The Growing Challenge of Chronic Kidney Disease: An Overview of Current Knowledge by Rikke Borg, Nicholas Carlson, Jens Søndergaard, Frederik Persson

“…This will also be relevant for primary care physicians as many patients with CKD have their family physician as their primary health care professional handling kidney function preservation. …”
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Pneumonia detection from X-ray images using federated learning–An unsupervised learning approach by Neeta Rana, Hitesh Marwaha

“…However, limitations in physician availability, particularly in resource-constrained regions, can hinder timely diagnosis. …”
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Malpractice in Radiology: What Should You Worry About? by Alessandro Cannavale, Mariangela Santoni, Paola Mancarella, Roberto Passariello, Paolo Arbarello

“…Malpractice lawsuits in radiology are commonly related to inappropriate medical care or to the poor physician-patient relationship. In the present paper, we provide overview of the basic principles of the medical malpractice law and the main legal issues and causes of legal actions against diagnostic and interventional radiologists. …”
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Noncompliance with Ocular Hypertensive Treatment in Patients with Primary Open Angle Glaucoma among the Arab Population in Israel: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study by Muhannad Masoud, Adi Sharabi-Nov, Joseph Pikkel

“…Educational programs, improving patient-physician relationship, and personalizing treatment could provide means for improved adherence.…”
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A Criterion-based Approach for the Systematic and Transparent Extrapolation of Clinical Trial Survival Data by Gabriel Tremblay, Patrick Haines, Andrew Briggs

“…**Methods:** A criterion-based guide was devised to allow the accurate extrapolation and justification of survival estimates in a MBC study comparing eribulin (Halaven) monotherapy with treatment of their (patient’s) physician’s choice (TPC). Parametric and piecewise models are used to extrapolate survival estimates, and statistical as well as visual tests are used to decide the most appropriate modelling technique. …”
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Clinical Characteristics in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Differences between Genders by M. Intriago, G. Maldonado, J. Cárdenas, C. Ríos

“…Women had higher values of DAS-28 (3.4 vs 2.5), HAQ-DI (1.1 vs 0.4), ESR (33.0 vs 23.2), painful joints (8 vs 3), swollen joints (6 vs 2), and overall physician assessment (3 vs 2). Conclusion. The results are similar to other publications that establish that women have a more aggressive disease with greater activity of the disease and disability.…”
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The Perception and Attitude of the Use of Robotics Among Medical Students, Rehabilitation Students, Including OT and PT Students and Specialists, and Healthcare Faculty Members by Mona Aljefiri, Mona Alhabsh, Manar Alabbasi, Suad Aljehani, Fahad Somaa

“…Many participants believed that AI would only be integrated into healthcare and operated by a specialist (79%); however, the majority still favored the physician’s opinion over AI (63%). Conclusion: Most healthcare students and faculty recognize the significance of AI and are excited to engage. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: A Psychological Theory of Dependency to Improve Quality of Life by Søren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Isack Kandel, Joav Merrick

“…If the patient is motivated, resourceful, and trusts his physician, recovery from even a severe state of dependency is not out of reach, if the holistic medical tools are applied wisely. …”
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Atypical Celiac Disease: From Recognizing to Managing by B. Admou, L. Essaadouni, K. Krati, K. Zaher, M. Sbihi, L. Chabaa, B. Belaabidia, A. Alaoui-Yazidi

“…The nonclassic clinical presentation of celiac disease (CD) becomes increasingly common in physician’s daily practice, which requires an awareness of its many clinical faces with atypical, silent, and latent forms. …”
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Microwave System: A Novel Treatment for Localized Adiposity Reduction in a Latin American Population by Aura Ibeth Ruiz-Rosas, Nelly Patricia Muño-Velasco, Dayana Sofia Rengifo-Bolaños, Tatiana Carolina Reyes-Vivas, Paula Lozano-Bitar, Irene Fusco, Paola Andrea Russy-Buitrago

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Investigation of Prophylactic Drug Use Adherence in Patients with Migraine by Ezgi Can, Tuğba Tunç

“…Measures that consider the factors under the patient’s control and the interaction between patient and physician and patient-health care will have the greatest impact on improving adherence. …”
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Factors Associated With Reflective Practice Among Specialist Nurses in China: A Latent Profile Analysis by Lichun Xu, Liyu Lin, Aixuan Guan, Qingqing Wang, Feng Lin, Weicong Lin, Jing Li

“…According to univariate analysis, reflective practice of specialist nurses was associated with marital status, participation in nursing consultations, feelings of lack of competence, perceived low patient recognition of specialist nurses, and perceived low physician recognition of specialist nurses. In the ordered logistic analysis, marital status and whether or not to participate in nursing consultations were influential factors in the reflective practice of specialist nurses. …”
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Time-variant left ventricle models for intracardiac impedance analysis by Voss Daniel, Wemmer Clara, Leonhardt Steffen, Walter Marian

“…Although continuous hemodynamic monitoring of patients is desirable, due to technical limitations, current measurement technologies either require manual intervention of the physician or only provide inaccurate results. Intracardiac impedance measurements are a promising approach for continuous assessment of cardiac function. …”
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The Prevalence of Asthma and Respiratory Symptoms among Cross-Country Skiers in Early Adolescence by E. Lennelöv, T. Irewall, E. Naumburg, A. Lindberg, N. Stenfors

“…The prevalence of self-reported asthma (physician-diagnosed asthma and use of asthma medication in the last 12 months) and the prevalence of reported wheezing during the last 12 months were 23% and 25%, respectively, among skiers, which were significantly higher than the values reported in the reference group (12% and 14%). …”
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eHealth Literacy and Cyberchondria Severity Among Undergraduate Students: Mixed Methods Study by Wan -Chen Hsu

“…The Cyberchondria Severity Scale was used, which consisted of 4 dimensions (increased anxiety, obsessive-compulsive hypochondria, perceived controllability, and web-based physician-patient interaction). Additionally, we recruited 9 volunteers who scored more than 1 SD above the mean for in-depth interviews on their web-based health information–seeking behaviors. …”
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Dyspepsia: When and How to Test for Helicobacter pylori Infection by Maria Pina Dore, Giovanni Mario Pes, Gabrio Bassotti, Paolo Usai-Satta

“…In this review, we provide recommendations to guide primary care physicians for appropriate use of diagnostic tests and for H. pylori management in dyspeptic patients.…”
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Qualitative Study of Barriers to Adherence to Antihypertensive Medication among Rural Women in India by Shreya Gupta, Jas Pal Dhamija, Indu Mohan, Rajeev Gupta

“…Local follow-up at rural community health centres was not practiced due to physician nonavailability and about half used alternative systems of medicine. …”
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Algorithm-informed treatment from EEG patterns improves outcomes for patients with major depressive disorder by Ramon Solhkhah, Justin Feintuch, Mabel Vasquez, Eamon S. Thomasson, Vijay Halari, Kathleen Palmer, Morgan R. Peltier

“…Outcomes were then compared with controls whose physician performed the EEG and submitted data but did not receive the PEER report. …”
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Association between Sleep Habits and Metabolically Healthy Obesity in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study by Thirumagal Kanagasabai, Ramandeep Dhanoa, Jennifer L. Kuk, Chris I. Ardern

“…Those with MHO tended to be younger, female, Non-Hispanic Black, never smokers, more physically active, and with less physician diagnosed sleep disorders than MAO. Neither sleep duration nor overall sleep quality was related to MHO in crude or multivariable adjusted analyses; however, reporting “almost always” to having trouble falling asleep (OR (95% CI): 0.40 (0.20–0.78)), waking up during the night (0.38 (0.17–0.85)), feeling unrested during the day (0.35 (0.18–0.70)), and feeling overly sleepy during the day (0.35 (0.17–0.75)) was related to lower odds of MHO. …”
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Menstrual Changes after COVID-19 Infection and COVID-19 Vaccination by Işılay Taşkaldıran, Emre Vuraloğlu, Yusuf Bozkuş, Özlem Turhan İyidir, Aslı Nar, Neslihan Başçıl Tütüncü

“…Only 10.9% of women who reported a change in their menstrual pattern after vaccination or infection consulted a physician. Conclusion. COVID-19 infection and vaccination can affect the menstrual cycle in women. …”
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