How far back do we need to look to capture diagnoses in electronic health records? A retrospective observational study of hospital electronic health record data by Tom Marshall, Elizabeth Sapey, Miles D Witham, Steve Harris, Rachel Cooper, Chris Plummer, Felicity Evison, James Wason, Heather J Cordell, Suzy Gallier, Fiona E Matthews, Ewan Pearson, Avan A Sayer, Mervyn Singer, Joanne Field, Mohammed Osman, Sian Robinson, Victoria Bartle, Thomas Scharf, Jadene Lewis, Rominique Doal, Peta le Roux, Ray Holding, Paolo Missier

“…This study aimed to ascertain how far back in time electronic hospital records need to be interrogated to capture long-term condition diagnoses.Design Retrospective observational study of routinely collected hospital electronic health record data.Setting Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (UK)-linked data held by the PIONEER acute care data hub.Participants Patients whose first recorded admission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation (n=560) or acute stroke (n=2142) was between January and December 2018 and who had a minimum of 10 years of data prior to the index date.Outcome measures We identified the most common International Classification of Diseases version 10-coded diagnoses received by patients with COPD and acute stroke separately. …”
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Questionnaire survey on the clinical application of Hall technique preformed metal crowns in caries of primary molars in China by Junhui Wang, Baize Zhang, Yujiang Chen, Lulu Wang, Yang Du, Xin Ge, Fen Liu, Fen Liu, Jing Gong, Jing Gong, Xiaojing Wang

“…ObjectiveTo analyze the clinical application and limiting factors of the Hall technique (HT) preformed metal crowns in caries of primary molars and to provide reference for its clinical application based on a questionnaire survey.Materials and methodsFrom June to December 2022, a questionnaire was distributed to pediatric dentists through the WeChat platform using “Questionnaire Star” to analyze the clinical application and influencing factors of the HT preformed metal crowns in caries of primary molars.ResultsA total of 700 survey questionnaires were distributed, and 650 valid questionnaires were recovered, with a effectiveness rate of 92.86%. …”
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Risk factors associated with mortality and pathogen characteristics of bloodstream infection-induced severe sepsis in the pediatric intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort stud... by Jian Chen, Jian Chen, Haixin Huang, Ruichen Zhang, Yueqiang Fu, Chunmei Jing

“…This study aimed to analyze mortality risk factors and summarize pathogen characteristics associated with BSI-induced severe sepsis in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).MethodsThis retrospective study was conducted at a tertiary pediatric hospital between January 2015 and December 2023, encompassing children with BSI-induced severe sepsis in the PICU. …”
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Impact of infection in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: insight from a multicentre observational cohort from Ch... by Jun Li, Lei Jiang, Wei Chen, Ning Tan, Wei Guo, Ji-yan Chen, Yuan-hui Liu, Peng-cheng He, Peng-Yuan Chen, Chong-Yang Duan, Xue-Biao Wei, Yin-Lin Zhou, Zhu-Jun Chen, Jian-Fang Luo, Dan-Qing Yu, Qing-Shan Geng, Chun-Ying Lin, Zhi-Qiang Guo, Yan-Song Guo, Yi-Yue Chen, Wen-Sheng Li

“…Objective We aimed to describe the association between in-hospital infection and prognosis among patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) who received percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).Design This observational cohort originated from a database of patients with NSTE-ACS who underwent PCI from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2014.Setting Five centres in South China.Participants This multicentre observational cohort study consecutively included 8197 patients with NSTE-ACS who received PCI. …”
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Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its association with adverse obstetric outcomes among pregnant women in Uganda: a cross-sectional study by Cristina Reverzani, Daniel Zaake, Faridah Nansubuga, Herman Ssempewo, Leonard Manirakiza, Anthony Kayiira, Gilbert Tumwine

“…Objective There is a dearth of published data on the vitamin D status of the Ugandan population; the objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among pregnant women in Uganda and its associations with maternal characteristics and adverse foetal-maternal outcomes.Study design and setting We conducted a cross-sectional study on pregnant women admitted to a tertiary referral hospital in Kampala, Uganda for delivery during the study period from July to December 2023.Participants The study was conducted on 351 pregnant women aged ≥18 years who consented to participate in the study, who had a single intrauterine pregnancy and a gestational age greater than 26 weeks, and who delivered at St. …”
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Assessing Mental Illness Referral Request Acceptance: A Nationwide E-Referral Data From Saudi Arabia by Alharbi AA, Aljerian NA, Alghamdi HA, Binhotan MS, Alsultan AK, Arafat MS, Aldhabib A, Aloqayli AI, Alwahbi EB, Horner RD

“…This study examined SMARC’s effectiveness in facilitating mental health service access by analyzing patient transfer acceptance rates between healthcare facilities and identifying factors influencing these rates.Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study analyzed 9722 mental health electronic referrals within SMARC from January 2020 to December 2021. Descriptive statistics characterized referral patterns, while bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses identified factors associated with referral acceptance, calculating adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and 95% confidence intervals.Results: The system achieved an overall acceptance rate of 82.5%, with different patterns across age groups and regions. …”
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Análisis de modelos algorítmicos de aprendizaje automático para la predicción del estado vital a los seis meses tras fractura de cadera en pacientes mayores de 74 años by I. Calvo Lorenzo, I. Uriarte Llano, M.R. Mateo Citores, Y. Rojo Maza, U. Agirregoitia Enzunza

“…Material and methods: The study population is a cohort of patients over 74 years of age who suffered a hip fracture between May 2020 and December 2022. A warehouse is created from five different data sources with the necessary variables. …”
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Feasibility and usefulness of Gini coefficients of primary care visits as a measure of service inequality: preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study using region-wide elect... by Xin Yang, Jing Chai, Jing Cheng, DeBin Wang, XingRong Shen, Rong Liu, ManMan Lu, Jia Xu, Ningjing Yang, Guocheng Li

“…It first extracted a random sample of 7.09 million primary care records from 1 October 2019 to 31 December 2021. Then it developed logarithmic models of GPVs using different months of records and performed descriptive and generalised linear mixed-effects regression analyses of the GPVs for all-cause diseases. …”
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A two-step geospace storm as a new tool of opportunity for experimentally estimating the threshold condition for the formation of a substorm current wedge by L. F. Chernogor

“…The data available via the INTERMAGNET magnetometer network (<span class="uri">https://imag-data.bgs.ac.uk/GIN_V1/GINForms2</span>, last access: 19 December 2024) were chosen for two near-meridional chains of stations, one in the Western (eight stations) and the other in the Eastern (10 stations) Hemisphere, which were situated, for the first time, in such a way that one of them was in the night hemisphere during both of the two steps of the geomagnetic storm. …”
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Eye Collateral Channel Characteristic Analysis and Identification Model Construction of Mild Cognitive Impairment by WU Tiecheng, CAO Lei, YIN Lianhua, HE Youze, LIU Zhizhen, YANG Minguang, XU Ying, WU Jinsong

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the eye collateral channel characteristics of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) population, and to build an MCI identification model based on machine learning algorithms to provide an objective basis for early recognition of MCI.MethodsA total of 316 subjects from 5 communities in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province and the Health Management Center of the Second People's Hospital Affiliated to Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine were recruited from April to December 2022. Eligible subjects were matched on a 1∶1 propensity score according to sex, age, and years of education and were divided into MCI group and normal cognition group, with 158 cases in each group. …”
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Nomogram for predicting early cancer-related death due to recurrence after liver resection in hepatocellular carcinoma patients with Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage B/C:... by Zhan-Cheng Qiu, Hao-Zheng Cai, You-Wei Wu, Jun-Long Dai, Wei-Li Qi, Chu-Wen Chen, Yue-Qing Xu, Chuan Li, Tian-Fu Wen

“…Methods A total of 672 HCC patients with BCLC stages B/C from four medical centers between January 2012 and December 2018 were included in our study. The patients were randomly divided into a training cohort (n = 404) and a validation cohort (n = 268) at a ratio of 6:4. …”
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Study of height-spread sporadic-E layers observed in the South American Magnetic Anomaly by Juliano Moro, Juliano Moro, Jiyao Xu, José Valentin Bageston, Lígia Alves da Silva, Lígia Alves da Silva, Laysa Cristina Araújo Resende, Laysa Cristina Araújo Resende, Clezio Marcos De Nardin, Vânia Fátima Andrioli, Vânia Fátima Andrioli, Angela Machado Santos, Angela Machado Santos, Giorgio Arlan da Silva Picanço, Hui Li, Liu Zhengkuan, Chi Wang, Nelson Jorge Schuch

“…Most HSEs layers lasted between 1 h and 3 h 30 min, with a peak incidence during November, December, and January. Finally, the study discusses the most likely mechanisms responsible for HSEs layer formation, considering the geomagnetic conditions and time of their detection on ionograms.…”
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Predictors of cytomegalovirus infection in patients with connective tissue disease treated by pulsed methylprednisolone therapy: a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Haruka Ito, Takahiko Yoshimoto, Akatsuki Kokaze, Kuninobu Wakabayashi, Kazuteru Noguchi, Kiyoshi Matsui, Bunki Natsumoto, Keishi Fujio, Yutaro Hayashi, Yuko Kaneko, Takahisa Gono, Koh Okamoto, Shu Okugawa, Kyoji Moriya, Hirohiko Sueki

“…We included patients who received p-MPSL therapy for connective tissue disease and had CMV antigenemia measured between April 2011 and December 2020. Peripheral blood cell data before the start of p-MPSL therapy and at the start of steroid tapering were collected in addition to baseline characteristics, including age, sex, and body mass index. …”
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Gambaran Laboratorium Leukemia Kronik di Bagian Penyakit Dalam RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Muthia Rendra, Rismawati Yaswir, Akmal M Hanif

“…Djamil Hospital Padang since January 1st 2010 – December 31st 2012. The results of this research showed that of 16 cases of chronic myelocytic leukemia contained 37.5% of the patients had moderate anemia, leukocytosis 100%, platelet count can be decreased, normal, and increased the percentage of each 25%, 25%, and 50%. …”
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Risk Factors of Bacteremia following Multiple Traumas by Hak-Jae Lee, Eol Choi, Nak-Joon Choi, Hyun-Woo Sun, Jae-Suk Lee, Jeong-Woo Lee, Tae-Yoon Kim, Yoon-Joong Jung, Suk-Kyung Hong

“…We retrospectively reviewed medical records of all trauma patients admitted to the surgical intensive care unit and general ward between January 2011 and December 2015. The information was collected for each patient and recorded in a computer database: early onset bacteremia (EOB) was defined as when onset occurred within 7 days after trauma, and late onset bacteremia (LOB) was defined as when onset occurred after 7 days from trauma. …”
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[Translated article] Analysis of machine learning algorithmic models for the prediction of vital status at six months after hip fracture in patients older than 74 years by I. Calvo Lorenzo, I. Uriarte Llano, M.R. Mateo Citores, Y. Rojo Maza, U. Agirregoitia Enzunza

“…Material and methods: The study population is a cohort of patients over 74 years of age who suffered a hip fracture between May 2020 and December 2022. A warehouse is created from five different data sources with the necessary variables. …”
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Acceptance and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy in Canada by Suraya Bondy, Elisabeth McClymont, Gal Av-Gay, Arianne Albert, Janice Andrade, Sandra Blitz, Ianna Folkes, Lucia Forward, Erin Fraser, Sela Grays, Jon Barrett, Julie Bettinger, Tali Bogler, Isabelle Boucoiran, Eliana Castillo, Rohan D’Souza, Darine El-Chaâr, Shaza Fadel, Verena Kuret, Gina S. Ogilvie, Vanessa Poliquin, Manish Sadarangani, Heather Scott, John W. Snelgrove, Modupe Tunde-Byass, Deborah Money

“…The COVERED study, a national prospective cohort, utilized web-based surveys to collect data from pregnant women and pregnant people across Canada on COVID-19 vaccine attitudes, uptake, and hesitancy factors from July 2021 to December 2023. Survey questions were informed by validated tools including the WHO Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (VHS) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). …”
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Hospital attendance, malaria prevalence and self-medication with an antimalarial drug before and after the start of COVID-19 pandemic in a sentinel site for malaria surveillance in... by Denise Patricia Mawili-Mboumba, Fanny Bertrande Batchy Ognagosso, Noé Patrick M’Bondoukwé, Jacques Mari Ndong Ngomo, Bridy Chesly Moutombi Ditombi, Ahmed Adissa Agbanrin, Tatiana Nymane, Bedrich Pongui Ngondza, Reinne Moutongo Mouandza, Coella Joyce Mihindou, Dimitri Ardin Mabika Moussavou, Ornella Anaïse Mbang Nguema, Marielle Karine Bouyou-Akotet

“…Census of files of patients below 18 years of age attending for fever management with a result of malaria biological diagnosis from January 2018 to December 2022 was conducted. Comparison of the prevalence of microscopic malaria, ITN use, self-medication and the fever duration prior the screening before and after year 2020 was performed using bivariate and multivariate analysis. …”
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Staged lateral⁃posterior lumbar interbody fusion for degenerative spinal deformity by LIU Zhen‐lei, WANG Kai, LI Kang, ZHANG Lei, JIAN Feng‐zeng, WU Hao

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on 22 patients with degenerative spinal deformity who underwent staged lateral ⁃ posterior surgery at Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University from December 2021 to June 2022. The first stage involved lateral surgery, while the second stage consisted of posterior osteotomy combined with internal fixation. …”
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Impact of Sex-Related Differences in Infrarenal Aortic Neck Morphology on Outcomes of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair for Similar-Sized Aortic Aneurysm by Ombretta Martinelli, Antonio Marzano, Maria Irene Bellini, Roberto Gattuso, Luca Di Marzo, Valeria Gonta, Jihad Jabbour, Wassim Mansour, Simone Cuozzo

“…<b>Methods</b>: This study performed a retrospective analysis of patients electively treated by EVAR for infrarenal AAA between January 2019 and December 2023. Demographics, anatomical characteristics, and stent graft details were analyzed. …”
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