Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Primary care

  1. Some medical chatbot answers may be unsafe
    Physician-led evaluation of four large language model chatbots reveals unsafe medical advice rates from 5-13%, with potentially serious consequences for patient care.
  2. Primary dysmenorrhea is common among women in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Meta-analysis of 65 studies shows primary dysmenorrhea affects 73% of Sub-Saharan African women, with family history and irregular cycles as key risk factors.
  3. Students reported mixed satisfaction in primary care training units
    Study analyzing satisfaction among final-semester medical students in primary health care units during mandatory community service in Mexico, identifying deficiencies in safety and infrastructure.
  4. Integrated mental health screening needed management support
    Examination of integrated primary mental health screening scale-up in South Africa using co-development and continuous quality improvement to build mid-level management capacity.
  5. Emotional regulation group showed improvements in mental health measures
    Evaluation of the emotional resources group, a brief emotion regulation intervention in NHS Scotland secondary care. Results show significant improvements in emotional regulation, self-efficacy.
  6. Validating Georgia's Vaccine Registry for the COVID-19 2023-2024 Season: True GRITS.
    Validation study of Georgia's immunization registry found nearly complete COVID-19 vaccine reporting among hospitalized patients in metropolitan Atlanta, 2023-2024.
  7. CBT outcomes linked more to sessions attended than session rate
    Observational primary-care CBT analysis: higher baseline severity linked to greater absolute symptom reduction; total session count, not attendance rate, predicts outcomes; waiting time showed no.