Strategic Analysis of the Financing System of Iran Health Insurance Organization by Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad, Mahdiyeh Heydari, Mahya Abbasi, Mahdi Abbasi

“…Increasing the coverage of health services, correcting the information databases of the insured and electronic prescribing were the most important strengths, and inappropriate pooling of financial resources, incomplete risk pooling, high administrative costs, and inefficient control were the most important weaknesses of IHIO. …”
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Efficacy of clomiphene citrate and tamoxifen on pregnancy rates in idiopathic male subfertility: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Shadi Khashaba, Shehab Khashaba, Anil Krishan, Angus Bruce, Abdullatif Almaghlouth, Jason Huang, Mahmoud Mima, Craig Niederberger

“…Secondary outcomes included serum follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, and testosterone levels, and sperm count and motility. We calculated the pooled odds ratio, risk ratio, and risk difference to ascertain possible alterations in the direction of the pooled effect size. …”
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Accuracy of Deep Learning Algorithms for the Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity by Fundus Images: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jingjing Zhang, Yangyang Liu, Toshiharu Mitsuhashi, Toshihiko Matsuo

“…For combined validation and test datasets in each study, the pooled sensitivity and specificity were 0.953 (95% confidence intervals (CI): 0.946–0.959) and 0.975 (0.973–0.977), respectively, and the AUC was 0.984 (0.978–0.989). …”
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Silicosis prevalence and related issues in India: a scoping review by Mukti Khetan, Bontha V. Babu

“…As an add-on analysis included, a random-effects meta-analysis was used to estimate the pooled prevalence of silicosis and assess variability among studies. …”
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Factors associated with contracting border malaria: A systematic and meta-analysis. by Tichaona Fambirai, Moses Chimbari, Tafadzwa Mhindu

“…We conducted a systematic and meta-analysis review to characterise and establish pooled effect sizes of the factors associated with the occurrence of border malaria. …”
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Determinants of breast cancer screening among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel analysis. by Beminate Lemma Seifu, Yohannes Mekuria Negussie, Angwach Abrham Asnake, Fraol Daba Chinkey, Bezawit Melak Fente, Zufan Alamrie Asmare

“…Thus, this study aimed to estimate the pooled prevalence of breast cancer screening and associated factors among women of reproductive age in SSA.…”
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Frequency and Prognostic Impact of CDKN2A/B Alteration in Oligodendrogliomas: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Satoshi NAKASU, Shoichi DEGUCHI, Yoko NAKASU

“…Overall survival was worse in patients with CDKN2A/B-HomoD [pooled hazard ratio (pHR) 2.44; 95% confidential interval (CI), 1.59-3.76; P < 0.0001; 7 studies, 1,012 patients] than in those without CDKN2A/B-HomoD. …”
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Mobility Aware Spectrum Handoff in 6G-Enabled Cognitive Radio Vehicular Centralized and Ad-Hoc Networks by Shanidul Hoque, Hemanta Kumar Sahu, Mohammed Nazibul Hasan, Rajesh Saha

“…In this paper, we propose an integrated model of the cell-based and pool-based spectrum handoff (SH) process of a non-stationary cognitive user (CU) under a heterogeneous spectrum environment (HetSE) in a 6G-enabled cognitive radio cellular network (CRCN). …”
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Pretreatment attrition after rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis diagnosis with Xpert MTB/RIF or ultra in high TB burden countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Tom Decroo, Palmer Masumbe Netongo, Tinne Gils, Christelle Geneviève Jouego

“…Most studies used routine programme data. The pooled proportion of pretreatment attrition in included studies was 18% (95% CI: 12 to 25). …”
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The burden of medical contraindications to corneal donation: Time for review. by Oliver Dorado-Cortez, Sylvain Poinard, Magali Epinat, Fanny Collange, Sandrine Ninotta, Paul Goin, Jean Luc Perrot, Philippe Gain, Graeme Pollock, Gilles Thuret

“…Their contribution to the reduction in the potential donor pool has not previously been investigated. We analyzed 45 months of exhaustive data from the hospital coordination for organ and tissue procurement at St-Etienne University Hospital (01/01/2020 to 06/09/2023). …”
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The Adducts Lipid Peroxidation Products with 2′-DeoxyNucleosides: A Theoretical Approach of Ionisation Potential by Boleslaw T. Karwowski

“…The presence of the above molecules can alter a cell’s antioxidant pool. With this in mind, the adiabatic ionisation potential (AIP) and vertical ionisation potential (VIP), as well as the spin and charge distributions, are discussed. …”
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Prevalence of, and factors associated with, sarcopenia in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mobin Marzban Abbas Abadi, Danial Hosseinzade, Majid Khalilizad, Majid Khalilizad

“…The overall pooled prevalence of sarcopenia in Iran was 22.1% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 18.7–25.6). …”
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Graft survival and mortality outcomes after kidney transplant in patients with lupus nephritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Weizhong Jiang, Yunfen Xu, Qichun Yin

“…Primary outcomes of interest were graft survival and patient survival. Pooled effect estimates were calculated using random-effects models and reported as hazard ratio (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). …”
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In-hospital mortality among neonates with necrotising enterocolitis in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Addisu Getie, Adam Wondmieneh, Melaku Bimerew, Manay Ayalneh, Freweyni Gebreegziabher Araya, Nigatu Dessalegn

“…Test of heterogeneity, publication bias, sensitivity analysis, subgroup analysis and meta-regression were performed.Results A total of 12 articles involving 588 neonates were included. The pooled in-hospital mortality among neonates with NEC in Ethiopia was found to be 70.0% (95% CI=60.0% to 80.0%; I2=87.5%). …”
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Evaluating level of adherence to nicotine replacement therapy and its impact on smoking cessation: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis by Michelle Bovill, Gillian Sandra Gould, Amanual Getnet Mersha, Parivash Eftekhari, Daniel Nigusse Tollosa

“…When studies are adequately homogeneous, results will be pooled using random-effects model with proportion and ORs with 95% CIs and p values for each outcome. …”
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A conceptual mechanistic model of amino acid fluxes in the small intestine, taking the example of pig by C.J.J. Garçon, N. Le Floc’h, Y. Mercier, J. van Milgen

“…The pools were connected by fluxes, representing the main fates of AA, such as saturable transport of luminal AA or homeostasis of free or protein-bound AA in intestinal tissue. …”
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Sudden cardiac death after acute myocarditis with arrhythmic presentation: hunting for risk predictors − a systematic review and meta-analysis by Massimo Imazio, Valentino Collini, Maria Lucia Narducci, Federico Ballacci, Federica Giordano

“…The pooled proportion of patients who experienced VA recurrence was 0.41 (95% CI 0.30 to 0.53, p=0.13). …”
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Polymorphism of the LCT gene regulatory region in Turkicspeaking populations of the Altay-Sayan region (southern Siberia) by I. V. Pilipenko, M. S. Pristyazhnyuk, V. F. Kobzev, M. I. Voevoda, A. S. Pilipenko

“…The expansion of the “European” allele LCT-13910T to the gene pool of the populations in southern Siberia could be related to migration waves of ancient herders form western Eurasia during the Bronze Age (in III – II millennium BC). …”
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Navigating the shots: Parental willingness to immunize their children with COVID-19 vaccines in Saudi Arabia explored through a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Moustafa Abdelaal Hegazi, Mohamed Hesham Sayed, Nadeem Shafique Butt, Turki Saad Alahmadi, Nadeem Alam Zubairi, Wesam Abdelaziz Elson

“…A random-effects model was utilized to estimate the pooled effects considering the expected variability across studies. …”
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Prophylactic antibiotics in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Reducing postoperative infection risk–A meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis by Shufeng Wang, Qing Gao, Xiaogang Qi, Lihua Hong, Hai Huang

“…The IC and SSI in prophylactic antibiotics group were significantly lower [pooled log risk-ratio (log RR): 0.37, 95 % confidence interval (CI):(−0.60, −0.14), p = 0.0017; pooled log RR: 0.30, 95 % CI (−0.51, −0.09), p = 0.01]. …”
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