Personal health records (PHR), particularly the patient portal, are touted as instrumental to the future of medical care and health management. The patient portal could be a powerful means to engage ...

Given her symptom recurrence, rise in inflammatory markers and the microbiological isolates, the patient was admitted for intravenous antibiotics. A diagnostic aspirate of the left-sided pleural ...

However, providing such care remains a challenge in many countries, including Canada. Patients’ expertise, if acknowledged and adequately translated, could help foster patient-centred care. This study ...

This virus causes the Coronavirus disease COVID-19 that has spread to multiple countries across the world.1 2 The most severely ill patients have required intubation and ventilation, which will likely ...

Design A cross-sectional assessment with retest after 1 week. Setting A web-based survey with patients suffering from pain. Methods In a three-step approach, we reduced the initially collected number ...

Setting Clinical Practice Research Datalink, linked to hospitalisation and mortality (1998–2020). Participants Database cohort of 86 882 patients with a new HF diagnosis. In two separate analyses for ...

Methods 83 patients with arthralgia positive for ACPA or IgM-RF were randomly allocated to intramuscular injections of 100 mg dexamethasone or placebo at baseline and 6 weeks. The primary end point ...

To better understand the extent and nature of the problem of unsafe care, the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety commissioned an overview of the world's literature on patient safety research.

The manoeuvre itself requires a pause during trauma resuscitation. The aim of this study was to assess the utility of the log roll examination in unconscious trauma patients for the diagnosis of soft ...

Support for emotional issues helps a patient retain their sense of self, rather than just be seen as a cancer sufferer. And this is why the Daily Express's Cancer Care campaign is so important.

Ozempic, the blockbuster GLP-1 drug that was originally approved to treat type 2 diabetes, has now also been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to reduce certain risks associated with ...

GPs are to ask patients if they gamble, as well as quizzing them on smoking and drinking, under new NHS guidance. The questions will be included in routine health checks, and the process for ...