Publications by authors named "F G Salerno"
Exploring Patient Empowerment in Major Depressive Disorder: Correlations of Trust, Active Role in Shared Decision-Making, and Symptomatology in a Sample of Italian Patients.
J Clin Med
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- - Empowerment in psychiatry is about patients actively participating in their health decisions, which can lead to better treatment outcomes, especially important in mental health due to issues like stigma and cognitive challenges.
- - A study involving 73 patients with Major Depressive Disorder found no significant links between decision-making involvement and perceived empowerment, nor between trust in psychiatrists and empowerment; however, higher depression severity correlated with lower empowerment.
- - The results indicate that simply having trust or involvement in decision-making may not enhance empowerment; instead, it suggests that higher empowerment correlates with lower depression levels, highlighting the complexity of patient engagement in mental health care.
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- The article with DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.100973 is officially retracted.
- The retraction indicates that the content is no longer valid or reliable.
- For readers, this means they should disregard any information or conclusions presented in that article.
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- Two patients developed severe hypophosphatemia requiring hospitalization after denosumab treatment for osteoporosis, despite having normal kidney function and no known risk factors.
- Both patients experienced neurological symptoms and severe fatigue, which improved with intravenous phosphate treatment, and they left the hospital with oral phosphate and vitamin D supplements.
- As denosumab use increases, it's important to monitor serum phosphate and related levels regularly, and to consider hypophosphatemia as a potential issue when patients report unexplained fatigue or muscle problems.
Aims: Smartwatch electrocardiograms (SW ECGs) have been identified as a non-invasive solution to assess abnormal heart rhythm, especially atrial arrhythmias (AAs) that are related to stroke risk. However, the performance of these tools is limited and could be improved with the use of deep neural network (DNN) algorithms, particularly for specific populations encountered in clinical cardiology practice.
Methods And Results: A total of 400 patients from the electrophysiology department of one tertiary care hospital were included in two similar clinical trials (respectively, 200 patients per study).
Rock glaciers (RGs) provide significant water resources in mountain areas under climate change. Recent research has highlighted high concentrations of solutes including trace elements in RG-fed waters, with negative implications on water quality. Yet, sparse studies from a few locations hinder conclusions about the main drivers of solute export from RGs.
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