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Rachel Isba

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Artesunate versus quinine for treating severe malaria

D Sinclair, S Donegan, R Isba… - Cochrane Database of …, 2012 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Severe malaria results in over a million deaths every year, most of them in
children aged under five years and living in sub‐Saharan Africa. This review examines …

How and what do medical students learn in clerkships? Experience based learning (ExBL)

T Dornan, N Tan, H Boshuizen, R Gick, R Isba… - Advances in Health …, 2014 - Springer
Clerkship education has been called a 'black box'because so little is known about what,
how, and under which conditions students learn. Our aim was to develop a blueprint for …

Cellular immune responses against hepatitis C virus: the evidence base 2002

S Ward, G Lauer, R Isba, B Walker… - Clinical & …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an RNA virus which is estimated to persistently infect about 170
million people worldwide. After acute infection, there is an initial period during which long …

Where have all the children gone? Decreases in paediatric emergency department attendances at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020

R Isba, R Edge, R Jenner, E Broughton… - Archives of disease in …, 2020 - adc.bmj.com
On Wednesday, 11 March 2020, the WHO declared a global pandemic of COVID-19 1—the
disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus first reported in Wuhan, China, in …

[HTML][HTML] What is virtual reality? A healthcare-focused systematic review of definitions

JR Abbas, A O'Connor, E Ganapathy, R Isba… - Health Policy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives There has been significant advancement in virtual reality (VR) technology since
its conception in 1960, and this evolution has particularly accelerated in recent years …

Social network analysis in medical education

R Isba, K Woolf, R Hanneman - Medical education, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Content Humans are fundamentally social beings. The social systems within which we live
our lives (families, schools, workplaces, professions, friendship groups) have a significant …

COVID-19: transatlantic declines in pediatric emergency admissions

R Isba, R Edge, M Auerbach, MX Cicero… - Pediatric Emergency …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Methods Data were extracted for children and adolescents, younger than 16 years,
attending Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (RMCH, United Kingdom), and Yale New …

[HTML][HTML] World Health Organization guideline development: an evaluation

D Sinclair, R Isba, T Kredo, B Zani, H Smith, P Garner - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Research in 2007 showed that World Health Organization (WHO)
recommendations were largely based on expert opinion, rarely used systematic evidence …

Retention of doctors in emergency medicine: a scoping review of the academic literature

D Darbyshire, L Brewster, R Isba, R Body… - Emergency Medicine …, 2021 - emj.bmj.com
Introduction Workforce issues prevail across healthcare; in emergency medicine (EM),
previous work improved retention, but the staffing problem changed rather than improved …

Creating the learning environment

R Isba, K Walsh - Oxford textbook of medical education, 2013 - books.google.com
Learning can be thought of as a process, not an event. Humans, like other animals, learn by
a variety of means, and while much work has been done on how humans learn, much …