• IMoCC - Measure of Cultural Competence Among Medical Students in the Malaysian Context. 

  Chandratilake, M.; Nadarajah, V. D.; Mohd Sani, R. M. B. (Medical teacher., 2020)

  ABSTRACT:Cultural beliefs and practices impact heavily on health outcomes of patients. Doctors' ability to deal with such issues in clinical practice, i.e. cultural competence, is widely studied in the west. It has yet to ...
• What Research Questions Should the Next Generation of Birth Cohort Studies Address? An International Delphi Study of Experts 

  Brown, R. H.; Eisner, M.; Valdebenito, S.; Walker, S.; Tomlinson, M.; Hughes, C.; Ward, C. L.; Osafo, J.; Sikander, S.; Fearon, P.; Dunne, M. P.; Madrid, B.; Baban, A.; Van Thang, V.; Fernando, A. D.; Murray, A. L. (Academic pediatrics., 2020)

  OBJECTIVE: Birth cohort studies (BCS) have generated a wealth of invaluable basic scientific and policy-relevant information on a wide range of issues in child health and development. This study sought to explore what ...
• Delayed-onset Sinus Node Dysfunction in a Child Victim of Russell's Viper Bite. 

  Athapathu, A.S.; Arunath, V.; Aruppala, A.A.; Hoole, T. J.; Suntharesan, K.; Mettananda, S. (Asian cardiovascular and thoracic annals, 2020)

  ABSTRACT:Cardiac complications following envenomation by Russell's viper venom are uncommon. We describe a 14-year-old girl who developed delayed-onset sinus node dysfunction. She presented with mucosal bleeding, ptosis, ...
• Stroke Awareness in Patients With Incident Stroke Compared to Patients Without Stroke or Ischemic Heart Disease 

  Ranawaka, U.; Mettananda, C.; Thilakarathna, C.; Peiris, A.; Kasturiratna, A.; Tilakaratna, Y. (Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases., 2020)

  BACKGROUND: Stroke awareness is known to influence treatment seeking and risk reduction behavior, but there is limited data from Sri Lanka and South Asia. AIM: To describe stroke awareness in incident stroke patients and ...
• Establishment of a Colony of Phlebotomus argentipes Under Laboratory Conditions and Morphometric Variation Between Wild-Caught and Laboratory-Reared Populations. 

  Wijerathna, T.; Gunathilaka, N.; Gunawardena, K. (Journal of tropical medicine., 2020)

  ABSTRACT:The field-based studies on sand flies are not adequate to uncover information required for the control of the leishmaniasis through reduction of vector populations. Therefore, establishment and maintenance of ...

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