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J Natl Cancer Inst
January 2025
School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia.
Background: Use of long-acting, reversible contraceptives has increased over the past 20 years, but an understanding of how they could influence cancer risk is limited.
Methods: We conducted a nested case-control study among a national cohort of Australian women (n = 176 601 diagnosed with cancer between 2004 and 2013; 882 999 matched control individuals) to investigate the associations between the levonorgestrel intrauterine system, etonogestrel implants, depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate and cancer risk and compared these results with the oral contraceptive pill. We used conditional logistic regression to estimate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).
J Family Med Prim Care
November 2024
Medical Officer, District Hospital, Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Background: Over 450 million individuals worldwide suffer from mental illnesses, according to epidemiological data, making this one of the biggest problems facing modern medicine. People often react in a fairly discriminatory way to those with mental illness, and stigmatizing views toward those with mental illness are ubiquitous. In India, people who suffer from mental illness live with their families, and the stigma associated with mental illness has a significant impact on how effectively these people are treated over time by their families and communities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedical interpreters play central roles in the care of patients with limited English proficiency, many of whom are vulnerable to challenges in care. Yet ethical tensions arise in the care of these patients, including tensions between translating with fidelity to spoken words versus ensuring understanding; supporting values of beneficence versus autonomy; reacting with passivity versus advocacy; and interacting with patients with neutrality versus compassion. These tensions reflect the commitment of interpreters featured in narratives to providing patient-centered care through challenging circumstances.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Contracept Reprod Health Care
December 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Objective: To determine practice patterns in the diagnosis and management of nongestational abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in women in reproductive years during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic in Brazil.
Materials And Methods: A web-based survey was conducted to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis and management of women with AUB. Survey elements included treatment location, the use of ultrasonography, laboratory evaluation for iron deficiency and some hormone determinations, and endometrial evaluation by histopathology, as well as the practice of hysteroscopy, hysterectomy and medical therapy including the placement of the 52 mg levonorgestrel-intrauterine system (LNG-IUS).
Sci Data
December 2024
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
Observational health research often relies on accurate and complete race and ethnicity (RE) patient information, such as characterizing cohorts, assessing quality/performance metrics of hospitals and health systems, and identifying health disparities. While the electronic health record contains structured data such as accessible patient-level RE data, it is often missing, inaccurate, or lacking granular details. Natural language processing models can be trained to identify RE in clinical text which can supplement missing RE data in clinical data repositories.
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