Stakeholder perspectives on barriers and facilitators to hypertension control in urban Haiti: a qualitative study to inform a community-based hypertension management intervention by Reichling St Sauveur, Rodney Sufra, Marie Christine Jean Pierre, Joseph Inddy, Mirline Jean, Nour Mourra, Radhika Sundararajan, Margaret L. McNairy, Jean W. Pape, Vanessa Rouzier, Jessy Devieux, Lily D. Yan

“…At the inner setting clinic level, barriers included limited physician–patient time during visits, residual stigma around cardiovascular services located on same campus as HIV care, and patient preference for physician guidance. …”
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Creating pragmatic, rapid‐cycle, evidence‐based innovation: The Kaiser Permanente Northern California Delivery Science and Applied Research (DARE) program by Douglas A. Corley, Julie A. Schmittdiel, Smita Rouillard, Yi‐Fen Chen, Tracy A. Lieu

“…Abstract Introduction Ongoing crises in the quality, affordability, sustainability, value, and equity of U.S. healthcare call for rapid, massive‐scale innovations across multiple specialties. Physician groups and healthcare organizations commit significant monetary and personnel investments for innovation and improvement efforts, but most lack over‐arching systems theory‐supported conceptual frameworks for efficiently coordinating the timely, large‐volume idea generation, refinement, prioritization, evidence development, implementation, and re‐evaluation strategies needed for rapid‐cycle improvements in health care delivery, outcomes, and value. …”
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Development of cohort definitions and algorithms to identify patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome or Dravet syndrome from real-world administrative healthcare databases by Drishti Shah, Victoria Divino, Justin Chen, Arturo Benitez, Jeannine Roth, J. Scott Andrews

“…Multiple seizure types, developmental delay, and intellectual disabilities were considered by the physicians to be key diagnostic features. The country-specific definitions for all 3 approaches (specific diagnostic codes, ASM indicated for LGS or DS only, and broader epilepsy diagnostic codes) were refined further using consensus from the physician interviews. …”
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Chaperones Utilization in Clinical Practice: Intimate and Sensitive Physical Examination Best Practice Strategies and Concepts in Modern Urological Medicine by Tarini Mitra, Nicolas K. Koerber, Harini Shah, Austin C. Kassels, Danyon J. Anderson, Brennen J. Cooper, Meghan B. Schaefer, Alan D. Kaye, Harish B. Bangalore Siddaiah, Jibin S. Mathew, Jeffrey R. Sterritt, Zachary S. Lee, Ivan Urits

“…Two studies reported the likelihood of chaperone utilization depending on gender of the physician, showing that male physicians were more likely to utilize chaperones and were 3x more likely to offer chaperones to their patients compared to female physicians. …”
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Characterizing Wellness Initiatives in Academic Radiation Oncology Departments by Sara Beltrán Ponce, MD, Crystal Seldon Taswell, MD, Idalid Franco, MD, MPH, Malcolm D. Mattes, MD, Tracy Kelly, MD, Leah Katz, MD, MPH

“…Purpose: Burnout is prevalent in radiation oncology (RO), and an increased focus on promoting physician wellness and formalizing wellness-directed efforts has transpired in recent years. …”
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A MODEL FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY: MULTIMEDIA DATABASE APPROACH by D. V. Tuyet, S. V. Ablameyko

“…In recent years, the deployment of Health Information Technology (HIS) applications and Laboratory Information System (LIS) in some big hospitals have enhanced the quality of administrative management and actively supported the diagnosis and treatment tasks of the physician. In this paper, we will present an architectural model of the Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (MDL).…”
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Opium the Best Remedy by Harold Merskey

“…Sydenham was the leading English physician of the 17th century and probably to the present time. …”
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Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients by Fahad Saeed, Nikhil Agrawal, Eugene Greenberg, Jean L. Holley

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Entrevue guidée avec Antoine Laville by Esther Cloutier, Raymond Baril, Daniel Drolet

“…In this inaugural edition of the Pioneers column in PISTES, we present an interview with physician Antoine Laville, who has made an active contribution to the development of ergonomics in the French-speaking world. …”
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Feasibility of a Provincial Voluntary Reporting System for Work-Related Asthma in Ontario by Teresa To, Susan M Tarlo, Susan McLimont, Ted Haines, D Linn Holness, M Diane Lougheed, Gary M Liss, Lisa Cicutto

“…OBJECTIVE The Ontario Work-Related Asthma Surveillance System: Physician Reporting (OWRAS) Network was established in 2007 to estimate the prevalence of work-related asthma (WRA) in Ontario, and to test the feasibility of collecting data for cases of WRA from physicians voluntarily.…”
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Plasmablastic transformation of a double hit follicular lymphoma: An emerging entity by Shanaz Khodaiji, Vidisha Mahajan, Krishna Sawaimoon Satyakam, Pratibha Sudhan Kadam Amare

“…This unusual case presentation is a challenge for the treating physician with the patient becoming resistant to chemotherapy and succumbing to the disease within a few months of diagnosis. …”
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<i>120th' Anniversary of Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health </i>(Interview with the Rector S.E. Bakulev) by Sergey E. Bakulev

“…The founder of the University is Petr Lesgaft - the famous scientist, physician and pedagogue, whose system of physical education became the basis for physical culture development in Russia. …”
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Pain Management and Telemedicine: A Look at the COVID Experience and Beyond by Jamal Hasoon, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye

“…Given the benefits and downfalls of telemedicine, it is ultimately up to the provider who has an established patient-physician relationship and best understands the patient's limitations and healthcare needs who can best determine which patient population telemedicine is appropriate for and how frequently it can be utilized for each individual patient.…”
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De Paris à Padoue, le grand tour d’un universitaire proscrit par Louis XIV : Charles Patin, médecin, numismate (1633-1693) by Patrick Ferté

“…Famous Guy Patin’s son, Charles Patin is a physician and precursor numismatist, whose academic career at Paris was early crushed by Louis XIV, because of free-thinking and forbidden books traffic. …”
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Removal of a Penile Constriction Device with a Large Orthopedic Pin Cutter by Avinash Chennamsetty, David Wenzler, Melissa Fischer

“…This case report describes the relatively safe technique of using an instrument available in many hospitals that can be added to the physician’s arsenal in the removal of metal constriction devices.…”
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Comment la téléconsultation médicale « en autonomie » infléchit-elle les rapports de pouvoir dans la relation médecin-patient ? by Cécilia Calheiros

“…By this expression we mean the ones that take place on private platforms between an autonomous patient, without a connected instrument at his disposal, and a private general physician.…”
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Stigmatization as a Barrier to Urologic Care: A Review by Parker Foster, Marie Luebke, Abrahim N. Razzak, Danyon J. Anderson, Jamal Hasoon, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits

“…In this review, we address barriers that have prevented patients from seeking urologic care in order to better understand and elucidate important concerns within development of the physician-patient relationship. Recognizing these concerns can also assist in public health outreach approaches to motivate patients for seeking urologic care. …”
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Lingual hematoma, rare complication in a hemodialysis patient. A case presentation by Yuliel Varona Rodríguez

“…The presence of odynophagia and/or dysphagia in an anticoagulated patient should put the treating physician on alert; for this reason and because of the rarity of this situation, it was decided to publish the case.…”
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Bacteremia with an Unusual Pathogen: Mycobacterium neoaurum by Hesham Awadh, Munthir Mansour, Mahmoud Shorman

“…No treatment guidelines are available and treatment largely depends on the experience of the treating physician and nature of the isolate. We report a case of M. neoaurum bacteremia in an immune competent host, with a chronically placed peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC line).…”
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Calcaneal Fractures: A Soft Tissue Emergency by Tae-Seong Kim, Chang-Wug Oh, Joon-Woo Kim, Kyung-Hyun Park

“…To prevent further soft tissue injury, early recognition of the injury by the emergency physician and immediate orthopedic consultation is needed.…”
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