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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: External clinical teaching visits (ECTVs) involve direct observation of general practice registrar consultations with patients, performed by independent general practitioner (GP) educators. The aim of this study was to describe engagement with, and perceived utility of, ECTVs by GP …

The data resources provided by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) cover major areas of biological and biomedical research, giving free and open access to users ranging from expert to casual level. The EBI Search engine provides a unified metadata search engine across these resources. It provides a full-te…

Present worldwide healthcare researches prove that female patients are more sensitive to the population aging. Menopause or climacteria (climax) - is not as ageing itself, but a physiological unstoppable process. The main task for a physician is to improve life quality for female despite of ageing problems. Menopausal…

. Family health history (FHH) can be used to identify individuals at elevated risk for familial cancers. Risk criteria for common cancers rely on age of onset, which is documented inconsistently as structured and unstructured data in electronic health records (EHRs).. To investigate a natural language processing (NLP)…

UNLABELLED: The goals of hospitalist programs in the United States include improving the quality of care, patient safety, the efficient use of resources and reducing the variation in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Hospitalist medicine aims to bring together the concepts of provision of evidence-based medicine a…

The aim of the present study was to test the replicability of the text generation effect for learning with expository texts while systematically varying contextual factors that-based on extant literature-can be assumed to affect the occurrence and magnitude of the text generation effect. Seven experiments were conducte…

*: Background Consisting of dictated free-text documents such as discharge summaries, medical narratives are widely used in medical natural language processing. Relationships between anatomical entities and human body parts are crucial for building medical text mining applications. To achieve this, we establish a mappi…

BACKGROUND: Detecting Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) is an emerging research area, attracting great interest in the research community. Better anticipatory management of predisposing factors has considerable potential to improve outcomes. Automatic extraction of ADEs using Natural Language Processing (NLP) has a great pote…

INTRODUCTION: The Cook-Swartz implantable Doppler monitors venous or arterial blood flow from free flaps and can detect free-flap compromise. Previous studies have shown that the use of this Doppler can improve detection and salvage rates as it provides an earlier warning than the current method of clinical assessment.…

BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of pedicled muscle flaps versus microsurgical free flaps in patients with diabetes mellitus for complex foot and ankle reconstruction has not been well defined. METHODS: The Georgetown Wound Registry identified all patients who underwent pedicled muscle flap or free flap reconstruction fr…

PURPOSE: Defects resulting from open resection of anterior skull base neoplasms are difficult to reconstruct. Our objective was to review the literature and describe an evidence-based algorithm that can guide surgeons reconstructing anterior skull base defects. METHODS: A research librarian designed database search st…

We present a novel, highly versatile, and self-referenced arrival time monitor for measuring the femtosecond time delay between a hard X-ray pulse from a free-electron laser and an optical laser pulse, measured directly on the same sample used for pump-probe experiments. Two chirped and picosecond long optical supercon…

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world tremendously. Particularly during the second wave in India, a dangerous complication followed in the form of COVID-19-associated mucormycosis. On June 7th, 2021, the Indian Union Health Minister stated that 28,252 cases of mucormycosis were reported from 2…

INTRODUCTION: Nutritional Risk Screening-2002 (NRS-2002) has been recently used to evaluate the nutritional status of patients according to the recommendation of ESPEN. In this prospective study, we aimed to find the effectiveness of NRS-2002 on preoperative patients who were candidates for elective procedure at a gene…

UNLABELLED: The aim of the study was to determine whether the treatment outcome differs for males and females in the mixed-gender methadone maintenance program. A prospective non-randomized study was performed to evaluate the efficiency of the treatment over a period of 6 months. In this study, 91 patients (60 male and…

The total Hcy, methionine, vitamin B12, folic acid and vitamin B6 blood concentrations were measured in apparently healthy adult subjects aged 20-30 years with three types of nutrition - 52 normal weight subjects of general population on traditional mixed diet (non-vegetarians), 52 normal weight vegetarians and 24 over…

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is a therapeutic option currently used by autistic people with continued interest and uptake. There remains limited evidence regarding the efficacy of CAM use in autism. The aim of this systematic review is to comprehensively review published clinical trials to explore the e…

OBJECTIVE: To systematically identify, appraise, and examine evidence regarding the effects of therapeutic tape on pain and function in individuals with lateral epicondylalgia (LE). METHODS: Five electronic databases were systematically searched up to March 2018. Full-text, peer-reviewed, English-language studies were…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of tafluprost, a fluoroprostaglandin receptor analog, for reduction of intraocular pressure in open angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension. METHODS: A search of published literature was performed on the PubMed database using the search term…

Blood pressure measuring represents a routine investigation in general medicine. In the last decades large studies have determined average blood pressure values all around the world. Large clinical trials have shown that blood pressure reduction irrespective of the used type of therapeutic intervention reduces mortalit…