January 2020

Cause specific and trends of mortality in Nigeria: A six-year study of a tertiary hospital

Mortality data necessary for proper healthcare planning, policy formulation, and implementation is hampered by a decline in hospital autopsy practice. Therefore, non-autopsy based death profile reviews provide a framework for the presentation and discussion of reliable mortality data. This study aims to present the general mortality profile of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State, Nigeria....

Author(s): Christopher Chinedu Obiorah  

April 2020

Information and communication technologies and patient empowerment: A complex skein

This article aims to explore the relationship between patient empowerment and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Indeed, ICTs are considered important for increasing access to medical information and for patients’ other experiences, thereby nourishing the empowering rhetoric. The paper presents a research study conducted in Italy that focuses on the self-assessments made by online health...

Author(s): Alberto Ardissone  

June 2020

The value of exercise therapy to asthmatic patients as an adjunct treatment

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that adversely influences the quality of life of many South Africans. The medical management of asthma includes identification, education, medical and pharmaceutical treatment. Literature has inequitably demonstrated that habitual structured exercise therapy can be a beneficial adjunct to general medical and pharmaceutical management strategies. This clinical commentary aims to...

Author(s): Bernelee Denize Doherty, Yvonne Paul, Terry Jeremy Ellapen and Marco Barnard