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January 2025
College of Clinical Laboratory, Changsha Medical University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
To evaluate the clinical utility of PCT, CRP, IL-6, NLR, and TyG index in improving the early diagnosis and severity assessment of acute pancreatitis (AP). This retrospective study included 137 AP patients and 30 healthy controls from Hunan Provincial People's Hospital (January 2021-September 2023). Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses assessed the associations between biomarkers and severe acute pancreatitis (SAP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Epidemiol Popul Health
January 2025
Service de Santé Publique, Epidémiologie, Economie de la Santé et Prévention, CHU Lille, 59000 Lille, France; UMR1167 RIDAGE, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Inserm, Univ. Lille, CHU Lille, 59000 Lille, France. Electronic address:
Background: Script Concordance Tests (SCTs) represent an innovative assessment method which have been introduced in the 2024 French National Ranking Examinations (EDN). These tests compare a student's clinical reasoning with that of a panel of experts under conditions of uncertainty. Typically, the question involves the impact of new information on an initially proposed hypothesis, with answers given on a Likert scale.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Gen Intern Med
January 2025
Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, 49 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive SE, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.
Recenti Prog Med
January 2025
Uoc Anestesia e rianimazione, AO San Camillo-Forlanini, Roma.
Coping with the end of life decision making process in ICU, its complexity adds a challenge for the healthcare team: how to report in the medical record the events and reasoning that led to withholding or withdrawing treatments shifting from intensive to palliative care. Each healthcare team must select the best approach for managing the decision-making process and the necessary rules to ensure a correct clinical history narrative, indicating who must write and what has to be written. Taking into account the team organization, the report may be written not necessarily by the ICU director, but also by a staff physician as a spokesperson in the individual case.
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December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, JPN.
Acute ischemic stroke, a medical emergency caused by reduced cerebral blood flow, results in brain cell damage. While commonly associated with older individuals, strokes can also occur in young and middle-aged adults, posing significant socio-economic and health challenges due to the long-term impact of the condition. This poses significant socio-economic and health challenges because stroke is a leading cause of disability and mortality.
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