We evaluated the mental health burden of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on physical therapists, including their stress and anxiety levels, who were at risk developing psychological distress other symptoms. A questionnaire survey was conducted with therapists three university hospitals in South Korea 10 April 2020. The questionnaires presence depression respondents. Among 65 completed our survey, 21 (32.3%) 12 (18.5%) reported having symptoms depression, respectively. If a therapist living...

Statistical hypothesis testing compares the significance probability value and level to determine whether or not reject null hypothesis. This concludes "significant significant." However, since this process is a of statistical testing, conclusion "statistically significant statistically significant" more appropriate than Also, in many studies, set 0.05 compare with value, p-value. If p-value less 0.05, it judged as "significant," if greater "not by researcher according circumstances each...

OBJECT While the incidence of a recurrent hemorrhage is highest within 24 hours subarachnoid (SAH) and increases with severity clinical grade, can occur anytime after initial SAH in patients both good poor grades. Therefore, authors adopted 24-hour-a-day, formal protocol, emergency treatment strategy for ruptured aneurysms to secure as early possible. The incidences in-hospital rebleeding outcomes were investigated compared those from previous years when broadly defined was used (< 3 days...

In data analysis, given that various statistical methods assume the distribution of population is normal distribution, it essential to check and test whether or not satisfy normality requirement. Although analytical vary depending on satisfied, inconsistent results might be obtained analysis method used. many clinical research papers, are presented interpreted without checking testing normality. According central limit theorem, sample mean satisfies when number samples above 30. However, in...

We hypothesized that lysyl oxidase (LOX) contributes to the formation of fibrotic focus (FF) in association with inflammation and serves a significant role breast carcinogenesis. In present study, between expression LOX family members FF regards was analyzed, prognostic significance cancer investigated. Immunohistochemical staining for LOX, LOX-like protein (LOXL) 1, LOXL2 LOXL3 performed primary tissues. The status within tumor assessed, including size grade. Levels inflammatory markers,...

To date only few data have been available relating to the oncologic safety of intersphincteric resection in such advanced tumors.This study aimed elucidate outcomes and clinical factors affecting long-term survival patients who underwent preoperative chemoradiotherapy followed by for locally rectal cancers.This was a retrospective analysis prospectively collected departmental data.The conducted at department colorectal surgery tertiary care teaching hospital between January 2009 September...

The standard treatment for primary localized gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is surgical resection. clinical behavior of GIST after resection extremely variable. We conducted a multicenter, retrospective study GISTs patients who underwent curative to evaluate features and the prognosis surgically treated GISTs.We performed on 406 consecutive resections at four university hospitals in Daegu, Korea, between March 1998 2012. retrospectively collected medical records were reviewed...

Controversy remains regarding whether preoperative chemoradiation protocol should be applied uniformly to all rectal cancer patients regardless of tumor height. This pooled analysis was designed evaluate can safely omitted in higher cancer. An international consortium 7 institutions established. A review the database that collected from January 2004 May 2008 identified a series 2102 with stage II/III or sigmoid (control arm) without concurrent chemoradiation. Data patient demographics,...

Objective We evaluated the effect of ultrasound (US)-guided injection platelet-rich plasma (PRP) into shoulder joint in patients with adhesive capsulitis (AC) and compared its that conventional physiotherapy (CPT). Methods Sixty-four subjects AC were included randomly allocated two groups, as follows: PRP (n=32; intra-articular [IA] [4 mL] was injected); CPT short wave diathermy exercise therapy performed at three sessions/week for 6 weeks). Treatment outcomes therapeutic effectiveness...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic, which prompts consensus for the necessity to seek risk factors this critical disease. Risk affecting mortality of remain elusive. Diabetes and hyperglycemia are known negatively affect host's antiviral immunity. We evaluated relationship between history diabetes, fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels among severely ill patients with COVID-19.This was retrospective cohort study that assessed 106 adult inpatients (aged ≥18 years)...

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare necessitates comprehensive and standardized reporting guidelines to ensure transparency, reproducibility, ethical applications clinical research. Existing standards are limited by their focus on specific study designs. We aimed develop a set checklist for studies that utilize AI models healthcare, covering all essential components research regardless the design. Two experts statistics from Statistical Round Korean Journal...

Laboratory parameter abnormalities are commonly observed in COVID-19 patients; however, their clinical significance remains controversial. We assessed the prevalence, characteristics, and impact of laboratory parameters patients hospitalized Daegu, Korea.We investigated 1,952 on admission nine hospitals Korea. The average patient age was 58.1 years, 700 (35.9%) were men. classified into mild (N=1,612), moderate (N=294), severe (N=46) disease groups based severity scores. used chi-square...

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) has been suggested as an alternative treatment for reducing spasticity in patients with cerebral palsy (CP). However, the duration of its effect was rarely known. A meta-analysis performed to investigate effectiveness ESWT at controlling CP according follow-up period. We included studies which used manage CP, and compared that a control group. Finally, three were included. In meta-analysis, spasticity, measured using modified Ashworth scale (MAS),...

Objective. We investigated the relationship between polymorphisms in TNF-α-induced protein 3 (TNFAIP3) gene and genetic susceptibility to SLE RA Korean population. Methods. The present case–control study included 422 patients with RA, 133 healthy controls. Genotyping for TNFAIP3 rs5029941 (C>T), rs2230926 (T>G), rs5029930 (C>A), rs5029937 (G>T) rs5029939 (G>C) was performed. status of RA-related autoantibodies, including RF anti-CCP, presence arthritis nephritis were assessed. Results....

Purpose: Laparoscopic gastrectomy is widely used to treat early gastric cancer.The advantages of totally laparoscopic distal (TLDG) are unproven, and some concerns remain regarding the surgical outcomes due its technical difficulty.We compared acute inflammatory response between patients undergoing TLDG laparoscopy-assisted (LADG) for treatment cancer.Methods: We performed a retrospective study on 212 consecutive who underwent cancer January 2008 June 2014.A total 179 LADG cases 33 were...

The Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms (CAINS) was developed to overcome the limitations of existing instruments and reflect current view negative symptoms.The aim present study evaluate reliability validity Korean version (K-CAINS).Inpatients (n = 49) outpatients 70) with schizophrenia were recruited from three institutions.The confirmative factor analysis, test-retest reliability, inter-rater convergent validity, discriminant assessed.The group consisted 71 males (59.7%)...