We summarized the consultation cases of parasitic diseases and entomological cases presented at the Department of Medical Zoology, Jichi Medical School. Among 173 consultations from January 1996 to December 2000, 64 cases were parasitologically or entomologically positive. We primarily diagnosed the cases morphologically and intermittently used sero-diagnosis methods. Ascariasis and diphyllobot...

BACKGROUND Annually, about 400 cases of sudden unexpected death are attributed to cancer in Tokyo, Japan. These individuals may have been undiagnosed, or their medical conditions may not have been carefully evaluated before death. We examined medical consultations, cancer diagnoses, and economic status of all cancer deaths investigated by medical examiners in 2009. METHODS Among cases handled...

The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. Such consultations require the integration of medical and psychiatric knowledge. During their thrice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Psychiatric Consultation Service discuss the diagnosis and management of condition...

Consultation-liaison psychiatry (CLP) was first established in China after liberation in 1949. It has developed more rapidly over the last two decades but, despite major regional differences in the level of CLP, the overall practice of CLP in the country remains quite basic, largely limited to case-based consultation with other medical departments. There is little ongoing collaboration between ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There is limited evidence for remote stroke thrombolysis using telephone consultation and teleradiology. Results from a UK network using this treatment model are presented. METHODS Retrospective study of consecutive patients thrombolysed in 5 hospitals, with well organized stroke services, between 2012 and 2013. Remote thrombolysis was compared with thrombolysis deliver...

Received August 23, 2005; revised January 18, 2006; accepted January 27, 2006. From the Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Byatt, Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Ave North, Worcester, MA 01655. e-mail: [email protected] Copyright 2006 The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Psychosomatic...

preoperative medical consultations; hence, reducing unnecessary consultations among low-risk patients while potentially increasing consultations among high-risk individuals. Notably, the existing variability in preoperative consultation practice may actually be helpful in designing initiatives to improve the appropriateness of preoperative medical consultations. Specifically, in characterizing ...

| The Next Generation Internet (NGI) has been touted by both academic and industry as the conduit to new capabilities in health care, health education and health services by linking hospitals, clinics , practitioners' ooces, health professional specialists and universities. This paper introduces a web based telemedicine project, SWEAT, which is under development at Cairo University, Faculty of ...

An effective international consultation on health system reform can be approached using the five-step process of establishing goals, conducting a needs assessment, defining objectives, developing methods, and designing evaluation strategies. This structure provided guidance to a consultation we provided to the Ministry of Health, Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) to review its current health ...

BACKGROUND In recent years, patients have indicated a desire for more information about their disease and to be involved in making decisions about their care. We developed an aid called the "Decision Board" to help clinicians inform patients with lymph node-negative breast cancer of the risks and benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy. We determined whether adding the Decision Board to the medical c...