Background Technology, including information and communication technology (ICT), plays a significant role in the quality of health services. However, its application in elderly health services is still lacking. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge of, attitudes toward, and practices of cell phone and mobile application use for elderly health care among Indonesian health care workers. Methods This was a cross-sectional study conducted with health care workers in Jakarta, Indonesia. The potential subjects were contacted through instant messenger application and/or through conventional short message service or telephone calls from August through November 2020. Results There were 134 subjects. All the subjects had used various health applications to assist with their daily work, including telemedicine (64.2%), guidelines (60.4%), and medical calculators (46.3%). However, 96.3% of the subjects were not aware of the existence of a health application for geriatric assessment. Furthermore, 98.5% of subjects thought that it is important to use ICT to manage geriatric patients, and 94.8% felt that comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in digital form would help them manage geriatric patients better. Nevertheless, 35.10% of subjects had never applied CGA to their geriatric patients. Conclusions The current health care system has begun to enter a period of using ICT in performing health services for geriatric patients. Nevertheless, only a few Indonesian health care workers were aware of or were using the geriatric mobile application. It is essential to improve the dissemination of geriatric health care and e-health literacy among them to improve the quality of elderly health care.
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AbstractBackground: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a fatal yet potentially preventable complication of surgery. Routine thromboprophylaxis is still unequivocal prescription is problematic due to perception of low VTE incidence among Asian population. This study aims to investigate the incidence of VTE and thromboprophylaxis prescription among patients undergoing major surgery in a Singapore hospital.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Data were obtained from medical record of 1,103 patients who had underwent major orthopaedic or abdominal surgery in 2011-2012 at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore. Incidence of VTE events either in the same admission or re-admission in less than one month time were noted as study parameters.Results: Incidence of VTE was 2.1% (95% CI: 1.67 -2.53) of which 1.3% and 0.8% were DVT and PE cases respectively. Age, gender, history of VTE, ischemic heart disease, and mechanical prophylaxis were associated with VTE incidence based on bivariate analysis. The prescription of pharmacological thromboprophylaxis was associated with prior anticoagulant medication, type of surgery, and incidence of new bleeding.Conclusion: Subsequent to major surgeries, VTE is as common in Asian patients as published data in other populations. Pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis should be considered as recommended in non-Asian guidelines.
Early detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants and use of data for public health action requires a coordinated, rapid, and high throughput approach to whole genome sequencing (WGS). Currently, WGS output from many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) has lagged. By fostering diverse partnerships and multiple sequencing technologies, Indonesia accelerated SARS-CoV-2 WGS uploads to GISAID from 1,210 in April 2021 to 5,791 in August 2021, an increase from 11 submissions per day between January to May, to 43 per day between June to August. Turn-around-time from specimen collection to submission decreased from 77 to 5 days, allowing for timely public health decisions. These changes were enabled by establishment of the National Genomic Surveillance Consortium, coordination between public and private sector laboratories with WGS capability, and diversification of sequencing platform technologies. Here we present how diversification on multiple levels enabled a rapid and significant increase of national WGS performance, with potentially valuable lessons for other LMICs.
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