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An Application for Pairing with Wearable Devices to Monitor Personal Health Status
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2022
The present protocol introduces a non-commercial self-developed application for collecting real-time on-site data, including psychological scales, GPS location, heart rate, and blood-oxygen saturation level, as well as the application's operating procedures. An empirical study conducted in Taiwan in 2020 was used as an application example.
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Mental Status Examination
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2023
Source: Carmen Black, Matthew Goldenberg, and Jaideep Talwalkar; Yale School of Medicine The mental status exam is a clinical evaluation of emotional, perceptual, and cognitive functioning that spans both the fields of psychiatry and neurology. Developing skill in the psychiatric portions of the examination are important to describe salient aspects of the patient's mental state that may be observed during routine history and/or physical exam. Proficiency in the cognitive portions of this...
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Characterization of Metabolic Status in Nonhuman Primates with the Intravenous Glucose Tolerance Test
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2016
The goal of this protocol is to present a standard method to perform intravenous glucose tolerance tests (IVGTTs) to assess glycemic control in nonhuman primates and assess their metabolic status from healthy to dysmetabolic.
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Determining Soil-transmitted Helminth Infection Status and Physical Fitness of School-aged Children
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2012
Chronic infection with soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) causes malabsorption, stunting, and wasting in the growing child. Hence, it is plausible that these infections also reduce the physical fitness of children. Here, we visualize two techniques for the diagnosis of STHs and the 20-meter shuttle run test for assessing children's physical fitness.
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A Caenorhabditis elegans Nutritional-status Based Copper Aversion Assay
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2017
Here, we present a Caenorhabditis elegans-specific assay designed to evaluate changes in copper aversion behavior and the ability to locate a common food source, as the organism progresses from a well-fed to starved nutritional state.
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Combining medical history, physical examination, symptoms, functional ability, vital signs, laboratory findings, and patient-reported outcomes creates a broader clinical picture than any single finding. Clinicians can compare the observed pattern with normal variation, identify evidence of a health condition, and estimate disease burden. This integrated interpretation supports more individualized decisions rather than relying on one measurement alone.
Functional ability shows how health affects a person’s capacity in daily life, while patient-reported outcomes capture experiences that may not be evident during examination. Including both adds practical and subjective information to clinical assessment. Their contribution helps clinicians evaluate the effect of illness more completely and recognize changes that laboratory findings or vital signs alone may not describe.
Standardized health-status measures provide a consistent way to record and compare findings. Repeated assessments can reveal whether a person’s condition is improving, remaining stable, or changing over time, including changes associated with treatment. Because the same approach can be applied across patients or populations, these measures also strengthen communication among clinicians and support comparison of clinical outcomes.
A clinical assessment begins with medical history and reported symptoms, then incorporates physical examination findings, functional ability, vital signs, laboratory findings, and patient-reported outcomes. Clinicians interpret these sources together rather than treating them as isolated results. The resulting profile can help identify current concerns, characterize disease burden, and establish information for later comparison.
Tracking over time is useful when clinicians need to identify changes, estimate disease burden, or judge response to treatment. Comparing assessments can show whether the patient is improving, stable, or experiencing a new decline. This longitudinal view supports ongoing management and helps care remain responsive to the individual’s changing clinical needs.
Standardized assessment allows researchers to compare outcomes across populations and examine changes in health using consistent information. In clinical settings, shared measures improve communication among healthcare professionals. The same evidence can therefore support both individual care and broader research focused on prevention, diagnosis, and long-term management.