Enhancing Aotearoa, New Zealand’s Free Healthline Service through Image Upload Technology by Miriama K. Wilson, Fiona Pienaar, Ruth Large, Matt Wright, Verity F. Todd

“…This is a retrospective observational study analysing Healthline image upload data over a two-year period: March 2021 through to December 2022. …”
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Electrodiagnostic assessment of autonomic nervous system in diabetic autonomic neuropathy: Case series in 72 diabetes patients by Suchitra Dube, Sandip M. Hulke, Santosh L. Wakode, Sagar Khadanga

“…To discuss the HRV and AFT findings in diabetic patients. An observational study was conducted in Physiology department of AIIMS, Bhopal in collaboration with the Medicine department of the institute. …”
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Coronary Calcium Scoring and Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Belkis Mercedes Vicente Sánchez, Gisela Zerquera Trujillo, Felix R. Jorrín Román, Lázaro E. de la Cruz Avilez, Elodia M. Rivas Alpízar

“…<strong><br />Methods:</strong> A descriptive observational study was conducted. The sample included 33 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus admitted in the Center for Diabetes Care and Education of Cienfuegos from April to July 2009. …”
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Epidemiology and Management of Actinic Keratosis in France: A General Population Survey (REAKT) by Brigitte Dréno, Pierre Lévy, Gregory Caillet, Chantal Touboul, Jean-Michel Joubert, Jean-Michel Amici

“…The objective of this retrospective observational study was to estimate the prevalence of actinic keratosis (AK) in individuals aged ≥ 40 years in France, to describe the characteristics of affected patients, and to describe treatments. …”
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Leuko-glycemic Index as a Prognostic Factor after Acute Myocardial Infarction with ST-segment Elevation by Ailed Rodríguez Jiménez, Raikel Fardales Rodríguez, Enrique Toledo Rodríguez, Guillermo Quintana Cañizarez

“…<br /><strong>Method:</strong> a prospective observational study was conducted which included all patients admitted consecutively with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation and Killip&gt; I class, from January 2012 to June 2015 at the Provincial University Hospital Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán. …”
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Metformin-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Lactic Acidosis by David Arroyo, Rosa Melero, Nayara Panizo, Marian Goicoechea, Patrocinio Rodríguez-Benítez, Soledad García Vinuesa, Eduardo Verde, Alberto Tejedor, José Luño

“…We conducted a prospective observational study of metformin-associated AKI cases during four years. 29 cases were identified. …”
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Study of Frequency and Characteristics of Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization in Thalassemic Patients: Multicenter Study from Palestine by Adham Abu Taha, Ahmad Yaseen, Sa’d Suleiman, Omar Abu Zenah, Hammam Ali, Rania Abu Seir, Khaled Younis

“…A prospective multicenter observational study was conducted in the thalassemia transfusion centers in the northern governorates of Palestine. …”
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Implementation and evaluation of a complex outpatient oral antimicrobial therapy program (COpAT) in Canada by Maggie Wong, Davie Wong

“…Design: Retrospective observational study that evaluated the efficacy, safety, and cost savings of patients enrolled in the program from August 2023 to June 2024. …”
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Efficacy of the Enteroadsorbent Silicol®gel in Adults with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Subtypes IBS-D or Mixed: Observational Open-Label Study by Gordon Crawford, Rory Taylor, David Young, Chris G. Hatton

“…In this open-label, observational study, adults with IBS with predominant diarrhoea (IBS-D) or IBS with mixed bowel habits (IBS-M), according to Rome IV criteria, received 4 weeks of treatment with the enteroadsorbent Silicol®gel, a CE-certified, licenced, medical device containing colloidal silicic acid. …”
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Diarrheal Diseases Hospitalization in Yemen before and after Rotavirus Vaccination by Mohammed Amood AL-Kamarany, Lina Al-Areqi, Abulatif Mujally, Fawzya Alkarshy, Arwa Nasser, Aisha O. Jumaan

“…Based on a longitudinal observational study, we assessed the impact of vaccination on rotavirus hospitalization before and after vaccination among children ≤ 5 years of age at the Yemeni-Swedish Hospital (YSH) in Taiz, Yemen. …”
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Family Support and Its Association with Glycemic Control in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Adwa M. AlHaidar, Norah A. AlShehri, Munira A. AlHussaini

“…This cross-sectional observational study assessed adolescents aged 10–19 years diagnosed with T1DM on insulin and receiving follow-up care at the King Saud University Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …”
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Comparison of CRP, Procalcitonin, Neutrophil Counts, Eosinophil Counts, sTREM-1, and OPN between Pneumonic and Nonpneumonic Exacerbations in COPD Patients by Shan Mou, Wei Zhang, Yan Deng, Zhijun Tang, Depeng Jiang

“…Methods. 52 subjects with AECOPD + CAP and 93 subjects with AECOPD from two clinical centers were enrolled in this prospective observational study. The values of osteopontin (OPN), soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (sTREM-1), C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), eosinophil (EOS) counts, and neutrophil (Neu) counts in blood on the first day of admission and clinical symptoms were compared in AECOPD and AECOPD + CAP. …”
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Comparison of Local Load Influence on Crack Evolution of Coal and Briquette Coal Samples by Hongbao Zhao, Tao Wang, Huan Zhang, Ziqiang Wei

“…The results show that the raw coal and briquette coal samples are different mainly in number, dimension, and complexity of the internal microstructures, so it is not right to replace raw coal with briquette coal when performing observational study of the crack evolution of microstructures; under the effect of local load, local property, randomness of crack initiation position, and crack initiation stress of raw coal samples are greater than those of briquette coal samples; law of instantaneous maximum effective cut-through rate of raw coal samples is more complex than that of briquette coals; under the effect of uniformly distributed load, end effect factor Fe, sample microstructure influencing factor Fs, and preset center hole factor Fh are the major factors influencing crack growth, among which the amplified end effect factor Fe and sample microstructure influencing factor Fs are dominant factors; under the effect of local load, local load influencing factor Fp, end effect factor Fe, sample microstructure influencing factor Fs, and preset center hole factor Fs are the major factors influencing crack growth, among which the local load influencing factor Fp, end effect factor Fe, and sample microstructure influencing factor Fs are dominant factors. …”
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Epidemiologic trends and characteristics of cancer-related emergency department visits of older patients living with cancer in South Korea by Jung-In Ko, Sun Young Lee, Shin Hye Yoo, Kyae Hyung Kim, Belong Cho

“…This retrospective observational study included all ED visits in South Korea between 2016 and 2020. …”
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Search for clinical, genetic, morphological and immunohistochemical predictors of parathyroid cancer recurrence by Ekaterina I. Kim, Anna K. Eremkina, Alina R. Elfimova, Natalia G. Mokrysheva

“…We performed a retrospective observational study of 85 patients with verified PC divided into remission (n=61) and recurrence (n=19) groups after primary surgical treatment for the period 2004–2023. …”
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The Relationship of Sirtuin 1 and Sirtuin 2 Expression with Clinicopathological Parameters in Non Small-Cell Lung Carcinomas by Fatma Cakmak Kazanci, Nagehan Barisik Ozdemir, Sibel Sensu, Cem Cahit Barisik

“…Methods: This retrospective observational study reviewed lung resections (lobectomy, segmentectomy, wedge resection, and pneumonectomy) of 186 patients diagnosed with NSCLC (adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and adenosquamous carcinoma). …”
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ANALYSIS OF IMMUNITY IN OSTEOSARCOMA AS A BASIS FOR DEVELOPMENT FOLLOWING THERAPY by Ferdiansyah Mahyudin, Mouli Edward, Muhammad Hardian Basuki, Kadek Seta Prawira

“…Purpose: To elaborate the role of M-1 ratio with M-2 in the development of non-invasive osteosarcoma become invasive, in effort to obtain predictors that can be used to the selection of neoadjuvant therapy time. Methods: An observational study with cross sectional analytic study design. …”
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COMPARATION OF MASTOID TRIANGLE AREA MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES USING VOLUME RENDERING POST PROCESSING AND MULTI PLANAR REFORMATION by Anggi Tiur Maduma, Anggraini Dwi Sensusiati, Amillia Kartika Sari

“…Method: This type of research is an analytic observational study with a retrospective approach. The number of samples used were 152 raw data of patients with criteria aged 26-65 years and without any pathological changes in the mastoid process area. …”
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Technical difficulties and success of endoscopic retrograde colangiopancreatography in a group of patients by Pedro Juan Vázquez González, Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Gustavo Becerra Terón, Mayelin González Pérez, Pedro Juan Barrios Fuentes, Denis Monzón Vega, Mabel Vega Galindo

“…<strong><br />Methods:</strong> prospective, descriptive, observational study that included all the patients who were tested through this procedure from January to December 2009 in the hospital “Dr. …”
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A risk prediction score to identify patients at low risk for COVID-19 infection by Wui Mei Chew, Chee Hong Loh, Aditi Jalali, Grace Shi En Fong, Loshini Senthil Kumar, Rachel Hui Zhen Sim, Russell Pinxue Tan, Sunil Ravinder Gill, Trilene Ruiting Liang, Jansen Meng Kwang Koh, Tunn Ren Tay

“…Methods: This was a single-centre retrospective observational study. Patients admitted to our institution’s respiratory surveillance wards from 10 February to 30 April 2020 contributed data for analysis. …”
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