No frequency change of prehospital treatments by emergency medical services providers for traumatic cardiac arrest patients before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea: an observational study by Ju Heon Lee, Hyung Il Kim

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Fully-integrated medical home for people with severe and persistent mental illness: A description and outcome analysis of a Medicare Advantage Chronic Special Needs Program by Robert Myers

Subjects: “…Severe and Persistent Mental Illness, Schizophrenia, Medical Home, Integrated Care, Medicare.…”
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Temporal trends in guideline-recommended medical therapy after an acute heart failure decompensation event: an observational analysis from Generator Heart Failure DataMart by Antonio Gasbarrini, Giuseppe Patti, Filippo Crea, Giovanni Scambia, Domenico D'Amario, Vincenzo Valentini, Gianluigi Savarese, Alfredo Cesario, Jacopo Lenkowicz, Stefano Patarnello, Renzo Laborante, Agni Delvinioti, Andrada Mihaela Tudor, Chiara Iacomini, Antonio Iaconelli, Donato Antonio Paglianiti, Mattia Galli, Daniele Rodolico, Attilio Restivo, Giuseppe Ciliberti, Gaetano Rizzo, Emiliano Bianchini, Matteo Busti, Luca Sensini

“…Conversely, the prescription of furosemide at discharge (adjusted OR 2.25; 95% CI 95% 1.29 to 3.94; p<0.01) and a previous genitourinary infection (adjusted OR 4.02; 95% CI 1.67 to 9.68; p<0.01) were associated with higher risk of 30-day all-cause death and urgent rehospitalisation.Conclusions In our study, early adoption of guideline-recommended medical therapy is still limited, with a significant rise in SGLT2i prescriptions after January 2022 and a lower risk of the composite of all-cause death and urgent readmissions at 30 days restricted to the use of ACEi/ARB/ARNi.…”
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Successful rescue of a patient with cardiogenic shock following traumatic cardiac arrest using VA-ECMO after air medical transport: a case report by Haohao Wu, Pin Lan, Kechun Zhou, Lutao Xie

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Acceptability and feasibility of shared medical appointments to support self-management of anxiety and depression in primary care in England: a qualitative study of service user/patient perspectives by Fiona Graham, Mei Yee Tang, Megan Hanrahan

“…Objective Shared medical appointments (SMAs) are an innovative care delivery method that provides delivery of clinical care while also supporting self-management. …”
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Navigating Industrial Action: The Guidance for Medical Students During Resident Doctor Strikes in England [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Hannah Okechukwu, Shonnelly Novintan

“…Results 62% of the medical schools issued guidance stating they were not cancelling clinical placements; of these, 10% said attendance was a personal choice. 17% of medical schools cancelled all clinical placements and 7% did not issue guidance. 52% of medical schools monitored attendance on strike days. 1 medical school and 3 clinical placement sites advertised paid work for students during the industrial action. …”
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The Impact of Recent Generic Drug Price Policies on Pharmaceutical Innovation: A Theoretical Rationale and Proposal of a Method Supporting Innovation in Areas of Unmet Medical Need by Pierre-Alexandre Dionne, Farzad Ali, Mendel Grobler

“…In order to promote innovation in therapeutic fields with unmet medical needs, a compromise would be to include the comparator’s patented price in the CEA instead of the generic drug. …”
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Uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision among men with sexually transmitted infections in Lilongwe, Malawi: a protocol for a pre-interventional and post-interventional study by Mina C Hosseinipour, Mitch M Matoga, Sara Jewett, Charles Chasela

“…Introduction Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is one of the key interventions for HIV prevention. …”
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Transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair <i>versus</i> medical therapy for secondary mitral regurgitation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Emídio Mata, Bárbara Lage Garcia, Mariana Tinoco, Margarida Castro, Luísa Pinheiro, João Português, Francisco Ferreira, Silvia Ribeiro, Bruno Melica, António Lourenço

“…Clinical trials comparing mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) with guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) show conflicting results, but the RESHAPE-HF2 trial offers new insights. …”
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Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Correlates in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Quantitative Insights from Final-Year Nursing and Medical Students in a Mixed-Methods Study by Germanus Natuhwera, Eve Namisango, Peter Ellis

“…Setting/participants: Final-year undergraduate medical and nursing students in eight medical and nursing schools in Uganda. …”
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Temporal trends of the utilization patterns of sedative-hypnotic medications in children, adolescents and young adults: a 21-year population-based study with joinpoint regression analysis by Carltin Chun Ting Kwok, Heidi Ka Ying Lo, Ching Yui Chan, Joe Kwun Nam Chan, Corine Sau Man Wong, Calvin Pak Wing Cheng, Chung Ho, Brian Man Ho Leung, Wilfred Shone Horn Wong, Zoe Hoi Shuen Yu, Edwin Ho Ming Lee, Wing Chung Chang

“…Methods This population-based study identified 60,660 individuals aged 4–24 years who had redeemed ≥ 1 BZRA prescription within 2000–2020, using data from medical-record database of Hong Kong public-healthcare-services. …”
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Cost-utility analysis of combination medical therapies in chronic coronary syndrome: a comparative study using real-world and patient-level data from Iran by Fatemeh Soleymani, Parham Sadeghipour, Majid Davari, Abbas Kebriaeezadeh, Behzad Fatemi, Mohammad Reza Maracy, Nasim Naderi, Saman Zartab

“…Objectives The main objective was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of various medical therapy combinations in managing chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) in Iran, based on real-world and patient-level data.Design A cost-utility analysis employing a Markov model was conducted using data from a retrospective cohort study.Setting The study was conducted in the healthcare setting of Iran, focusing on primary and secondary care.Participants Patients with CCS were included in the study. …”
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Formation and development of the language training methodology for foreign students at classical university. Part 4. Language training of foreign medical students in the english medium education format by N. Ushakova, I. Kushnir, O. Trostynska, T. Aleksieienko

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Restorative Neurostimulation Therapy Compared to Optimal Medical Management: A Randomized Evaluation (RESTORE) for the Treatment of Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain due to Multifidus Dysfunction by Frank Schwab, Nagy Mekhail, Kiran V. Patel, Meredith Langhorst, Robert D. Heros, Jonathan Gentile, Sherif Costandi, Gregory Moore, Christopher Gilmore, Smith Manion, Krishnan Chakravarthy, S. Craig Meyer, Justin V. Bundy, Jordan L. Tate, Rebecca Sanders, Sandeep Vaid, Oszkar Szentirmai, Johnathan Goree, Vikas V. Patel, Jeff Lehmen, Mehul J. Desai, Jason E. Pope, Anthony Giuffrida, Salim Hayek, Sohrab Singh Virk, Richard Paicius, William R. Klemme, Robert Levy, Christopher Gilligan, the RESTORE investigators

“…In this randomized controlled trial, we report outcomes from a cohort of patients with CLBP associated with multifidus dysfunction treated with restorative neurostimulation compared to those randomized to a control group receiving optimal medical management (OMM) over 1 year. Methods RESTORE is a multicenter, open-label randomized controlled trial. …”
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Prospective multi-centre analysis of rural trauma team development training for medical trainees and traffic law enforcement professionals in Uganda: an interrupted time series study by Herman Lule, Micheal Mugerwa, Robinson Ssebuufu, Patrick Kyamanywa, Jussi P. Posti, Michael Lowery Wilson

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Feasibility, reliability, usability, and satisfaction of a digital medical device (ZEMY) for symptom management in patients treated for breast cancer: a single-arm interventional study by Luis Teixeira, Christelle Levy, David Coeffic, Rim Ghorbal, Julien Dupin, Nazario Esposito, Olfa Derbel

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An Active-Learning Framework for Educating Medical Students on SARS-CoV-2 Variants and COVID-19 Epidemiology [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Samiksha Prasad, Amanda J Chase

“…It was placed at the end of a hematology block within the first semester of year one of the medical school during the academic years 2021–2022. …”
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Exploring the relationship of body image with self-esteem, anxiety, and depression among female medical undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study from North India by Robin Victor, Rohit Gondwal, Priyaranjan Avinash, Bhumika Dhain, Rachit Singhania

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Outcomes and safety of mechanical thrombectomy, alteplase, and conventional medical care in the treatment of acute M2 segment middle cerebral artery occlusion: a comparative study by Eman M. Khedr, Ahmed Elbassiouny, Mahmoud Nageeb, Ahmed Aly, Khalid O. Mohamed, Nourelhoda A. Haridy

“…We report the outcome and safety of MT versus intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (IV rTPA) versus conventional medical treatment (CMT) of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) due to occlusion of the M2 segment of the MCA. …”
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Allergic Rhinitis and Its Associated Co‐Morbidities Among Patients Attending the ENT Department at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Northern Tanzania: Cross‐Sectional Study by Kenneth Mlay, Gasper Temba, Adrian Matasha, Pendael Mzonge, Denis Katundu, Desderius Chussi

“…Methods A cross‐sectional hospital‐based study was done, a total of 221 patients received Ear, Nose And Throat services at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center during the study period all patients with a clinical diagnosis of allergic rhinitis were captured; Data was collected using a pre‐tested coded questionnaire (Score For Allergic Rhinitis). …”
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