Journal of general internal medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Efficacy of Health Coaching and an Electronic Health Management Program: Randomized Controlled Trial.
For chronic disease management, self-management strategies are essential to achieve sustained improvement. ⋯ The combination of ICT + health coaching led to improvement in self-management as well as in increasing exercise, and several healthy behaviors.
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In recent years, there have been numerous studies exploring different teaching methods for improving diagnostic reasoning in undergraduate medical students. This systematic review examines and summarizes the evidence for the effectiveness of these teaching methods during clinical training. ⋯ The authors posit a framework to teach diagnostic reasoning in the clinical setting. The framework targets specific deficiencies in the students' reasoning process. There remains a lack of studies comparing the effectiveness of different methods. More comparative studies with standardized assessment and evaluation of long-term effectiveness of these methods are recommended.
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Since late summer 2020, the French authorities implemented a curfew/lightened lockdown-alternating strategy instead of strict lockdown, to improve acceptability and limit socioeconomic consequences. However, data on curfew-related efficacy to control the epidemic are scarce. ⋯ Curfew allowed the temporary control of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, however variably in the French regions, without preventing lockdown necessity. To accelerate the epidemic regression such as observed in French Guyana, curfew should be implemented timely with additional restrictions.