Active community inquiry facing COVID-19: Experiences in the Cumanayagua municipality, 2020 by Victor René Navarro Machado, Blanca Moracén Rubio, Danays Santana Rodríguez, Oskeymi Rodríguez González, Medelyn Oliva Santana, Guiguiola Blanco González

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> active research structure, its basis from the family doctor-nurse's office and its form are described by interviewing the residents in their homes. …”
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Automated Detection of Macular Diseases by Optical Coherence Tomography and Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning of Optical Coherence Tomography Images by Soichiro Kuwayama, Yuji Ayatsuka, Daisuke Yanagisono, Takaki Uta, Hideaki Usui, Aki Kato, Noriaki Takase, Yuichiro Ogura, Tsutomu Yasukawa

“…Automated disease detection showed that the first candidate disease corresponded to the doctor’s decision in 83 (83%) images and the second candidate disease in seven (7%) images. …”
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Retained multiple contact lenses in a vulnerable dementia patient by Rohit SHARMA, Zuhair SHARIF

“…Treated ‘on and off ’ by various doctors and healthcare professionals with antibiotic drops for eight months with no improvement. …”
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Considerations for establishment of a private virtual hospital identified using an implementation science approach by Olivia J. Fisher, Caroline Grogan, Andrew Barron, Shanthi Kanagarajah, Sue-Ellen Smith, Ian Smith, Kelly McGrath

“…We conducted a qualitative pre-implementation determinant study using snowball sampling and semi-structured interviews (n = 37) between February and July 2023 with consumers/carers/both (n = 11), clinicians (doctors/allied health/nursing/personal carers), hospital, health service and aged care leadership (n = 22), and public health stakeholders (n=4). …”
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Management of adult patients with alcoholic liver disease: clinical guidelines of the Russian Scientific Liver Society by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Mayevskaya, Ch. S. Pavlov, Yu. P. Sivolap, V. D. Lunkov, M. S. Zharkova, R. V. Maslennikov

“…The amount of consumed alcohol and drinking pattern should be systematized in clinical practice of the doctor of any specialty, first of all - for patients with liver diseases. …”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Peptic Ulcer in Adults (Clinical Guidelines of the Russian Gastroenterological Association, Russian Society of Colorectal Surgeons and the Russian Endosc... by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Maev, P. V. Tsar’kov, M. P. Korolev, D. N. Andreev, E. K. Baranskaya, S. G. Burkov, A. A. Derinov, S. K. Efetov, T. L. Lapina, P. V. Pavlov, S. S. Pirogov, A. V. Tkachev, A. S. Trukhmanov, E. D. Fedorov, A. A. Sheptulin

“…Clinical recommendations contain criteria for assessing the quality of medical care, an algorithm of the doctor’s actions, as well as information for patients.Conclusions. …”
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Acute Stroke Management and Outcome: An Experience from One Private Tertiary Care Center in Eastern India by Debabrata Chakraborty, Devarati Biswas, Sakshi Puri, Abdul Malik, Shagufta Eqbal, Insha Aleena, Ritwika Ghosh, Sadanand Dey, Priyanjita Sen, Sucharita Paul

“…We wanted to know how the patient’s family members, as well as private doctors in the community, responded to the acute stroke. …”
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Characterization of the attention to the Occupational Health in the Policlínico Juan José Apolinaire Pennini. Cienfuegos 2018. by Yoleysi Arteaga Cuéllar, Pedro Luis Veliz Martínez, Sarah Hernánez Malpica, Noelia Castro Ladrón de Guevara, Leticia Castro Morejón, Pedro Ricardo Borges Cabrera

“…The sample made up of workers from the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Thermoelectric Plant, chosen by simple random sampling, and doctors and nurses from the polyclinic family, intentionally selected. …”
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Postgraduate education at the Juan José Apolinaire Pennini polyclinic in Cienfuegos by Marisela García de la Torre, Dayme Rodríguez Fumero, Zulema González Abreu, Grisel Vidal Cabrera, Carlos Manuel Crespo Tamayo

“…There are insufficiencies in the second degree specialists training, masters and doctors of science; In addition, there is no correspondence between the number of graduates and the teaching research categories.…”
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Morbidity and mortality in the Cienfuegos Provincial Hospital (2018-2022) by Rodolfo Javier Rivero Morey, Lya del Rosario Magariño Abreus, Jeisy Rivero Morey, Arelys Falcón Hernández, Moisés Aramís Santos Peña

“…Fever of unknown origin and proximity to the end of the pregnancy are the main reasons for doctor's appointment; while pneumonic inflammatory processes and stroke are frequent causes of mortality, with a higher rate in intensive care units.…”
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Longitudinal relationship between baseline Weight-Adjusted Waist Index and stroke risk over 8 years in Chinese adults aged 45 and older: a prospective cohort study by Xiaoqiang Li, Xiangmao Zhou, Hui Du, Hui Wang, Zhijian Tan, Yaqing Zeng, Zhibin Song, Guifeng Zhang

“…Stroke incidents were determined through self-reported doctor diagnoses. Multivariate logistic regression analyses and curve fitting assessed the WWI-stroke risk relationship, adjusting for various demographic, lifestyle, and health-related factors.ResultsHigher WWI quartiles were associated with older age and higher prevalence of stroke and adverse health conditions. …”
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Social and structural factors that influence refugee women’s use of mental health care services in Canada: A narrative review by Shreya Mahajan, Samantha B. Meyer

“…Finally, this paper uncovers policies and power divides between patients and doctors that impacts how mental health care is welcomed by women who are refugees. …”

D2CBDAMAttUnet: Dual-Decoder Convolution Block Dual Attention Unet for Accurate Retinal Vessel Segmentation From Fundus Images by Vo Trong Quang Huy, Chih-Min Lin

“…Gathering detailed morphological information from retinal blood vessels is crucial in clinical diagnostics, enabling doctors to make precise assessments of patient conditions and to devise custom treatments. …”
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Implementing an intrahospital transport preparation (IHT) and management project for critically ill patients: identification of barriers and facilitators using consolidated framewo... by Jing Wang, Li Ma, Ying Lu, Baohua Li, Xiaotian Zhang, Rui Xie, Guifen Li, Man Cui, Lanfang Du

“…Objective To investigate the factors contributing to or hindering intrahospital transport preparation and management projects using the consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR) framework.Design Semistructured interviews were used in a qualitative descriptive study.Setting This study was conducted in the emergency room of a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China, between December 2023 and January 2024.Participants Purposive sampling was employed to recruit 22 doctors and nurses involved in intrahospital transport.Primary and secondary outcome measures A content analysis technique was employed to transcribe and analyse all gathered data. …”
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Deep Learning Algorithms for Detection and Classification of Gastrointestinal Diseases by Mosleh Hmoud Al-Adhaileh, Ebrahim Mohammed Senan, Waselallah Alsaade, Theyazn H. H Aldhyani, Nizar Alsharif, Ahmed Abdullah Alqarni, M. Irfan Uddin, Mohammed Y. Alzahrani, Elham D. Alzain, Mukti E. Jadhav

“…Medical video endoscopy generates many images, so doctors need considerable time to follow up all the images. …”
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Experiences in the application of a triage system in the health institutions of the province of Cienfuegos, 1998-2016 by Víctor René Navarro Machado, Arelys Falcón Hernández, Omar Bárbaro Rojas Santana, Raúl Nieto Cabrera

“…Main indicators: average time of arrival-triage 2.5 minutes; duration of the triage &lt;5 min; arrival time-medical attention (red 0-7 minutes, yellow 7-14 minutes, green 28 minutes); percentage of patients attended but not classified 10.5%; agreement index between nurse-sorter and doctors for patients with green or yellow code 77.6%; percentage of income for patients with a red code, 98%; percentage of income for patients with a yellow code of 19.5%. …”
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Outpatient visits and treatment methods of patients with hand and wrist injuries in Vreden National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics by Eugeniy V. Veber, Alexander P. Zavyalov, Alexander I. Avdeev, Margarita A. Zhogina, Sergey S. Smirnov

“…Treatment of patients with hand and wrist injuries requires comprehensive approach involving doctors of various specialties at each stage of the treatment. …”
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Educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults by Dayme Rodríguez Fumero, Taimí Figueredo Pérez, Marisela García de la Torre, Dianelys Díaz Poma, Yaima Montalvo Hernández, Zenaida María Rivero Quesada

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> an educational intervention study was carried out in the family doctor's office No. 7 of the Ernesto Guevara de la Serna polyclinic, Cienfuegos, from February 2021 to November 2023. …”
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Hybrid Decision-Making Frameworks under Complex Spherical Fuzzy N-Soft Sets by Muhammad Akram, Maria Shabir, Ahmad N. Al-Kenani, José Carlos R. Alcantud

“…As an illustration, we design a mathematical model for the selection of the best physiotherapist doctor of Mayo hospital, Lahore. We conduct a comparison with the existing complex spherical fuzzy TOPSIS method that confirms the stability of the proposed model and the reliability of its results.…”
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Contextualizing the challenges of education graduate students in the Philippines: translating needs analysis into strategic solutions by Nilo Jayoma Castulo, Arlyne C. Marasigan, Ma. Laarni D. Buenaventura, Jayson L. de Vera, Evelyn C. Bagaporo, Mark Ponce C. San Juan, Nathaniel S. Dalida

“…The study employed a descriptive quantitative online survey method with 198 education graduate students enrolled in the master's and doctoral degrees at Y University using Tinto's Theory of Student Departure. …”
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