Objective: This study explores how AI-powered consultation services in internet hospitals influence patient satisfaction through perceived value and emotions. A dual-path analytical framework was developed: the technical path uses the E-S-QUAL model to assess the quality of intelligent consultation guidance services in terms of efficiency, system availability, privacy, and fulfillment; the experiential path is based on the Patient Experience-Driven Model, which integrates service encounter theory (focusing on patient-system interactions) and the Stimulus-Organism-Response theory (explaining how external stimuli trigger psychological and behavioral responses).
Methods: The dual-path framework includes two submodels.
Introduction: Recent guidelines suggest behavioural weight loss (BWL) and pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) as first-line treatment approaches for women with both obesity and stress urinary incontinence (SUI). However, the optimal therapeutic and management strategies for these populations remain uncertain.
Methods And Analysis: This assessor-blinded parallel-group randomised controlled trial aims to compare the efficacy of BWL alone, BWL plus conventional PFMT and BWL plus PFMT with a biofeedback device for women who are overweight or obese experiencing SUI or SUI-predominant mixed urinary incontinence.
Surgical planning can be highly complicated and personalized, where a surgeon needs to balance multiple decisional dimensions including surgical effectiveness, risk, cost, and patient's conditions and preferences. Turning to artificial intelligence is a great appeal. This study filled in this gap with Multi-Dimensional Recommendation (MUDI), an interpretable data-driven intelligent system that supported personalized surgical recommendations on both the patient's and the surgeon's side with joint consideration of multiple decisional dimensions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Fibrosis of the connective tissue in the vaginal wall predominates in pelvic organ prolapse (POP), which is characterized by excessive fibroblast-to-myofibroblast differentiation and abnormal deposition of the extracellular matrix (ECM). Our study aimed to investigate the effect of ECM stiffness on vaginal fibroblasts and to explore the role of methyltransferase 3 (METTL3) in the development of POP.
Methods: Polyacrylamide hydrogels were applied to create an ECM microenvironment with variable stiffness to evaluate the effects of ECM stiffness on the proliferation, differentiation, and expression of ECM components in vaginal fibroblasts.
Arch Gynecol Obstet
April 2025
Purpose: To investigate the clinical characteristics and prognosis of surgically treated ovarian endometrioma (OMA) in pregnant women.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study analyzed 30 patients with pathologically confirmed ovarian endometrioma during pregnancy and delivery. Clinical characteristics and follow-up data were summarized.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
December 2024
Background: Ectopic pregnancy (EP) accounts for approximately 2% of all pregnancies, with tubal ectopic pregnancies (TEPs) being the most common type. Methotrexate (MTX) is a noninvasive and effective medical management option for TEP, but failure rates range from 10 to 36%, posing challenges in clinical practice. Identifying risk factors for MTX treatment failure is crucial to improve patient outcomes and guide clinical decision-making.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To assess the health related quality of life (HRQoL) and sexual function related to urinary incontinence (UI) severity among women with overweight or obesity.
Methods: From September 2023 to January 2024, a cross-sectional was conducted among women seeking weight loss with overweight or obesity focusing on the symptoms and effects of UI. The degree of UI severity, UI-specific HRQoL, sexual function, and generic HRQoL were detected via Incontinence Modular Questionnaire-Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-UI-SF), Incontinence Impact Questionnaire-Short Form (IIQ-7), Short-form Prolapse Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire (PISQ-12), and European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions 5-Level questionnaire (EQ-5D-5 L) respectively.
Int Urogynecol J
February 2025
J Minim Invasive Gynecol
March 2025
J Obstet Gynaecol Res
September 2024
Background: No conclusions have been reached on whether female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and related treatments affect male partners' sexual function.
Aim: To assess the effects of female SUI and related treatments on male partners' sexual function.
Methods: A comprehensive search of the PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane, and Scopus databases was performed up to September 6, 2022.
Background: Previous prediction models for postoperative stress urinary incontinence (SUI) cannot be applied to patients receiving transvaginal mesh (TVM) surgery and colpocleisis or those with preoperative subject urinary incontinence. This study aimed to develop and validate a new machine learning model and compare it to previous models.
Methods: Female patients who underwent prolapse surgeries for stage 2-4 anterior or apical prolapse between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2019, at Peking Union Medical College Hospital were enrolled.
J Proteome Res
February 2020
N-glycoproteins are involved in various biological processes. Certain distinctive glycoforms on specific glycoproteins enhance the specificity and/or sensitivity of cancer diagnosis. Therefore, the characterization of plasma Nglycoproteome is essential for a new biomarker discovery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: More and more automated efficient ultrasound image analysis techniques, such as ultrasound-based computer-aided diagnosis system (CAD), were developed to obtain accurate, reproducible, and more objective diagnosis results for thyroid nodules. So far, whether the diagnostic performance of existing CAD systems can reach the diagnostic level of experienced radiologists is still controversial. The aim of the meta-analysis was to evaluate the accuracy of CAD for thyroid nodules' diagnosis by reviewing current literatures and summarizing the research status.
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