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African health sciences · Dec 2015
Evaluation of prescription pattern and patients' opinion on healthcare practices in selected primary healthcare facilities in Ibadan, South-Western Nigeria.
Inappropriate prescribing negatively impacts on health and economy of individual and the society. ⋯ Primary healthcare attendees were satisfied with medication costs affordability and accessibility of PHC to abode but expressed dissatisfaction with follow-up of care and courtesy of workers. Also, inappropriate prescriptions characterized by polypharmacy and overuse of antibiotics were common underscoring the need for regular training of PHC workers on rational drug use and instituting appropriate measures for improvement.
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[Updated S1 guideline on long/post-COVID: relevant aspects for pain medicine].
The S1 guideline on long/post-COVID of the AWMF [German Association of the Medical Scientific Societies] registration number 020-027) was updated in August 2022. ⋯ The updated S1 guideline on long/post-COVID is a clinical manual which offers orientation for diagnostics and treatment despite limited data.
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Natural language processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence focused on enabling computers to interpret and analyse text-based data. The intensive care specialty is known to generate large volumes of data, including free-text, however, NLP applications are not commonly used either in critical care clinical research or quality improvement projects. This review aims to provide an overview of how NLP has been used in the intensive care specialty and promote an understanding of NLP's potential future clinical applications. ⋯ Natural language processing has been used for a variety of purposes in the ICU context. Increasing awareness of these techniques amongst clinicians may lead to more clinically relevant algorithms being developed and implemented.