Validation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease recording in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD-GOLD) by John R Hurst, Jennifer K Quint, Hana Müllerova, Liam Smeeth, Harriet Forbes, Susan Eaton, Rachael L DiSantostefano, Kourtney Davis

“…We assessed the accuracy of different approaches using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, a UK electronic health record database.Setting 951 participants registered with a CPRD practice in the UK between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2012. Individuals were selected for ≥1 of 8 algorithms to identify people with COPD. …”
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Spatiotemporal Response of MODIS Derived Vegetation index to climatic condition Case study: Kohgiloyeh O Boirahmad Province of Iran by Mohammad Hossein Nasserzadeh, zahra Hejazizadeh, Zahra Gholampour, Bohloul Alijani

“…The results indicated that during winter (December to March) the spatial distribution of NDVI is highly correlated with LST spatial distribution. …”
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Risk factors for long-term severe tricuspid regurgitation following mitral valve replacement: a retrospective study by Shan-Shan Li, Ling-Zhi Dou, Bing Han, Bing-Rong Miao, Sen Wang, He Jiang, Yu-Li Zheng, Jian-Ming Li, Hong-Yun Ruan

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted involving 308 patients who underwent single-valve MVR at Xuzhou Central Hospital between April 2017 and December 2022. Preoperative color Doppler ultrasound indicated that all patients had either no or mild to moderate tricuspid regurgitation. …”
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Agro-Morphological Characterization of Kenyan Slender Leaf (Crotalaria brevidens and C. ochroleuca) Accessions by Fridah A. Mwakha, Bernard M. Gichimu, Johnstone O. Neondo, Peter K. Kamau, Eddy O. Odari, Joshua K. Muli, Nancy L. M. Budambula

“…Field experiments were carried out for two seasons in October to December 2018 and March to May 2019. The experiments were laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design with 29 accessions and replicated three times. …”
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Diagnostic role of circulating long non-coding RNA LINC00312 in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective study by Ruoqian Zhang, Yan Jiang, Jing Gu, Xilin Zhang, Yanping Xie

“…Methods A total of 319 patients diagnosed with NSCLC and 180 healthy volunteers were enrolled from the First Affiliated Hospital of Huzhou University between January, 2022 and December, 2023. The participates were randomly assigned into the training and validation groups with a ratio of 6:4, while the remaining was named as the exosomal group. …”
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A Quality Improvement Project Aimed at Reducing Patient Falls in Ambulatory Clinics by Patricia Macolino, Katie Fox, Rebecca Fitzpatrick, Vivek N. Ahya, Ilona Lorincz, Barbara Prior

“…The quality improvement project was piloted at an outpatient Neurology clinic that averages 6,500 patient visits each month, focused on redesigning the falls screening process and actions to take when a patient screens positive, with the goal of reducing falls by 10% from July 2021 to December 2023. Changing wellness survey screening questions to receive better information from patients and better identify their risk to avoid falls ultimately resulted in a 22% reduction in falls rate, which has continued to decrease beyond the original study period, as well as a reduction in the severity of injuries from falls.…”
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Advances and Pitfalls of Specialized Pain Care through Public and Private Health Care Providers in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands: A Physician’s Survey by Javier Medel, Ancor Serrano, Carme Batet, Lluis Lorente, Susana Bella, Marta Ferrandiz, María-del-Mar Monerris, Sergi Boada, Jesus Villoria, Maria-Victoria Ribera, Antonio Montes, Sebastian Videla

“…Active pain practitioners identified through the Catalan Health Service and Pain Society databases were sent an invitation in December 2020. Of the 321 physicians contacted, 91 (28.3%) answered and 71 provided complete responses (commonly anesthesiologists, representing 92 different sites; some worked at public and private sites). …”
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Co-occurrence of behavioural risk factors for non-communicable diseases and mortality risk in Spain: a population-based cohort study by Iñaki Galán, Cristina Ortiz, Carmen Rodriguez-Blazquez, Teresa López-Cuadrado, Ana Ayuso-Álvarez

“…Objectives This study aims to estimate the impact of the co-occurrence of behavioural risk factors on mortality in the Spanish adult population.Design Population-based cohort study based on data from the 2011–2012 Spanish National Health Survey and the 2014 European Health Survey (n=35 053 participants ≥15 years of age) both linked to mortality data as of December 2022. Risk factors included tobacco use, high-risk alcohol consumption, low adherence to the Mediterranean diet, leisure time sedentary lifestyle and body mass index outside the 18.5–24.9 kg/m2 range. …”
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Predicting loss of independence among geriatric patients following gastrointestinal surgery by Michaela R. Cunningham, Christopher L. Cramer, Ruyun Jin, Florence E. Turrentine, Victor M. Zaydfudim

“…Methods This retrospective cohort study included patients age ≥ 65 years enrolled in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database and Geriatric Pilot Project who underwent pancreatic, colorectal, or hepatic surgery (January 1, 2014- December 31, 2018). Primary outcome was loss of independence – discharge to facility other than home and decline in functional status. …”
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A Mechanism Exploration of Metabolic Syndrome Causing Nodular Thyroid Disease by Zexin Li, Lili Zhang, Yingshi Huang, Peixuan Yang, Wencan Xu

“…A total of 2722 subjects, who underwent health checkup in our institute from December 2014 to November 2018, were retrospectively and randomly collected. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution of multiple time scale precipitation in Yellow River Basin based on Köppen-Geiger Trend Indicator System by Hao Ke, Wenzhuo Wang, Zengchuan Dong, Xinhua Zhu, Zhuozheng Li, Chao Lü, Dawei Jin, Weilin Liu

“…Monthly precipitation shows an increasing trend in winter (December–February) across most climate zones, indicating relatively stable changes in winter precipitation, while other seasons show changes between increasing and decreasing trends. …”
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The Effectiveness and Safety of Tibial-Sided Osteotomy for Fibula Untethering in Lateral Close-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy: A Novel Technique with Video Illustration by Keun Young Choi, Man Soo Kim, Yong In

“…<i>Materials and Methods</i>: Between March and December 2023, 13 patients who underwent LCWHTO with TSO for fibula untethering were enrolled. …”
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Development of metastasis and survival prediction model of luminal and non-luminal breast cancer with weakly supervised learning based on pathomics by Hui Liu, Linlin Ying, Xing Song, Xueping Xiang, Shumei Wei

“…Methods This study utilized pathological sections from 204 radical mastectomy specimens obtained between January 2013 and December 2014 at the Second Affiliated Hospital of the Medical College of Zhejiang University. …”
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Study protocol for virtual leisure investigating the effect of virtual reality-delivered stress reduction, entertainment and distraction on the use of coercion and need-based medic... by Julie Midtgaard, Lars Clemmensen, Louise Birkedal Glenthøj, Gry Jørgensen, Kristina Ballestad Gundersen, Lisa Charlotte Smith, Stephane Bouchard, Christina Plambøck Thomsen, Louise Turgut

“…The study began on 1 January 2023, and we expect to complete data collection by 31 December 2024.Ethics and dissemination The study is registered at Danish Data Protection Agency (j.no P-2022-466) and is approved by the Committee on Health Research Ethics of the capital region of Denmark (j.no 22013313). …”
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A single-center prospective study evaluating the relationship of tumor consistency on remission in acromegaly patients by Eren Yilmaz, Seda Duman Ozturk, Ayse Uzuner, Pinar Yildirim, Atakan Emengen, Aykut Gokbel, Melih Caklili, Sibel Balci, Ayca Ersen Danyeli, Burak Cabuk, Ihsan Anik, Savas Ceylan

“…Between August 1997 and December 2021, 1118 patients with GH-secreting tumors underwent endoscopic endonasal surgery at our Pituitary Research Center. …”
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A Cross Sectional Study of Assessment of Hearing in Infants of Gestational Diabetes Mothers by Srikanth Gopinath, Arulmozhi Sakthignanavel, Atul Mukul Bage, Rajan ND, Sasmita Mishra

“…Material & Methods: This study was conducted among 100 pregnant mothers who gave birth in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department in a medical college in Pondicherry from December 2020 to July 2022. 50 pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) were assigned to Group 1 and 50 pregnant women who had no GDM were assigned to Group 2. …”
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Use of 18F-NaF PET in the staging of skeletal metastases of newly diagnosed, high-risk prostate cancer patients: a nationwide cohort study by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Mette Nørgaard, Helle D Zacho, Lars J Petersen, Anna Winther Mogensen, Marie T Pank

“…The secondary endpoint was overall survival.Results Between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2018, 4183 high-risk patients underwent radical prostatectomy. …”
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Professional and personal experiences of workplace violence among Italian mental health nurses: A qualitative study by Ilenia Piras, Igor Portoghese, Massimo Tusconi, Federica Minafra, Mariangela Lecca, Giampaolo Piras, Paolo Contu, Maura Galletta

“…The interviews were conducted from July to December 2020 by telephone and were recorded with the consent of the participants. …”
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Prevalence, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern, and Associated Factors of Urinary Tract Infections among Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women at Public Health Facilities, Harar, Easter... by Degu Abate, Dadi Marami, Shiferaw Letta

“…A health facility-based comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among 651 randomly selected women from public health facilities, Harar, Eastern Ethiopia, between February 2017 and December 2017. Pertinent data were collected through a face-to-face interview using a structured questionnaire. …”
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Assessment of economic burden due to COVID-19 pandemic during institutional childbirth in Nepal: before-and-after design by Ashish KC, Rejina Gurung, Prajwal Paudel, Honey Malla, Avinash K Sunny, Mats Målqvist, Omkar Basnet, Pratiksha Bhattarai

“…This study aimed to assess the OOPE for maternity care during before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in nine hospitals in Nepal.Method We conducted a before-and-after study between March 2019 and December 2020 with 13 months of prepandemic period and 9 months of pandemic period. …”
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