Patients with enteral access usually receive oral drugs via feeding tubes and correct drug administration remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to identify common medication delivery errors (MDEs) in outpatients with percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) and evaluate their association with the need for tube replacement due to deteriora...
Background
Since 2020, novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has posed serious threats to health systems and led to tremendous economic decline worldwide. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is considered a promising treatment strategy for COVID-19 in China and is increasingly recognized as a key participant in the battle against COVID-19. Clinicians...
Objectives
To report visual and surgical outcomes of phacoemulsification cataract surgery from 5,018 consecutive cases from Western Sydney. A review of the Australian and New Zealand literature was undertaken to provide a benchmark of outcomes from the region.
Methods
The Electronic Medical Record system was used to retrospectively review three ti...
In the medical field, text classification based on natural language process (NLP) has shown good results and has great practical application prospects such as clinical medical value, but most existing research focuses on English electronic medical record data, and there is less research on the natural language processing task for Chinese electronic...
This review examines how a highly structured data collection system could be used to create data-driven diagnostic classification algorithms. Some preliminary data using this process is provided. The data collection system described is applicable to any clinical domain where the diagnoses being explored are based predominately on clinical history (...
Purpose:
To analyse the posterior capsular opacification (PCO) development pattern in the long term in eyes implanted with a monofocal intraocular lens (IOL) with a square edge all around the optic.
Methods:
Longitudinal retrospective study is data analyzed from a total of 7059 eyes from 4764 patients (mean age: 75.8 years) undergoing cataract s...
Parathyromatosis is displaced parathyroid tissue in the neck and mediastinum related to prior surgery. Parathyromatosis can be difficult to distinguish from atypical adenoma and parathyroid carcinoma. The aim of this study is to evaluate clinical and morphologic features that may differentiate parathyromatosis, atypical adenoma, and parathyroid car...
