1.Investigation on the quality of medical workers'material life after the adoption of trusteeship
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration 1996;0(03):-
Objective To find out about the effect of the trustee policy on the quality of medical workers' material life so as to further improve the trustee reform. Methods An investigation was made via questionnaires on the annual income, consumption structure and housing area of 320 medical workers in hospitals that had adopted trusteeship. Results After the adoption of trusteeship in 2002, the quality of all the medical workers' material life was improved, but there was a signiticant difference among the doctors, nurses and medico-technicians (P
2.Survey and analysis of special medical services marketing
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration 1996;0(10):-
Objective To understand and master the system for assessing the strategies, management and effect of special medical services marketing. Methods Survey sheets on customer satisfaction towards special medical services and survey sheets on the effect of special medical services on the caliber of medical personnel were fandomly distributed to the patients and medical staff in a particular hospital and special topic interviews and statistical analyses of special topic survey data were conducted. Results The satisfaction rate of customers receiving special medical services was 98.9%, and special medical services had a positive effect on the improvement of the quality of medical services, economic benefits and the caliber of the medical personnel. Conclusion Correct orientation is the marketing strategy guiding special medical services. Market-based orientation, marketing-based medical services and resources-based guidance are of important practical values to special medical services while high quality, high caliber and high benefits are the major indexes for assessing special medical services.
3.Diagnostic value of IRG1 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Zhihong CAO ; Yan CAO ; Xiaoxing CHENG
Chinese Journal of Immunology 2015;(5):667-669,673
Objective:To compare the mRNA expression of IRG1in PBMCs from patients with TB, individual with latent infection and healthy controls, and investigate its diagnostic value for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.Methods: The mRNA expression of IRG1 from PBMCs stimulated with Mtb-specific antigens was quantitatively detected by quantitative real-time PCR ( qPCR).Receiver-operating-characteristic ( ROC) curves were used to determine the cutoff points yielding the highest specificity and sensitivity,and discriminative ability was evaluated by the area under the ROC curve.Results: The mRNA expression of IRG1 in healthy controls was significantly lower than that in patients with tuberculosis and LTBI ( P<0.05 ).The AUC for using IRG1 mRNA levels (>0.01536 ) to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection was 0.91, with 76.47% sensitivity, 96.30% specificity, LR 20.65,and 85.2% of cases correctly classified.Conclusion: IRG1 may be used as a biomarker for diagnosing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
4.The impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with tumor cell death and postoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy on efficacy and quality of life of patients with ovarian cancer
Jiangying YANG ; Aihua CHENG ; Zhihong CHAI
Journal of Chinese Physician 2016;18(2):228-231
Objective To observe the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with tumor cells reduction and postoperative intraperitoneal perfusion chemotherapy on the efficacy and quality of life of ovarian cancer.Methods From October 2010 to October 2013 at the Department of gynecology,Taizhou Municipal Hospital,65 cases of ovarian cancer patients for the treatment of stage Ⅲ and Ⅳ were randomly divided into intervention group (n =32) and control group (n =33).Patients in the intervention group received neoadjuvant chemotherapy after tumor cell reduction cytoreductive surgery and received postoperative intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion chemotherapy and conventional surgery after chemotherapy.Patients in the control group received conventional tumor cell cytoreductive surgery plus postoperative chemotherapy.Surgical status,the effectiveness of treatment,and adverse reactions were compared between two groups.Moreover,survival quality score,relapse rate,and mortality differences were compared between two groups.Results For the intervention group,operation status and effective treatment were better than the control group.The proportion of adverse reactions had no significant difference between two groups.Survival quality had no statistically significant difference between before treatment and after receiving treatment.Quality of life in the intervention group was better than that of the control group.Relapse rate,and mortality rate in the intervention group was lower than the control group.Conclusions Accepted neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with tumor cytoreductive surgery and surgery after intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion chemotherapy can improve the effectiveness of treatment of ovarian cancers,and improve the quality of life,with better short-term effect.
5.Development of the mouse model for acute hepatitis B virus infection
Chunxia GUO ; Yongwen HE ; Cheng PENG ; Wenting LI ; Zhihong WENG
Chinese Journal of Zoonoses 2009;(12):1170-1173
A mouse model for acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was established by using the hydrodynamical injection of mouse tail vein, in which the immunocompetent BALB/c mice were hydrodynamically injected with a competent replication plasmid pAAV-HBV1.2 having 1.2 fold over-length of HBV DNA. On day 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 after injection, the levels of HBsAg, HBeAg and HBV DNA in blood serum were detected by using ELISA and fluorogenic quantitative PCR assay (FQ-PCR). And on day 8. HBsAg and HBeAg in liver tissue were assayed by immunohistochemical staining. It was found that HBsAg in blood serum could be detected on day 1 after infection in 14 of 16 mice (85.7%) injected with pAVV-HBV1.2 by using ELISA assay and the peak levels of HBsAg and HBeAg were attained during the first day after injection and then it dropped down gradually up to day 8 following injection. The titer of HBV DNA in blood serum attained its peak on day 2 and maintained a high level later on. On day 8 after injection, its titer was 1.9×10~4 copies/mL. The percentage of HBcAg-positive hepatocytes and HBsAg-positive hepatocytes in liver tissues were 5% and 2% respectively. Thus, by using the hydrodynamic injection with the competent replication plasmid, a mouse model for acute HBV infection is successively developed.
6.Th1 Cytokines induced by ESAT-6 and CFP-10 in PBMCs from patients with refractory pulmonary tuberculosis were impaired
Xinjing WANG ; Zhihong CAO ; Jinxin LIU ; Bingfen YANG ; Xiaoxing CHENG
Journal of Chinese Physician 2012;(10):1300-1302
Objective To investigate the feature of Th1 cytokines induced by Mtb-specific antigen in patients with refractory pulmonary tuberculosis.Methods 28 patients with refractory pulmonary tuberculosis,67 patients with first-treated pulmonary tuberculosis,and 25 healthy controls with positive T.spot (LTBI group) were enrolled.IFN-γ,IL-2 and TNF-α in supernatants from PBMCs stimulated with ESAT-6 and CFP-10 were analyzed with Bender Flowcytomix on flow cytometry.Results The levels of the three cytokines were utmost high in patients with first-treated pulmonary tuberculosis.The lowest level of IFN-γ and IL-2 were induced in patients with refractory pulmonary tuberculosis,and were significantly lower than the LTBI group(Mann-Whitney U = 105.5,162.5,P < 0.01).Conclusions The immunotherapy with IFN-γ and IL-2 may play a role in treatment for refractory pulmonary tuberculosis but not for most of first-treated pulmonary tuberculosis.
7.Effect of bronchodilators on dyspnea and pulmonary function in patients with COPD at different degrees
Xiang LUO ; Chunli GUO ; Xian CHENG ; Zhihong SHI
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2015;(11):40-42
Objective To investigate the effect of bronchodilators on dyspnea and pulmonary function in patients with chronic obstruction pulmonary disease (COPD) at different degrees.Methods 50 patients with COPD from January 2014 to January 2015 in pneumology department of Tongchuan City People's Hospital were selected.According to the standard of Global initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease (GOLD), the patients were divided into mild degree of 14 cases, moderate degree of 18 cases and severe degree of 18 case.The changes of Borg score of dyspnea, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), peak expiratory flow (PEF) and inspiratory capacity (IC) after received tiotropium bromide inhalation in each group.Results FEV1, FVC, PEF and IC values significant improved in mild, moderate and severe degree groups after received tiotropium bromide inhalation and the values of improvement rate changed significantly with degrees of disease ( P <0.05 ).The improvement rates of FEV1, FVC and IC were highest in patients at severe degree, improvement rate of PEF was highest in patients at mild degree (P<0.05).After received tiotropium bromide inhalation, the Borg score improved significantly compared with that of pre-treatment in mild, moderate and severe degree groups (P<0.05), the improvement rate of Borg score was highest in severe degree group(P<0.05).There were significantly positive correlations between Borg score and FEV1(r=0.372),FVC(r=0.296),PEF(r=0.284),IC(r=0.704)(all P<0.05).Conclusion Bronchodilator could significantly improve dyspnea and lung function in patients with COPD, and the improvement rate of FEV1, FVC and IC is highest in patients with COPD at server degree, PEF is highest at mild degree and Borg score is highest at server degree, which need the comprehensive analysis of each indicators for reversibility of airflow obstruction.
8.Expression and significance of SIRT1 and p53 in endometrial carcinoma with diabetes mellitus
Hongying GUO ; Shuqin GUO ; Xiaodong CHENG ; Wenming ZHAO ; Zhihong LI ; Qian YANG
Journal of International Oncology 2013;(3):236-239
Objective To investigate the expressions and significances of SIRT1 and p53 in endometrial carcinoma with diabetes mellitus.Methods Immunohistochemistry was carried out to examine the expressions of SIRT1 and p53 in 39 cases of endometrial carcinoma with diabetes mellitus and 40 cases of endometrial carcinoma without diabetes mellitus and 25 cases of normal endometrium,and the correlations between these indexs were analysed.Results The positive rate of SIRT1 and p53 in experimental group was 64.1%,59.0% respectively,and 85.0%,52.5% in control group.The positive rate of SIRT1 in experimental group was lower than that of control group (x2 =4.561,P =0.033).The positive rates of SIRT1 and p53 in control group were higher than that of normal endometrium (x2 =21.462,P< 0.001; x2 =6.771,P =0.009).Expression of SIRT1 was positively correlated with p53 (r =0.360,P =0.024).Conclusions Hyperglycemia deregulates SIRT1 in endometrial carcinoma.SIRT1 may promote tumorigenesis by silence of p53.
9.Prediction and experimental verification of T cell reactive peptides of mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen Rv2608
Fei ZHAI ; Bingfen YANG ; Zhihong CAO ; Hongjuan AN ; Ruo WANG ; Xiaoxing CHENG
Journal of Chinese Physician 2013;15(10):1311-1314
Objective To discover T cell reactive peptides of mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen Rv2608 for treatment or adjuvant treatment for tuberculosis.Methods The T cell epitopes of Rv2608 were predicted by bioinformatics.The long-chain peptides were screened with strong affinity with HLA-A0201,HLA-A1101,and HLA-A2402.The physical and chemical characters of the peptides were predicted.The stable and hydrophilic peptides for chemical synthesis were selected.The T cell reactivity of the peptides in patients with active tuberculosis was detected by ELISPOT.The results were compared with the clinical diagnosis kits TSPOT.TB.Results Four peptides of Rv2608 were predicted and screened,and they could be active T cells of patients with active TB.Rv2608p3 was the most efficient to prime the T cell response.Conclusions Software prediction was consistent with the result of ELISPOT.Rv2608p3 might be the candidate for therapeutic vaccine for tuberculosis.
10.Relationship between follicular fluid oxidative stress parameters and body mass index in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome
Zhihong NIU ; Dandan WU ; Ruihuan GU ; Meiyu CHENG ; Ling WU ; Yun FENG
Chinese Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism 2012;28(8):627-630
Objective To study the relationship between reactive oxygen species (ROS) as well as total antioxidant capacity ( TAC ) within follicle fluid and body mass index ( BMI ) in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).Methods All patients enrolled in this study were infertile women receiving in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) treatment.55 PCOS patients were divided into over-weight group ( n =23 ) and non-over-weight group ( n =32 ).Another 55 age-matched non-PCOS women were also divided into control group ( n =30) and overweight group ( n =25 ).Plasma sex hormone,triglycerides,and total cholesterol were determined.On oocyte retrieval day after ovarian stimulation,ROS and TAC in follicular fluid were assayed.Results Subjects in over-weight and PCOS over-weight groups had higher triglycerides than those in control and PCOS non-over-weight groups [ ( 1.9 ±1.1,1.7 ± 0.9,1.0 ± 0.5,1.2 ± 0.7 ) mmol/L,respectively,all P<0.05],so did total cholesterol [ ( 4.8 ± 1.2,5.2 ± 1.1,4.0 ± 0.6) mmol/L,respectively,all P<0.05].In PCOS over-weight group,ROS and ROS/TAC within follicular fluid were ( 35.4 ± 6.7 ) RLU/S and 39.8 ± 22.0,both were higher than those in the other 3 groups ( all P<0.05).TAC [ (0.8 ± 0.5 ) Mm] was lower in PCOS over-weight group than that among the other 3 groups( all P<0.05 ).ROS/TAC was higher in PCOS non-over-weight group than that of control group ( 26.5 ± 14.5 vs 14.2 ± 12.5,P<0.05 ).Univariate analysis showed that both ROS and ROS/TAC within follicular fluid in PCOS patients were positively correlated with BMI ( r =0.34 and r =0.32,both P<0.05 ).Conclusion Abnormal oxidative stress exists in follicular fluid of PCOS patients,and the oxidative stress parameters show positive correlation with BMI.