Articles: ninos.
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We sought to analyze the current situation of personnel training and scientific research regarding pharmacy intravenous admixture services (PIVAS), to provide evidence-based medical knowledge to inform personnel training for PIVAS in mainland China. A cross-sectional survey was used to examine the current status of PIVAS personnel training, research capabilities, needs, and research output of PIVAS personnel based from the perspective of leaders in PIVAS in China. The survey period was from March to April 2019. ⋯ There were no significant differences in the training of PIVAS personnel and scientific research between different provinces and hospital levels. The training content of PIVAS personnel in China was found to be relatively rich, but management tools, career development, and training in scientific research were found to be relatively weak, and the scientific research output was very low. It is necessary to build a comprehensive training system for career development among PIVAS personnel.
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With the evolving specialization of modern medicine, family medicine (FM), also known as general practice, is relatively late in being recognized as a formal specialty in most countries of the world. Because many non-FM specialists were recruited into the new specialty in the early stages of FM specialization, the contents of FM specialty journals might, to an extent, reflect the development of the FM specialization. ⋯ In conclusion, FM publications in China in the study year, as exemplified by Chinese General Practice, were mostly contributed by non-FM authors dealing with non-FM topics. A transition to more FM-oriented development might be anticipated in the near future.
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has emerged in the Asia-Pacific area over the past 2 decades. There is a paucity of clinical data regarding real-world experience of patients with IBD from low endemic area such as Taiwan. Therefore, the present study aimed to review the clinical features of patients with IBD form a tertiary center from Taiwan. ⋯ A trend of decreased bowel resection for patients with IBD and less severe phenotype of patients with CD were observed after 2015. UC with male predominance was the predominant type of IBD in the study. Patients with CD are likely to have a complicated disease course, requiring a higher demand of biologic therapy than patients with UC.
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Meta Analysis Comparative Study
Efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer patients with different genes mutation: A meta-analysis.
Latest clinical trials have proved the better overall survival (OS) for the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors verse chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. However, we still have no clear ideas of the factors which could affect the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors. Cancer, essentially, is a disease related to genes mutation. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors for NSCLC patients with different genes mutation. ⋯ Immune checkpoint inhibitors are more efficacious than chemotherapy in NSCLC patients with EGFR wild-type, KRAS mutation, and any PD-L1 tumor proportion scores.
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Meta Analysis
Male sperm quality and risk of recurrent spontaneous abortion in Chinese couples: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
To assess the association of conventional semen parameters and sperm DNA fragmentation with risk of recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA). ⋯ The results of this analysis support an association of sperm density, sperm viability, sperm progressive motility rate, normal sperm morphology rate, sperm deformity rate, as well as sperm DFI with RSA. However, given the significant heterogeneity between studies and the lack of more detailed data on the subjects, further large-scale prospective studies are needed.