Publications by authors named "Osamu Morimoto"

Background: Health-related social media data are increasingly being used in disease surveillance studies. In particular, surveillance of infectious diseases such as influenza has demonstrated high correlations between the number of social media posts mentioning the disease and the number of patients who went to the hospital and were diagnosed with the disease. However, the prevalence of some diseases, such as allergic rhinitis, cannot be estimated based on the number of patients alone.

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The induction of postoperative pain relief with lumbar epidural or intramuscular buprenorphine was studied in 30 patients undergoing hepatectomy. When patients first complained of pain after surgery, 0.06 mg or 0.

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