"A day in the life" - telemedicine in family medicine and its relationship with practicing physicians' satisfaction: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Telemedicine has expanded rapidly in recent years, and many encounters that were conducted in person now take place remotely. This study aimed to assess primary care physicians' (PCPs) attitudes towards the different modalities of patient care.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional nationwide descriptive study conducted in Israel.

Frailty and its association with long-term mortality among community-dwelling older adults aged 75 years and over.

Background: Frailty, a significant risk factor for adverse outcomes and mortality, poses an emerging challenge with profound implications for public health and clinical practice. The measurement of frailty offers potential enhancements in healthcare services for older adults. The prevalence of frailty and its association with long-term mortality in a nationwide, unselected population of community-dwelling older adults, particularly those aged 75 and over, has not been previously studied on a large scale in Israel.

An After-Hours Telemedicine Urgent Care Service May Not Improve Access to Care for Underserved Populations.

After-hours telemedicine services for emergency care are thought to offer a solution for patients who live at a distance from traditional face-to-face emergency services. This study evaluates such a service in a Health Maintenance Organization, focusing on the differences between central and peripheral populations. In this cross-sectional database study, we collected data regarding the encounter and patient characteristics, including prescriptions, referrals for further evaluation in a traditional emergency department (ED), and the distance from a traditional ED.

Impact of Remote Medical Devices on Utilization of Medical Services in Pediatric Patients with Upper Respiratory Infections: A Retrospective Study.

Remote mobile examination devices in telemedicine are a new technology in healthcare. To assess the utilization of visits using remote medical devices. A retrospective analysis of follow-up visits, referrals, laboratory testing and antibiotic prescriptions of 470,845 children's video visits with and without remote medical examination device and in-clinic visits.

Abdominal fat depots are related to lower cognitive functioning and brain volumes in middle-aged males at high Alzheimer's risk.

Objective: High BMI, which poorly represents specific fat depots, is linked to poorer cognition and higher dementia risk, with different associations between sexes. This study examined associations of abdominal fat depots with cognition and brain volumes and whether sex modifies this association.

Methods: A total of 204 healthy middle-aged offspring of Alzheimer's dementia patients (mean age = 59.