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 Patient-reported outcome measures are increasingly important in healthcare. European guidelines have recommended inclusion of patient feedback to capture adverse events due to colonoscopy, but this is rarely implemented. The Norwegian Quality Assurance network for endoscopy (Gastronet) collects patient-r…

IMPORTANCE: Virtual reality-assisted visual field testing (VRVFT) is a novel modality for evaluating glaucoma progression, offering potential advantages over standard automated perimetry (SAP). To date, no narrative literature review has comprehensively discussed the benefits and drawbacks of VRVFT for glaucoma patient…

BACKGROUND: The New Public Management movement strove for transparency so that policy makers and citizens could gain insight into the work and performance of health care. As the use of the electronic health record (EHR) started to diffuse, a foundation was laid for enhanced transparency within and between health care o…

AIM: To assess how the various methods of intracanal reinforcement (short root canal posts) performed in their clinical and radiographic outcomes for restoring grossly broken down primary anterior teeth after pulpectomy for 1 year or longer follow-up period. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Literature search of electronic datab…

Anti-epileptic drugs are increasingly used in the treatment of pain syndromes and neuropathic pain. Sodium channel blockers can be effective in the treatment of pain. The object of our interest is the efficiency of lamotrigine in treating the pain. A MEDLINE search was conducted to identify pertinent studies, case repo…

PURPOSE: To assess British doctors' work-life balance, home-life satisfaction and associated barriers. STUDY DESIGN: We designed an online survey using Google Forms and distributed this via a closed social media group with 7031 members, exclusively run for British doctors. No identifiable data were collected and all r…

To promote optimal healthcare delivery in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) following the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019, adopting home-based physical activity (PA) is being seriously considered. Therefore, this study aims to outline the characteristics of exercise protocols for home-based PA and the challenges and…

The association between impairments in swallowing safety detected via fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) and dysphagia complications has been evaluated in small studies that have not allowed obtaining precise estimates of the presence of such an association. The objective of this study was to evaluat…

BACKGROUND: In a number of diseases, certain genes are reported to be strongly methylated and thus can serve as diagnostic markers in many cases. Scientific literature in digital form is an important source of information about methylated genes implicated in particular diseases. The large volume of the electronic text…

BACKGROUND: Epithelial ovarian cancer kills about 1700 in the UK each year. Ten to fifteen percent of all cases are diagnosed early when there is still a good chance of cure. The treatment of early stage disease involves surgery to remove disease often followed by chemotherapy. The largest clinical trials of this adjuv…

BACKGROUND: Within the UK, there are now opportunities for paramedics to work across a variety of healthcare settings away from their traditional ambulance service employer, with many opting to move into primary care. AIM: To provide an overview of the types of clinical roles paramedics are undertaking in primary and…

Electronic health record (EHR) resources are valuable but remain underexplored because most clinical information, especially phenotype information, is buried in the free text of EHRs. An intelligent annotation tool plays an important role in unlocking the full potential of EHRs by transforming free-text phenotype infor…

Sexual problems and dysfunctions during pregnancy are often led by the anxiety of hurting the fetus. Males are also afraid of hurting a female and females are afraid of insufficient satisfaction of a male partner. Just 12-14% of couples deny sexual problems after the childbirth. The main postpartum risk factor for dysp…

The dural venous sinuses lie in between the two layers of the dura mater. The dural venous sinuses are important, because they receive blood from the brain and the cranial bones. All sinuses are related to the inner surface of the skull, except for the inferior sagittal and the straight sinus. The sinuses related to th…

BACKGROUND: Adolescents with asthma are at high risk of poor adherence with treatment. This may be compounded by activities that worsen asthma, in particular smoking. Additional support above and beyond routine care has the potential to encourage good self-management. We wanted to find out whether sessions led by their…

Mitochondria play an essential role in bioenergetics and cellular Ca[Formula: see text] handling. The mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) is a non-specific channel located in the inner mitochondrial membrane. Long-lasting openings of the pore allow the rapid passage of ions and large molecules, which can…

Physicians need to understand, evaluate and address hemodynamics in every patient and even more importantly in patients that are critically ill. Being able to determine and interpret central venous pressure is one of the most useful bedside evaluation skills, even in the 21st century (Fig. 3). Full Text (Free, PDF) www…

BACKGROUND: Patient safety is a key concern of anaesthesiology practice. However, good practices are often not widely shared between departments and hospitals, whether within or between countries. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to collect and analyse safety practices and tips from anaesthesiology departments around Europe in ord…

OBJECTIVES: Study comparatively (1) concept-based search, using documents pre-indexed by a conceptual hierarchy; (2) context-sensitive search, using structured, labeled documents; and (3) traditional full-text search. Hypotheses were: (1) more contexts lead to better retrieval accuracy; and (2) adding concept-based sea…

BACKGROUND: BERT models have seen widespread use on unstructured text within the clinical domain. However, little to no research has been conducted into classifying unstructured clinical notes on the basis of patient lifestyle indicators, especially in Dutch. This article aims to test the feasibility of deep BERT model…