Waiting for Treatment for Chronic Pain – a Survey of Existing Benchmarks: Toward Establishing Evidence-Based Benchmarks for Medically Acceptable Waiting Times by Mary E Lynch, Fiona A Campbell, Alexander J Clark, Michael J Dunbar, David Goldstein, Philip Peng, Jennifer Stinson, Helen Tupper, the Canadian Pain Society Wait Times Task Force

“…As medical costs escalate, health care resources must be prioritized. …”
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Characteristics and outcomes of women using emergency medical services for third-trimester pregnancy-related problems in India: a prospective observational study by Jennifer A Newberry, Corey B Bills, Elizabeth A Pirrotta, Matthew C Strehlow, G V Ramana Rao, Hyeyoun (Elise) Min, Ann E Evensen, Lawrence Leeman, S V Mahadevan

“…Interfacility transfers, patients absent on ambulance arrival and patients refusing care were excluded.Main outcome measures Emergency medical technician (EMT) interventions, method of delivery and death.Results The median age enrolled was 23 years (IQR 21–25). …”
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The SISAP: A New Screening Instrument for Identifying Potential Opioid Abusers in the Management of Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Within General Medical Practice by Robert B Coambs, Josée L Jarry, Anusha C Santhiapillai, Rixi V Abrahamsohn, Cristina M Atance

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Influence of the Level of Emergency Medical Facility on the Short-Term Treatment Results of Cardiac Arrest: Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Interhospital Transfer by Je Young Chung, Yuri Choi, Jinwoo Jeong, Sung Woo Lee, Kap Su Han, Su Jin Kim, Won Young Kim, Hyunggoo Kang, Eun Seog Hong

“…This study aimed to elucidate whether direct transport of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients to higher-level emergency medical centres (EMCs) would result in better survival compared to resuscitation in smaller local emergency departments (EDs) and subsequent transfer. …”
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Mixed reality infrastructure based on deep learning medical image segmentation and 3D visualization for bone tumors using DCU-Net by Kun Wang, Yong Han, Yuguang Ye, Yusi Chen, Daxin Zhu, Yifeng Huang, Ying Huang, Yijie Chen, Jianshe Shi, Bijiao Ding, Jianlong Huang

“…After realizing automatic segmentation and 3D reconstruction of osteosarcoma by optimizing feature extraction and improving target space clustering capabilities, we built a mixed reality (MR) infrastructure and explored the application prospects of the infrastructure combining deep learning-based medical image segmentation and mixed reality in the diagnosis and treatment of bone tumors. …”
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome: What Are the Reasons for Dissatisfaction with the Treatment of Patients and Doctors? (Based on the Experience of Medical Institutions of the Northwestern Federal District of Russia) by A. Yu. Baranovsky, T. V. Reshetova, I. S. Sakeyan

“…The treatment complex for IBS patients can be considered optimal if, in addition to symptomatic medications, appropriate psychotropic medications are necessarily included in it basing on diagnostic assessment of the psychoemotional status of a particular patient, as well as the appointment of individually selected non-medicinal methods of psychological correction in accordance with psychosomatic symptoms. …”
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Bias-corrected serum creatinine from UK Biobank electronic medical records generates an important data resource for kidney function trajectories by Mathias Gorski, Simon Wiegrebe, Ralph Burkhardt, Merle Behr, Helmut Küchenhoff, Klaus J. Stark, Carsten A. Böger, Iris M. Heid

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Modeling Survival Time to Death among Stroke Patients at Jimma University Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Bikiltu Wakuma Negasa, Teramaj Wongel Wotale, Mesfin Esayas Lelisho, Legesse Kassa Debusho, Kibrealem Sisay, Wubishet Gezimu

“…The data were collected from stroke patients under follow-up at Jimma University Medical Center from January 1, 2016, to January 30, 2019. …”
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The value of diabetes technology enabled coaching (DTEC) to support remission evaluation of medical interventions in T2D: Patient and health coach perspectives. by Madison Taylor, Denise Ng, Kaylen J Pfisterer, Joseph A Cafazzo, Diana Sherifali

“…The multicomponent Remission Evaluation of Medical Interventions in T2D (REMIT) program has shown reduction of hazard of diabetes relapse by 34-43%, but could benefit from improved ability to scale, spread, and sustain it. …”
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Two-Layer Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Low-Resource Medical Question Answering Using Reddit Data: Proof-of-Concept Study by Sudeshna Das, Yao Ge, Yuting Guo, Swati Rajwal, JaMor Hairston, Jeanne Powell, Drew Walker, Snigdha Peddireddy, Sahithi Lakamana, Selen Bozkurt, Matthew Reyna, Reza Sameni, Yunyu Xiao, Sangmi Kim, Rasheeta Chandler, Natalie Hernandez, Danielle Mowery, Rachel Wightman, Jennifer Love, Anthony Spadaro, Jeanmarie Perrone, Abeed Sarker

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Cost analysis of pharmacy education using time driven activity-based costing (TDABC) at Pharmacy School of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences by Farimah Rahimi, Mohammadreza Amirsadri, Mohammadreza Rezayatmand, Mohammadreza Karimi

“… Aims: This study aims to calculate the total cost of educational services delivered by the School of Pharmacy at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, focusing on the cost associated with training pharmacy students using time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC). …”
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Smoking prevalence, exposure to secondhand smoke, and factors associated with smoking among medical, dental, and pharmacy students in a public university in Malaysia by Rashidi Mohamed, Isa Naina-Mohamed, Jaya Kumar, Nadzmi Teh

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Investigating the relationship between happiness and self-esteem with self-efficacy in the clinical performance of midwives working in medical centers and comprehensive health services by Zahra Mohebbi-Dehnavi, Mahnaz Noroozi

“…The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between self-esteem and happiness with self-efficacy in the clinical practice of midwives working in medical centers and comprehensive health services in Isfahan city. …”
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Investigating The Competence Of Spiritual Care Among Nurses Working In Teaching Hospitals Affiliated With Shahid Sadoughi University Of Medical Sciences In Yazd, 2023 by Roohollah Askari, Hassan Jafari, Arefeh Dehghani Tafti, Neda Futuhi Tafti

“…This study aimed to evaluate the spiritual care competence of nurses working in selected teaching hospitals of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd in 2023. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 262 nurses employed in three selected teaching hospitals (Shahid Sadoughi, Shahid Rahnamoun, and Afshar hospitals). …”
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A Self-Adaptive Frequency Decomposition Approach for Denoising to Enhance Data-Driven Learning of Cyclic Time Series in Medical Signal Estimation by Shang-Wei Chao, Feng-Li Lian

“…This study investigates the impact of various filtering techniques on the accuracy of deep learning models in medical signal estimation, specifically using photoplethysmography (PPG) signals as input. …”
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Impact of medical resources in residential area on unmet healthcare needs: Findings from a multi-level analysis of Korean nationwide data by Seo Yeong Choi, Il Yun, Jong Youn Moon

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Specialty choice among final-year medical students and house officers in Nigeria: implications for anaesthesia practice – a cross-sectional study by Thankgod Chukwunnonso Okonkwo, Gbolahan Deji Olatunji, Victor Mayowa Adeleye, Mukaila Oyegbade Akinwale

“…Anaesthesia faces particularly critical shortages. Medical graduate specialty choices have a vital impact on the workforce and are essential for healthcare planning. …”
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Correction: Communication interventions for medically unexplained symptom conditions in general practice: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. by Ailish Katherine Byrne, Arabella Scantlebury, Katherine Jones, Laura Doherty, David J Torgerson

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Medical thoracoscopy combined with intrapleural injection of urokinase for treatment of pleural infection-a multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled study: study protocol by Kaige Wang, Linhui Yang, Panwen Tian, Fen Tan, Dan Liu, Weimin Li

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Safety outcome trials in four mainline medical journals 30 years apart: a narrative review and the need for the transparency of informed consents by Sinem Nihal Esatoglu, Ayse Ozdede, Yesim Ozguler, Koray Tascilar, Hasan Yazici

“…Methods Initially two observers and an arbiter tabulated the main aims of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in 1990–1991 vs. 2019–2020 as efficacy, safety, or undecided in four mainline medical journals, from the websites. A pragmatic design as well as other salient features was also tabulated. …”
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