Personalized action plans for patients with multiple chronic diseases in Andalusia

Personalized Plans with Multiple Treatments

In this work we propose a method for treatment assignment based on individual covariate information for a patient. Our method covers more than two treatments and it can be applied with a broad set of models and it has very desirable large sample properties. An empirical study using simulations and a real data analysis show the applicability of the proposed procedure.

Multiple Organ Failure in Elderly Patients with Chronic Diseases

Multiple organ failure (MOFE) in elderly patients is a new clinical syndrome different from multiple organ failure (MOF) caused by surgical conditions in the young and middle-aged persons. One thousand and two cases of MOFE were analyzed retrospectively and their clinical features discussed. MOFE has a long insidious course. Its main predisposing factors are pulmonary infection, heart attack, e...

Telehealth of Patients with Chronic Diseases during Coronavirus 2019 Epidemic

Can patients with chronic liver diseases withstand Ramadan fasting?

Ramadan is a sacred month for Muslims all around the world. During this lunar-based month, healthy adult Muslims are obligated to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking, or using oral medications from predawn to sunset. Followers will typically eat just after sunset and again before dawn (1). The Islamic lunar Hijri calendar is 11 days shorter than the Gregorian solar calendar, and therefore, t...

Building personalized treatment plans for early-stage colorectal cancer patients

We developed a series of models to predict the likelihood of recurrence and the response to chemotherapy for the personalized treatment of stage I and II colorectal cancer patients. A recurrence prediction model was developed from 235 stage I/II patients. The model successfully distinguished between high-risk and low-risk groups, with a hazard ratio of recurrence of 4.66 (p < 0.0001). More impo...