Journal of Korean medical science
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J. Korean Med. Sci. · Sep 2023
Contact Investigations With a Single Tuberculin Skin Test on Infants Exposed to Tuberculosis in a Postpartum Care Center During the Neonatal Period.
Tuberculosis (TB) exposure in congregate settings related to neonates is a serious medical and social issue. TB exposure happens during the neonatal period, but contact investigations for exposed infants are usually conducted after the neonatal period. Generally, recommendations for screening and managing close contact are different for neonates and children. Thus, there are challenges in contact investigations. We aimed to report contact investigations with a single tuberculin skin test (TST) on infants exposed to infectious TB in a postpartum care center. ⋯ A single TST at three months after the last TB exposure with INH prophylaxis could be used as a main protocol in contact investigations for infants exposed to infectious TB during the neonatal period in congregate settings in Korea.
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J. Korean Med. Sci. · Sep 2023
Socioeconomic Factors and Abortive Outcomes of Clinical Pregnancy After Embryo Transfer in the Setting of Universal Health Insurance Coverage of IVF.
In vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET), an expensive option for infertile couples, started to be fully covered by the National Health Insurance (NHI) from October 2017 in South Korea. We investigated the association between woman's socioeconomic status (SES) and abortive outcomes in pregnancies after IVF-ET in the setting of universal coverage of the treatment. ⋯ Unemployment and living in non-capital areas were associated with a higher risk of abortive outcomes among pregnancies after ET, even in the setting of universal coverage of IVF-ET. This suggests potential impact of socioeconomic position on the IVF-ET pregnancy.
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J. Korean Med. Sci. · Sep 2023
Factors Associated With the Development and Severity of Polycystic Liver in Patients With Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.
Factors related to the development and severity of polycystic liver disease (PLD) have not been well established. We aimed to evaluate the genetic and epidemiologic risk factors of PLD in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). ⋯ Hepatic involvement in ADPKD could be related to kidney manifestations and genetic variants including PKD1-PT or PKD2. Monitoring hemoglobin and ALP and evaluating the genetic variants might help predict severe PLD.
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J. Korean Med. Sci. · Sep 2023
Erratum: Correction of Text in the Article "Seroprevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in North Korean Defectors Residing in Korea".
This corrects the article on p. e270 in vol. 38, PMID: 37644684.
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J. Korean Med. Sci. · Sep 2023
GPTZero Performance in Identifying Artificial Intelligence-Generated Medical Texts: A Preliminary Study.
With emergence of chatbots to help authors with scientific writings, editors should have tools to identify artificial intelligence-generated texts. GPTZero is among the first websites that has sought media attention claiming to differentiate machine-generated from human-written texts. ⋯ GPTZero has a low false-positive (classifying a human-written text as machine-generated) and a high false-negative rate (classifying a machine-generated text as human-written).