Multi-Task Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Mini-Mental State Examination Score Prediction by Jin Liu, Xu Tian, Hanhe Lin, Hong-Dong Li, Yi Pan

“…Therefore, it can be used as a reference for the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, and can also help doctors and patients track disease progression in a timely manner.…”
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The availability of drugs for stable COPD treatment in China: a cross-sectional survey by Dongru Du, Xueru Hu, Qiunan Zuo, Dan Xu, Tao Zhu, Tao Fan, Jiao Yang, Weiguo Xu, Hailong Wei, Kangzhuo Baima, Ying Zhang, Yanhui Gu, Lei Chen, Fengming Luo, Yongchun Shen, Fuqiang Wen

“…Both inhaled drugs (monotherapy, double therapy and triple therapy) and oral drugs (expectorants, theophylline, antibiotics, and bacterial lysates) were included in this survey. Doctors from different hospitals completed the survey via WeChat. …”
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Determinants of Familiarity and Experience with HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Primary Care Providers in Ontario, Canada by Jorge Martinez-Cajas, Beatriz Alvarado, Carmela Rapino, Emma Nagy, T. Hugh Guan, Nicholas Cofie, Nancy Dalgarno, Pilar Camargo, Bradley Stoner

“…Background: Despite increased access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Canada, familiarity and experience among primary care providers (PCPs)—including family doctors and those working with key populations—remains limited. …”
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Social factors influencing behavioral intentions to vaccinate: personality traits and cues to action by Zeming Li, Xinying Sun

“…Cues to action, particularly recommendations from family members (β = 0.113) and doctors (β = 0.092), also significantly affect vaccination intentions. …”
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SATISFACTION WITH WORKING CONDITIONS AND MENTAL HEALTH OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS ACCORDING TO THEIR SELF-ASSESSMENT by Vsevolod Borovets, Oleh Lyubinets

“…Managers of healthcare facilities gave the highest assessment of the importance of this determinant (3.84±0.16 points), and the group of doctors rated it the lowest (3.19±0.13 points), which was significantly lower than the results of the survey in other groups of respondents depending on their position (p<0.05). …”
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Assessing the mental health literacy of healthcare workers at a Johannesburg tertiary hospital by Carla A. Smit, Belinda S. Marais

“…Among the various professions, doctors scored highest and nurses lowest. The anaesthetic and psychiatric departments obtained the highest MHLS scores. …”
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Esophageal Lichen Planus as a Cause of Dysphagia: Literature Review and Clinical Observation by A. I. Dolgushina, E. R. Olevskaya, A. O. Khikhlova, A. A. Saenko, S. U. Belousov

“…Aim: to analyze the literature data, and to raise awareness of doctors of various specialties about the methods of diagnosis and treatment of esophageal lichen planus (ELP).Key points. …”
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Prevalence and characteristics of HPV vaccine hesitancy among parents of adolescent females across Saudi Arabia by Sahar Othman, Ranya Ghamri, Wala Alhamadah, Anwaar Alsatty, Dhuha Khesfaty, Ohoud Alghamdi, Ragad Arbaein, Alaa M. Baglagel, Jumana Khayyat, Bushra Almalki

“…More effort needs to be directed toward educating parents, especially during doctor’s visits, in order to increase the acceptance and vaccination rates.…”
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Diagnosis of COVID-19 Using a Deep Learning Model in Various Radiology Domains by Yousef Alhwaiti, Muhammad Hameed Siddiqi, Madallah Alruwaili, Ibrahim Alrashdi, Saad Alanazi, Muhammad Hasan Jamal

“…Moreover, every country has limited testing capacity; therefore, a system is required which helps the doctor to directly check and analyze the patients’ blood structure. …”
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A Rare Case of Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Child with a Congenital Heart Disease by Bhim Gopal Dhoubhadel, Ujjwal Laghu, Raju Poudel, Konosuke Morimoto, Koya Ariyoshi

“…It is necessary for global advocacy for need of availability of CrAg test in resource-limited regions. Treating doctors should consider VSD, a congenital heart disease, as a predisposing factor for cryptococcal meningitis in children. …”
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Biological samples for examination: concepts, conditions, sampling tactics by M. H. Shcherbakovskyi, A. M. Protsenko, A. E. Volkova

“…Optional participants are a defence counsel, legal representative, representative, lawyer, doctor at their request. During the compulsory collection of biological samples, in order to ensure the legality, objectivity, reliability of the objects of expert research, preservation of health and observance of human rights, it is necessary to comply with legal, ethical, medical and forensic conditions. …”
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Evaluating ChatGPT-4's performance on oral and maxillofacial queries: Chain of Thought and standard method by Kaiyuan Ji, Zhihan Wu, Jing Han, Guangtao Zhai, Guangtao Zhai, Jiannan Liu

“…However, it is not advisable to consider it a substitute for doctors.…”
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Application of high-quality nursing for COVID-19 patients in makeshift hospitals (优质护理在方舱医院内新型冠状病毒肺炎患者中的应用) by YAN Haichun (闫海春), MI Yuehua (米跃华), ZHAO Chunhua (赵春华), SUN Hongyan (孙红艳), YOU Xin (尤欣), LI Liyuan (李莉媛), ZHANG Xiaoyun (张潇允), MA Lixin (马立新), ZHANG Kungang (张坤岗), JIA Qiong (贾琼), XIAO Jiale (肖嘉乐), HAN Miaomiao (韩苗苗), LIU Siyu (刘思雨), WANG Kaiyan (万开颜)

“…Methods A medical team of doctors and nurses was established to participate in the nursing of 528 COVID-19 patients in makeshift hospitals. …”
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Human microbiome, applied to clinical practice by V. T. Ivashkin, K. V. Ivashkin

“…Besides, the increasing attention of doctors and scientists is attracted to the issue intestinal microflora changes at antibiotic treatment. …”
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Improving the provision of clinical pharmacy services in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative study in tertiary health facilities in Tanzania by Fredrick Kalokola, Dorkasi L Mwakawanga, Ritah F Mutagonda, Hamu J Mlyuka, Wigilya P Mikomangwa, Manase Kilonzi, Wema A Kibanga, Alphonce Ignace Marealle, Bertha Mallya, Deogratias Katabalo, Sofia Sanga, John Rwegasha, Rose Magambo, John Mmassy, Sungwa Kabissi, Josephine A Balati, Peter Maduki, Omary Mashiku Minzi, Appolinary A R Kamuhabwa

“…A purposeful sampling technique was used to recruit 97 participants, including 45 pharmacists, 31 medical doctors and 21 nurses across five tertiary healthcare institutions. …”
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Automatic Detection of Cracks in Cracked Tooth Based on Binary Classification Convolutional Neural Networks by Juncheng Guo, Yuyan Wu, Lizhi Chen, Guanghua Ge, Yadong Tang, Wenlong Wang

“…The proposed method in this article provides doctors with a more intelligent diagnostic solution, and it is not only suitable for optical photographs but also for automated diagnosis of other medical imaging images.…”
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Explaining the Factors Affecting the Competence Development of Managers in Public Hospitals with an Approach Based on the General Policies of the Health System by Saied Moradi, Mohammadreza Rabiee Mandejin, Mohammad Mohammadi

“…The implementation of the Strauss-Corbin model revealed that causal conditions included leadership, doctors, and staff. Intervening conditions encompassed the economy, research technology, and education. …”
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Medication stewardship in the operating theatre in Malaysia: A quality improvement project by Siti Nadzrah Yunus, Nur Haryanti Izumi Suhaimi, Ka Ting Ng, Ili Syazana Jamal Azmi, Noorjahan Haneem Md Hashim, Ina Ismiarti Shariffuddin

“…Results: Ninety-eight anaesthesia care providers participated in the survey (72.4% doctors and 27.6% anaesthetic nurses). Pre-intervention, 76.1% of respondents had experienced medication errors during their practice. …”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Scientific Society for the Clinical Study of Human Microbiome, of the Russian Gastroenterological Association and the Russian Society for the Pr... by V. T. Ivashkin, O. S. Lyashenko, O. M. Drapkina, O. P. Alexeeva, S. A. Alekseenko, D. N. Andreev, A. Yu. Baranovsky, O. V. Goloshchapov, N. V. Zheleznova, O. Yu. Zolnikova, I. L. Kliaritskaia, N. V. Korochanskaya, T. L. Lapina, I. V. Maev, R. V. Maslennikov, R. G. Myazin, P. V. Pavlov, M. V. Perekalina, N. A. Pisarenko, A. V. Povtoreyko, E. A. Poluektova, L. A. Sekretareva, A. V. Tkachev, Yu. M. Troshkina, A. S. Trukhmanov, A. I. Ulyanin, S. G. Filatova, V. V. Tsukanov, O. S. Shifrin

“…Аim: the clinical practice guidelines intended for gastroenterologists, internal medicine specialists, infectious disease specialists, general practitioners (family doctors), coloproctologists, surgeons and endoscopists present modern methods of diagnosis, prevention and treatment of C. difficile-associated disease.Key points. …”
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Quantitative immunohistochemistry analysis of breast Ki67 based on artificial intelligence by Wang Wenhui, Gong Yitang, Chen Bingxian, Guo Hualei, Wang Qiang, Li Jing, Jin Cheng, Gui Kun, Chen Hao

“…Besides, in clinical independent sample experiment, the results show that the proposed breast Ki67 quantitative analysis system achieve excellent correlation with the diagnosis efficiency of doctors improved more than ten times and the overall consistency of diagnosis is intra-group correlation coefficient: 0.964. …”
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