Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
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Schizophrenia is a complex mental health disorder that not only affects the individual diagnosed but also has profound implications for their families and caregivers. This paper aims to shed light on the emotional, social and practical challenges faced by caregivers, as well as the coping mechanisms they employ to navigate the complexities of caregiving. ⋯ Caregivers often experience a wide range of emotions, from love and empathy to frustration and helplessness, as they navigate the challenges of supporting their loved ones with schizophrenia. Additionally, caregivers may face stigma, social isolation and financial strain, further complicating their caregiving journey.
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3D Magnetic Resonance Imaging (3D-MRI) analysis of brain tumours is an important tool for gathering information needed for diagnosis and disease therapy planning. However, during the brain tumor segmentation process existing techniques have segmentation error while identifying tumor location and extended tumor regions due to improper extraction of initial contour points and overlapping tissue intensity distributions. ⋯ The results obtained for the BraTS2020 and Brain Tumor Detection 2020 data sets showed that the proposed model outperforms existing techniques with excellent precision of 97%, 97.5%, recall of 99%, 97.8%, and accuracy of 95.7%, 98.4%, respectively.
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An increasing number of UK residents are travelling overseas to access medical treatments, the negative health consequences of which are largely managed by NHS doctors. ⋯ Amongst other requirements, this paper finds that NHS doctors must counsel those considering medical tourism overseas on the risks of doing so, and existing efforts to do so should be increased to reflect the increasing prevalence of medical tourism overseas by UK residents and the associated negative health consequences.
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Today, hospital information systems (HISs) play an irreplaceable role in hospital management. At present, HIS construction projects in many hospitals have faced the setback of 'project quagmire' to varying degrees. The critical path method (CPM) mainly aims to find the critical path, thus managing project progress. ⋯ The CPM could effectively measure the completion and deviation of each stage of the registration system project, which provided an effective guarantee for the subsequent schedule compression to ensure that the project was completed as scheduled and was of sufficient quality. However, all conditions had to be considered comprehensively; doing otherwise would lead to increased risks and costs.
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The potential applications of large language models (LLMs)-a form of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-in medicine and health care are being increasingly explored by medical practitioners and health care researchers. ⋯ Accordingly, this paper finds a strong case for the incorporation of LLMs into clinical practice and, if their risk of patient harm is sufficiently mitigated, this incorporation might be ethically required, at least according to principlism.