1.Ethical reflections on the clinical application of medical artificial intelligence
Fangfang CUI ; Zhonglin LI ; Xianying HE ; Wenchao WANG ; Yuntian CHU ; Xiaobing SHI ; Jie ZHAO
Chinese Medical Ethics 2025;38(2):159-165
Medical artificial intelligence (AI) is a new type of application formed by the combination of machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and other technologies with clinical medical treatment. With the continuous iteration and development of relevant technologies, medical AI has shown great potential in improving the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment, and service quality, but it also increases the possibility of triggering ethical issues. Ethical issues resulting from the clinical application of medical AI were analyzed, including the lack of algorithmic interpretability and transparency of medical AI, leading to information asymmetry and cognitive discrepancies; the concerning status of security and privacy protection of medical data; and the complex and unclear division of responsibilities due to the collaborative participation of multiple subjects in the clinical application of medical AI, resulting in increased difficulty in the identification of medical accidents and clarification of responsibilities. The paper proposed the principles of not harming patients’ interests, physician’s subjectivity, fairness and inclusiveness, and rapid response. It also explored the strategies and implementation paths for responding to the ethical issues of medical AI from multiple perspectives, including standardizing the environment and processes, clarifying responsibility attribution, continuously assessing the impact of data protection, guaranteeing data security, ensuring model transparency and interpretability, carrying out multi-subject collaboration, as well as the principles of being driven by ethical values and adhering to the “human health-centeredness.” It aimed to provide guidance for the healthy development of medical AI, ensuring technological progress while effectively managing and mitigating accompanying ethical risks, thereby promoting the benign development of medical AI technology and better serving the healthcare industry and patients.
2.Surveillance of bacterial resistance in tertiary hospitals across China:results of CHINET Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Program in 2022
Yan GUO ; Fupin HU ; Demei ZHU ; Fu WANG ; Xiaofei JIANG ; Yingchun XU ; Xiaojiang ZHANG ; Fengbo ZHANG ; Ping JI ; Yi XIE ; Yuling XIAO ; Chuanqing WANG ; Pan FU ; Yuanhong XU ; Ying HUANG ; Ziyong SUN ; Zhongju CHEN ; Jingyong SUN ; Qing CHEN ; Yunzhuo CHU ; Sufei TIAN ; Zhidong HU ; Jin LI ; Yunsong YU ; Jie LIN ; Bin SHAN ; Yunmin XU ; Sufang GUO ; Yanyan WANG ; Lianhua WEI ; Keke LI ; Hong ZHANG ; Fen PAN ; Yunjian HU ; Xiaoman AI ; Chao ZHUO ; Danhong SU ; Dawen GUO ; Jinying ZHAO ; Hua YU ; Xiangning HUANG ; Wen'en LIU ; Yanming LI ; Yan JIN ; Chunhong SHAO ; Xuesong XU ; Wei LI ; Shanmei WANG ; Yafei CHU ; Lixia ZHANG ; Juan MA ; Shuping ZHOU ; Yan ZHOU ; Lei ZHU ; Jinhua MENG ; Fang DONG ; Zhiyong LÜ ; Fangfang HU ; Han SHEN ; Wanqing ZHOU ; Wei JIA ; Gang LI ; Jinsong WU ; Yuemei LU ; Jihong LI ; Qian SUN ; Jinju DUAN ; Jianbang KANG ; Xiaobo MA ; Yanqing ZHENG ; Ruyi GUO ; Yan ZHU ; Yunsheng CHEN ; Qing MENG ; Shifu WANG ; Xuefei HU ; Wenhui HUANG ; Juan LI ; Quangui SHI ; Juan YANG ; Abulimiti REZIWAGULI ; Lili HUANG ; Xuejun SHAO ; Xiaoyan REN ; Dong LI ; Qun ZHANG ; Xue CHEN ; Rihai LI ; Jieli XU ; Kaijie GAO ; Lu XU ; Lin LIN ; Zhuo ZHANG ; Jianlong LIU ; Min FU ; Yinghui GUO ; Wenchao ZHANG ; Zengguo WANG ; Kai JIA ; Yun XIA ; Shan SUN ; Huimin YANG ; Yan MIAO ; Mingming ZHOU ; Shihai ZHANG ; Hongjuan LIU ; Nan CHEN ; Chan LI ; Jilu SHEN ; Wanqi MEN ; Peng WANG ; Xiaowei ZHANG ; Yanyan LIU ; Yong AN
Chinese Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy 2024;24(3):277-286
Objective To monitor the susceptibility of clinical isolates to antimicrobial agents in tertiary hospitals in major regions of China in 2022.Methods Clinical isolates from 58 hospitals in China were tested for antimicrobial susceptibility using a unified protocol based on disc diffusion method or automated testing systems.Results were interpreted using the 2022 Clinical &Laboratory Standards Institute(CLSI)breakpoints.Results A total of 318 013 clinical isolates were collected from January 1,2022 to December 31,2022,of which 29.5%were gram-positive and 70.5%were gram-negative.The prevalence of methicillin-resistant strains in Staphylococcus aureus,Staphylococcus epidermidis and other coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species(excluding Staphylococcus pseudintermedius and Staphylococcus schleiferi)was 28.3%,76.7%and 77.9%,respectively.Overall,94.0%of MRSA strains were susceptible to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and 90.8%of MRSE strains were susceptible to rifampicin.No vancomycin-resistant strains were found.Enterococcus faecalis showed significantly lower resistance rates to most antimicrobial agents tested than Enterococcus faecium.A few vancomycin-resistant strains were identified in both E.faecalis and E.faecium.The prevalence of penicillin-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae was 94.2%in the isolates from children and 95.7%in the isolates from adults.The resistance rate to carbapenems was lower than 13.1%in most Enterobacterales species except for Klebsiella,21.7%-23.1%of which were resistant to carbapenems.Most Enterobacterales isolates were highly susceptible to tigecycline,colistin and polymyxin B,with resistance rates ranging from 0.1%to 13.3%.The prevalence of meropenem-resistant strains decreased from 23.5%in 2019 to 18.0%in 2022 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa,and decreased from 79.0%in 2019 to 72.5%in 2022 in Acinetobacter baumannii.Conclusions The resistance of clinical isolates to the commonly used antimicrobial agents is still increasing in tertiary hospitals.However,the prevalence of important carbapenem-resistant organisms such as carbapenem-resistant K.pneumoniae,P.aeruginosa,and A.baumannii showed a downward trend in recent years.This finding suggests that the strategy of combining antimicrobial resistance surveillance with multidisciplinary concerted action works well in curbing the spread of resistant bacteria.
3.Application of Canadian Occupational Performance Measure combined with activity analysis in clients with hand injuries
Wenchao YI ; Qiuye GAO ; Yabei FAN ; Wei DING ; Xin CHEN ; Xiaolong ZHAO ; Rong CAO
Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice 2023;29(1):88-92
ObjectiveTo explore the occupational needs of hand injury patients and the effects of activity-based analysis and occupation-based interventions. MethodsFrom January, 2021 to June, 2022, 212 patients who accepted occupational therapy for wrist-hand injury in Rehabilitation Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University were interviewed using Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) to collect the activities that they wanted to do, needed to do, were expected to do, but unable to do. Two senior occupational therapists conducted the activity analysis of the summarized needs, identified occupational components, designed a purposeful occupation-based intervention program, and evaluated the performance and satisfaction using COPM. ResultsA cumulative total of 84 occupational needs were proposed, covering five major domains: work, basic activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, leisure and sleep. The activities mostly impaired involved using computer (8.28%), using chopsticks (6.42%), wringing towels (6.25%), travelling on transport (4.90%) and lifting heavy objects (4.73%). The performance and satisfaction improved after treatment (t > 16.572, P < 0.001). ConclusionThe occupational needs are culturally specific for local hand injury patients; the use of an activity-based analysis and occupation-based intervention is effective on meeting the occupational needs.
4.Residual risk of hepatitis C virus in blood screening among voluntary blood donors in Zhengzhou
Wenchao GE ; Yonglei LYU ; Mingjun CHEN ; Yifang WANG ; Yan ZHANG ; Yongchao SHI ; Hongna ZHAO ; Lei ZHAO
Chinese Journal of Blood Transfusion 2022;35(5):546-549
【Objective】 To evaluate the residual risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in blood screening among voluntary blood donors in Zhengzhou. 【Methods】 The ELISA and NAT screening results of 497 171 voluntary blood donors in Zhengzhou from January 2019 to December 2020 were collected through the information management system of our blood center.The residual risk of HCV was assessed using the Prevalence-Window Period Residual Risk Model. 【Results】 The residual risk among repeated and first-time blood donors was 1∶132 280 (95% CI: 1∶95 520~1∶188 820) and 1∶44 090 (95% CI: 1∶31 840~1∶62 940), respectively. The overall residual risk of blood donors screening was 1∶68 540 (95% CI: 1∶65 910~1∶130 290). The reactive rate of HCV screening in first-time blood donors (0.144%, 334/231 168) was significantly higher than that in repeated blood donors (0.014%, 36/266 003) (P<0.05), and the reactive rate of repeated blood donors in 2019 (0.019%, 26/135 267) was significantly higher than that in repeat blood donors in 2020 (0.008%, 10/130 736) (P<0.05). 【Conclusion】 The residual risk of HCV among voluntary blood donors in Zhengzhou is low.The publicity and recruitment should be further strengthened to establish a stable team of voluntary blood donation, and health consultation and physical examination should also be strengthened to further reduce the residual risk of blood transfusion.
5.Acrylamide fragment inhibitors that induce unprecedented conformational distortions in enterovirus 71 3C and SARS-CoV-2 main protease.
Bo QIN ; Gregory B CRAVEN ; Pengjiao HOU ; Julian CHESTI ; Xinran LU ; Emma S CHILD ; Rhodri M L MORGAN ; Wenchao NIU ; Lina ZHAO ; Alan ARMSTRONG ; David J MANN ; Sheng CUI
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2022;12(10):3924-3933
RNA viruses are critically dependent upon virally encoded proteases to cleave the viral polyproteins into functional proteins. Many of these proteases exhibit a similar fold and contain an essential catalytic cysteine, offering the opportunity to inhibit these enzymes with electrophilic small molecules. Here we describe the successful application of quantitative irreversible tethering (qIT) to identify acrylamide fragments that target the active site cysteine of the 3C protease (3Cpro) of Enterovirus 71, the causative agent of hand, foot and mouth disease in humans, altering the substrate binding region. Further, we re-purpose these hits towards the main protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2 which shares the 3C-like fold and a similar active site. The hit fragments covalently link to the catalytic cysteine of Mpro to inhibit its activity. We demonstrate that targeting the active site cysteine of Mpro can have profound allosteric effects, distorting secondary structures to disrupt the active dimeric unit.
6.Correlation between HLA-Cw*0602 and LCE3B_LCE3C-del allele interaction and psoriasis vulgaris in a population of Mongolian nationality in Inner Mongolia
Limin TIAN ; Lizhong LI ; Yuting CAO ; Wenchao ZHAO ; Li SUN
Chinese Journal of Primary Medicine and Pharmacy 2022;29(12):1818-1821
Objective:To investigate the effect of HLA-Cw*0602 and LCE3B_LCE3C-del allele interaction on the risk of psoriasis vulgaris in a population of Mongolian nationality in Inner Mongolia. Methods:A total of 365 Mongolian patients with psoriasis vulgaris who received treatment in The Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University from January 2006 to December 2015 (case group) and 284 healthy subjects who concurrently received physical examination in the same hospital (control group) were included in this study. After sex and age matching, and quality control, the correlations between HLA-Cw*0602 and LCE3B_LCE3C-del allele and psoriasis vulgaris in a population of Mongolian nationality were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 software. The interaction between HLA-Cw*0602 and LCE3B_LCE3C-del alleles (adjusting for potential confounders including age and sex) was analyzed using logistic regression. Results:Logistic regression interaction item Int of dominant inheritance mode HLA-Cw*0602 allele and recessive inheritance mode LCE3C_LCE3B-del allele revealed OR = 2.38, P = 0.033, and interaction index S = 1.21, indicating that there was a synergistic effect between the two alleles. Conclusion:The co-existence of HLA-Cw*0602 and LCE3B_LCE3C-del may increase the risk of psoriasis vulgaris in a population of Mongolian nationality in Inner Mongolia.
7.Application of bacterial culture and nucleic acid detection in the diagnosis of pertussis in children
Suxia DUAN ; Mei LI ; Wenchao ZHANG ; Dongxue WANG ; Yulei ZHAI ; Yu ZHAI ; Mengchuan ZHAO ; Xiaowei CUI ; Yinghui GUO
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2022;45(6):610-615
Objective:To analyze the clinical characteristics of pertussis cases diagnosed by two pathological detection methods: bacterial culture and real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and to explore the applicable value of two pathological detection methods in the diagnosis of pertussis.Methods:Bilateral nasopharyngeal swabs and clinical information of 165 children suspected of pertussis were collected by Hebei Children′s Hospital from April 2019 to January 2020. The bacterial culture and RT-PCR for nasopharyngeal swab specimens were performed in all cases. Chi-square test was used to analyze the cases of pertussis diagnosed by the above two methods.Results:Based on clinical diagnosis, the sensitivity of bacterial culture and RT-PCR for the diagnosis of pertussis was 61.70% (58/94) and 86.17% (81/94), and the specificity was 92.96% (66/71) and 71.83% (51/71), respectively. The positive rate of RT-PCR in children of all ages, seasons and cough courses is higher than that of bacterial culture. Children with pertussis diagnosed by bacterial culture and RT-PCR were basically similar in age, season, and cough course distribution, with the most common cases ≤3 months old, a high incidence trend in summer and autumn, and the course of coughing in children was mostly within 15-21days. The positive rate of bacterial culture in the diagnosis of pertussis in children is affected by the age of the children, and there are statistical differences between children in different age groups (χ2= 11.929, P=0.036). The positive rate of bacterial culture was the highest in children with >3 years old (51.85% [14/27]), followed by children with ≤3 months old (48.72% [19/39]), and the lowest in children with >6-12 months old (15.00% [3/20]). Moreover, the positive rate of bacterial culture in the diagnosis of pertussis in children is also affected by the cough course of the children, and there are statistical differences between children in different cough course groups (χ2=9.841, P=0.020). The positive rate of bacterial culture was the highest in children with cough course 15-21 days (49.23% [32/65]), followed by 43.59% (17/39) in children with cough course 8-14 days, and the lowest in children with cough course of less than 7 days (22.86% [8/35]). Conclusions:Compared with RT-PCR, bacterial culture has lower sensitivity and higher specificity in the detection of pertussis. These two detection methods have their own advantages and limitations. Medical institutions at all levels should comprehensively analyze different laboratory detection methods. Only by combining the two methods can the diagnostic value and level be effectively improved.
8.Readiness of evidence-based practice for maintenance and removal of central venous catheters in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: a multi-center survey
Xiao CHUN ; Jingxiang MA ; Ying GU ; Wenchao WANG ; Yan HU ; Yan LIN ; Linjuan WANG ; Yuyun SHI ; Shuping ZHANG ; Yaxun ZHAO
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2022;28(36):5051-5057
Objective:To explore the status quo of the readiness of evidence-based nursing practice for the maintenance and removal of children's central venous catheter (CVC) in 6 domestic medical institutions Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), analyze the obstacles faced by the application of CVC maintenance and removal evidence in PICU, so as to provide basis for formulating reform strategies.Methods:This study was a cross-sectional survey. In December 2019, 169 nurses from PICU of 6 medical institutions in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xiamen and Hefei were selected by convenience sampling for investigation. The General Information Questionnaire and Clinic Readiness to Evidence-based Nursing Assessment (CREBNA) were used to evaluate the readiness of clinical nurses to evidence, organizational environment and promoting factors in the process of evidence-based practice. A total of 169 questionnaires were issued, and 169 valid questionnaires were recovered, with a valid recovery rate of 100%.Results:A total of 169 nurses were investigated in 6 evidence application sites. The total score of the multi center CREBNA was (136.96±15.33), which was 88.36% of the full score. The scores of the three dimensions were as follows: organizational environment (40.31±4.45), evidence dimension (53.43±6.14), and promoting factors (43.22±5.81). Four of the last five items in the score ranking were from the promoting factor, and the low score items in four places were all from the promoting factor.Conclusions:The best practice project of children's CVC maintenance in PICU is feasible. However, there are still some deficiencies in the preparation of various evidence application sites, especially in the promoting factors, which should be constantly improved to further promote and maintain the implementation of change.
9.HIV-, HBV- and HCV- NAT yield in individual donations: a multi-center analysis in Henan province from 2017 to 2019
Yan ZHANG ; Jianhua FANG ; Wenchao GE ; Yifang WANG ; Qi JIANG ; Shanhua CHEN ; Dan CHEN ; Jia WU ; Nan CHEN ; Yu MENG ; Huiyun HAN ; Dengfeng WANG ; Xiaozhen ZHANG ; Yue ZHANG ; Fengyong MA ; Bin JIA ; Weijie LI ; Sili SUN ; Fei ZHAO ; Yongqing ZHOU ; Suneng ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Blood Transfusion 2021;34(1):68-72
【Objective】 To analyze the HIV-, HCV- and HBV- NAT yield rate in different areas of Henan province, so as to provide the basis for disease prevention and control as well as the establishment of a unified quality control standard for nucleic acid testing(NAT) in the Henan province. 【Methods】 The number and prevalence of NAT yielding samples with isolated infectious virus, namely HIV, HCV and HBV, in 18 blood stations in Henan province from 2017~2019, as well as the trends were analyzed. The NAT quality of each laboratory and each testing system was analyzed according to the ratio of reactive individual donation(ID) results to reactive minipools(MP). 【Results】 The HBV, HCV and HIV ID-NAT yield numbers in 3 501 251 blood donations were HBV 2 606(74/100 000), HCV 21 (0.63/100 000), and HIV 34(1.00/100 000). The HBV ID-NAT yield rate showed an upward trend in the whole province from 2017 to 2019, while the prevalence of HIV and HCV ID-NAT yield didn′t differ significantly during three years. 5 kinds of NAT detection systems were applied in 18 blood centers. among which Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅳ and Ⅴ were triplex detection systems. 2661 ID-reactive samples were implicated in 5 595 MP-reactive samples, with a resolution rate of 47.56%. The resolution rate of triplex NAT system Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅳ and Ⅳ was 39.63%~47.95%, 40.43%~54.36%, 51.61% and 70.00%~45.45%, respectively. An upward trend in triplex NAT resolution rate was observed in 8 laboratories, i. e.B, D, E, F, I, K, L and Q, and an descending trend in A and C. The NAT system Ⅲ, a ID-NAT system, was used only by laboratory C, presenting a NAT-yield rate of 0.19% (282/145 474) and resolution rate of 46.45% (131/282). 【Conclusion】 The majority of NAT-yield of one infectious virus in Henan province is HBV, presenting annual increasing trend. The quality management of NAT laboratories should be strengthened as the divergence was seen in the performance of different NAT laboratories.
10.NAT results of HBV and HCV under different vacuum collection tubes, storage temperature and storage time
Li ZHANG ; Yifang WANG ; Yonglei LYU ; Wenchao GE ; Tianning SI ; Xiaohong ZHU ; Lei ZHAO
Chinese Journal of Blood Transfusion 2021;34(12):1314-1317
【Objective】 To verify the results of HBV DNA and HCV RNA screening under different brands of vacuum collection tubes for blood samples, storage temperature and storage time. 【Methods】 Experiment 1 was conducted as follows: blood samples were collected simultaneously from 52 voluntary blood donors using two brands(divided into group A and group B) of vacuum collection tubes for blood samples. The plasma separation of group A and group B were compared, and the effects of storage time on the NAT yield of HBV DNA and HCV RNA were statistically analyzed. Experiment 2 was conducted as follows: the effects of different storage temperature, time and tubes on the NAT yield of HBV DNA and HCV RNA samples with low viral load in group A and B were verified and compared in the simulated phlebotomy condition. 【Results】 In Experiment 1: After centrifugation, blood plasma layer and cells layer were separated completely in group A(100%, 52/52), but one sample was not well separated in group B(1/52, 1.92%). After 4 to 10 h after collection, blood samples of two groups were centrifuged and screened for HBV DNA, HCV RNA within 24 h. No positive samples were yielded and the Ct values of internal control(IC-DNA and IC-RNA) were uniform. In Experiment 2: Whole blood samples, stored for either 4 h or 6~10 h at 4 ℃ or 25℃ before centrifugation, showed no difference on the NAT-yield of HBV DNA nor HCV RNA samples with low viral load(P>0.05). Ct values of HBV DNA and HCV RNA of group A was similar to those of group B as centrifuged samples were stored for 24 h or 72~104 h at 4℃(P>0.05), but all increased as the storage time prolonged. Ct values of HBV DNA in group A increased from 33.45±0.29(24 h) to 33.82±0.08(72~104 h) and HCV RNA from 35.21±0.20 to 36.12±0.43; HBV DNA from 33.46±0.25 to 34.30±0.60 and HCV RNA from 35.47±0.24 to 36.49±0.51 in group B. 【Conclusion】 Under certain laboratory condition, different storage time, storage temperature and tubes shed few effect on the NAT-yield of HBV DNA and HCV RNA samples with low virus loads. However, it is suggested that the blood sample be detected within 72 h after centrifugation at 4 ℃ storage.

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