Agreement Between Provider-Completed and Patient-Completed Preoperative Frailty Screening Using the Clinical Risk Analysis Index: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study by Mehraneh Khalighi, Amy C Thomas, Karl J Brown, Katherine C Ritchey

“…ObjectiveThe objective of our study was to examine provider-completed versus patient-completed RAI-C assessments to identify areas of disagreement between the 2 methods and inform best practices for RAI-C screening implementation. MethodsOrthopedic physicians and physician assistants completed the RAI-C assessment on veterans aged 65 years and older undergoing elective total joint arthroplasty (eg, total hip or knee arthroplasty) and documented scores into the electronic health record during their preoperative clinic evaluation. …”
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Impact of Order Set on Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency in Chronic Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Cancer, and Pancreatic Resection by Michael Ladna, Ishaan Madhok, Adnan Bhat, Nicole Ruiz, Jackson Brown, Jake Wilson, Peter Jiang, Robert Taylor, Mark Radetic, John George, Christopher Forsmark

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Optimizing Virtual Follow-Up Care: Realist Evaluation of Experiences and Perspectives of Patients With Breast and Prostate Cancer by Sarah Scruton, Geoff Wong, Stephanie Babinski, Lauren R Squires, Alejandro Berlin, Julie Easley, Sharon McGee, Ken Noel, Danielle Rodin, Jonathan Sussman, Robin Urquhart, Jacqueline L Bender

“…Prioritizing and addressing patient needs; enhancing physician virtual socioemotional behaviors and technology competency; and enhancing VFU functionality, usability, and processes of care and communication workflows will improve patient perceptions of the patient centeredness and effectiveness of virtual care.…”
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Assessing Health Disparities in Digital Services and Technologies During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis Using HINTS Data by Shih HJ, Min H, Chang J

“…Patient portals improve physician connections and patient health information access, increasing health outcomes. …”
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The role of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in predicting outcomes among patients with community-acquired pneumonia by Yogesh Sharma, Campbell Thompson, Angelo Zinellu, Rashmi Shahi, Chris Horwood, Arduino A. Mangoni

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Exploring menstrual hygiene management practices among displaced coastal women in Kerala, India by Jessy Prabhakar, Aswin MG, Asmi Fathima Nazar, Adarsh MS, Jibin Job PJ, Nisam AP, Krishna Priya MJ, Mini GK

“…Disposal of menstrual materials is problematic. Self-reported physician-diagnosed urinary tract infection (UTI) was 46 %, and reproductive tract infection was 8.4 %. …”
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Evaluating the Safety and Usability of an Over-the-Counter Medical Device for Adults With Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss: Formative and Summative Usability Testing by Megan Elizabeth Salwei, Shilo Anders, Carrie Reale, Jason M Slagle, Todd Ricketts, Matthew B Weinger

“…Given the persistent barriers to hearing aid use, the Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule to allow over-the-counter hearing aids to be sold directly to adult consumers with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss at pharmacies, stores, and online retailers without seeing a physician or licensed hearing health care professional. …”
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Canadian Thoracic Society Recommendations for Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – 2007 Update by Denis E O’Donnell, Shawn Aaron, Jean Bourbeau, Paul Hernandez, Darcy D Marciniuk, Meyer Balter, Gordon Ford, Andre Gervais, Roger Goldstein, Rick Hodder, Alan Kaplan, Sean Keenan, Yves Lacasse, Francois Maltais, Jeremy Road, Graeme Rocker, Don Sin, Tasmin Sinuff, Nha Voduc

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Changes in sarcopenia and incident cardiovascular disease in prospective cohorts by Qingyue Zeng, Lijun Zhao, Qian Zhong, Zhenmei An, Shuangqing Li

“…CVD was identified through self-reported physician diagnoses of heart disease, including angina, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and other heart problems, or stroke. …”
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Two Transcutaneous Stimulation Techniques in Shoulder Pain: Transcutaneous Pulsed Radiofrequency (TPRF) versus Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS): A Comparative Pil... by Mu-Lien Lin, Hung-Wei Chiu, Zao-Ming Shih, Po-Ying Lee, Pei-Zhi Li, Chin-Hong Guo, Yuan-Jie Luo, Shen-Chieh Lin, Kwan-Yu Lin, Yu-Ming Hsu, Angela Pang, Weiwu Pang

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Estimating the Prevalence of Schizophrenia in the General Population of Japan Using an Artificial Neural Network–Based Schizophrenia Classifier: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey by Pichsinee Choomung, Yupeng He, Masaaki Matsunaga, Kenji Sakuma, Taro Kishi, Yuanying Li, Shinichi Tanihara, Nakao Iwata, Atsuhiko Ota

“…Few studies have estimated schizophrenia prevalence in the Japanese population and have often relied on reports from hospitals and self-reported physician diagnoses or typical schizophrenia symptoms. …”
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma Originating from Adult Laryngeal Papillomatosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Vivian Narana Ribeiro El-Achkar, Andressa Duarte, Fabiano Pinto Saggioro, Francisco Veríssimo De Mello Filho, Jorge Esquiche León, Alfredo Ribeiro-Silva, Estela Kaminagakura

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ANALYSIS OF X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES IN LVIV REGION FOR THE PERIOD OF 2015-2020 YEARS by Halyna Shcherbata, Oksana Kovalska

“…While the number of CT per one operating device and on one position of a radiologist in the Lviv region for the last 5 years significantly increased and in 2020 year was equal to 10605 studies /1 device and 220 studies/1 physician, but only in the last year, the growth was by +29,16% and +41,03%, although the number of operating tomographs remained unchanged for the last 5 years (n=5). …”
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Exploring the Social Media Discussion of Breast Cancer Treatment Choices: Quantitative Natural Language Processing Study by Daphna Y Spiegel, Isabel D Friesner, William Zhang, Travis Zack, Gianna Yan, Julia Willcox, Nicolas Prionas, Lisa Singer, Catherine Park, Julian C Hong

“…Paragraphs were processed through the Apache Clinical Text Analysis Knowledge Extraction System and identified as discussing BCS or mastectomy based on physician-defined Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) concepts. …”
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Identifying the mentorship needs among faculty in a large department of psychiatry- support for the creation of a formal mentorship program by Mary Jane Esplen, Lisa M. Fiksenbaum, Elizabeth Lin, Shaheen A. Darani, John Teshima, Simone N. Vigod, Nicole Kozloff, Peter Szatmari, Krista L. Lanctôt, Certina Ho, Ivan Silver, Sophie Soklaridis, Jiahui Wong

“…A limitation of the study was the response rate, while similar to response rates of other physician surveys, raises the potential for response bias. …”
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Discrimination of Radiologists' Experience Level Using Eye-Tracking Technology and Machine Learning: Case Study by Stanford Martinez, Carolina Ramirez-Tamayo, Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Kal Clark, Adel Alaeddini, Nicholas Czarnek, Aarushi Aggarwal, Sahra Emamzadeh, Jeffrey R Mock, Edward J Golob

“…Qualitative descriptions of these search patterns, which involve the physician verbalizing or annotating the order he or she analyzes the image, can be unreliable due to discrepancies in what is reported versus the actual visual patterns. …”
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An Updated Demographic Profile of Orthopaedic Surgery Using a New ABOS Data Set by Lindsey S. Caldwell, MD, Natalie Glass, PhD, Gregory P. Guyton, MD, David W. Elstein, BA, Charles L. Nelson, MD, FAOA

“…The orthopaedic surgery physician workforce is predominately White and male and has been identified as the least diverse medical specialty. …”
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Telerehabilitation: A Practical Remote Alternative for Coaching and Monitoring Physical Kinetic Therapy in Patients with Mild and Moderate Disabling Parkinson’s Disease during the... by Aurelian Anghelescu

“…Patients were supervised and coached online in tandem by the therapist and physician. In addition, a family member assisted and supervised the patient’s performance and coordinated the technical electronic procedures. …”
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Validation of a B-type natriuretic peptide as a prognostic marker in pneumonia patients: a prospective cohort study by Yu Hashimoto, Daisuke Usuda, Ryusho Sangen, Emiri Muranaka, Yoshitsugu Iinuma, Tsugiyasu Kanda

“…Objectives To validate a B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) as a prognostic marker in pneumonia patients.Design A prospective cohort study.Setting Kanazawa Medical University Himi Municipal (a 250-bed community hospital in Himi-shi, Toyama-ken, Japan).Participants All patients diagnosed with pneumonia by the physician and admitted to our hospital between 1 January 2012 and 31 March 2015 whose BNP levels had been determined in the first 24 h of admission. …”
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The epidemiology and unmet need of migraine in five european countries: results from the national health and wellness survey by Gianluca Coppola, Joshua D. Brown, Amanda R. Mercadante, Sheila Drakeley, Nikoletta Sternbach, Aaron Jenkins, Karin Hygge Blakeman, Astrid Gendolla

“…The survey included adults aged ≥ 18 years who self-reported experiencing migraines in the past 12 months and had a physician’s diagnosis. The survey assessed migraine prevalence by age and sex. …”
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