A Systematic Review of Postoperative Pain Outcome Measurements Utilised in Regional Anesthesia Randomized Controlled Trials by E. Pushpanathan, T. Setty, B. Carvalho, P. Sultan

“…Regional anesthesia is a rapidly growing subspecialty. There are few published meta-analyses exploring pain outcome measures utilised in regional anesthesia randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which may be due to heterogeneity in outcomes assessed. …”
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Awareness and Attitude of Surgeons regarding Dental Erosion on Patients Who Underwent Bariatric Surgery by Omir Aldowah

“…Because of the growing popularity of this subspecialty, general surgeons should develop a basic clinical and surgical understanding of these standard procedures and complications, regardless of their interest in obesity surgery. …”
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Perceived faculty development needs and motivations of Chinese general practice trainers: a narrative review of the literature by Timothy Noel Stephens, Susan Somerville

“…Articles pertaining to fields outside of medicine, those with a heavy subspecialty focus or not relevant to primary care were excluded. …”
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Association between Interleukin-10-1082 G/A and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α 308 G/A Gene Polymorphisms and Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Iranian Preterm Infants by Abolfazl Khoshdel, Soleiman Kheiri, Peyman Omidvari, Fahimeh Moradi, Majid Hamidi, Hossein Teimori

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Consultation diagnoses and procedures billed among recent graduates practicing general otolaryngology – head & neck surgery in Ontario, Canada by Antoine Eskander, Paolo Campisi, Ian J. Witterick, David D. Pothier

“…The codes were categorized by OHNS subspecialty. Practitioners with a narrow range of procedure codes or a high rate of complex procedure codes, were deemed subspecialists and therefore excluded. …”
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Otolaryngology needs among an adult homeless population: a prospective study by Vincent Wu, Christopher W. Noel, David Forner, Florence Mok, Molly Zirkle, Antoine Eskander, Vincent Lin, John M. Lee

“…Abstract Background Homeless individuals frequently experience poor access to healthcare, delayed clinical presentation, and higher disease burden. Providing subspecialty otolaryngology care to this population can be challenging. …”
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Inpatient and Emergency Room Ophthalmology Consultations at a Tertiary Care Center by Daniel J. Oh, Levi N. Kanu, Judy L. Chen, Ahmad A. Aref, William F. Mieler, Peter W. MacIntosh

“…Amongst the ophthalmic subspecialties, neuro-ophthalmologic diagnoses were the most common (32.0%), followed by retina (20.1%) and cornea (19.4%). …”
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The Association between Atopic Dermatitis Severity and Mood Disturbance among Adults: A Cross-sectional Study by Farah F. Albakr, Maee M. Barakeh, Layan F. Alsanad, Sultan B. Obaid, Feras Alhawas, Seham Alsalamah, Shahad B. Obaid, Alya Alsuwayhib, Abdullah O. Alangari, Sulaiman O. Obaid, Eman Almukhadeb

“…Purpose: This study was carried out to assess the correlation between AD disease severity and mood disturbance in adult AD patients in King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH); a teaching facility with general and subspecialty medical services in King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …”
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STD Training in Canadian Medical Schools by Jo-Anne A Doherty, A Gordon Jessamine

“…DESIGN: A four page questionnaire sought information on preclinical, clinical and residency training in terms of the number of classroom and laboratory hours of instruction, the subspecialty responsible for providing the training, and the clinical ‘hands on’ experience of the teachers: each respondent was also asked to assess the quality and scope of instruction provided at his/her medical school. …”
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Evolution of gender representation among Canadian OTL-HNS residents: a 27-year analysis by Sarah Chorfi, Joseph S. Schwartz, Neil Verma, Meredith Young, Lawrence Joseph, Lily H. P. Nguyen

“…The differences in gender growth rates were compared to other subspecialty programs of varying size. Descriptive analysis was used to examine gender representation among OTL-HNS residents across years, and to compare these trends with other specialties. …”
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Evaluation of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer and Microsoft Copilot Performance on the American Society of Surgery of the Hand Self-Assessment Examinations by Taylor R. Rakauskas, BS, Antonio Da Costa, BS, Camberly Moriconi, BS, Gurnoor Gill, BA, Jeffrey W. Kwong, MD MS, Nicolas Lee, MD

“…Conclusions: In this study, ChatGPT-4 and Microsoft Copilot perform better on the hand surgery subspecialty examinations than did ChatGPT-3.5. Microsoft Copilot was more accurate than ChatGPT3.5 but less accurate than ChatGPT4. …”
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mHealth-Augmented Care for Reducing Depression Symptom Severity Among Patients With Chronic Pain: Exploratory, Retrospective Cohort Study by Dan Holley, Amanda Brooks, Matthew Hartz, Sudhir Rao, Thomas Zaubler

“…MethodsOur team leveraged retrospective, real-world data from 3837 patients with comorbid depression and nonmalignant chronic pain who received integrated behavioral health care (IBH) at a subspecialty pain clinic. We analyzed one IBH-only, non-mHealth cohort (n=2765), an mHealth-augmented cohort (n=844), and a collaborative care (CoCM)+mHealth cohort (n=136), which were supported by the NeuroFlow mHealth platform, and a pre-CoCM mHealth cohort (n=92), which was supported by the mHealth platform for 3 months prior to beginning the chronic pain treatment. …”
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Cultures for acid-fast bacilli: are we being good stewards? by Jennifer Hanrahan, Julie D. Sill, Patricia Ver Schneider, Jessica F. Copeland, Elsie Frimpongmaa Amoako-Kissi, Ogochukwu O. Ilobi, Angela J. Toepp

“…Most cultures were ordered by medical subspecialties (44.06%, n = 6,144), followed by orthopedic providers (23.34%, n = 3,254) and surgical subspecialty providers (16.11%, n = 2,246). …”
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Digital Surveillance of Mental Health Care Services in Saudi Arabia: Cross-Sectional Study of National e-Referral System Data by Abdullah A Alharbi, Nawfal A Aljerian, Meshary S Binhotan, Hani A Alghamdi, Ali K Alsultan, Mohammed S Arafat, Abdulrahman Aldhabib, Yasser A Alaska, Eid B Alwahbi, Mohammed A Muaddi, Ahmad Y Alqassim, Ronnie D Horner

“…Two-thirds of requests were for ward beds, while critical beds were rarely requested. “Unavailable subspecialty” was the primary reason for referrals across all regions. …”
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Teaching, assessment and best practice in undergraduate psychiatry education in the UK: cross-sectional survey by Deepika Sharma, Thomas Hewson, Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa, James Fallon, Declan Hyland, Seri Abraham, Alexa Sidwell, Subodh Dave

“…Clinical implications Medical schools should consider increasing students’ exposure to different psychiatric subspecialties and integrating physical and mental health training to address comorbidity and promote holistic care. …”
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Diagnostic delay in cerebral creatine deficiency disorders: lessons learned from a cross-sectional single center study, and guanidinoacetate and creatine measurements in Switzerlan... by Christina Kaufman, Anaïs D’Andrea, Annette Hackenberg, Martin Poms, Olivier Braissant, Johannes Häberle

“…Results The patient cohort comprised 6 patients (defects: 2 GAMT, 4 CRTR), who were initially seen by different subspecialties depending on first symptoms. There was a diagnostic and therapeutic delay between 3 and 32 months (mean 13.8). …”
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Clinical Manifestation of a Calyceal Diverticular Abscess in a Pregnant Woman by Masaki Sekiguchi, Yuichi Hasegawa, Satoko Kinomoto, Haruhiko Sago

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Pain Management and Telemedicine: A Look at the COVID Experience and Beyond by Jamal Hasoon, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye

“…This has provided several challenges to chronic pain management clinics along with other subspecialties. Telemedicine has also opened opportunities for providing valuable care for patients with significant barriers to healthcare professionals. …”
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Ultrasound assessment of upper limb arteriovenous fistulas in hemodialysis patients at the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital by Atanga Harvey Onana, Seme Ambroise, Mahamat Maimouna, Onana Yannick, Guegang Emilienne

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Do Otologists and Other Otolaryngologists Manage Single-Sided Deafness Differently? by Nurullah Türe, Armağan İncesulu, Badr Eldin Mostafa

“…BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to survey the knowledge and treatment management practices for single-sided deafness (SSD) among different subspecialties of otolaryngology. METHODS: A questionnaire was sent via Google Sheets to members of the Turkish and Egyptian Otorhinolaryngology Societies between December 2021 and February 2022. …”
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