Information about COVID-19: Lessons learned from Mali

Introduction. In Mali, information related to COVID-19 is regularly shared by the coordination board against COVID-19 through daily official press releases and situation reports. The goal of this study was to analyze data related to the tested samples; and the confirmed, contacts, recovered and dead cases in order to take lessons for the future. Population and methods. Data from the first 100 days after the detection of the first cases in Mali were collected and recorded on an Excel file before they got analyzed using SPSS 25.0 software. Analyses were descriptive and correlational. Results. We included 14938 tested samples, 2260 confirmed cases, 12864 contact cases, 1502 recovered cases and 117 deaths were reported during the first 100 days of the epidemic. There was a positive correlation between the number of confirmed cases; and the number of tested samples, the number of recovered cases and the number of deaths. These results suggest that the number of confirmed cases increase with the number of tested samples. Conclusion. These results call for more testing and encourage the identification, location and follow-up of COVID-19 cases. They can also be used to support the improvement of data quality and the response to COVID-19. As a result, they can contribute to improve population health

Contextual hybrid-based recommendation of PUBMED articles

Background:The amount of information at the medical field has been growing day by day. Also new medical articles about the preoccupied disease are published each day and the updated information is very required for physicians. Consequently,the appropriate information in the appropriate moment is very suitable for physicians, and this is the challenge contributed in this research work. Methods:Our goal is to recommend documents deemed relevant to doctors, moreover, regarding the context of using of an Electronic Medical RecordsEMR. The principle is to extract the context of this usage: illness, Age ..., searching on the contents of documents and taking into account the rate of vote documents. For experiment and evaluation, we have used 100 articles randomly selected from PUBMEDabout cardiology. In addition, we have developed a system that extracts the context of EMRat the moment of exploration. The extracted context is used with users rating bythe recommender system to select and rank the recommended articles for physicians in the same moment of use.Results:The first result of this research work is the smart interaction between users and the software system by introducing the context of use. In addition, another important result is the reuse of user's appreciation for additional dynamicity and intelligibility. Conclusion: The developed system offers the physician an appropriate recommendation of pertinent PUBMED articles. The developed system augments the relevancy of the recommendation by analyzing the contents of the articles and introducing a collaborative method

HIV-Positive Patients' and their Families' Comprehension of HIV- and AIDS-Related Information

Despite acknowledgement of the importance of sharing HIV- and AIDS-related information with people living with HIV; it is still unclear as to what their actual comprehension is of this information. This research was part of a larger project; Tswaragano; conducted in the North-West Province; South Africa; which explored and described the competence; ability and strengths of the family of the HIV-positive patient during home support. This research focused on Potchefstroom in the North-West Province. This article focuses on research with the objective being to explore and describe the comprehension of HIV-positive patients and their families with regard to HIV- and AIDS-related information; and to formulate recommendations to improve their comprehension of this information. A quantitative; explorative and descriptive survey design was followed. Data were collected by means of questionnaires completed by HIV-positive patients (n = 79) and their family members (n = 34). Descriptive statistical analysis by means of frequency analysis was conducted. Ethical considerations and mechanisms to enhance validity and reliability are discussed. The results indicated that both HIV-positive respondents and their families face social and financial challenges due to unemployment and low income. A strength found in this research is that the majority of respondents are linked to a church; which can be a valuable platform to share information on HIV and AIDS. With regards to sharing; sources and comprehension of HIV- and AIDS-related information; it is apparent that respondents perceived that pre- and post-counselling provided an opportunity for information sharing; but that they need health care workers to spend more time with them; to be non-judgemental and to make more use of visual aids. It furthermore seems that the majority of HIV-positive respondents in this study did comprehend the need for and negotiate for safer sexual practices. It was concluded that although HIV-positive patients and their families have relatively good levels of comprehension of HIV- and AIDS-related information; there are certain gaps in their comprehension of this information. Accordingly; recommendations regarding improving comprehension of HIV-related information were formulated. Recommendations for nursing education; research and practice were formulated. These recommendations highlight the importance of openness in communication; building trust relationships; collaboration; cultural sensitivity and empowering HIV-positive patients and their families

A propos de l'information en anesthesie-reanimation a Madagascar

Justifications : L'information; droit fondamental du patient et devoir incontournable des medecins est au coeur de l'ethique medicale. Objectifs : Evaluer la connaissance actuelle des patients malgaches sur l'anesthesie-reanimation; et rappeler aux Anesthesistes-Reanimateurs leur devoir d'informer les patients et d'apporter nos suggestions sur l'amelioration de communication de l'information des patients. Methodologie : Il s'agit d'une etude prospective se basant sur les comptes-rendus des 100 fiches d'enquetes sur l'information en anesthesie reanimation ; elle a ete realisee au CHU/HJRA du 1er decembre 2004 au 31 aout 2005. Resultats : A travers cette etude; 87des patients a operer n'ont recu aucune information sur l'anesthesie-reanimation alors que 97parmi eux ont souhaite etre informes. C'est donc un devoir des anesthesistes-reanimateurs d'informer leurs patients Conclusion : Pour une meilleure qualite d'information; il faut donner aux anesthesistes-reanimateurs des formations sur l'information en anesthesie- reanimation et sur les differentes techniques d'anesthesie. Il faut egalement ameliorer les plateaux techniques leur permettant de travailler avec assurance