Articles: pandemics.
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The well-known COVID-19 pandemic totally transformed people's lives, paving the way to various psychopathological symptoms. In particular, patients may experience a short- and long-term decreasing in their wellbeing. In this vein, the aim of this paper was to assess the COVID-19 patients' psychopathological profile (post-traumatic stress disorder, distress, anxiety and depression symptoms), detecting possible differences linked to the ventilatory treatments. ⋯ Thus, this study suggests to healthcare professionals to consider COVID-19 experience as a potential real trauma for patients, and underlines the necessity to define patients' psychopathological profile in order to propose tailored and effective preventive and supportive psychological interventions.
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To identify how graduating and incoming family medicine residents (FMR) experienced changes to their education during the early waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. ⋯ Based on these results, residency programs can specifically tailor solutions and modifications to address common themes across cohorts to facilitate optimal learning environments in pandemic times.
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Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Apr 2023
[Differences due to socio-economic status, genetic background and sex in cancer and precision medicine - An intersectional approach to close the care gap for marginalized groups].
Malignant tumor diseases constitute the 2nd most common cause of death and due to our extended life expectancy cancer per se has substantially increased, being highly prevalent after cardiovascular diseases. Evidence also generated from the COVID-19 pandemic, that defined gender differences exist in symptom and disease courses, and have advocated the need to assess gender, ethnic/racial and minority differences in cancer care and treatment more meticulously. It is becoming increasingly evident that in novel cancer care/precision oncology, representation of minorities, elderly and frail patients in clinical trials remains largely unbalanced, thus distribution of cancer success is iniquitous. This article focusses on these aspects and suggests solutions, how this can be improved.