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How to help patients make heart health changes: Q&A with Dr. Rakotz
Dietary and lifestyle changes are difficult to make. Once habits are formed, the effort that is required to change is often overwhelming for both patients and physicians. This week, Michael Rakotz, MD, director of chronic disease prevention with the AMA’s Improving Health Outcomes initiative, provides guidance from his own experience as a primary care physician on approaching heart healthy changes with patients. AMA Wire®: In our Twitter poll, the public thought 2:1 that exercise would benefit their heart health more than dietary changes. Why is that? Dr. Rakotz: It’s hard to know for sure why people voted this w...
Source: AMA Wire - September 29, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: amamod Source Type: news

Self-management support interventions for persons with chronic disease: an evidence-based analysis.
CONCLUSIONS: The Stanford CDSMP led to statistically significant, albeit clinically minimal, short-term improvements across a number of health status measures (including some measures of health-related quality of life), healthy behaviours, and self-efficacy compared to usual care. However, there was no evidence to suggest that the CDSMP improved health care utilization. More research is needed to explore longer-term outcomes, the impact of self-management on clinical outcomes, and to better identify responders and non-responders. PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: Self-management support interventions are becoming more common as ...
Source: Ontario Health Technology Assessment Series - December 20, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Ont Health Technol Assess Ser Source Type: research

Health Tip: Have Headaches? Speak to Your Doctor
-- A headache is generally recognized as having pain or discomfort anywhere in the head, scalp or neck. It can be a symptom of everything from minor stress to a life-threatening stroke. Learning all you can about your condition is a first step on...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 24, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news

Automatic Classification of the Korean Triage Acuity Scale in Simulated Emergency Rooms Using Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing: a Proof of Concept Study
CONCLUSION: We demonstrated the potential of an automatic KTAS classification system using speech recognition models, machine learning and BERT-based classifiers.PMID:34254471 | DOI:10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e175
Source: J Korean Med Sci - July 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dongkyun Kim Jaehoon Oh Heeju Im Myeongseong Yoon Jiwoo Park Joohyun Lee Source Type: research