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Objectives: Community pharmacists’ roles in the UK are evolving; pharmacists currently deliver a wider range of clinical services with more patient-focused care. The objectives of this study were (i) to investigate UK community pharmacists&rsqu...

Background: Video-consultation (VC) is a specialized type of telemedicine that uses technology to provide real-time visual and audio patient assessment at a distance. In the present review, we set out to evaluate whether VC is feasible for the assess...

Older adults may have both someone to consult and opportunities to be consulted by family or friends. This cross-sectional secondary analysis examined their mutually adjusted associations with happiness and self-rated health using a nationwide survey...

Online medical consultation is a form of medical service that facilitates interactions between patients and doctors online, offering significant utility and value. This review aims to retrieve, screen, and analyze articles related to online medical c...

Early palliative care improves quality of life for patients with life-limiting illnesses, but access is often inequitable. The goal of this study was to assess disparities in early specialist palliative care (SPC) consultation among newly diagnosed s...

The use of telemedicine has greatly increased, largely derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has created the need for a guide aimed towards the adequate management of a modality of health care: the video consultation. A Delphi study composed of t...

Background: To enhance cancer symptom management for residents of Sudbury–Manitoulin District, an ambulatory palliative clinic (pac) was established at the Northeast Cancer Centre of Health Sciences North. The pac is accessed from a medical or radiat...

Online medical consultation (OMC) allows doctors and patients to communicate with each other in an online synchronous or asynchronous setting. Unlike face-to-face consultations in which doctors are only passively chosen by patients with appointments,...

In Norway, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are regulated through the Gene Technology Act of 1993, which has received international attention for its inclusion of non-safety considerations. In 2017, the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board tri...

The North Sea Consultation was set up to resolve conflicting claims for space in the North Sea. In 2020, this consultation process resulted in the North Sea Agreement, which was supported by the Dutch Parliament and cabinet as a long-term policy; how...

The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure was developed to create a means of evaluating a physician’s consultation process based on an extensive and meaningful definition of empathy, independent of a patient’s socioeconomic b...

The decision-making process involves different stages in which the authorities should ensure that citizens’ views and concerns are voiced by encouraging citizens to become directly involved in policy areas and issues so that they can actively e...

The application of chest X-ray imaging for early disease screening is attracting interest from the computer vision and deep learning community. To date, various deep learning models have been applied in X-ray image analysis. However, models perform i...

Crises in the medicine sector such as the COVID-19 pandemic encourage the search for effective solutions for the provision of health care services, when conventional face-to-face consultations may be difficult to deliver effectively due to contact re...

Named entity recognition in online medical consultation aims to address the challenge of identifying various types of medical entities within complex and unstructured social text in the context of online medical consultations. This can provide import...

Elevated cardiac troponin (cTn) showed associations with mortality even in stable patients, but management has not been established. We aimed to investigate whether consultation to cardiologists could reduce mortality of stable patients with cTn elev...

REDD+ aims to mitigate climate change by reducing deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries while ensuring social and environmental benefits through the involvement of diverse stakeholders. While several studies evaluate stakeholde...

Objective: To evaluate the preference of primary HCWs and residents on vaccination consultation in community health services to provide evidence for vaccine hesitancy intervention strategies. Methods: A discrete choice model (DCM) was constructed to...

The COVID-19 epidemic put pressure on the traditional healthcare system and offline consultation methods. Telemedicine platforms provide a more convenient and safer channel for online health communication. Based on the signaling theory, our study exp...

(1) Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess patients’ and practitioners’ reported experience measures (PREMs) following a first standard orthodontic consultation (face-to-face consultation) versus a first orthodontic teleconsultation...

This study focuses on doctor recommendation mechanisms for online consultation platforms (OCPs), and aims to develop a lightweight multi-criteria decision framework that enhances doctor–patient matching efficiency by mitigating patients’...

Background. As a new medical service model, the online health community can integrate various medical resources to the maximum extent and improve the accessibility and utilization rate of hospital high-quality medical resources. Objective. Research b...

Dog and cat vaccination consultations are a common part of small animal practice in the United Kingdom. Few data are available describing what happens during those consultations or what participants think about their content. The aim of this novel st...

Background: Telemedicine represents a rapidly evolving tool for delivering specialist healthcare in structurally constrained environments. Correctional facilities face significant barriers to in-person specialist care, and telemedicine offers a scala...

The digital maturity model (DMM) can help enterprises scientifically evaluate their digital maturity level, identify their weaknesses, and then further formulate improvement strategies. Most of the existing relevant studies focus on the Internet indu...

Traveler’s diarrhea (TD) is one of the most common travel-related health problems, largely interfering with planned activities and potentially contributing to antimicrobial resistance. This study aimed to characterize the knowledge about TD amo...

There are salutary lessons from contrasting community consultation efforts in 2011 and 2015 to develop and gain support for an urban stormwater management plan for the Brownhill Creek catchment in Adelaide, South Australia. The 2011 process was a fai...

(1) Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common causes of cancer. Timely diagnosis is critical, with even minor delays impacting prognosis. Primary care providers face obstacles in accessing specialist care. This study investigates...

Background: In Japan, new challenges are emerging, such as declining birth rates, an increase in age at childbirth, postpartum depression, and child abuse. Methods: This study examines the factors influencing maternal consultation behavior at public...

Virtual consultation has been implemented as a tool to improve the cooperation and coordination between primary care and other specialties. However, in its use in dermatology, inequities have been described. The aim of this study was to identify indi...

Background: Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate promise in medical applications, but their performance in hormonal contraception consultation remains underexplored. Objective: To evaluate the accuracy and comprehensiveness of LLM-generated hormo...

Background: Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC) helps healthcare professionals, patients, and families address ethically complex situations in clinical practice. Since 2016, requests for CEC at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemell...

Background: Pediatric daily headaches are refractory and disabling. However, the influence of the interval between daily headache onset and initial specialist consultation on clinical outcomes remains unknown. Methods: This retrospective observationa...

There is an ever-growing awareness of the health-related special needs of older patients, and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Services (CLPS) are significantly involved in providing such age-friendly hospital care. CLPS perform psychiatric assessment...

Superficial fungal infections (SFIs) are among the most common skin diseases worldwide and are common in many parts of Asia. Community pharmacists are well-placed to help identify and manage SFIs. However, effective management may be hindered by a su...

Inappropriate use of dietary supplements by patients might exacerbate their diseases. The aim of this study was to clarify the situation of dietary supplement use for disease treatment among patients. A cross-sectional online questionnaire survey was...

Integrating Clinical Ethics Consultants (CECs) into healthcare requires understanding how they apply bioethical knowledge while managing cognitive and emotional challenges in ethical deliberations. Ethical consultations often elicit strong emotions,...

(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically and rapidly changed the overall picture of healthcare in the way how doctors care for their patients. Due to the significant strain on hospitals and medical facilities, the popularity of web-base...

Background: Psychiatric inpatients may be vulnerable to head trauma; however, associations among psychiatric diagnosis, trauma mechanisms, and acute trauma-related neuroimaging findings among patients requiring neurosurgical consultation remain uncle...

Online consultation based on Internet technology is gradually becoming the main way to seek health information and professional assistance. Online user reviews, such as content reviews and star ratings, are an important basis for reflecting users’ vi...

As an indispensable part of contemporary medical services, Internet-based medical platforms can provide patients with a full range of multi-disciplinary and multi-modal treatment services. Along with the emergence of many healthcare influencers and t...

Risk-stratified pathways of survivorship care seek to optimize coordination between cancer specialists and primary care physicians based on the whole person needs of the individual. While the principle is supported by leading cancer institutions, tra...

Background and study aims: Acute health service requires focused palliative care (PC). This study was performed to provide guidance for the establishment of a palliative care consultation service (PCCS). Patients and methods: This study was conceived...

Background: Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) has claimed the lives of many Americans, with rates of overdose steadily rising over the past decade. Despite having highly effective medications to treat this condition, many providers still hesitate to prescrib...

Background/Objectives: Online medical consultation (OMC) platforms have become an essential tool for facilitating communication between doctors and patients, providing an efficient way for patients to access healthcare services. However, research on...

The Calgary–Cambridge Guide is a widely recognised framework for teaching communication skills to healthcare professionals that has become a cornerstone of communication training programs in medicine and other healthcare fields. In the context...

This study aimed to investigate consultation outcomes from gastroenterologists to generalist physicians for the diagnostic workup of undiagnosed chronic abdominal pain. This was a single-center, retrospective, descriptive study. Patients were include...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative effect on people’s mental health. Additionally, it resulted in many transformations in mental healthcare services delivery. Mental health professionals preferred to provide mental health serv...

Background: Prevention and management strategies of mental suffering in healthcare workers appeared as important challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article aims to: (1) show how potential psychiatric disorders for healthcare workers (HCW)...

Doctor attributes contribute significantly to the quality of the doctor–patient relationship, consultation, patient satisfaction, and treatment outcomes. However, there is a paucity of research on this topic in many settings in developing count...