Objectives: During the COVID-19 pandemic, a quick and reliable phone-triage system is critical for early care and efficient distribution of hospital resources. The study aimed to assess the accuracy of the traditional phone-triage system and phone triage-driven deep learning model in the prediction of positive COVID-19 patients.
Setting: This is a retrospective study conducted at the family medicine department, Cairo University.
Background: The new Egyptian Universal Health Insurance Law is introduced through family-oriented primary health care. Increasing the number of recent graduates who specialized in family medicine is considered a national need to overcome family physicians' shortage.
Aim: To explore the factors affecting the house officers' choice of Family Medicine as a future career amid the implementation of the new Universal Health Insurance Law in Egypt.
J Prim Care Community Health
May 2021
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge to house officers training programs because of the safety measures.
Objective: This current study aimed to introduce the adaptation of family medicine training for house officers during COVID-19 pandemic and gauge their level of satisfaction with the training.
Methods: Unfortunately, more than one-fourth of the house officers attending the family medicine training turned out to be hospital-admitted or in obligatory home isolation.
Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus
September 2016
Cirrhosis is the end-stage liver fibrosis, whereby normal liver architecture is disrupted by fibrotic bands, parenchymal nodules and vascular distortion. Portal hypertension and hepatocyte dysfunction are the end results and give rise to major systemic complications and premature death. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have the capacity of self-renew and to give rise to cells of various lineages, so MSC can be isolated from bone marrow (BM) and induced to differentiate into hepatocyte-like cells.
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