[Access to oral health care for patients attending a medical-psychological center].

People with mental health problems have a worse oral health condition than the general population. As part of a qualitative study using semi-directive interviews aimed at analyzing the perceptions of professionals working in medical-psychological centers regarding the difficulties encountered by their patients in accessing dental care, three obstacles were identified: factors intrinsic to the patient, background in prevention and the organization of the healthcare system.

Effectiveness of a Therapeutic Educational Oral Health Program for Persons with Schizophrenia: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial and Qualitative Approach.

Background: The oral health of people with schizophrenia (PWS) is very poor, suggesting a need for oral health promotion programmes with a high level of evidence. The aim of the EBENE study (Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02512367) was to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary therapeutic educational programme in oral health (TEPOH) for PWS.

Oral Care Needs Amongst Disadvantaged Migrants in France.

Background: Disadvantaged migrant populations face risk factors that can affect their oral health amongst other health issues. The purpose of this study was to explore the oral care needs of these populations and to identify the obstacles they might encounter in accessing dental care.

Methods: A cross-sectional study using secondary data was carried out in the Centre Médical Louis Guilloux in Rennes, France, a health centre offering dental consults to migrants.

Relationship between natural or iatrogenic malocclusions and temporomandibular disorders: A case control study.

Objective: To investigate the link between malocclusions and temporomandibular disorders (TMD) with a focus on iatrogenic malocclusion. Other etiologies of TMD (oral parafunctions) were also assessed.

Methods: The prevalence of malocclusions was correlated in two groups: patients with TMD (case group) and patients without TMD (control group).

Oral health treatment habits of people with schizophrenia in France: A retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To identify the differences between persons with schizophrenia (PWS) and general population in France in terms of oral health treatment (tooth scaling, dental treatment and tooth extraction) and the factors associated with these differences.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included PWS identified from a representative sample of 1/97th of the French population (general sample of beneficiaries). PWS were identified from 2014 data by an algorithm that included: F2 diagnostic codes in the register of long-term diseases in 2014 AND {(at least three deliveries of antipsychotics in 2014) OR (F20 diagnostic codes as a main or associated diagnosis in hospital discharge abstracts in 2012 or 2013 (hospital data for medicine, surgery and obstetrics)}.

Real Time Influenza Monitoring Using Hospital Big Data in Combination with Machine Learning Methods: Comparison Study.

Background: Traditional surveillance systems produce estimates of influenza-like illness (ILI) incidence rates, but with 1- to 3-week delay. Accurate real-time monitoring systems for influenza outbreaks could be useful for making public health decisions. Several studies have investigated the possibility of using internet users' activity data and different statistical models to predict influenza epidemics in near real time.

[Contribution of C.S. Peirce thought to the representation knowledge and medical reasoning].

Modelling knowledge and medical reasoning can be an epistemological project especially now, as medicine seems to reach a scientific status. Through his work on semiotics, abductive reasoning and pragmatism, CS Peirce (1839-1914) offers a series of original solutions. These solutions can give an account of (be considered as a theorical ground for) most of the medical activity in various fields such as the evaluation of the students, the knowledge bases and expert systems, the formal descriptions languages (ontologies), and the evidence-based medicine.

Ultrasound in Total Hip Replacement: Value of Anterior Acetabular Cup Visibility and Contact With the Iliopsoas Tendon.

Objectives: To assess visibility of the acetabular cup in total hip replacement and to determine the value of direct and indirect signs of iliopsoas impingement syndrome with ultrasound.

Methods: Ultrasound examinations were performed by a single operator in 17 patients with iliopsoas impingement syndrome and 48 control patients. Cup visibility, contact between the cup and psoas tendon, and the presence of indirect signs of iliopsoas impingement syndrome were investigated in all patients.

[Consideration of the shape of the teeth in facial hyperdivergency].

Introduction: The study examines how the shape of the teeth is taken into account in the context of facial hyperdivergency. One aim was to check out the widely-held belief that the hyperdivergent patient has long teeth.

Discussion: Our study found no link between the shape of the teeth and facial hyperdivergency, thus confirming the results in the literature.

[Relations between extraction of wisdom teeth and temporomandibular disorders: a case/control study].

The aim of this study was to assess the impact of extraction of third molars on the occurrence of temporo-mandibular disorders (TMD). A review of the literature and a case-control study have been conducted. The case-control study compares the frequency of extraction of third molars between the sample with TMD (case) and the sample without TMD (control).

MRI investigation of radiating pain in the lower limbs: value of an additional sequence dedicated to the lumbosacral plexus and pelvic girdle.

Objective: In some cases, sciatica-like symptoms radiating through the buttock, anterior thigh, or leg result from spinal root compression in an extraspinal location or from injury to the pelvic girdle. It has been suggested that adding a coronal STIR sequence dedicated to the lumbosacral plexus and pelvis to the routine MRI protocol can provide a good depiction of disorders of this type.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred nine patients with sciatica-like symptoms of suspected lumbar origin were included in the study.

Texture analysis software: integration with a radiological workstation.

Image analysis is the daily task of radiologists. The texture of a structure or imaging finding can be more difficult to describe than other parameters. Image processing can help the radiologist in completing this difficult task.

Automatic definition of the oncologic EHR data elements from NCIT in OWL.

Unlabelled: Semantic interoperability based on ontologies allows systems to combine their information and process them automatically. The ability to extract meaningful fragments from ontology is a key for the ontology re-use and the construction of a subset will help to structure clinical data entries. The aim of this work is to provide a method for extracting a set of concepts for a specific domain, in order to help to define data elements of an oncologic EHR.

["Méta-analyse": a web-based tool for research and analysis of radiology papers].

Finding articles providing answers to specific clinical questions is greatly facilitated by the availability of indexed Medline abstracts using the Pubmed search engine. Nonetheless, the large number of references sometimes requires a time-consuming review of multiple abstracts. In order to streamline the search process, we have created a tool facilitating the search and review of these abstracts.

The value of using verbs in Medline searches.

New findings are continuously identified thanks to novel diagnostic procedures, among others in medical imaging. It would be useful to retrieve these new findings from literature. The aim of this work is to investigate if using verbs in MEDLINE queries can improve the retrieval of findings.

[Computerizing the radiological sign].

The goal of this article is to present to the radiologist the different theories of the sign and their consequences for sign representation in computer systems. All the theories of the sign are presented, but the most relevant are highlighted in order to explain the great modeling systems currently in use (such as DICOM-SR or the UMLS). The constructivist approach of the notion of disease, the semiosis process, which starting from signs produces new signs, and the structuralist analysis of sign through language are emphasized.

Toward a unified representation of findings in clinical radiology.

The representations of findings in clinical radiology are heterogeneous. Motivations for developing a unified representation include the semantic integration of medical reports based on DICOM-SR(Digital Image Communication in Medicine Structured Reporting), bibliographic databases in the context of evidence-based medicine, and teaching resources. In this work, we propose a unified representation integrating the representations of findings in the UMLS, the GAMUTS in Radiology and the DICOM-SR.