emerge and the potential for vaccines to become less effective. While effective vaccines and natural immunity have significantly reduced hospitalisations and the need for critical …

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Acceptability of Interventions to Address Polypharmacy in Older Adult Outpatients: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Navindra Persaud, Amal Rizvi, Aine Workentin, Becky Skidmore et autres

ABSTRACT Background and Aims Interventions to address potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP), where risks outweigh benefits, are effective but often not implemented due to barriers (e.g., patient, provider, systems). Concerns about questioning healthcare providers or symptom resurgence when discontinuing medications may make PIP …

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Unveiling the Impact: A Scoping Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Effects on Racialized Populations in Canada

Menna Komeiha, Iryna Artyukh, Oluwasegun Jko Ogundele, Jane Zhao et autres

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on racialized communities and individuals in Canada. METHODS: This review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology and the PRISMA-ScR guidance on reporting scoping reviews. Ovid MEDLINE …

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Interventions to Address Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing for Older Primary Care Patients

Navindra Persaud, Aine Workentin, Amal Rizvi, Tiphaine Pierson et autres

Importance: Prescriptions for potentially inappropriate medications are common and, by definition, may carry risks that outweigh benefits. Objective: To determine whether interventions to address potentially inappropriate prescribing for older primary care patients are associated with changes in the number of medications prescribed, …

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