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Overuse and traumatic extremity injuries in...

Overuse and traumatic extremity injuries in...

Article from the Scandnavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports

1 October 2014
From the Scandnavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports abstract: "The objectives of this prospective cohort study were to report the incidence, prevalence, and duration of traumatic and overuse...
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SMS for mental health—feasibility and acceptability of...

SMS for mental health—feasibility and acceptability of...

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

19 June 2014
From the article objective in PubMed: "The current study assesses the acceptability and feasibility of mobile text messages for promoting positive mental health and as a helpline among young women in urban slums of...
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Information and communication technology based prompting...

Information and communication technology based prompting...

An article from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

17 June 2014
From the article abstract: "Non-compliance is a significant problem among people with serious mental disorders, presenting a challenge for mental health professionals. Prompts such as telephone calls, visits, and a...
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Benefits of habit-based informational interventions: a...

Benefits of habit-based informational interventions: a...

An article from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

15 June 2014
From the PubMed article abstract: "An eight-week randomised controlled trial compared the effectiveness of three different types of message content (habit-based messages; food-group messages; general healthy eating...
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Health tech – overselling efficacy among the quantified...

25 May 2014
Nurses are mad – tech has been oversold and they don’t like it.  Not something you see often in our tech-hyped bubbly world of quantified selfies and xHealth trendiness – but a 185,000 member Nurses union has begun a campaign AGAINST over-reliance on ‘unproven’ technology in healthcare.  Over-reliance on EMRs with inadequate or incorrect diagnoses, the rise of robotics – and the use of tech t read more
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