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Telemed J E Health
December 2024
Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
: To explore the potential of gatekeeping for specialized consultations and patient care via remote interactions with family physicians. This cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary hospital between November 2020 and December 2021, when specialized consultations were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients who were evaluated for remote consultation with family physicians were included.
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December 2024
Clinic of Rheumatology, UMHAT "Kaspela", Medical University of Plovaffiliation, 64 Sofia str, Plovaffiliation, 4000, Bulgaria.
Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is a progressive disease that requires continuous treatment. Despite the excellent results, treatment with biologics and target-specific disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs often has to be interrupted due to insufficient therapeutic effectiveness, toxicity, or side effects.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the reasons and factors influencing treatment discontinuation with biologic and target-specific drugs among the Bulgarian patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Health Care Transit
September 2024
Pediatric Palliative Care, Division of Critical Care and Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York-Presbyterian, 630 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032, United States.
Background: The transition from pediatric to adult healthcare poses significant challenges for adolescents and young adults (AYA), especially those with chronic conditions, yet most children receive inadequate transition preparation. Research on the transition for patients receiving palliative care services is particularly limited. We sought to address this gap in the literature.
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December 2024
Heidelberg University Hospital, Department of General Medicine and Health Services Research, Heidelberg, Germany.
Objective: To aid the shortage of general practitioners (GPs) in Germany, since 2011 medical specialists from other fields may switch specialisation by undergoing a slim-lined training programme (lateral entry) into general practice (GP). Available published qualitative and quantitative data on lateral entrants (LEs) is scarce. Aim of the study was an explorative analysis of LEs in the competence centre for postgraduate medical education Baden-Wuerttemberg (KWBW).
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December 2024
Gemeinschaftspraxis für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Husum, Germany.
Aim: Both teachers and learners had clear reservations in the beginning about the usefulness and benefits of supervision and feedback, which were to be implemented as a teaching method in the competency-based, post-graduate curriculum in general ambulatory pediatrics, known as PaedCompenda (www.paedcompenda.de).
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