Public assistance in patients with acute heart failure: a report from the KCHF registry by Yuji Nishimoto, Takao Kato, Takeshi Morimoto, Ryoji Taniguchi, Hidenori Yaku, Yasutaka Inuzuka, Yodo Tamaki, Erika Yamamoto, Yusuke Yoshikawa, Takeshi Kitai, Moritake Iguchi, Masashi Kato, Mamoru Takahashi, Toshikazu Jinnai, Tomoyuki Ikeda, Kazuya Nagao, Takafumi Kawai, Akihiro Komasa, Ryusuke Nishikawa, Yuichi Kawase, Takashi Morinaga, Kanae Su, Mitsunori Kawato, Yuta Seko, Moriaki Inoko, Mamoru Toyofuku, Yutaka Furukawa, Yoshihisa Nakagawa, Kenji Ando, Kazushige Kadota, Satoshi Shizuta, Koh Ono, Koichiro Kuwahara, Neiko Ozasa, Yukihito Sato, Takeshi Kimura

“…Methods and results The Kyoto Congestive Heart Failure registry was a physician‐initiated, prospective, observational, multicentre cohort study enrolling 4056 consecutive patients who were hospitalized due to AHF for the first time between October 2014 and March 2016. …”
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Ultrasensitive interferons quantification reveals different cytokine profile secretion in inflammatory myopathies and can serve as biomarkers of activity in dermatomyositis by Loïs Bolko, Loïs Bolko, Loïs Bolko, Céline Anquetil, Céline Anquetil, Alba Llibre, Solène Maillard, Damien Amelin, Karim Dorgham, Vincent Bondet, Océane Landon-Cardinal, Océane Landon-Cardinal, Océane Landon-Cardinal, Ségolène Toquet, Ségolène Toquet, Kuberaka Mariampillai, Samuel Malatre, Alexandrine Mahoudeau, Baptiste Hervier, Mathieu Rodero, Guy Gorochov, Darragh Duffy, Olivier Benveniste, Olivier Benveniste, Yves Allenbach, Yves Allenbach

“…ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of different types of interferon in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) and their subgroups using ultrasensitive cytokine detection techniques (SIMOA) and to assess their potential as activity biomarkers.MethodsDisease activity was measured at the time of serum collection and assessed by manual muscle testing eight (MMT8 score 0-150), muscle enzymes to calculate the Physician Global Assessment (PGA) (0-10). Patients were classified as active if PGA>5.Serum IFN-α and IFN-γ levels was measured using the single molecule array (SIMOA) technique. …”
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I-SPY COVID adaptive platform trial for COVID-19 acute respiratory failure: rationale, design and operations by Carolyn S Calfee, Michael A Matthay, Paul Henderson, Martin Eklund, Laura J Esserman, Chirag Patel, Angela Haczku, Michelle Jung, Tony Oliver, Alessio Crippa, Andrea Discacciati, Kathleen D Liu, Ellen L Burnham, Nuala J Meyer, Fady A Youssef, Derek W Russell, Julie Lang, Kevin W Gibbs, Daniel C Files, Sheetal Gandotra, Purnema Madahar, Nathan K Cobb, Timothy E Albertson, Rajiv Sonti, John P Reilly, Alejandra Jauregui, Iván García, Luis E Huerta, Daniel Clark Files, Neil R Aggarwal, Adam L Asare, Jeremy R Beitler, Paul A Berger, George Cimino, Melissa H Coleman, Paul T Henderson, Caroline A G Ittner, Kashif T Khan, Jonathan L Koff, Mary LaRose, Joe Levitt, Ruixiao Lu, Jeffrey D McKeehan, Karl W Thomas, Aaron M Mittel, Albert F Yen, Alexis E Suarez, Alexis L Serra, Alpesh N Amin, Amanda Rosen, Amy L Dzierba, Anna D Barker, Ariel R Weisman, Brian M Daniel, Brian M Morrissey, Caroline AG Ittner, Chayse Jones, Christina Creel-Bulos, Christina M Angelucci, Diana Ng, Fredy Chaparro-Rojas, Gavin H Harris, Harsh V Barot, Heny Su, Jacqueline B Sutter, Jamal Dodin, Jerry S Lee, John Kazianis, Joshua F Detelich, Julie E Lang, Justin Muir, Katarzyna Gosek, Katherine L Nugent, Kimberly Yee, Laura G Rodrigues, Laura R Macias, Lindsey A Orr, Lindsie L Boerger, Lissette Rosario-Remigio, Lucia Kufa, Maged Tanios, Maria B Reyes, Max W Adelman, Maya M Juarez, Michelle Meyers, Mitchell P Sternlieb, Neil Aggarwal, Nilam S Mangalmurti, Patrice Jones, Paul L Saban, Peter S Marshall, Philiip A Robinson, Philip Yang, Rahul Nair, Richard Anthony Lee, Richard G Wunderink, Romina Wahab, Roxana A Lupu, Santhi I Kumar, Sara C Auld, Scott Fields, Se Fum Wong, Skyler J Pearson, Spencer Whealon, Timothy F Obermiller, Anita Darmanian, John Schicchi, Esmeralda Martinez, Farjad Sarafian, Julie Nguyen, Bethany Weiler-Lisowski, Jaime Wyatt, Daniel Blevins, Marylee Melendrez, Brenda Lopez, Hiwet Tzehaie, Omowunmi Amosu, Austin Simonson, Erin Hardy, Brett Lindgren, Gregory Peterfreund, Leigha Landreth, Lisa Parks

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Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…Norman, "Social Determinants of Mental Health and Physician Aid-in-dying: The Real Moral Crisis," The American Journal of Bioethics 19, no. 10 (2019): 52-54, https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2019.1654025…”
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Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons Suffering Solely from Mental Illness in Canada by Chloe Eunice Panganiban, Srushhti Trivedi

“…Some argue that while physicians and medical professionals do work to relieve suffering, they are trained to do so through a primary care-based diagnose-and-treat approach.[26] Studies that have captured Canadian physicians’ experiences providing MAiD report that, although physicians stated that the work was rewarding, it came with many challenges, including strained relationships with coworkers, increased workload, and inadequate compensation.[27] Physicians report that a part of the problem is that MAiD rules are written by lawyers and experts who are removed from its reality in medical practice. …”
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Epistaxis first-aid management: a needs assessment among healthcare providers by Leigh Sowerby, Chandheeb Rajakumar, Matthew Davis, Brian Rotenberg

“…Abstract Purpose To perform a needs assessment of epistaxis first-aid measures practiced by family physicians and Emergency Department (ED) staff in London, Ontario, Canada. …”
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Surveillance of drug prescribing: why outliers miss their targets – a qualitative study by Julia Gollnick, Nikoletta Zeschick, Franziska Hörbrand, Peter Killian, Maria Sebastiao, Thomas Kühlein, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff

“…A subgroup of physicians, known as outliers, may miss their drug targets. …”
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Barriers and Facilitators of Research in Pediatric Sports Medicine Practitioners: A Survey of the PRiSM Society by Dai Sugimoto, Michael Del Bel, Lauren Butler

“…# Background Barriers and facilitators to research in sports medicine (SM) by physicians and allied health (AH) professions such as physical therapists and athletic trainers are understudied. …”
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Using Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography to Monitor Disease Progression in Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis by Aakriti Garg, Joaquin De Rojas, Priya Mathews, Albert Hazan, James Lin, Danielle Trief, Leejee H. Suh

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Derivation of Two New Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines from Nonviable Human Embryos by Svetlana Gavrilov, Darja Marolt, Nataki C. Douglas, Robert W. Prosser, Imran Khalid, Mark V. Sauer, Donald W. Landry, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Virginia E. Papaioannou

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Penile Fracture: Delayed Presentation, Primary Urethral Repair and Satisfactory Outcome by Bashir Yunusa, Kalamon Wullie, Soeghen E. Willie, Solomane Konneh, Swaliho Sherriff, Ayun Cassell, Edit Ikpi

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Critical reflection on the indication for computed tomography: an interdisciplinary survey of risk and benefit management in patients with sepsis by Maria Isabel Opper Hernando, Denis Witham, Ann-Christine Stahl, Peter Richard Steinhagen, Stefan Angermair, Wolfgang Bauer, Friederike Compton, Andreas Edel, Jan Matthias Kruse, York Kühnle, Gunnar Lachmann, Susanne Marz, Holger Müller-Redetzky, Jens Nee, Oliver Paul, Damaris Praeger, Carsten Skurk, Miriam Stegemann, Alexander Uhrig, Stefan Wolf, Myrto Bolanaki, Kerstin Rubarth, Joachim Seybold, Elke Zimmermann, Marc Dewey, Julian Pohlan

“…Methods A web-based questionnaire was administered to physicians at a large European university medical center in January 2022. …”
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Inflammatory biomarkers profiles and cognition among older adults by Aline Thomas, Jing Guo, Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer, Danurys Sanchez, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Jennifer J. Manly, Adam M. Brickman, Rafael A. Lantigua, Richard Mayeux, Yian Gu

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An exploration of healthcare professionals’ knowledge and perceived barriers about acute oxygen therapy: a survey in a tertiary care hospital, Sudan by Mustafa Sabir Abakar Awad, Mohammed Fadlelmola Abdalla Mohamednour, Fakher Aldeen Rafat, Mohaned Altijani Abdalgadir Hamdnaalla, Abdelrahman Elfatih, Faris Jamalaldeen Mohammed Hamed, Abubakr Muhammed, Ibrahim Awad, Mohammed Alsiddig AlKheder, Mohamed Almubarak Omer Elhado, Ayman Yahya, Salama Salah Alrawa, Munir Rafat Munir Lawis

“…A total of 74% of the physicians were junior physicians. Among the physicians, 15 (9.4%) had good knowledge (score > 80%), 75 (47.2%) had moderate knowledge (score > 60% & less than 80%), and 69 (43.4%) had poor knowledge about acute oxygen therapy (score < 60%). …”
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Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence Based Chatbots in Analyzing Orthopedic Pathologies: An Experimental Multi-Observer Analysis by Tobias Gehlen, Theresa Joost, Philipp Solbrig, Katharina Stahnke, Robert Zahn, Markus Jahn, Dominik Adl Amini, David Alexander Back

“…The agreement in the accuracy of the diagnoses varied from low to high (Physicians vs. Physicians: Spearman’s ρ: 0.143 to 0.538; Physicians vs. …”
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Healthcare consumers' perceptions of incentive-linked prescribing: A scoping review. by Muhammad Naveed Noor, Haider Safdar Abbasi, Nina van Der Mark, Zahida Azizullah, Janice Linton, Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Mishal Sameer Khan, Rumina Hasan, Sadia Shakoor

“…Incentive-linked prescribing (ILP) is considered a controversial practice universally. If incentivised, physicians may prioritise meeting pharmaceutical sales targets through prescriptions, rather than considering patients' health and wellbeing. …”
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Anaesthesia provision, infrastructure and resources in the Heilongjiang Province, China: a cross-sectional observational study by Jian Zhang, Hui Wang, Fei Han, Ge Jiang, Xi Zhang, Guonian Wang, Xiaoyu Zheng, Jingshun Zhao, Dandan Yao, Wanchao Yang, Xuesong Ma, Xiaodi Lu, Xidong Zhu, Meijun Chen, Mingyue Zhang

“…Objective The aim of this study was to explore the current status of the anaesthesia provision, infrastructure and resources in the Heilongjiang Province, China.Design A cross-sectional observational study of hospitals, anaesthesiologists, assistant anaesthesiologists and anaesthetic nurses in the Heilongjiang Province.Setting All hospitals in the Heilongjiang Province.Participants The hospitals, anaesthesiologists (attending physicians, associate chief physicians and chief physicians), assistant anaesthesiologists (licenced assistant physicians, resident physicians and other trainees) and anaesthetic nurses.Main outcome measures Standard descriptive statistics (percentages and numbers) were used to summarise the data.Results The investigation involved 1123 hospitals, 405 of these hospitals had anaesthesiology departments (36.06%). …”
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Dexmedetomidine Use in the Setting of Cocaine-Induced Hypertensive Emergency and Aortic Dissection: A Novel Indication by Fahad Javed, Alexandre Miguel Benjo, Kiran Reddy, Muhammad Shoaib Akram, Shahzeb Afsar Khan, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, Girish Nadkarni, Emad F. Aziz, Eyal Herzog

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Lékaři, lazebníci a porodní báby z řad moravských novokřtěnců v 16.–17. století by Andrea Loukotová

“… The Anabaptist physicians, barber­surgeons and midwives played an important part in the medicine of the 16th and 17th century. …”
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A multiplex method for rapidly identifying viral protease inhibitors by Seo Jung Hong, Samuel J Resnick, Sho Iketani, Ji Won Cha, Benjamin Alexander Albert, Christopher T Fazekas, Ching-Wen Chang, Hengrui Liu, Shlomi Dagan, Michael R Abagyan, Pavla Fajtová, Bruce Culbertson, Brooklyn Brace, Eswar R Reddem, Farhad Forouhar, J Fraser Glickman, James M Balkovec, Brent R Stockwell, Lawrence Shapiro, Anthony J O’Donoghue, Yosef Sabo, Joel S Freundlich, David D Ho, Alejandro Chavez

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