Predicting diagnoses from illness experiences with common cold symptoms before physician consultation: a mixed-methods research.

Objectives: We aimed to explore whether patients' illness experiences with common cold symptoms could help with predicting the final diagnosis before consultation.

Design: Exploratory sequential design of mixed methods: Qualitative and quantitative studies used inductive qualitative content analysis and multinomial regression analysis, respectively.

Setting: Consecutive patients at the primary care clinic of a general hospital.

Why does activated partial thromboplastin time prolongation occur in severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome?

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is caused by infection with SFTS virus and this mortality rate is 16.2% to 30%. An 85-year-old male patient presented to the emergency department of the hospital with primary complaints of fever and consciousness disturbance.

Effect of probiotics during vonoprazan-containing triple therapy on gut microbiota in Helicobacter pylori infection: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Probiotics are beneficial to patients with Helicobacter pylori infections by modulating the gut microbiota. Biofermin-R (BFR) is a multiple antibiotic-resistant lactic acid bacteria preparation of Enterococcus faecium 129 BIO 3B-R and is effective in normalizing the gut microbiota when used in combination with antibiotics. This study aimed to determine the effect of BFR in combination with vonoprazan (VPZ)-based therapy on gut microbiota.

A computer support system for neurological anatomical diagnosis.

Objectives: Accurate neurological diagnoses are often difficult to make due to the complexity of the neuroanatomy involved. This study was performed to evaluate the usefulness of a computer system with easily retrievable anatomical information as a support for arriving at more accurate anatomic diagnoses.

Patients And Methods: Anatomical information from an initial physical examination was programmed into a computer with stored neuroanatomical charts of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.