Objective To describe the criteria and procedure for defining an essential healthcare package in the developed and developing countries. Method Search words were chosen by both health policy experts and search coordinators after discussion and pilot. We searched electronic databases, websites of health institutions and governments and search engine Google. Any reports of implemented strategy to develope an essential healthcare package were included. Pre-designed data extraction form was used for collecting strategies and study method of included studies. Then the extracted information was analyzed and described. Result One hundred and sixty-six studies covering 72 countries were included, most of which were studies in the middle and low Countries. In terms of study objective,160 articles aimed to describe strategies, 6 articles aimed to evaluate effectiveness of strategies.Five studies evaluating effectiveness were cross-sectionnary data, and one study was time series. Conclusion An appropriate package should be defined according to both technique criteria and social welfare criteria, considering each country’s healthcare system and market structure, characteristics of the demander and provider, capacity of government’s regulation. The experience in transition countries gives us more high lights.
The data collection form is a bridge in-between the original studies and the final systematic reviews. It’s the basis for data analyses, directly related to the results and conclusions of systematic reviews, and plays an important role in systematic reviews. There are strict requirements of data collection forms in making Cochrane systematic reviews. In this article, the authors introduce their experiences regarding to the design of data collection form.
Mitral regurgitation is one of the most common heart valve diseases. Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) is currently the most developed and commonly used interventional technique for mitral regurgitation and is recommended by the latest European and American guidelines for patients who are at high surgical risk. TEER device usually consists of a clamping device and a delivery system. The trajectory of the clamping device is called the trajectory, and the trajectory can be well established with the five dimensions movement of the delivery system: left-right oscillation, anterior-posterior oscillation, overall parallel movement, the clamping device's own clockwise rotation, and vertical up-and-down movement. The delivery system's anteroposterior and lateral oscillations are concentrated on the virtual puncture site. Furthermore, the location of the septal puncture site has a significant impact on the establishemnt of the trajectory. The evulation of three variables and adherence to the "4M principles" are necessary for the successful TEER. The three variables are: the position of the clip in the center of the regurgitation,the arm orientation of the clip perpendicular to the boundary of anterior and posterior leaflets, as well as the appropriate length of clamping. The "4M principles" include favorable valve morphology, residual mitral regurgitation below grade 2+, mean transvalvular pressure≤5 mm Hg, and an appropriate amount of leaflets clamping. Patients' baseline situation, the degree of mitral regurgitation and ventricular remodeling, as well as the valve morphology and the outcome of the procedure, are the factors determining the prognosis of patients after TEER.
Comprehensive evaluation research of Chinese patent medicine (CPM) is performed to demonstrate the comprehensive value of CPM from multiple dimensions and to clarify the clinical value and positioning, so as to provide references for decision-making in health or drug policies. Therefore, to standardize and promote comprehensive evaluation studies on CPM, the current guideline introduced the specific requirements on the applicable subject, basic principles, and major evaluation content, thereby providing guidance for researchers in the future.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a long history. In the process of fighting against diseases, TCM has formed a unique theoretical system and the way to think and diagnose. The holistic thinking, and the treatment according to syndrome differentiation are the most prominent characteristics of TCM, which matches with advanced medical concept and direction. The clinical efficacy has always been the basis for the advancement of TCM. However, issues such as the lagging behind of modern research on the evaluation of TCM curative effect, as well as lacking high-quality scientific research evidence, impede the development and promotion of the TCM toward the world. To address the above problems, recent progress in real-word study (RWS) has provided the opportunity for TCM researches, especially for the post-marketing evaluation of Chinese patent medicine (CPM). The formulation of this technical guidance for RWS of CPM is helpful to researchers in carrying out standardized, reasonable and scientific researches, to improve the quality of production and use of real-word evidence, and to promote the advancement of the TCM industry.
Objective To investigate the clinical typing and their relevant surgical treatment principle and method of pressure sore. Methods From January 1983 to April 2006, 122 patients with 179 pressure sores were treated. There were 93 males and29 females, aging 1568 years. The pressure sores were located at sacrococcygeus (54 lesions), petrochanteric region (37 lesions), ischial tuberosity (30 lesions), heel (17 lesions), olecranon (15 lesions), scapula (9 lesions), lateral malleolar (7 lesions), caput fibulace (4 lesions), pretibial (3 lesions), and lumbar region (3 lesims)respectivly. The disease course was from 2 months to 11 years. The areas of pressure sores were from 1.5 cm× 1.0 cm to 20.0 cm×18.0 cm. According to the wound characteristics, the pressure sores were divided into three types：sinus type（12/179）, ulcer type （74/179） and mixed type（93/179）.Aimed at different types of pressure sore, skin grafting, skin flap and myocutaneous flap were employed to repair wound. The areas of flaps were from 5.0 cm×3.5 cm to 26.0 cm×14.5 cm. The areas of skin grafting were from 7 cm×5 cm to 23 cm×12 cm. Results All wounds of sinus type healed by firstintention except one; and all flaps survived. All wounds of uler type healed byfirst intention; and the flaps survived completely except two which had a partial necrosis. All flaps which harvested to repair 93 pressure sores of mixed typewere survived. But one or two sinus occurred in 8 cases. Two healed by operation, and the others healed by dressing exchange. The wounds healed by first intention. The donor sites healed by first intention. The routine followup in 73 patients after 6 months showed that the recurrence appeared in 4 mixed type. The recurrence rate was 55% and the other patients had good outcome. Conclusion Clinical typing of pressure sore is helpful to select the suitable operation method and improve the rate of success.
Medicine bears the responsibility for human health. Technical competence, service standards, professional ethics and social accountability constitute the soul of this profession. The principles of nonmaleficence, beneficence, respect for autonomy and justice help to establish good doctor-patient relationship and regulate medical services, which has been fixed by international and domestic professional norms. Besides to ensure its truth, effectiveness and safety, medical research also should require certain rendering of subject's autonomy, minimizing risks and maintaining social justice. Some procedures have established for supporting it. Modern medical education furnishes suitable human resources for medical profession, which directly affects the accessibility and outcomes of health services. Its objectives, operations and assessments are increasingly taking shape. Faced with the current issues of healthcare equity, worsening doctor-patient relationship, scandals and ethical controversies in medical research, and the failing of medical education to fully match social needs, evidence-based medical methodology is extending to policy and social sciences for identifying and creating high-quality scientific evidence to improve the quality of decision-making.
The theoretical system of motor re-learning is one of the important technical systems in the field of neurological rehabilitation. It is helpful to improve the curative effect of rehabilitation by deeply understanding this theory system and applying it flexibly to patients with neural system impairment. In this paper, the principles of neurorehabilitation based on motor re-learning (including active training, repetitive reinforcement; task-specific practice, goal-orientated training; rich environment, increasing difficulty; emphasis on feedback and early intervention) are interpreted with available evidence of mechanism and clinical application studies, in order to provide some ideas and directions for the future clinical research of neurological rehabilitation.
In order to fully implement the ethical principles of biomedical researches and to better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the subjects, this paper begins from the research design and closely combines with the ethical practice of biomedical research review, seriously analyzes the key implementation points of the ethical free and compensation principles in biomedical research, including intervention study, random allocation, follow-up research and new medical techniques and so on, also will provide the beneficial reference for comprehensive formulation of enforcement regulation of ethics principle of biomedical research in the future.