Enhancing Gastrointestinal Tract Care: Technology Innovations to Improve Patient’s Quality of Life
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 415
Special Issue Editor
Interests: urogynecology; robotic surgery; minimally invasive surgery; gynecologic surgery; GI tract; pelvic reconstructive surgery; urinary incontinence; pelvic organ prolapse
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gastrointestinal tract diseases represent conditions that affect the majority of individuals who seek treatment from healthcare providers. Treatment is based on the severity of the sickness, the patient's symptoms, and the impact on the patient's quality of life. Although initially symptoms can be handled conservatively, this is not always the best therapeutic choice, and surgery should still be considered.
Considering the evolution of surgical techniques to treat the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, we investigated the role of new innovations and technologies that can achieve better results than traditional surgical treatments in terms of patient quality of life and GI tract function.
We invite you to provide evidence-based research on how new technologies and innovations can improve the quality of life for patients with these diseases.
This Special Issue of Healthcare provides an overview of gastrointestinal tract health and care. Original research articles, project reports, brief studies, reviews, and opinion papers are welcome from groups of all disciplines.
We look forward to receiving your contribution.
Dr. Michele Carlo Schiavi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- GI tract
- GI tract prolapse
- technology
- innovations
- robotic surgery
- quality of life
- bowel function
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