The prevalence of atopic eczema has been found to have increased greatly in some parts of
the world. Building on a systematic review of global disease trends in asthma, our objective …

Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease of irreversible airways
obstruction in which patients often suffer exacerbations. Sometimes these exacerbations …

Background Acute bacterial conjunctivitis is an infection of the conjunctiva. Both the palpebral
and the bulbar ocular conjunctival surfaces are usually affected and typically become red …

Background Telehealthcare involves the use of information and communication technologies
to deliver healthcare at a distance and to support patient self-management through remote …

Telehealthcare can be delivered by both synchronous and asynchronous (such as store
and forward) technologies (fig 1⇓). For example, telephone and video conferencing enable …

Background Healthcare systems internationally need to consider new models of care to
cater for the increasing numbers of people with asthma. Telehealthcare interventions are …

… Competing interests: Susannah McLean has received an … Susannah McLean wrote the
protocol with oversight from Joseph Liu, Claudia Pagliari and Josip Car. Susannah McLean …

Introduction Case-based learning (CBL) is a newer modality of teaching healthcare. In order
to evaluate how CBL is currently used, a literature search and review was completed. …

Introduction Asthma attacks are responsible for considerable morbidity and may be fatal. We
aimed to identify and weight risk factors for asthma attacks in children (5–12 years) in order …

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of triple-lumen central venous catheters coated with a
combination product of chlorhexidine and silver sulfadiazine (CSS) in reducing the incidence of …