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We examined how sociodemographic, parental, and temporal factors are associated with parent-reported reasons for seeking consultation in a child and adolescent psychotherapeutic clinic. Data were derived from a large retrospective sample of more than...

Purpose: To characterize baseline spinal multimorbidity, we investigated sex-associated differences in disability, and the temporal distribution of patients aged 80 years or older presenting to a tertiary spine center over three decades. Methods: We...

The diagnosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is often entrusted to the pediatric rheumatologist specialist. Timely referral to a specialized center is crucial. This study aims to assess the consultation and investigation patterns of patients...

Background and Objectives: This study aims to evaluate neurosurgery consultations for elderly patients during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and Methods: This study included patients aged 65 and older who were hospitalized in non-neur...

Background: The acute care surgery (ACS) model employs a 24/7 multidisciplinary team—surgeons, nurses, and residents—supported by an electronic consultation system to optimize emergency The acute care surgery (ACS) model provides 24/7 mul...

Background/Objectives: This preliminary, single-centre study evaluated infectious diseases consultation (IDC) patterns as indicators of hospital workflow and care complexity, aiming to characterise routinely available variables that may inform future...

Objectives: To describe the utilization patterns and patient perceptions of individual dietary consultations among people with type 2 diabetes in Israel, and to examine the association between dietary consultation attendance and adherence to the Medi...

Computational approaches were called for to address the challenges of more objective behavior assessment which would be less reliant on owner reports. This study aims to use computational analysis for investigating a hypothesis that dogs with ADHD-li...

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...

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...

Despite the increasing use of various e-democracy tools in shaping new policies, there is still a general lack of empirical studies on the influence of non-state actors in online public consultations. This article addresses this gap in the academic l...

Decision-making in healthcare involves both clinical evidence and emotional and cognitive processes that are often difficult to formalize. While sentiment analysis has been widely used to capture emotional information in clinical interactions, it doe...

With the steady global progress in integrating technology into healthcare delivery, doctors’ behavioral patterns on online healthcare platforms have increasingly become a focal point in the fields of digital health and healthcare service manage...

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...

The World Health Organization expressed concern that antimicrobial resistance would increase during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the excessive use of antibiotics. This study aimed to explore if antibiotic prescribing patterns in general practices loc...

Study Design: Retrospective cohort. Objective: Traumatic facial fractures (FFs) often require specialty consultation with Plastic Surgery (PS) or Otolaryngology (ENT); however, referral patterns are often non-standardized and institution specific. Th...

Despite consensus guidelines, most patients with early-stage triple-negative (TN) and HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer do not see a medical oncologist prior to surgery and do not receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). To understand barriers to ca...

The first level of medical care provides the largest number of consultations for the most frequent diseases at the community level, including acute pharyngitis (AP), acute diarrhoea (AD) and uncomplicated acute urinary tract infections (UAUTIs). The...

This study investigates the association between environmental and meteorological factors and asthma-related consultations among children in Dakar, Senegal. Retrospective hospital records of children aged 0–15 years who were treated for acute as...

Background/Objectives: While antibiotic usage in farm animals has been systematically monitored and reduced in many countries, including Germany, data on companion animals such as dogs and cats remain scarce. To address this gap, a study was conducte...

Background: Telemedicine complements traditional healthcare delivery and may improve access, continuity of care, and patient engagement, particularly in chronic conditions requiring regular follow-up. Video consultation is a widely adopted telemedici...

Utilization of services is an important indicator for estimating access to healthcare. In Norway, the General Practitioner Scheme, a patient list system, was established in 2001 to enable a stable doctor-patient relationship. Although satisfaction w...

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...

Objectives: Chronic pain is a common symptom in Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS), affecting 11–60% of patients, but the link between COVID-19 and chronic pain remains unclear. This study assesses healthcare resource utilization (HRU) for pai...

Background/Objectives: Time-constrained consultations in high-volume settings can crowd out patient-centered communication, while AI-generated advice may face algorithm aversion when it lacks a humanistic dimension. This study examined whether a brie...

Farmers and consultants face an unmanageable amount of diverse knowledge and information for crop management decisions. To determine optimal actions, decision makers require knowledge-based support. In this way, decisions can be improved and heuristi...

Front-end planning is important for local public construction projects because deficiencies in surveys, design documentation, cost estimation, appraisal, and stakeholder coordination can lead to repeated revisions, approval delays, and cost adjustmen...

Introduction: Palliative care (PC) utilization remains low among pancreatic cancer patients. This study explores the association of PC with mental health service and pharmacotherapy utilization among pancreatic cancer patients. Methods: Retrospective...

Background: Inequities in pain management are well documented in chronic pain and outpatient settings, yet little is known about disparities in inpatient Acute Pain Service (APS) care. This study evaluated demographic, clinical, and social factors as...

Historic urban districts are increasingly exposed to rapid urban transformation, resulting in the deterioration of heritage fabric, weakening of spatial identity, and disruption of everyday patterns of use. Although participatory approaches are incre...

Background/Objectives: Early palliative care referral for new oncologic diagnoses has been widely recognized as integral to comprehensive care, but there exists a paucity of research assessing referral patterns in pediatric oncology. The objective of...

Background: Lymphedema is a debilitating condition with high morbidity, yet despite advances in management, diagnostic ambiguity and fragmented referral patterns continue to delay appropriate care. We evaluated predictors of accurate diagnosis, micro...

Large language models (LLMs) have become extensively used among users across diverse settings. Yet, with the complex nature of these large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) systems, leveraging their capabilities effectively is yet to be explored. In...

Background: Medication use during pregnancy is common; however, exposure to medications with potential fetal risks remains an important public health concern. This study aimed to characterize medication use patterns and assess exposure to potentially...

Background/Objectives: Remote islands in Japan constitute a unique medical environment in which physicians often manage a broad spectrum of clinical conditions. However, physicians practicing on remote islands have diverse medical backgrounds, and di...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive, often unanticipated, external disruption for many companies. As a concept for responding to such disruption, organizational resilience has recently received great attention. In the organizational context, t...

Objective: To investigate the inter-method agreement between in-person consultations and video recordings when diagnosing BPPV. Methods: Two experienced vestibular clinicians (clinician A and B) evaluated patients for the presence and type of BPPV, u...

Background: Antibiotics are commonly used in pediatrics. The aim and objectives were to evaluate the antibiotic prescribing patterns of pediatric outpatients at a private hospital in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Methods: A retrospective drug utilization review wa...

It is crucial to provide mental health care following a disaster because the victims tend to experience symptoms such as anxiety and insomnia during the acute phase. However, little research on mental health during the acute phase has been conducted,...

Background: Systemic antifungal treatment in intensive care units (ICUs) is frequently initiated before microbiological confirmation. Earthquake-affected ICUs provide an important setting for examining antifungal decision-making under sudden patient...

Worldwide, active aging policy calls for greater participation of senior citizens in the social, economic, and political realms. Despite emerging evidence of initiatives engaging senior citizens in social activities, little is known about the use of...

We present the case of a 25-year-old male who attended a dermatological online consultation due to a whiplash-shaped, pruritic rash. The lesions in the form of well-demarcated linear erythematous papules, located mainly on the trunk and arms, had fir...

Globally, and particularly in the Latin American region, international migration continues to grow. Access and use of health care services by migrants vary according to their country of origin and residence time. We aimed to compare the access and us...

Objective: To investigate the stability over time of the psychiatric diagnoses among candidates to liver transplantation referred to a consultation-liaison psychiatric service. Method: Descriptive study, carried out at the Consultation-Liaison Psychi...

This study presents a pioneering approach that leverages advanced sensing technologies and data processing techniques to enhance the process of clinical documentation generation during medical consultations. By employing sophisticated sensors to capt...

Presently, the application of big data in the construction industry encounters numerous obstacles and involves diverse stakeholders, with the intricate network of relationships between these factors and stakeholders remaining unclear. Investigating s...

Background/Objectives: There is limited research on vaping during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Amid the legalization of cannabis in Canada, and evolving patterns of nicotine use, there is a growing need to understand how women experience usin...

Despite the ending of social distancing and post-pandemic return to normal activities, the impacts of COVID-19 on urban mobility persist, particularly with regard to public transport. Consequently, this study looks into the post-pandemic changes in t...

Adolescents diagnosed with Restrictive Eating Disorders (REDs) are at risk for alexithymia. REDs patients’ families show dysfunctional interactive patterns, and childhood family environment influences alexithymia development. We aimed to assess...

Studies applying the self-determination theory have shown that intrinsic motivation and autonomous regulation lead to job satisfaction and to better job performance. What has not been worked out clearly yet are the effects of extrinsic motivation and...