The covid-19 outbreak prompted many health care providers to use video consultation for the first time. While it is particularly useful in times of pandemic, a number of patients wish to continue using video consultation as it allows easy access to their physician. However, many physicians may be uncomfortable communicating with new technologies and without performing a traditional physical examination. Training in communication and virtual physical examination in telemedicine appears to be necessary, making it possible to make videoconsultation sustainable into daily practice while guaranteeing quality of care.
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Clin Rehabil
January 2025
Physiotherapy Unit, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Objective: To investigate the effects of a home-based pelvic floor muscle training with and without action and cue observation on urinary incontinence after prostatectomy.
Design: Two-armed single-blind randomized controlled trial.
Setting: Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.
J Clin Monit Comput
January 2025
Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Groene Loper 3, 5612 AZ, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Unobtrusive pulse rate monitoring by continuous video recording, based on remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), might enable early detection of perioperative arrhythmias in general ward patients. However, the accuracy of an rPPG-based machine learning model to monitor the pulse rate during sinus rhythm and arrhythmias is unknown. We conducted a prospective, observational diagnostic study in a cohort with a high prevalence of arrhythmias (patients undergoing elective electrical cardioversion).
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January 2025
Cardiac Rehabilitation, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK.
Background: This qualitative evaluation was embedded in the Rehabilitation Exercise and psycholoGical support After COVID-19 InfectioN (REGAIN) study, a randomised controlled trial (RCT) for those with post-COVID-19 condition ('long COVID') after hospital admission for COVID-19, comparing weekly home-based, live online supervised group exercise and psychological support sessions with 'best practice usual care' (a single session of advice).
Objective: To increase our understanding of how and why the REGAIN programme might have worked and what helped or hindered this intervention.
Design: A qualitative evaluation which utilised interviews with participants and practitioners delivering the intervention.
Gesundheitswesen
January 2025
Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
The German Patientenrechtegesetz defines, among other things, medical obligations in connection with the provision of information. To date, the extent to which these legal requirements also influence patient satisfaction with information has not been investigated in Germany.The study employed an anonymized patient survey on satisfaction with information, which was recorded using a validated 10-item questionnaire.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mental health remains among the top 10 leading causes of disease burden globally, and there is a significant treatment gap due to limited resources, stigma, limited accessibility, and low perceived need for treatment. Problem Management Plus, a World Health Organization-endorsed brief psychological intervention for mental health disorders, has been shown to be effective and cost-effective in various countries globally but faces implementation challenges, such as quality control in training, supervision, and delivery. While digital technologies to foster mental health care have the potential to close treatment gaps and address the issues of quality control, their development requires context-specific, interdisciplinary, and participatory approaches to enhance impact and acceptance.
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