background imaging plays a critical role not only in the detection, but also in the characterization of lung masses as benign or malignant. objectives to determine the diagnostic accuracy of dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (mri) in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant lung masses. patients and methods ninety-four masses were included in this prospective study. five dynamic seri...

abstractbackground: delivering the radiation dose to the target volume and minimizing the dose to normal tissues are the main objectives in radiotherapy. the aim of our study is to enhance the contrast of the portal image to increase the accuracy of delineation of the organs in the irradiation field.   methods: the software was written based on local enhancement of the pixel values in image mat...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a highly prevalent disorder, representing the single most common endocrine-metabolic disorder in reproductive-aged women. Our aim was to determine annual health insurance treatment cost of polycystic Hungary. Data were derived from financial database Hungarian National Health Insurance Fund Administration year 2019. The included costs, number patients and fin...

Despite the availability of effective medical treatment and disease management guidelines, asthma remains a poorly controlled disease in developing countries. There is little evidence of the effectiveness of disease management guidelines in rural clinical practice. The effect of disease management guidelines on clinical outcomes and quality of life in asthmatic patients in a rural community hos...

BACKGROUND Demands are increasingly being made for clinical trialists to actively share individual participant data (IPD) collected from clinical trials using responsible methods that protect the confidentiality and privacy of clinical trial participants. Clinical trialists, particularly those receiving public funding, are often concerned about the additional time and money that data-sharing ac...

Gout is a representative inflammatory arthritis with an increasing incidence in recent years. may be accompanied by chronic course which sodium urate crystals are continuously deposited to form gout nodules if proper uric acid management not performed after acute symptom onset. In the past, invasive method was applied diagnose gout, but development of various imaging modalities has prompted att...

Outpatient ambulatory EEG is more cost-effective than inpatient EEG telemetry and may provide adequate seizure localization in a presurgical evaluation. A 51-year-old right-handed male had been unable to work or drive since the age of 35 due to intractable partial onset epilepsy. A 72-hour outpatient ambulatory EEG recorded 18 seizures from the right temporal region. No epileptiform activity wa...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the scope for reducing unnecessary outpatient reattendances, using a benchmark an acute specialty at a site recognised to have an especially low ratio of repeat to new attendances. DESIGN This was a survey of the re-attendance workload at general surgery outpatient clinics over a three month period. Patient re-booking and discharge rates for different grades of staff...

BACKGROUND Although children with medical complexity have high health care needs, little is known about the variation in care provided between centers. This information may be particularly useful in identifying opportunities to improve quality and reduce costs. METHODS We conducted a retrospective population-based observational cohort study using all payer claims databases for children aged 3...