1.Influencing factors for delay in healthcare-seeking, definitive diagnosis, identification in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Minhang District
MA Qiongjin ; YAN Huiqin ; WU Yunhua ; GUO Xu ; YANG Lijia ; TANG Lihong ; YANG Shengyuan
Journal of Preventive Medicine 2025;37(1):59-64
Objective:
To investigate the influencing factors for delay in healthcare-seeking, definitive diagnosis and identification in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in Minhang District, Shanghai Municipality, so as to provide the basis for effectively reducing delay in PTB patients.
Methods:
Data of PTB patients in Minhang District from 2017 to 2022 were collected from the Infectious Disease Reporting Information System of Chinese Disease Prevention and Control Information System. The prevalence rates of delay in healthcare-seeking, definitive diagnosis and identification were analyzed, and factors affecting delay in healthcare-seeking, definitive diagnosis and identification were identified using multivariable logistic regression models.
Results:
A total of 4 214 PTB patients were reported in Minhang District from 2017 to 2022, including 2 802 males and 1 412 females, with a male-to-female ratio of 1.98∶1. The majority of patients were aged 25 to <45 years (1 664 cases, 39.49%). The prevalence rates of delay in healthcare-seeking, definitive diagnosis and identification were 36.81%, 30.21% and 38.09%, respectively. Delay in healthcare-seeking was associated with the year (2018, OR=0.708; 2019, OR=0.549; 2020, OR=0.670; 2021, OR=0.682), gender (female, OR=1.199), occupation (worker, OR=1.379; housekeeping service/housework/unemployed, OR=1.481), case identification route (symptom-based consultation, OR=11.159), and level of the first-diagnosed hospital (city-level, OR=1.528). Delay in definitive diagnosis was associated with age (45 to <65 years, OR=1.476), occupation (commercial service, OR=0.687; housekeeping service/housework/unemployed, OR=0.672), household registration (non-local, OR=0.820), case identification route (symptom-based consultation, OR=0.616), pathogen test result (negative/not tested, OR=1.903), and the level of the first-diagnosed hospital (city-level, OR=0.311). Delay in identification was associated with the year (2018, OR=0.785; 2019, OR=0.647; 2020, OR=0.790; 2021, OR=0.710), occupation (commercial service, OR=0.687), household registration (non-local, OR=0.848) and level of the first-diagnosed hospital (city-level, OR=0.560)
Conclusions
Year, gender, occupation, case identification route and level of the first-diagnosed hospital are influencing factors for delay in healthcare-seeking in PTB patients. Age, occupation, household registration, case identification route, pathogen test result and level of the first-diagnosed hospital are influencing factors for delay in definitive diagnosis. Year, occupation, household registration and level of the first-diagnosed hospital are influencing factors for delay in identification.
2.Modern Thinking on the Indications of Daoyin (导引) based on the Theory of "Wei (痿) Diseases should be Treated by Daoyin"
Yan YU ; Xueyin CHEN ; Lihong YANG ; Shaonan LIU ; Yu CHEN ; Lixiang LIU ; Ping YUE ; Jinpeng WU ; Xinfeng GUO
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2024;65(11):1170-1173
It has been proposed by Basic Questions On Proper Therapies for Different Diseases Geographically (《素问·异法方宜论篇》) that "wei (痿) diseases should be treated by Daoyin (导引)". Furthermore, it is clarified that the indications of Daoyin are those conditions related to spleen and dampness caused by dampness pathogen, excessive food intake and less exercise, and mainly manifested as heavy limbs, fatigue and flaccidity, which is similar to the metabolic imbalance in the early stage of glucose or lipid metabolism disorder in modern medicine. Based on modern clinical and basic research evidence, Daoyin can inhibit the response of inflammation, alleviate oxidative stress, regulate intestinal microbiota, and modulate gene expression to improve metabolic abnormalities, and this will provide ideas for researches on the indications of Daoyin.
3.Entity Recognition in Famous Medical Records Based on BRL Neural Network Model
Hang YANG ; Yehui PENG ; Wei YANG ; Jiaheng WANG ; Zhiwei ZHAO ; Wenyuan XU ; Yuxin LI ; Yan ZHU ; Lihong LIU
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2024;30(24):167-173
ObjectiveIn order to improve the recognition accuracy of named entities in medical record texts and realize the effective mining and utilization of medical record knowledge, a Bert-Radical-Lexicon(BRL) neural network model is constructed to recognize medical record entities with respect to the characteristics of medical record texts. MethodWe selected 408 medical records related to hypertension from the the Complete Library of Famous Medical Records of Chinese Dynasties and constructed a dataset consisting of 1 672 medical records by manually labeling. Then, we randomly divided the dataset into three subsets, including the training set(1 004 cases), the testing set (334 cases) and the validation set(334 cases). Based on this dataset, we built a BRL model that fused various text features of medical records, as well as its variants BRL-B, BRL-L and BRL-R, and a baseline model Base for experiments. During the model training phase, we trained the above models using the training set to reduce the risk of overfitting. We continuously monitored the performance of each model on the validation set during training and saved the model with the best performance. Finally, we evaluated the performance of these models on the testing set. ResultCompared with other models, the BRL model had the best performance in the medical records named entity recognition task, with an overall recognition precision of 90.09%, a recall of 90.61%, and the harmonic mean of the precision and recall(F1) of 90.35% for eight types of entities, including disease, symptom, tongue manifestation, pulse condition, syndrome, method of treatment, prescription and traditional Chinese medicine(TCM). Compared with the Base model, the BRL model improved the overall F1 value of entity recognition by 5.22%, and the F1 value of pulse condition entity increased by 6.92%, which was the largest increase. ConclusionBy incorporating a variety of medical record text features in the embedding layer, the BRL neural network model has stronger named entity recognition ability, and thus extracts more accurate and reliable TCM clinical information.
4.Long-term hypomethylating agents in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes: a multi-center retrospective study
Xiaozhen LIU ; Shujuan ZHOU ; Jian HUANG ; Caifang ZHAO ; Lingxu JIANG ; Yudi ZHANG ; Chen MEI ; Liya MA ; Xinping ZHOU ; Yanping SHAO ; Gongqiang WU ; Xibin XIAO ; Rongxin YAO ; Xiaohong DU ; Tonglin HU ; Shenxian QIAN ; Yuan LI ; Xuefen YAN ; Li HUANG ; Manling WANG ; Jiaping FU ; Lihong SHOU ; Wenhua JIANG ; Weimei JIN ; Linjie LI ; Jing LE ; Wenji LUO ; Yun ZHANG ; Xiujie ZHOU ; Hao ZHANG ; Xianghua LANG ; Mei ZHOU ; Jie JIN ; Huifang JIANG ; Jin ZHANG ; Guifang OUYANG ; Hongyan TONG
Chinese Journal of Hematology 2024;45(8):738-747
Objective:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of hypomethylating agents (HMA) in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) .Methods:A total of 409 MDS patients from 45 hospitals in Zhejiang province who received at least four consecutive cycles of HMA monotherapy as initial therapy were enrolled to evaluate the efficacy and safety of HMA. Mann-Whitney U or Chi-square tests were used to compare the differences in the clinical data. Logistic regression and Cox regression were used to analyze the factors affecting efficacy and survival. Kaplan-Meier was used for survival analysis. Results:Patients received HMA treatment for a median of 6 cycles (range, 4-25 cycles) . The complete remission (CR) rate was 33.98% and the overall response rate (ORR) was 77.02%. Multivariate analysis revealed that complex karyotype ( P=0.02, OR=0.39, 95% CI 0.18-0.84) was an independent favorable factor for CR rate. TP53 mutation ( P=0.02, OR=0.22, 95% CI 0.06-0.77) was a predictive factor for a higher ORR. The median OS for the HMA-treated patients was 25.67 (95% CI 21.14-30.19) months. HMA response ( P=0.036, HR=0.47, 95% CI 0.23-0.95) was an independent favorable prognostic factor, whereas complex karyotype ( P=0.024, HR=2.14, 95% CI 1.10-4.15) , leukemia transformation ( P<0.001, HR=2.839, 95% CI 1.64-4.92) , and TP53 mutation ( P=0.012, HR=2.19, 95% CI 1.19-4.07) were independent adverse prognostic factors. There was no significant difference in efficacy and survival between the reduced and standard doses of HMA. The CR rate and ORR of MDS patients treated with decitabine and azacitidine were not significantly different. The median OS of patients treated with decitabine was longer compared with that of patients treated with azacitidine (29.53 months vs 20.17 months, P=0.007) . The incidence of bone marrow suppression and pneumonia in the decitabine group was higher compared with that in the azacitidine group. Conclusion:Continuous and regular use of appropriate doses of hypomethylating agents may benefit MDS patients to the greatest extent if it is tolerated.
5.A Comparative Study on the Version 2023 and the Version 2011 of the Standards of Health Information Data Elements
Han SUN ; Xiaolin YANG ; Sheng YANG ; Wei ZHOU ; Shengfa ZHANG ; Fanhong MENG ; Lihong LIU ; Yan ZHU
Journal of Medical Informatics 2024;45(8):14-19
Purpose/Significance To compare and analyze the 2023 edition and 2011 edition of the health information data element standards,and to discuss the differences and improvements,so as to provide useful references and guidance for the update and imple-mentation of the standards.Method/Process The updated contents of the 2023 and 2011 editions of the health information data element standards are sorted out and compared,and the effects of the revision on the degree of standardization,the level of standardization,and the completeness and accuracy of data are analyzed and summarized.Result/Conclusion It is found that the 2023 edition has achieved significant improvements in data completeness and standardization.Additionally,targeted suggestions and strategies are proposed for the challenges and issues that might be faced during the implementation of the 2023 edition standards.
6.Influence of peripheral blood NLR,MLR and PLR in prognosis of patients with multiple myeloma
Xinlan XIA ; Die LIU ; Lihong AN ; Yan LI ; Peng ZHAO ; Yan ZHANG ; Mengxing LI ; Jishi WANG ; Yinghao LU
Chongqing Medicine 2024;53(15):2261-2268
Objective To investigate the influence of peripheral blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR),monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) on the prognosis in the patients with multiple myeloma (MM).Methods A total of 159 newly diagnosed MM admitted and treated in the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University from January 2019 to May 2023 were selected as the study subjects.The general clinical data,blood biochemical and marrow routine detection results before the in-itial treatment were collected.NLR,MLR and PLR were calculated.The univariate and multivariate Cox-re-gression model was adopted to analyze the influencing factors.The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to analyze the predictive value.The Kaplan-Meier survival curve and Log-Rank test were used to conduct the survival analysis.Results The ROC curve showed that the critical values of NLR,MLR and PLR were 2.682,0.317 and 147.786 respectively.The patients were divided into the high/low NLR groups (n=61,n=98),high/low MLR group (n=76,n=83) and high/low PLR groups (n=59,n=100).The pro-portions of blood calcium<2.5 mmol/L and creatinine<177 μmmol/L in the low NLR group in the low NLR group were higher compared with the high NLR group (P<0.05);the blood calcium,creatinine and DS stage had statistical differences between the low MLR group and high MLR group (P<0.05);blood calcium had statistical difference between the low PLR group and high PLR group (P<0.05).After 3 treatment courses,the complete remission rate in the high NLR group,high MLR group and high PLR group was significantly lower than that in the corresponding low group (P<0.05).The multivariate Cox-regression analysis results showed that hemoglobin<100 g/L and high PLR were the independent risk factors affecting the progress free survival (PFS) stage in the patients with MM (P<0.05).The age>60 years old was the independent risk factors affecting the overall survival (OS) in the patients with MM (P<0.05).Conclusion NLR,MLR and PLR could serve as the assisted tool to evaluate the prognosis in the patients with MM.
7.Identification of undifferentiated and differentiated gastric cancer under endoscope based on Kyoto classification score
Chao LI ; Lihong CUI ; Xiaohui WANG ; Lan YU ; Wei WANG ; Xinyao LIU ; Xiaowei LI ; Zhihui YAN
China Journal of Endoscopy 2024;30(7):71-76
Objective To explore the value of the Kyoto classification score in differentiating undifferentiated gastric cancer from differentiated gastric cancer,and establish a predictive scoring system for differentiating undifferentiated gastric cancer under endoscope.Methods 183 gastric cancer patients were retrospectively analyzed.According to pathology,95 patients were included in the differentiated group and 88 were included in the undifferentiated group.The age,gender and Kyoto classification score of patients in the two groups were compared,and the factors associated with undifferentiated gastric cancer were screened by binary Logistic regression analysis.The predictive scoring system for undifferentiated gastric cancer was established based on the obtained odds ratio(O(R))values,and the receiver operator characteristic curve(ROC curve)was drawn.Results Compared with differentiated group,the total scores of Kyoto classification,atrophy,intestinal metaplasia and diffuse redness were lower in undifferentiated group(P<0.01).Under the age of 55(P<0.05),female(P<0.05),and C1 atrophy or no atrophy(P<0.01)were independently associated with undifferentiated gastric cancer.The area under the curve(AUC)of predictive scoring system for undifferentiated gastric cancer was 0.881(95%CI:0.828~0.934),and the sensitivity and specificity were 80.70%and 90.50%at the optimal cut-off value.Conclusion There are differences in Kyoto classification scores between undifferentiated and differentiated gastric cancer patients.The predictive scoring system of undifferentiated gastric cancer established by us has certain value in distinguishing undifferentiated gastric cancer under endoscope.
8.Application of etomidate-propofol mixture anaesthesia in painless gastrointestinal endoscopy
Liye ZHUANG ; Xixi JIANG ; Anqiang YU ; Yan LI ; Lihong HU ; Chang CAI
China Journal of Endoscopy 2024;30(10):16-22
Objective To explore the effect of etomidate-propofol mixture anaesthesia in painless gastrointestinal endoscopy.Methods Eighty-two patients who underwent painless gastrointestinal endoscopy from September 2023 to November 2023 were divided into etomidate-propofol mixture group(observation group,n=41)and propofol group(control group,n=41)by using the random number table method.Morphine-benzedrine group(MBG)scores were recorded 30 min before the examination and before leaving the recovery room in both groups.Percutaneous arterial oxygen saturation(SpO2),heart rate(HR)and mean arterial pressure(MAP)were noted at anesthesia induction(T0),before entering the endoscope(T1),5 min after anesthesia induction(T2),and awakening(T3).Gastrointestinal endoscopy time,awakening time,recovery room stay time,total propofol consumption,and adverse reactions were also documented.Results MBG scores in both groups significantly increased before leaving the recovery room compared to 30 min before the examination,the observation group had lower MBG scores before leaving the recovery room in comparison with the control group,there were statistically significant(P<0.05).From T1 to T3,MAP,SpO2,HR were higher in the observation group than those in the control group,there were statistically significant(P<0.05).The observation group had shorter awakening time and recovery room stay time,there were statistically significant(P<0.05).The observation group had lower total propofol consumption,there was statistically significant(P<0.05).The observation group also exhibited a lower incidence of hypotension,hypoxemia,and injection pain,there were statistically significant(P<0.05),with no statistically significant difference in the incidence of other adverse reactions(P>0.05).Conclusion Etomidate-propofol combination anesthesia can reduce postoperative MBG scores in painless gastrointestinal endoscopy,contributing to a decreased risk of potential propofol addiction and abuse.Additionally,it stabilizes circulatory and respiratory functions,reduces adverse reactions rate,and shortens awakening time and recovery room stay time.Its application is worthy of further promotion.
9.Primary mucinous gland lesions of fallopian tube: a clinicopathological analysis of fourteen cases
Lihong ZHANG ; Ying XU ; Shuting JI ; Yan NING ; Weiyong GU
Chinese Journal of Pathology 2024;53(6):546-551
Objective:To investigate the clinical and pathological characteristics of primary mucinous gland lesions of the fallopian tubes.Methods:The clinical data, pathomorphological characteristics and immunophenotype of 14 cases of primary mucinous gland lesions of the fallopian tube diagnosed at Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University from 2015 to 2023 were analyzed retrospectively. In addition, a comprehensive review of relevant literature was conducted.Results:The age of 14 patients ranged from 53 to 83 years, with an average of 65 years. Among them, 13 cases exhibited unilateral involvement while one case showed bilateral presentation. Nine cases were mucinous metaplasia of the fallopian tube, four cases were invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma and one case was mucinous carcinoma in situ. Morphologically, mucinous metaplasia of the fallopian tube was focal, with or without inflammation. The cells of mucinous adenocarcinoma or mucinous carcinoma in situ exhibited characteristics indicative of gastrointestinal differentiation. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed diffuse positive expression of CK7, and negative expression of SATB2. CDX2 demonstrated positive staining in two cases. One case exhibited diffuse and strongly positive mutant expression of p53, whereas the remaining cases displayed wild-type expression. MUC6 showed diffuse or focally positive staining in mucinous gland lesions characterized by gastric differentiation. Some cases of mucinous adenocarcinoma of fallopian tube were subject to AB-PAS staining, resulting in red to purple cytoplasmic staining.Conclusions:Primary mucinous lesions of the fallopian tube are exceedingly uncommon. All cases of mucinous adenocarcinoma of fallopian tubes in this study exhibit the morphology and immunohistochemical characteristics of gastrointestinal differentiation. Mucinous metaplasia of the fallopian tube is a benign lesion of incidental finding, which is closely related to inflammation or gastric differentiation. Mucinous lesions of cervix, ovary and digestive tract are excluded in all patients, confirming the independent existence of mucinous lesions within fallopian tubes.
10.Influencing factors of the approval of the Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China:a case study of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Lihong CHEN ; Yan WANG ; Xiangtian ZHOU ; Junke ZHENG ; Xiaoxiang YAN
Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University(Medical Science) 2024;44(9):1205-1212
Objective·In view of the low funding rate of the Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China in the medical field,this research conducted an in-depth investigation of the applicants in a medical school and quantitatively analyzed the influencing factors of project establishment,so as to provide reference for further improving the quality of project application and strengthening the training of young medical talents.Methods·A cross-sectional survey was used to select applicants from secondary schools of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and its 13 affiliated hospitals who had experience in applying for the fund from 2020 to 2022.Logistic stepwise regression model was applied to modeling and analysis by using the project application result as the dependent variable and the applicants'basic information and application status as independent variables.Results·The analysis results of 921 applicants showed that educational background(OR=1.86,95%CI 1.14?3.04),graduate university(OR=2.45,95%CI 1.47?4.08),sufficient preliminary work foundation(OR=4.22,95%CI 2.44?7.29),average impact factor of representative works(OR=1.10,95%CI 1.04?1.17),and total self-evaluation score of application documents(OR=1.06,95%CI 1.04?1.08)were the main influencing factors for project approval.The average impact factor and the highest impact factor of the approved representative works showed an increasing trend year by year.In addition,the influencing factors for the approval of young doctors and full-time researchers were different.The longer the graduation time of young doctors,the lower the approval rate.Conclusion·The funding rate of Young Scientists Fund is low,and the requirements for scientific research achievements are increasing year by year.Attention should be paid to early accumulation and improving the quality of application writing.Further measures should be taken to strengthen the early training of young medical talents,improve cultivation measures and consolidate research foundations.


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