Objective To study the current situation of doctor-patient communication education for medical undergraduates, and meanwhile to analyze the students’ satisfactory degree to communication education and its influencing factors, so as to provide sound suggestions to promote the students’ clinical communication abilities. Methods Using simple sampling, 50% of the students who majored in clinical medicine in grade 2006-2009 in West China Medical School of Sichuan University were selected as respondents. The investigation was conducted by face to face talk with a self-designed questionnaire. The data were input using EpiData 3.0 software and the results were analyzed by SPSS 13.0 software. Results A total of 450 questionnaires were distributed, and 404 were validly retrieved (89.78%). Among the respondents, 74.3% of them were satisfied with the current situation of doctor-patient communication education; 75.7% of them begun to know doctor-patient communication education since the stage of learning basic knowledge; 49.8% of them were trained by means of problem-based-learning (PBL); and 65.5% of them were trained with auxiliary standardized patient (SP). “Grade”, “Gender”, “SP used” and “PBL used” were the main factors affecting the satisfactory degree to current doctor-patient communication education (P=0.029, 0.023, 0.012, and 0.029, respectively). Conclusion The medical undergraduates’ satisfactory degree to current doctor-patient communication education is generally high, but it is also affected by various factors. Although doctor-patient communication education has started early, the training system is still problematic and the teaching resources coverage is limited. So in order to make a further systematic, standardized, overall designed education for students’ cognition and communication skills, the medical colleges should open integrated doctor-patient communication curriculum that combines with both PBL and SP auxiliary teaching methods, and covers all the undergraduate learning stage.
Objective To systematically review the diagnostic value of Presepsin for sepsis. Methods Literatures were searched from PubMed, The Cochrane Library (Issue 6, 2017), EMbase, CNKI, CBM, VIP, and WanFang database, and the time was from inception to June 2017, to collect diagnostic studies about Presepsin for sepsis. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data, and assessed the risk of bias of included studies by QUADAS-2 tool. Then meta-analysis was performed by using RevMan 5.3 and Meta-Disc 1.4 software. Pooled sensitivity (Sen), specificity (Spe), positive likelihood ratio (LR+), negative likelihood ratio (LR-), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and area under the curve (AUC) of summary receiver operating characteristic curve (SROC) were calculated to assess the diagnostic value of individual diagnostic tests. Results A total of 23 studies with 2 925 sepsis patients and 1 852 controls were finally included. The results of meta-analysis showed that the pooled Sen, Spe, LR+, LR-, DOR, and AUC was 0.80 ［95% CI was (0.78, 0.81), P<0.000 1］, 0.83 ［95%CI was (0.81, 0. 84), P<0.000 1］, 4.78 ［95%CI was (3.62, 6.31), P<0.000 1］, 0.22 ［95%CI was (0.18, 0.27), P<0.000 1］, 23.64 ［95%CI was (16.00, 34.92), P<0.000 1］, and 0.91 ［95%CI was (0.89, 0.94), P<0.001］, respectively. Subgroup analysis showed that the pooled Sen, Spe, LR+, LR-, DOR, and AUC in Caucasian was 0.83 ［95% CI was (0.80, 0.86), P=0.000 1］, 0.79 ［95% CI was (0.76, 0.82), P<0.000 1］, 4.38 ［95%CI was (2.40, 8.02), P<0.000 1］, 0.23 ［95%CI was (0.16, 0.31), P=0.007 8］, 21.09 ［95% CI was (8.82, 50.41), P<0.000 1］, and 0.91 ［95%CI was (0.87, 0.92), P<0.001］ respectively, and in Asian was 0.79 ［95% CI was (0.77, 0.80), P<0.000 1］, 0.85 ［95%CI was (0.83, 0.87), P<0.000 1］,4.74 ［95%CI was (3.82, 5.89), P=0.011 1］, 0.22 ［95% CI was (0.17, 0.28), P<0.000 1］, 24.95 ［95%CI was (16.07, 38.74), P<0.000 1］, and 0.92 ［95%CI was (0.90, 0.95), P=0.001］ respectively, there was no significant difference between Caucasian and Asian in diagnostic accuracy of Presepsin (Z=0.41, P>0.05). Conclusion Current evidence indicates that Presepsin has great early diagnostic value for sepsis.