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BMC Res Notes 2022 May 21;15(1):185. Epub 2022 May 21.

Department of Urology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.

Objective: To introduce salvage prostatectomy in Denmark. Prior to this, no national curative treatment for recurrent prostate cancer following radiation therapy existed in Denmark. This pilot study represent our initial experiences and the feasibility of performing salvage robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for true local, high-risk recurrence after initial therapy with external beam radiation for high-risk prostate cancer. Read More

Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2022 May 18. Epub 2022 May 18.

State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases and Department of Orthognathic and TMJ Surgery, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Electronic address:

The objective of this study was to compare the indications and outcomes of the total inferior border ostectomy and T-shape genioplasty. A retrospective study was conducted using the clinical notes and records of patients who underwent total inferior border ostectomy (group 1, n = 42) and T-shape genioplasty (group 2, n = 60). The outcomes were evaluated by assessment of computed tomography images combined with medical records and photographs. Read More

Heart Lung 2022 May 18;55:148-154. Epub 2022 May 18.

Center for Home Care Policy & Research, Columbia University School of Nursing, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, NY, United States.

Background: Patients with heart failure (HF) who actively engage in their own self-management have better outcomes. Extracting data through natural language processing (NLP) holds great promise for identifying patients with or at risk of poor self-management.

Objective: To identify home health care (HHC) patients with HF who have poor self-management using NLP of narrative notes, and to examine patient factors associated with poor self-management. Read More

BMC Med Educ 2022 May 20;22(1):389. Epub 2022 May 20.

Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, The University of Lleida, Montserrat Roig, 2, 25198, Lleida, Spain.

Background: The scientific evidence highlights the difficulties that healthcare professionals experience when managing patients with chronic pain. One of the causes of this difficulty could be related to the acquired training and the lack of knowledge about the neurophysiology of pain. In the present study, we assessed the effectiveness of a gamified web platform in acquiring knowledge about pain neurophysiology and determining the satisfaction and motivation of students of the Degree in Physiotherapy at the University of Lleida. Read More

Health Informatics J 2022 Apr-Jun;28(2):14604582221093498

Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.

Ensuring the accuracy of unstructured clinical notes is critical for patient care, research, and quality improvement. Understanding how trainees learn to document these notes and the challenges they encounter are important steps to developing educational and informatics solutions.Authors conducted focus groups to gather the perspectives of 40 medical students (MS) and family and emergency medicine (EM) residents on recording clinical notes in the electronic medical record (EMR). Read More