A comparative study of patient-physician empathy in telehealth and traditional in-person visits.

Background: The rise of telemedicine has brought significant changes to patient care, especially regarding the experience of empathy and connection during consultations. Understanding how telemedicine compares to in-person visits in terms of patient-physician interactions and the perception of empathy is crucial for optimizing telehealth services.

Objectives: This study aims to compare patient-physician interaction ratings between telemedicine and in-person visits across the 10 items of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure.

Integrating Health and Disability Data Into Academic Information Systems: Workflow Optimization Study.

Background: Integrating health information into university information systems holds significant potential for enhancing student support and well-being. Despite the growing body of research highlighting issues faced by university students, including stress, depression, and disability, little has been done in the informatics field to incorporate health technologies at the institutional level.

Objective: This study aims to investigate the current state of health information integration within university systems and provide design recommendations to address existing gaps and opportunities.

Patient, Referring Physician, and Radiologist Opinions Over Time on Providing Patients Access to Radiology Reports: A Systematic Review.

Objective: Patients increasingly have access to their radiology reports. This systematic review examined the opinions of patients, referring physicians, and radiologists over time on providing patients full access to their radiology reports.

Methods: A systematic review examining quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines (PROSPERO CRD42023466502).

Putting patients at the center of health information exchange design: An exploration of patient preferences for data sharing.

Background: Despite the many benefits of Health Information Exchange (HIE), Studies reported patients concerns about the privacy and security of sharing their health information. To address these concerns, it is important to understand their needs, preferences, and priorities in the design and implementing HIE systems.

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate patients' preferences for HIE consent option and examine the extent to which they are comfortable sharing the different parts of their medical records.

In response to the Saudi healthcare reform: a cross-sectional study of awareness of and attitudes toward the public health model among health students.

Background: Saudi Arabia's health sector is experiencing a significant transformation toward an emphasis on the public health model. This model is a population-based approach to preventing and controlling disease, and its importance becomes evident during infectious outbreaks and pandemics, such as COVID-19. This study aimed to assess the awareness and attitudes of health students in Jazan toward the public health model.

Exploring the Interplay of Muscular Endurance, Functional Balance, and Limits of Stability: A Comparative Study in Individuals with Lumbar Spondylosis Using a Computerized Stabilometric Force Platform.

Lumbar spondylosis, characterized by degenerative changes in the lumbar spine, often leads to pain, reduced spinal stability, and musculoskeletal dysfunction. Understanding the impact of lumbar spondylosis on musculoskeletal function, particularly lumbar extensor endurance, functional balance, and limits of stability, is crucial for improving the management and well-being of affected individuals. This study aimed to assess lumbar extensor endurance, functional balance, and limits of stability in individuals with lumbar spondylosis compared to age-matched healthy individuals and explore the correlations among these parameters within the lumbar spondylosis group.

Proposed Questions to Assess the Extent of Knowledge in Understanding the Radiology Report Language.

Radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging play a significant role in medical care. The amount of patient participation and communication can be increased by helping patients understand radiology reports. There is insufficient information on how to measure a patient's knowledge of a written radiology report.

Out of the closet? Reconstructing the personal life of pioneering sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis.

Katharine B. Davis was an important progressive-era figure, a pioneering professional, an innovative penologist, and an iconoclastic sexologist. Although scholars have long been aware of Davis's tolerant attitude toward same-sex relationships at the New York State Female Reformatory at Bedford Hills, where she was Superintendent from 1901 to 1913, and her open discussion of same-sex attraction in her study of "normal" women's sexuality, published in 1929, little has been known about Davis's personal life.

Identifying the underlying factors associated with antidepressant drug discontinuation: content analysis of patients' drug reviews.

The rate of antidepressant prescriptions is globally increasing. A large portion of patients stop their medications, which could lead to many side effects including relapse, and anxiety. The aim of this was to develop a drug-continuity prediction model and identify the factors associated with drug-continuity using online patient forums.

Examining the Correlation of Google Influenza Trend with Hospital Data: Retrospective Study.

Introduction: Many studies have explored social media and users search activities such as Google Trends to predict and detect influenza activities. Studies that examined Google Trends correlation with the actual hospital influenza cases were conducted in non-tropical regions that have clearly defined seasons. Tropical areas are known for having less-defined seasonality and the extent of Google Trends concordance with actual influenza cases is unknown for these areas.

The Adoption of Mobile Health Applications Among University Students in Health Colleges.

Background: Studies documented the important role of health-care professionals in encouraging their patients to adopt and use mobile health applications. Health-care professionals who use and believe in mobile health applications are more likely to encourage and empower their patients to use it. Likewise, students in health-profession related specialties who use mobile health applications are more likely to continue to do so when they join the workforce.

Designing a Consumer-Friendly Radiology Report using a Patient-Centered Approach.

Patient portals have helped accelerate patient engagement in treatment. Patient understanding of radiology reports has become a necessity, and we are working to design a patient-friendly radiology report that can be easily understood. We have based the design of this new radiology report on the results of a previous study that examined patient desires and needs by exploring their questions posted on online discussion forums.

Understanding patient needs and gaps in radiology reports through online discussion forum analysis.

Our objective is to investigate patient needs and understand information gaps in radiology reports using patient questions that were posted on online discussion forums. We leveraged online question and answer platforms to collect questions posted by patients to understand current gaps and patient needs. We retrieved six hundred fifty-nine (659) questions using the following sites: Yahoo Answers, Reddit.

Children Domestic Accidents Profile in Jazan Region, a call for new policies to improve safety of home environment.

High-frequency home accidents draw more attention to the protection of our home environment. WHO has reported that home deaths were among the first 20 causes of death in the 0-14 age group worldwide in 2012. This innovative research was designed to examine children under 15 years of age at home, in 2018 in the Jazan area of Saudi Arabia.

Development of unit cost for the health services offered at King FAHD Central hospital Jazan, Saudi Arabia.

Background: Efficiency remains one of the most important drivers of decision making in health care system. Fund allocators need to receive structured information about the cost healthcare services from hospitals for better decisions related to resource allocation and budgeting. The objective of the study was to estimate the unit cost for health services offered to inpatients in King Fahd Central hospital (KFCH) Jazan during the financial year 2018.

The Impact of Longer Consultation Time: A Simulation-Based Approach.

Background: Maintaining a sufficient consultation length in primary health care (PHC) is a fundamental part of providing quality care that results in patient safety and satisfaction. Many facilities have limited capacity and increasing consultation time could result in a longer waiting time for patients and longer working hours for physicians. The use of simulation can be practical for quantifying the impact of workflow scenarios and guide the decision-making.

Full Radiology Report through Patient Web Portal: A Literature Review.

The aim of this study discusses the gap between the patient web portal and providing a full radiology report. A literature review was conducted to examine radiologists, physicians, and patients' opinions and preferences of providing patients with online access radiology reports. The databases searched were Pubmed and Google Scholar and the initial search included 927 studies.

The Impact of Electronic Health Records on the Duration of Patients' Visits: Time and Motion Study.

Background: Despite the many benefits of electronic health records (EHRs), studies have reported that EHR implementation could create unintended changes in the workflow if not studied and designed properly. These changes may impact the time patients spend on the various steps of their visits, such as the time spent in the waiting area and the time spent with a physician. The amount of time patients spend in the waiting area before consultation is often a strong predictor of patient satisfaction, willingness to come back for a return visit, and overall experience.

Monitoring public health reporting: data tracking in cancer registries.

Introduction: Timeliness of data availability is a key performance measure in cancer reporting. Previous studies evaluated timeliness of cancer reporting using a single metric, yet this metric obscures the details within each step of the reporting process. To enhance understanding of cancer reporting processes, we measured the timeliness of discrete cancer reporting steps and examined changes in timeliness across a decade.

Screening Arab Israeli Pregnant Women for Group B Streptococcus by the AmpliVue GBS Assay: Are the Rates Higher than the National Average?

Background: The recommendation of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding universal screening for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) at 35-37 weeks gestational age in pregnancy is not accepted in Israel.

Toward Timely Data for Cancer Research: Assessment and Reengineering of the Cancer Reporting Process.

Background: Cancer registries systematically collect cancer-related data to support cancer surveillance activities. However, cancer data are often unavailable for months to years after diagnosis, limiting its utility.

Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the barriers to rapid cancer reporting and identify ways to shorten the turnaround time.

l-Carnitine improves cognitive and renal functions in a rat model of chronic kidney disease.

Over the past decade, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has reached epidemic proportions. The search for novel pharmacological treatment for CKD has become an area of intensive clinical research. l-Carnitine, considered as the "gatekeeper" responsible for admitting long chain fatty acids into cell mitochondria.

Data Quality at the Indiana State Cancer Registry: An Evaluation of Timeliness by Cancer Type and Year.

BACKGROUND: Central cancer registries collect tumor-related data to monitor incidence rates and support population- based research. One concern with using registry data for research is timeliness of reporting. Timeliness has been recognized as an important data characteristic by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Academy of Medicine.

An informatics approach to medication adherence assessment and improvement using clinical, billing, and patient-entered data.

The aim of this study was to describe an integrated informatics approach to aggregating and displaying clinically relevant data that can identify problems with medication adherence and facilitate patient-provider communication about strategies to improve medication use. We developed a clinical dashboard within an electronic health record (EHR) system that uses data from three sources: the medical record, pharmacy claims, and a personal health record. The data are integrated to inform clinician-patient discussions about medication adherence.