Make your choice: Angiography or periodical health examination?

Periodical health examination is one of the important factors influencing a healthy lifestyle. Patients undergoing routine physical examination in primary care are included in the scope of preventive medical services, which is the most basic principle of primary care. Identifying the risk factors enables individuals to adopt healthier lifestyle practices.

Enhancing Primary Care for Nursing Home Patients with an Artificial Intelligence-Aided Rational Drug Use Web Assistant.

Polypharmacy can result in drug-drug interactions, severe side-effects, drug-disease interactions, inappropriate medication use in the elderly, and escalating costs. This study aims to evaluate nursing home residents' medication regimens using a rational drug use web assistant developed by researchers to mitigate unnecessary medication usage. This analytical, cross-sectional study included data from nursing home residents recently recorded in a training family health center.

Artificial intelligence-supported web application design and development for reducing polypharmacy side effects and supporting rational drug use in geriatric patients.

Introduction: The main complications of polypharmacy, which is known as the simultaneous use of more than five drugs, are potentially inappropriate medicines(PIMs), drug-drug, and drug-disease interaction. It is aimed to prepare an auxiliary tool to reduce the complications of polypharmacy and to support rational drug use(RDU), by evaluating the patient with age, drugs, and chronic diseases in this study.

Materials And Methods: In the first phase of this study, as methodological research, an up-to-date and comprehensive auxiliary tool as a reference method was generated with a database containing interaction information of 430 most commonly used drug agents and chronic diseases in geriatrics in the light of current and valid 6 PIM criteria for geriatric patients, and medication prospectuses, relevant current articles, and guidelines.

The effect of cancer diagnosis in first-degree relatives on participation of healthy individuals in cancer screening programs and on their attitudes towards healthy lifestyle changes.

Background: Ensuring that first-degree relatives of patients diagnosed with cancer are included in the cancer screening programs will reduce the negative effects that may arise both for the individuals having the risk of cancer and for the community. In our study, we aimed to investigate the awareness and attitudes of the first-degree relatives of patients, who have received diagnosis of a cancer, toward cancer screening programs and to determine the risk factors for cancer.

Methods: A questionnaire prepared by the researchers was conducted over the relatives of 234 cancer patients for determining their awareness about cancer and their attitudes toward participation in cancer screening programs.

Approaches and awareness of family physicians on diabetes management during Ramadan.

Aim: This study aimed to determine the approaches of family physicians in Turkey towards the fasting of diabetic patients and whether they used international treatment guidelines when making recommendations. In addition, this study also aimed to increase the awareness of family physicians about this issue before Ramadan, which is a month of fasting.

Material And Method: The study herein comprised cross-sectional, observational research.

The association between micronutrient and hemogram values and prognostic factors in COVID-19 patients: A single-center experience from Turkey.

Aim: The contribution of micronutrients to the immune system has been known for a long time. This study aimed to investigate the association between the micronutrient levels and hemogram values and prognostic factors of the disease in COVID-19 patients in Ankara City Hospital.

Materials And Methods: Our study is a descriptive observational study based on a retrospective review of patient files.

Awareness of family physician residents of their roles in disaster health management: a cross-sectional study in Turkey.

Aim: Family physicians are role models for their societies in disaster management and have an important place in it. This study was carried out during the specialty training of the residents, who are currently family physicians fighting against COVID-19 in the field, and was aimed to identify the awareness levels of residents regarding the roles and duties of family physicians before, during, and after disasters and to increase their awareness of disaster medicine and management.

Background: The duties and responsibilities of a family physician in disasters should be a part of their specialty training.

Occupational Health and Disease Knowledge and Practices of Family Physicians.

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the awareness and approaches of all family physicians from one province in Turkey regarding occupational diseases.

Methods: This study is a cross-sectional, descriptive study. A questionnaire was applied to family physicians between November 2018 and February 2019.