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BMC Oral Health
January 2025
Department of Community Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Chitwan Medical College, Bharatpur, Nepal.
Background: Self-medication has been defined as the practice of self-diagnosis and medication use without seeking professional healthcare advice. Its prevalence for alleviating dental problems in Nepali communities has not been explored. This study was conducted to assess self-medication for oral health problems in a community setting in Nepal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Manag Care Spec Pharm
January 2025
University of Colorado, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora.
Background: Improved medication adherence, represented as an increase in the proportion of days covered (PDC), to chronic medications is associated with better patient outcomes, yet effective strategies to improve adherence are often resource intensive. To quantify the impact of a pharmacist-supported electronic outreach initiative on medication adherence measures and to qualitatively evaluate patient engagement with and response to electronic messaging.
Methods: This retrospective cohort evaluation used mixed methods to assess the impact of a population health quality improvement program to address medication adherence for Medicare Advantage enrollees.
Cureus
November 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu-shi, JPN.
Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is a significant concern, although its specific characteristics remain unclear. Moreover, strategies to shift vaccine-hesitant parents' attitudes toward immunization are not yet well-defined. Pediatric emergency department (ED) physicians frequently encounter patients who are inadequately vaccinated due to parental VH; however, it is challenging to allocate sufficient time during ED visits to provide comprehensive vaccination education.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Sport Health Sci
November 2024
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 999077 Hong Kong, China; Center for Neuromusculoskeletal Restorative Medicine (CNRM), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 999077 Hong Kong, China. Electronic address:
Background: Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained much attention and, in part, have replaced common search engines as a popular channel for obtaining information due to their contextually relevant responses. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common topic in skeletal muscle disorders, and patients often seek information about it online. Our study evaluated the ability of 3 LLMs (ChatGPT-3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Patient Rep Outcomes
November 2024
Department of Health and Drug Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Background: Several authors hypothesized that normative values of breast related quality of life in asymptomatic populations can be helpful to better understand changes induced by surgery. Breast related quality of life can be associated to breast anthropometry. This study was designed to explore this hypothesis, find relevant correlations and, using machine learning techniques, predict values of satisfaction with breast from easy body measurements.
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