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Communication, continuity and coordination of care are the most important patients' values for family medicine in a fee-for-services health system

BMC Family Practice, 2019
Background Representing 60% of medical consultations in Switzerland, primary care holds an important place in our medical system. Patients’ values in family medicine (FM) are nowadays recognized as important factors to take into account in order to ...
Marie Droz, Nicolas Senn, Christine Cohidon   +2 more
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Upper Cervical Cord Area as a Biomarker of Conversion to Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study assessed whether upper cervical cord area (UCCA) measured on routine brain MRI can serve as a biomarker of conversion to SPMS. Methods This is a single‐center retrospective cohort study of RRMS patients with cross‐sectional and longitudinal analyses of clinical and MRI data. Future SPMS converters were matched by age, sex,
Nabil K. El Ayoubi, Sola Al Ghazal, Salem Hannoun, Medhat A. Siddik, Nour M. Najjar, Jim Dagher, Joseph Abboud, Myriam G. Semaan, Samia J. Khoury   +8 more
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Association between the Number of Consecutively Scheduled Telehealth Visits and Video Usage

Telemedicine Reports
Background: Schedule design may contribute to successful completion of synchronous telehealth visits by video (versus audio-only). Clustering telehealth visits on schedules may minimize workflow inefficiencies.
Kenan Katranji, Shruti Bakare, Sarah Rose Cass, Helena Mirzoyan, Hannah B. Jackson, Christine Zhang, Kevin Chen   +6 more
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DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT OF MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE

Рациональная фармакотерапия в кардиологии, 2016
The mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is one of the most inconsistent diagnose. In the most cases patients with MVP have the good long-term prognosis, and therapy is aimed at reduction in psychovegetative dysfunction.
D. A. Kuzhel, G. V. Matyushin, E. A. Savchenko   +2 more
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Stem Cell Transplantation in Friedreich Ataxia: Cure for Leukemia but No Effect on Neurological Progression

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Friedreich Ataxia (FRDA) is a neurodegenerative disorder of children and young adults associated with cardiomyopathy and other systemic complications. We report a 10‐year‐old girl who presented simultaneously with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and FRDA who was successfully treated for her leukemia with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell ...
Alexandra Gitman, Niyati Bhandari, Maria Castellaro, Kim Schadt, María Cancio, David R. Lynch   +5 more
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Associations between primary care practice type and patient-reported access

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background We recently defined a global typology of primary care (PC) in Switzerland using a mixed inductive/deductive approach to construct latent, composite variables that summarize variance between practices.
K Selby, J-C Zuchuat, C Cohidon, N Senn
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Progressive Parkinsonism in PPP2R5D‐Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT PPP2R5D‐related neurodevelopmental disorder (Houge–Janssens syndrome type 1) is a rare autosomal dominant condition characterized by macrocephaly, intellectual disability, and epilepsy. Progressive parkinsonism is an emerging adult phenotype that neurologists should be aware of since timely genetic diagnosis opens the door to disease‐modifying
Katerina Bernardi, Enrique Gonzalez Saez‐Diez, Joshua Rong, Beril Ay, Shabbir Merchant, Kathryn Yang, Darius Ebrahimi‐Fakhari   +6 more
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The DMP atlas for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: results of the disease management programmes on district level

Research in Health Services & Regions
Disease Management Programmes (DMP) in Germany were initiated to enhance the quality of ambulatory health care for specific chronic diseases. They aim to prevent the progression of the disease and comorbidity as well as to improve quality of life.
Sabine Groos, Jens Kretschmann, Arne Weber, Michaela Assheuer, Bernd Hagen   +4 more
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Rare association of extensive myelinated retinal nerve fibers with vascular abnormalities and vitreous hemorrhage: A case report

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports
Purpose: To report a rare case of unilateral extensive myelinated retinal nerve fibers (MRNFs) associated with retinal vascular changes, including diffusely sclerosed vessels, complicated by vitreous hemorrhage (VH).
Sonia Attia, Mouhamad Safouh Pasa, Nagi Ahmed, Zamzam M.A. Al Baker, Hashem Abu Serhan   +4 more
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Accuracy of quantitative positron emission tomography assessment for differentiating cerebral age-related from pathological amyloid deposition: A preliminary report from a case-series study

World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2018
Previous observational studies using old qualitative methods have not clarified the role of amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) in the assessment of dementia.
Fulvio Lauretani, Livia Ruffini, Andrea Ticinesi, Antonio Nouvenne, Marcello Maggio, Tiziana Meschi   +5 more
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