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The periprocedural management of patients on long-term antithrombotic therapy (antiplatelet agents or vitamin K antagonists) who may require temporary disruption, given that an invasive procedure is always a dilemma for...
Preoperative fasting is prescribed for a certain period before operations or procedures in which patients are not allowed oral intake to prevent aspiration of gastric content. Fasting recommendations prohibit the...
While Korea had the highest rate of increase in per capita health expenditures from 1997 to 2007 among The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, it is necessary...
In April 2013, the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare designated 10 hospitals as "Research-driven Hospitals" for 3 years, which meant that these hospitals met the predefined government standards for...
Recently, there has been a rapid adoption of a variety of information technologies to scholarly journal publishing. For example, the digital object identifier application launched in 2000 has become an...
The Specialty Certification Examination is an important part of the assessment of medical education. However, the step 2 skill examinations of 26 medical specialties in Korea are insufficient with respect...
The development of information technologies has led to the era of big data; such enormous collections of information on drugs and adverse drug reactions are stored in either a structured,...
The ICT (information and communication technology) paradigm shift, including the burgeoning use of mobile, SNS, and smart devices, has resulted in an explosion of data along with lifestyle changes. We...
According to Article 17 of the Korean Constitution, the privacy of no citizen shall be infringed. There have been considerable advances in the fields of computers and communications technology in...
Data pools and their integration are fueling the big data revolution in health care with the recent advances in information technology. Korea has shown tremendous promise in the utilization of...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus and diabetic complications have sharply increased and have become an important issue to resolve. The goal of treatment of type 2 diabetes is to prevent the...