Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Jul 2021
[The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on doctor-patient relationship].
Doctor-patient relationship (DPR) is the cornerstone of clinical medicine, mobilizing powerful human resources. This article analyzes the impact of COVID-19 pandemia on DPR. Due to fear of contagion, the use of telephone or digital consultation was preferred, in which only the results of laboratory and imaging tests can be reviewed, and the patient receives a diagnostic conclusion. ⋯ Thus, a new relationship ensued, generating suspicion, mistrust and fear. The empathy and affection that the doctor must project and deliver to the patient was reduced. Depending on the duration of the pandemia, doctors and patients will eventually get used to this type of relationship and a paradigm shift will occur, in which Hippocratic medicine gives way to digital medicine.
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Revista médica de Chile · Jul 2021
[Coverage rates of eye fundus examinations among Chilean patients with diabetes mellitus].
Timely eye fundus examinations are essential to prevent the consequences of retinopathy among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. ⋯ There is a low eye fundus examination CR in Chile, with important differences between regional health services.
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Revista médica de Chile · Jul 2021
[Construction of text resources for automatic identification of clinical information in unstructured narratives].
A significant proportion of the clinical record is in free text format, making it difficult to extract key information and make secondary use of patient data. Automatic detection of information within narratives initially requires humans, following specific protocols and rules, to identify medical entities of interest. ⋯ A linguistic resource with annotated medical entities on texts produced in Chilean hospitals was built and made available, working with annotators related to medicine. The iterative annotation approach allowed us to improve performance metrics. The corpus and annotation protocols will be released to the research community.