Economic Burden of HIV in a Commercially Insured Population in the United States by Cindy Y. Chen, Prina Donga, Alicia K. Campbell, Babafemi Taiwo

“…Descriptive analyses were conducted to assess baseline demographics and clinical characteristics, and all-cause and HIV-related HRU and costs per patient per month (PPPM) during follow-up. …”
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Effect of Oral Vasopressors Used for Liberation from Intravenous Vasopressors in Intensive Care Unit Patients Recovering from Spinal Shock: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Ahmed Talaat Ahmed Ali, Mervat Anwar Abd EL-Aziz, Ahmed Mohamed Abdelhafez, Amr Mohamed Ahmed Thabet

“…The midodrine group received midodrine 10 mg per oral every 8 h with gradual weaning off intravenous (IV) vasopressor (noradrenaline) after receiving 4 doses, the minirin group received minirin 60 μg per oral every 8 h with gradual weaning off IV vasopressor after receiving 4 doses, whereas the control group received IV vasopressor (noradrenaline) with gradual weaning according to the routine hospital care without adding oral vasopressors. …”
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Epidemiology of urinary tract infections in the Middle East and North Africa, 1990–2021 by Fatemeh Amiri, Saeid Safiri, Reza Aletaha, Mark J. M. Sullman, Kamaleddin Hassanzadeh, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Shahnam Arshi

“…Results In 2019, the MENA region recorded an incidence rate of 4,033.4 per 100,000 (95% UIs: 3,553.7–4,548.7) and 7,687 deaths (95% UIs: 6,663–8,969). …”
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Variability of Scots pine (<i>Pinus sylvestris</i> L.) plus trees in the Middle and Upper Volga Region with the use of ISSR markers by O. V. Sheikina, E. M. Romanov

“…The genetic variabil ity varied within the following limits: 95.7–96.9 %, polymorphic loci; 1.96–1.97, the number of alleles per locus; 1.31–1.48, the number of effective alleles per locus: finally, 0.291–0.429, Shannon’s index; 0.205–0.298, the expected heterozygosity. …”
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Crime and birth rate in Ukraine: modelling and statistical analysis by O. F. Shevchuk

“…The confidence interval of this value is (9.61; 15.84) for a five per cent level of significance. The proposed approach made it possible to conduct an approximate assessment of the effect of the increase in the birth rate in 2012–2013 due to the increase in financial payments at childbirth.…”
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Well Pattern and Well Spacing Optimization of Large Volume Water Injection in a Low-Permeability Reservoir with Pressure Sensitivity by Jie Zhan, Yafei Tian, Chao Fan, Xianlin Ma, Ren-Shi Nie, Dongqi Ji, Teng Li, Hongyan Yu

“…To further screen the well pattern, the normalized index of oil production per unit area of each well pattern is proposed. …”
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Genetic diversity assessment in pea cultivars and lines using the SSR analysis by K. P. Gainullina, B. R. Kuluev, F. A. Davletov

“…All markers delivered good electrophoretic profiles and helped to amplify a number of alleles per locus varying from 2 (AB53) to 9 (AA355). The total number of alleles was 26, while the average number of alleles per locus was 5.2. …”
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Use of computerised adaptive testing to reduce the number of items in patient-reported hip and knee outcome scores: an analysis of the NHS England National Patient-Reported Outcome... by Jose Maria Valderas, Andrew D Toms, Jonathan Peter Evans, Christopher Gibbons

“…Objective Over 160 000 participants per year complete the 12-item Oxford Hip and Knee Scores (OHS/OKS) as part of the NHS England Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme. …”
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Long-term survival in a large cohort of patients with venous thrombosis: incidence and predictors. by Linda E Flinterman, Astrid van Hylckama Vlieg, Suzanne C Cannegieter, Frits R Rosendaal

“…The overall mortality rate was 22.7 per 1,000 person-years (95% CI 21.0-24.6) for patients and 4.7 per 1,000 person-years (95% CI 4.0-5.6) for controls. …”
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Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Cholangiography: Practical Tips and Clinical Indications for Biliary Disease Management by Stefano Palmucci, Federica Roccasalva, Marina Piccoli, Giovanni Fuccio Sanzà, Pietro Valerio Foti, Alfonso Ragozzino, Pietro Milone, Giovanni Carlo Ettorre

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A century of Azolla filiculoides biocontrol: the economic value of Stenopelmus rufinasus to Great Britain by Corin F. Pratt, Kate Constantine, Suzy V. Wood

“…The impacts of naturalised S. rufinasus populations on A. filiculoides were expected to reduce management costs to £0.8 to 1.6 million (US$0.9 to 1.8 million) per year. With additional augmentative releases of the weevil, A. filiculoides management costs were estimated to be lower still, ranging from £31.5 to 45.8 thousand (US$35.3 to 51.3 thousand) per year, giving an estimated benefit to cost ratio of augmentative S. rufinasus releases of 43.7:1 to 88.4:1. …”
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Influence of Nursing Time and Staffing on Medication Errors: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Administrative Data by Mutsuko Moriwaki, Michiko Tanaka, Masayuki Kakehashi, Masato Koizumi, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Kenshi Hayashida

“…The nursing time per patient in the medication error group compared to that in the non-medication error group had an odds ratio of 1.31 (<i>p</i> < 0.01) during day shifts. …”
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The evolution of health policy and systems research in 11 low- and middle-income countries and the role of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research: a bibliometric analy... by Nino Paichadze, Emma K. Cook, Heather E. Rosen, Sara Kurtovic, Adnan A. Hyder

“…Nineteen per cent of HPSR publications during this time were authored by Alliance-funded investigators. …”
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Application of microbially induced calcite precipitation to mitigate soil frost heave by M.F. Nikshoar, M.A. Rowshanzamir, S.M. Abtahi, S. Soleimanian-Zad

“…The minimum frost heave was achieved in 108 colony-forming units per milliliter bacteria concentration, 0.6 mole per litre cementing solution concentration, and 21 days of curing.CONCLUSION: The findings indicated that the used method could be efficiently used to reach the desired objective. …”
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Incidence and fatality of serious suicide attempts in a predominantly rural population in Shandong, China: a public health surveillance study by Aiqiang Xu, Mei Wang, Xiaolei Guo, Cunxian Jia, Jiandong Sun, Jiyu Zhang

“…A multiple logistic regression model was developed to examine the factors associated with a higher or lower fatality rate.Results The incidence of SSAs was estimated to be 46 (95% CI 44 to 48) per 100 000 person-years, which was 1.5 times higher in rural versus urban areas, slightly higher among females, and increased with age. …”
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Abortion and unintended pregnancy in Pakistan: new evidence for 2023 and trends over the past decade by Susheela Singh, Octavia Mulhern, Zeba Sathar, Iqbal H Shah, Muhammad Rehan Niazi, Tahira Parveen, Ali Mohammad Mir

“…This corresponds to an annual unintended pregnancy rate of 100 and an induced abortion rate of 66 (95% CI 38 to 111) per 1000 women aged 15–49. There was no significant change in the unintended pregnancy rate, but the abortion rate increased by 25% between 2012 and 2023. …”
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Costs and Resource Use Among Patients with Cervical Cancer, Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia, and Genital Warts in Algeria by Ali-Chakib Bennacef, Aomar Ammar Khodja, Fadl Allah Abou-Bekr, Tidiane Ndao, Ryan Holl, Goran Benčina

“…Treatments used regularly or always for cervical cancer included chemotherapy (80%), hysterectomy (70%), and radiation (70%). Annual HCRU per institution included 20 outpatient visits and 15 hospitalizations for CIN, and 50 outpatient visits and 11 hospitalizations for cervical cancer. …”
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Patterns of natural regeneration of pine forests in the Left-Bank Forest-Steppe of Ukraine by Volodymyr P. Pasternak, Tetiana S. Pyvovar, Anna V. Garmash

“…Natural regeneration in pine-dominated stands is characterized by an age of 4–8 years and a low number of plants per hectare (1,000 [500–2,000]), with few plots containing enough regeneration (over 3,000 plants per hectare) to form a new forest stand without additional planting. …”
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Analysis of Climate Variability and Trends for Climate-Resilient Maize Farming System in Major Agroecology Zones of Ethiopia by Abebe Zeleke, Kindie Tesfaye, Tilahun Tadesse, Teferi Alem, Dereje Ademe, Enyew Adgo

“…The mean annual temperature has exhibited a significant warming trend of 0.12 to 0.54°C per decade. The average annual rainfall has decreased by 38 to 67 mm per decade in all maize agroecology zones. …”
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Computational model for mammalian circadian oscillator: interacting with NAD+/SIRT1 pathway and age-related changes in gene expression of circadian oscillator by N. L. Podkolodnyy, N. N. Tverdokhleb, O. A. Podkolodnaya

“…Simulation data showed a decrease in expression level of several genes of the circadian oscillator, in particular, Bmal1 and Per2, in the older age groups. In addition, our extended model predicted an increase in the period of oscillations. …”
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