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Stigmatisation of mortuary workers in India: insights from four hospitals in West Bengal Open

Supatra Sen, Rina Das, Tirthankar Roy, Somnath Das · 2025

Advancing Health Disparities Science Through Social Epigenomics Research Open

Arielle S. Gillman, Eliseo J. Pérez‐Stable, Rina Das · 2024

Importance Although scientific and technological discoveries have improved the health of the US population overall, racial and ethnic minority (American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, or Nat…

Effect of a Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cookstove and Fuel Intervention on Food Insecurity and Maternal and Infant Dietary Diversity: A Multi-center Randomized Control Trial Open

Sheela Sinharoy, Rina Das, Lisa M. Thompson, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Anaité Díaz-Artiga , et al. · 2024

Promoting diverse perspectives: Addressing health disparities related to Alzheimer's and all dementias Open

Gladys E. Maestre, Carl V. Hill, Percy Griffin, Stephen E. Hall, William T. Hu , et al. · 2024

Dementia research lacks appropriate representation of diverse groups who often face substantial adversity and greater risk of dementia. Current research participants are primarily well‐resourced, non‐Hispanic White, cisgender adults who li…

Referee report. For: Assessment of potential drug-drug interactions in hospitalized patients with infectious diseases: an experience from a secondary care hospital [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 not approved] Open

Rina Das · 2024

Synergizing health research on non-communicable diseases among U.S. Hispanic/Latino and Latin American populations across the Hemisphere Open

Michelle Doose, M. Constanza Camargo, Ligia Artiles, Jarrett Johnson, Rina Das , et al. · 2023

A cross sectional study on the determinants of railway fatalities in different age groups Open

Arabinda Chatterjee, Rina Das, Anindya Mukherjee, Somnath Das · 2022

Background: Over the last few decades many railway accidents and fatalities have occurred in India as well as worldwide. Cities having a high economic activity and are complex spatial structures, are supported by transport systems. The evo…

Understanding Health Related Quality of Life in Hypertensive Patients: Interrogating Effect of Psychological and Environmental Factors Open

Manisha Saini, Minakshi Rana, Karun Bhatti, Rina Das, Dinesh Kumar Mehta · 2022

Background: Health-related quality of life has become an important aspect in the field of healthcare as an important outcome measure for chronic diseases like hypertension. Improvement in HRQoL have become a focal point in…

Drug Utilization Analysis of Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Drugs in Cardiology Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital Open

Sonal Vyas, Wandeep Dagar, Meenakshi Dhanawat, Sajaad Manzoor, Sumeet Gupta , et al. · 2022

Background: The current study was planned to estimate the usage of antiplatelet drugs and anticoagulant drugs patients in the teaching hospital. Methods: The records were composed through the Cardiology wa…

Assessment of Pharmacy Students Knowledge Regarding Diabetes Mellitus and its Prevention Open

Shinam Bakshi, Saikat Bera, Dinesh Kumar Mehta, Sandeep Joshi, Rina Das · 2021

Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge of Pharmacy students about diabetes mellitus and its prevention and to identify the factors that affect the disease. Methods: A pre-tested quest…

Antibiotics Medication Prescribed in the Management of Respiratory Tract Infection of Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital Open

Prachi Tayal, Himanshu Raghav, Dinesh Kumar Mehta, Sandeep Joshi, Rina Das · 2021

Background: Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) encompass a tremendous breadth of clinical disease. Our present study aims to accessing the drug utilization pattern of antibiotic usage in medicine and respiratory unit of t…

Identifying Risk Profiles of Malignant Prostate Cancer Surgical Delay Using a Person-Centered Approach to Understand Prostate Cancer Disparities: The Constellation of Health Determinants Using Latent Class Analysis on Cancer Registry Data Open

Francisco Alejandro Montiel Ishino, Claire Rowan, Rina Das, Janani Rajbhandari‐Thapa, Ewan K. Cobran , et al. · 2020

Surgical prostate cancer (PCa) treatment delay (TD) may increase the likelihood of recurrence of disease, and influence quality of life as well as survival disparities between Black and White men. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to ide…

A Comparison of the Postoperative Analgesic Efficacy of Two Different Doses of Caudal Clonidine as Adjunct to Caudal Bupivacaine in Infraumbilical Surgeries in Younger Children Open

Subinay Chhaule, Manotosh Sutradhar, Puja Trigunait, Tanweer Qamar, Sayani Lahari , et al. · 2020

BACKGROUNDManaging peri operative pain in smaller children is challenging but beneficial.Caudal epidural block with local anaesthetic and adjuvant in proper dose can significantly prolong the duration of analgesia while avoiding dose relat…

Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Bacterial Isolates among Nosocomial Infections (Urinary Tract Infection and Blood Stream Infection) from the Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Government Hospital in India Open

Manotosh Sutradhar, Hirak Jyoti Raj, Puja Trigunait, Subinay Chhaule, Raja Ray , et al. · 2020

Development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to different generations of common antibiotics by various organisms is rising alarmingly.A nationwide standard antibiotic policy is needed.We wanted to study the resistant organisms, the drug c…

Histochemistry based confirmation of the diagnosis of Copper Sulphate Poisoning: Case-Series Open

Arindam Chakrovarty, Ranajoy Ghosh, Anadi Roychowdhury, Suddhodhan Batabyal, Rina Das · 2020

The suspected suicidal death cases from copper sulphate poisoning is not uncommon in West Bengal as well as in some other parts of India. But due to extreme delay in laboratory confirmation report from Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) reg…

A workshop report on the causes and consequences of sleep health disparities Open

Chandra L. Jackson, Jenelle Walker, Marishka Brown, Rina Das, Nancy Lee Jones · 2020

Sleep deficiencies, which include insufficient or long sleep duration, poor sleep quality, and irregular timing of sleep, are disproportionately distributed among populations that experience health disparities in the United States. Sleep d…

Corticosteroid utilization pattern: A prospective study at a tertiary care teaching Hospital Open

Shazma Imam, Priti Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Mehta, Sandeep Joshi, Rina Das · 2020

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the prescribing pattern of steroids among patients from different departments and study the most commonly prescribed corticosteroid medications and the assessment of patient knowledge about the use o…

A Rare Case of Cerebral Hemangioblastoma Mimicking as Anterior Choroid Plexus Cyst Open

Somnath Das, Rina Das, Senjuti D. Gupta, Chandan Kumar Jha · 2019

A choroid plexus cyst may be present throughout the ventricular system of the brain. A hemangioblastoma is generally found in patients with genetic diseases like Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome disease, but it can also be found sporadical…

Designing and Assessing Multilevel Interventions to Improve Minority Health and Reduce Health Disparities Open

Tanya Agurs‐Collins, Susan Persky, Electra D. Paskett, Shari L. Barkin, Helen I. Meissner , et al. · 2019

Multilevel interventions can be uniquely effective at addressing minority health and health disparities, but they pose substantial methodological, data analytic, and assessment challenges that must be considered when designing and applying…

Community-Clinical Linkage Intervention to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Underserved Korean Americans. Open

X. Grace, Minsun Lee, Maayan Beeber, Rina Das, Ziding Feng , et al. · 2019

Korean Americans report the lowest and declined rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, compared to general population in the United States. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a community-based multifaceted interventio…

Cross-Cutting Themes to Advance the Science of Minority Health and Health Disparities Open

Nancy Lee Jones, Nancy Breen, Rina Das, Tilda Farhat, R. C. Palmer · 2019

Behavioral Interventions Using Consumer Information Technology as Tools to Advance Health Equity Open

Suzanne Bakken, Sue Marden, S. Sonia Arteaga, Lisa Grossman Liu, Alla Keselman , et al. · 2019

The digital divide related to consumer information technologies (CITs) has diminished, thus increasing the potential to use CITs to overcome barriers of access to health interventions as well as to deliver interventions situated in the con…

Building the Evidence Base to Inform Planned Intervention Adaptations by Practitioners Serving Health Disparity Populations Open

Jennifer Alvidrez, Anna María Nápoles, Guillermo Bernal, Jacqueline J. Lloyd, Victoria A. Cargill , et al. · 2019

Many evidence-based interventions (EBIs) have been developed to prevent or treat major health conditions. However, many EBIs have exhibited limited adoption, reach, and sustainability when implemented in diverse community settings. This li…

A SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC REVIEW ON ADOLESCENT DEATHS IN WEST BENGAL Open

Rina Das, Partha Pratim Bhattacharya, Somnath Das · 2018

BACKGROUNDAccording to W.H.O.adolescence is between age group 10 to 19 when physical & psychological development occurs.Many health problems develop in this period.The mortality & morbidity pattern of adolescents has a direct impact on fut…

MICROBIOLOGICAL FLORA AND THEIR ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY- A STUDY UNDERTAKEN WITH ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE TIPS AND ENDOTRACHEAL ASPIRATES IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN KOLKATA Open

Rina Das, Indrani Bhattacharyya · 2018

BACKGROUND Endotracheal (ET) tubes are life saving devices on one hand and life takers on the other.This study aims to find out how morbidity in the form of nosocomial pneumonia can be predicted to save patients and to minimise expenditure…

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN INTERNAL ORGANS WITH BMI AMONGST ADULT POPULATION IN BENGAL Open

Partha Pratim Bhattacharya, Rina Das, Somnath Das · 2018

BACKGROUNDThe organ weight is one of the important criteria used by pathologist during autopsy to detect any abnormality comparing the normal weight of that specific organ.But no such standard values of normal weights of internal organs ar…

EVALUATION OF UNDERSTANDING OF MEDICAL ETHICS AND LAW AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Open

Mrinal Kanti Jha, Rina Das, Kunal Kanti Majumder, Somnath Das · 2017

BACKGROUNDIn contemporary India, doctors are often accused of unethical act.This led us to evaluate if undergraduate students lack in knowledge of medical ethics and law.Objective-To evaluate the knowledge on medical ethics and law among s…

Variability in Cancer Risk and Outcomes Within US Latinos by National Origin and Genetic Ancestry Open

Mariana C. Stern, Laura Fejerman, Rina Das, Veronica Wendy Setiawan, Marcia Cruz‐Correa , et al. · 2016

Latinos have lower rates for most common cancer sites and higher rates of some less common cancers (gallbladder, liver, gastric, and cervical) than other ethnic/racial groups. Latinos are a highly heterogeneous population with diverse nati…

Interlaminar endoscopic discectomy: minimally invasive procedure, a series report Open

Somashekar, R Yatish, Sridharmurthy JN, Rina Das · 2015

Back ground The upright posture of humans throws enormous stress on the spine particularly during flexion and is responsible for many structural causes of backache such as lumbar disc prolapsed. Various modalities of surgical management ar…

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