Sharing database platform for acute pancreatitis / 中华胰腺病杂志

Acute pancreatitis ( AP ) is one of the common disorders of gastrointestinal system in clinical practice characterized by sudden onset, long course of disease, complex complications, severe conditions, heavy social and economic burden and the like. Recent years has seen a decreasing mortality due to the update and promotion of a series of therapeutic concepts. However, as the imbalance of comprehensive healthcare levels among different regions in China, substandard diagnosis and treatment of AP still exist, lowering the overall success rate of AP treatment. Moreover, the waste and miss of AP patients' data during the treatment period affect our original innovation in the field of AP research. Thus, after the accumulation of long-term exploration and practice, we integrated diverse data resources and established a single-disease database of AP by cooperating with computer and artificial intelligence ( AI) professionals, finished the deployment of hardware and network arrangement, generated a logical system of "business database→scientific database→sharing database", and built AP data sharing platform (www. ap-database. com), providing the fundamental functions including browse, search, upload and download ( with permissions) . We hope to share the abundant and free medical date with clinicians, computer or AI practitioners and attract communications and cooperation from different fields, which may deepen new values from current data mining and advance the research on AP.

A controlled clinical study of the effectiveness of extracorporeal shock wave therapy and joint mobilization technique in the treatment of periarthritis of shoulder / 中华物理医学与康复杂志

Objective To observe and compare the effects of extracorporeal shock wave therapy(ESWT) and that of joint mobilization technique on periarthritis of shoulder. Methods Eighty-two patients were divided into two groups randomly, a treatment group (n=42) treated with extracorporeal shock wave therapy, and a control group (n=40) treated with joint mobilization technique. All the patients were evaluated with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Constant-Murley Scale(C-M scale) before and half a month after the treatment. Results After treatment the results obtained with the use of VAS Scale and C-M Scale (only ADL and ROM) were significantly different in two groups when compared with those before the treatment (P