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Primary care physicians who can deliver high quality primary care services are essential for strengthening the primary health care system. In Korea, primary care was regarded as substandard services practiced...
Lively discussion has been underway regarding primary care in South Korea as an alternative medical policy in the face of rising medical costs and health care disparities. However, the lack...
Primary care is an essential part of a whole health system. It is the first contact point for medical care in the community, where many people are likely to obtain...
Stem cell therapy has been taken as a highly promising area of future medicine due to its potential for providing new therapeutic modalities for debilitating, incurable diseases. In addition, stem...
Although hip and knee osteoarthritis are mostly of primary origin, ankle osteoarthritis is of posttraumatic origin. In sports injuries, the ankle is the second most commonly injured body site after...
Strengthening primary care has always been a major policy issue in most developed countries to achieve the health care system's goals, and policy makers continuously try to use payment system...
Trauma, such as ankle fractures, has been the major etiology of ankle arthritis. It has been reported that 70-80% of ankle arthritis cases are due to lateral ankle instability and...
During the past several decades, population aging and chronic diseases have been common burdens to nearly all the world's countries. To meet future health care needs, many countries have tried...
Fluid therapy remains an important therapeutic maneuver in managing surgical, medical, and the critically ill intensive care patient. However, the ideal volume replacement strategy remains under debate. The debate on...