QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF PERSPECTIVES OF THE PHARMACISTS WORKING IN PUBLIC-SECTOR HOSPITALS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Qualitative exploration of perspectives of the pharmacists working in public-sector hospitals during COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic, a serious global health threat, has excruciating social and economic implications given its transmissibility, lack of therapy, and severity.In such a situation, pharmacists as frontline healthcare professionals hold a significant position to tackle.This study was designed to explore the perception and prep

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Low-order non-spatial effects dominate second-order spatial effects in the texture quantifier analysis of 18F-FDG-PET images.

BackgroundThere is increasing interest in applying image texture quantifiers to assess the intra-tumor heterogeneity observed in FDG-PET images of various cancers.Use of these quantifiers as prognostic indicators of disease outcome and/or treatment response has M205 Fuses yielded inconsistent results.We study the general applicability of some well-

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The meaning of structural breaks for risk management: new evidence, mechanisms, and innovative views for the post-COVID-19 era

This paper quantitatively reveals the meaning of structural breaks for risk management by analyzing US and major European banking sector stocks.Applying newly extended Glosten-Jagannathan-Runkle generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models, we supply the following new evidence.First, we find that incorporating structural breaks

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