Early treatment and rehabilitation medical service is one of the important items in rehabilitation medicine. The service quality is critical for developing organizational sustainability. Therefore, the key success factors for the quality of such serv...
Health has a significant influence on the quality of life of a society. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many countries to implement restrictive measures to prevent its wider spread, including, inter alia, the introduction of remote healthcare in the...
Background/Objectives: Male infertility is a prevalent issue impacting numerous couples worldwide. This review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of empirical therapies for male infertility, focusing on both lifestyle modifications and medical treatm...
16 September 2022
Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) represents an adverse side effect of antiresorptive and antiangiogenic medications. It is associated with impaired quality of life, oral health, and oral function and can be classified into various...
Background/Objectives: Plaque psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory disease affecting approximately 3% of the global population and resulting in a significant deterioration in quality of life. Systemic therapy with monoclonal antibodies...
This paper is dedicated to the research presented at the 26th Nordic Congress of Gerontology in Odense, Denmark, in June 2022, which was organized by the Danish Gerontological Society and the Danish Society for Geriatrics. The overall topics of the c...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of supplementation with a fixed combination of citicoline 500 mg, homotaurine 50 mg, and vitamin E 12 mg (CIT/HOMO/VITE) on contrast sensitivity and visual-related quality of life in patients w...
Background/Objectives: Bowel endometriosis (BE) is characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue within the muscular layer of the bowel wall. When BE does not result in the severe obstruction to fecal transit and in the absence of (sub)occ...
Background: To evaluate and compare the visual function and the quality of life (QoL) in glaucomatous patients treated with topical medical therapy (TMT) alone, canaloplasty (CP), or trabeculectomy (TB). Methods: A total of 291 eyes of 167 patients w...
The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has increased the vulnerability and decreased the retention in treatment of patients receiving medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on crav...
Background and objectives: Informed decision-making requires the ability to identify and integrate high-quality scientific evidence in daily practice. We aimed to assess whether randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on endometriosis therapy follow meth...
Background/Objectives: Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) help us understand how patients perceive healthcare quality. Yet most studies look at complaints in isolation, without tying them to the structural features of medical practice. This...
Impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a major problem in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Antimalarial agents (AMA) are the cornerstone of SLE therapy, but data on their impact on HRQoL are scarce. We investigated this i...
The registered nurse has crucial preventative, therapeutic, sociocultural, and advocacy roles in promoting quality holistic patient-centred palliative care. This paper examines, describes, and analyses this multifaceted role from an antipodean perspe...
Background: The transition from the parenteral to subcutaneous application of systemic oncological therapy represents one of the most important innovations in modern oncology, as it affects the quality of life of patients as well as the organization...
30 June 2006
There has been a great deal of international discussion on the nature and relevance of endocrine disrupting compounds in the environment. Changes in reproductive organs of fish and mollusks have been demonstrated in rivers downstream of sewage discha...
Hypertension (HTN) is one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century. Its prevalence has reached alarming levels in recent decades. The search for effective prevention and treatment strategies includes lifestyle choices, such as die...
16 April 2022
The development of “wise medical” is crucial to global carbon reduction. The medical sector not only has the moral obligation to reduce carbon emissions, but also has the responsibility to provide high-quality services to patients. Existi...
The skeletal system is the third most common site for cancer metastases, surpassed only by the lungs and liver. Many tumors, especially those of the breast, prostate, lungs, and kidneys, have a strong predilection to metastasize to bone, which causes...
29 April 2021
Background: Factors related to medication adherence in patients with schizophrenia have always been key to the treatment and rehabilitation of these patients. However, the treatment modes in different countries are not the same, and there is no resea...
Patients’ discharge summaries (documents) are health sensors that are used for measuring the quality of treatment in medical centers. However, extracting information automatically from discharge summaries with unstructured natural language is c...
Medical image quality assessment (MIQA) is vital in medical imaging and directly affects diagnosis, patient treatment, and general clinical results. Accurate and high-quality imaging is necessary to make accurate diagnoses, efficiently design treatme...
Sleep disturbance is prevalent in patients with degenerative spinal disease, and recent studies have reported that surgical treatment is more effective for improving sleep quality than conservative treatment. We aimed to investigate the perioperative...
Many nations struggle with the collection, separation, and disposal of medical waste. However, extra caution is required to avoid the risk of injury, cross-contamination, and infection; thus, healthcare workers and individuals responsible for waste m...
In medical travel, previous studies have investigated the factors that influence medical travellers to receive treatment outside the country. However, most of these studies are limited to travel motivations and perceptions of medical services at dest...
11 December 2017
The global medical and psychological burden of cleft lip and palate is large, especially in low- and middle-income countries. For decades, medical missions have sought to alleviate this burden; however, there are significant barriers to providing sus...
Quality of life is defined as an individual’s satisfaction with its physical and psychological health, its physical and social environment, and its ability to interact with the environment. Understanding companion dogs’ QOL can help veter...
Nasal polyposis is defined as a Th2-driven chronic inflammation of the nose and sinus with polyps visible in the nasal fossae. It is a prevalent disease with a significant impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL). Allergies, allergic rhinitis,...
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases are an important medical problem due to their high prevalence, impact on quality of life and prognosis. The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis is an urgent medical and social problem, the solution of which may imp...
Background: Endometriosis is a gynecological condition affecting up to 10% of women of reproductive age and characterized by chronic pain. Pain is the major cause of the impairment of quality of life in all aspects of these patients. Previous studies...
Background/Objectives: Antipsychotic treatment response varies considerably between individuals, with one potential reason being genetic variation affecting the cytochrome P450 enzymes that metabolise them. Methods: With a diverse sample of 453 parti...
Background and Objectives: Vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) is a condition that affects a large number of women and can significantly impact their quality of life. While several treatments are currently available for VVA, there are potential risks associat...
The randomized controlled trial is the most robust method available to evaluate health-care treatments. If podiatric medical practice is to be based on rigorous evidence, then high-quality randomized controlled trials are needed to inform that practi...
Background: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome in which treatment effectiveness may be influenced by biological, psychological, social, and nutritional factors. This study aimed to identify clinical, psychosocial, nutritional, and selected indiv...
In the evolving landscape of medical imaging, the escalating need for deep-learning
methods takes center stage, offering the capability to autonomously acquire abstract data
representations crucial for early detection and classification for cancer trea...
5G networks have an efficient effect in providing quality of experience and massive Internet of things (IoT) communication. Applications of 5G-IoT networks have been expanded rapidly, including in smart medical healthcare. Emergency medical services...
27 December 2022
Introduction: Patient opinion surveys have become a widely used method for assessing key aspects of the functioning of medical facilities and, thus, of the functioning of the entire health care system. They are a prerequisite for developing patient-c...
The gold standard treatment for phenylketonuria (PKU) is a lifelong low-phenylalanine (Phe) diet supplemented with Phe-free protein substitutes. Adherence to therapy becomes difficult after childhood. Supplementing with large neutral amino acids (LNA...
Psychoactive medications have been widely used to treat depression, anxiety, insomnia, pain, and other conditions that may negatively affect individuals’ health and quality of life. However, psychological distress may also be influenced by soci...
Background: Discolored toenails is a common complaint presented to podiatric physicians, dermatologists, and primary-care physicians. Although various local and systemic conditions influence changes in nails, nearly 50% is due to fungal infections. W...
30 December 2021
Medical wastewater originating from hospitals specializing in infectious diseases pose a major risk to human and environmental health during pandemics. However, there have been few systematic studies on the management of this type of wastewater manag...
Crohn’s disease (CD) represents a heterogeneous and complex disease with no curative therapeutic option available to date. Current therapy is mainly antibody-based focusing on the immune system while other treatment alternatives such as surgery are c...
Introduction: Bone health optimization is a key component of the preoperative management of spine surgery patients, as poor bone quality increases the odds of mechanical complications. The present study aimed to achieve the following: (1) compare the...
Bacteriophage therapy holds promise in addressing the antibiotic-resistance crisis, globally and in Germany. Here, we provide an overview of the current situation (2023) of applied phage therapy and supporting research in Germany. The authors, an int...
Background: The quality of life of patients with coronary heart disease is extremely important for their treatment. The aim of the study was to assess the quality of life of patients with coronary artery disease, considering education and compliance...
Recurrent pericarditis is a problematic clinical condition that impairs the quality of life of the affected patients due to the need for repeated hospital admissions, emergency department visits, and complications from medications, especially glucoco...
9 May 2018
The efficacy of diabetes treatment should not be evaluated solely by HbA1c levels as they should also focus on patient-reported outcomes (PROs), such as patient satisfaction, wellbeing and quality of life. The Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Question...
19 October 2020
Firefighters appear at an increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Because of PTSD-related stigma, firefighters may search for information online. The current study evaluated the quality, readability, and completeness of PTSD online...
7 February 2022
Background: One of the tasks of a level I trauma center is quality improvement of level II and level III regional hospitals and emergency medical services by means of continuous education and learning processes. One of the tools for this, which provi...
Sleep disturbances are highly prevalent in patients with chronic migraine (CM) and are increasingly recognized as major contributors to disease burden and headache chronification. Growing evidence suggests that dysregulation of calcitonin gene-relate...
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