Clinicians’ experience with infographic summaries from the BMJ Rapid Recommendations: a qualitative user-testing study among residents and interns at a large teaching hospital in Switzerland by Thomas Agoritsas, Per Vandvik, Tiffany Hirschel

“…User testing was carried out through guided think-aloud sessions. …”
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Hop to It! The Relationship Between Hop Tests and The Anterior Cruciate Ligament – Return to Sport Index After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in NCAA Division 1 Collegiate Athletes by Michael Zarro, Madelyn Dickman, Timothy Hulett, Robert Rowland, Derrick Larkins, Jeffrey Taylor, Christa Nelson

“…Understanding the relationship between commonly used hop tests and the Anterior Cruciate Ligament -- Return to Sport Index (ACL-RSI) may improve rehabilitation strategies and optimize patient outcomes…”
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Evaluation of change in emergency care knowledge and skills among front-line healthcare providers in Ukraine with the Basic Emergency Care course: a pretest/post-test study by Sean M Kivlehan, Amy Allen, Olha Viun, Dmitry A Makarov, Daniel Schnorr, Sonny Patel, Sergii A Ryzhenko, Phuong Pham, Timothy B Erickson

“…Objective Evaluate the change in participant emergency care knowledge and skill confidence after implementation of the WHO-International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course.Design Pretest/post-test quasi-experimental study.Setting Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine.Participants Seventy-nine participants engaged in the course, of whom 50 (63.3%) completed all assessment tools. …”
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Isolation and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Haemophilus influenzae from Nasopharynx of Children under Five Years Attending Maternal and Child Health Clinic in Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital by Daniel Omoding, Joel Bazira

“…Therefore, we conducted a study to determine H. influenzae carriage rate and antibiotic susceptibility testing of the isolates among the children. Methods. …”
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Comparative testing of vaccines based on viruses of genetic lineages G1 and Y280 for their potency against low pathogenic avian influenza H9N2 by S. V. Frolov, L. O. Scherbakova, N. V. Moroz, V. N. Irza, V. Yu. Kulakov

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Small fiber neuropathy: clinical presentation, diagnostic methods, possibly causes and treatment by E. Paulėkas, D. Garšvienė, K. Petrikonis

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The law of the single price within one country: the example of Benin by N.C.C. Vikou

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Test the Moderating and Mediating role of organizational culture in the relationship between servant leadership and employees performance (an analytical research of the views of a sample of employees in Al Zawraa general company) by Mustafa Hatwan Rhima, Mohammed Abd Ahmed

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Characterization of the key aroma compounds in four varieties of pomegranate juice by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, gas chromatography-olfactometry, odor activity value, aroma recombination, and omission tests by Cong Lu, Yuyu Zhang, Ping Zhan, Peng Wang, Honglei Tian

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Serological Diagnosis of <i>Brucella</i> Infection in Cetaceans by Rapid Serum Agglutination Test and Competitive ELISA with <i>Brucella abortus</i> and <i>Brucella ceti</i> as Antigens by Tiziana Di Febo, Gabriella Di Francesco, Carla Grattarola, Luigina Sonsini, Ludovica Di Renzo, Giuseppe Lucifora, Roberto Puleio, Cristina Esmeralda Di Francesco, Camilla Smoglica, Giovanni Di Guardo, Manuela Tittarelli

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High SUVs Have More Robust Repeatability in Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Results from a Prospective Test-Retest Cohort Imaged with 18F-DCFPyL by Rudolf A. Werner, Bilêl Habacha, Susanne Lütje, Lena Bundschuh, Takahiro Higuchi, Philipp Hartrampf, Sebastian E. Serfling, Thorsten Derlin, Constantin Lapa, Andreas K. Buck, Markus Essler, Kenneth J. Pienta, Mario A. Eisenberger, Mark C. Markowski, Laura Shinehouse, Rehab AbdAllah, Ali Salavati, Martin A. Lodge, Martin G. Pomper, Michael A. Gorin, Ralph A. Bundschuh, Steven P. Rowe

“…As such, we aimed to evaluate the test-retest repeatability of lesion uptake in a large cohort of patients imaged with 18F-DCFPyL. …”
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Correlates of prior HIV testing and schistosomiasis treatment: Baseline survey findings from the "creating demand for fishermen's schistosomiasis HIV services" (FISH) cluster-randomized trial in Mangochi, Malawi. by Geoffrey Kangogo, Donaldson F Conserve, Sekeleghe Kayuni, Moses K Kumwenda, Kathryn L Dovel, James Chirombo, Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L Corbett, Anthony Butterworth, Augustine Talumba Choko

“…Overall, 1,334/6,293 (21.2%) had never tested for HIV, with 64.4% (3,191/4,956) having tested in the last 12 months, and 5.9% (373/6290) taking antiretroviral therapy (ART). …”
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Existe diferença nos resultados do vídeo teste do impulso cefálico em pacientes com diagnóstico nosológico de Doença de Ménière e Migrânea Vestibular? by Maria Carolaine Ferreira Aguiar, Gizele Francisco Ferreira do Nascimento, Ana Paula Machado Costa, Lidiane Maria de Brito Macedo Ferreira, José Diniz Júnior, Erika Barioni Mantello

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COVID-19 among staff and their family members of a healthcare research institution in Bangladesh between March 2020 and April 2021: a test-negative case–control study by Subhasish Das, Mustafa Mahfuz, Shah Mohammad Fahim, Tahmeed Ahmed, Shams E Arifeen, Md Ashraful Alam, Mustafizur Rahman, John D Clemens, S M Tafsir Hasan, Ishita Mostafa, Monira Sarmin, Shahana Parveen

“…Multivariable logistic regression was done to identify the factors associated with COVID-19 positivity by contrasting test positives with test negatives.Result Forty-three per cent of the participants were tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. …”
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Clinical Utility of an Alzheimer’s Disease Blood Test Among Cognitively Impaired Patients: Results from the Quality Improvement PrecivityAD2 (QUIP II) Clinician Survey Study by Mark Monane, Demetrius M. Maraganore, Robert M. Carlile, Kim G. Johnson, David A. Merrill, Darren R. Gitelman, Kenneth S. Sharlin, Lawren A. VandeVrede, Kristi K. George, Jimin Wang, Tim West, Leslie Jacobs, Philip B. Verghese, Joel B. Braunstein

“…Additional brain amyloid testing decreased among negative APS2 patients (<i>p</i> < 0.0001). …”
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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 Measures programme by Jose Maria Valderas, Andrew D Toms, Jonathan Peter Evans, Christopher Gibbons

“…We used a modern computational approach, known as computerised adaptive testing (CAT), to simulate individually tailored OHS and OKS assessment, with the goal of reducing the number of questions a patient must complete without compromising measurement accuracy.Methods We fit the 2018/2019 PROMs data to an item response theory (IRT) model. …”
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A Huge Innovation in Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: With an Artificial Intelligence-Based Algorithm, Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Can Now Be Diagnosed With Pulmonary Function Test by Seval Bulut Eris, Mehmet Recep Bozkurt, Omer Eris, Cahit Bilgin

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A review of the influence of pH on toxicity testing of acidic environmental chemical pollutants in aquatic systems using zebrafish (Danio rerio) and glyphosate toxicity as a case study by Vasisht Varsh Sridhar, Lucas W. Turner, Leeah S. Reidenbach, Katharine A. Horzmann, Jennifer L. Freeman

“…Moreover, it was discovered that most of these studies did not mention pH or neutralization of the test solution. Thirty-six articles were identified when restricting the search from January 2009 through April 2024 to studies testing glyphosate toxicity (as glyphosate or glyphosate-based herbicides) in zebrafish and assessed for time of exposure, test concentrations, and mention or assessment of pH in exposure solutions. …”
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Relaciones entre el recuento de células somáticas, test de mastitis California, conductividad eléctrica y el diagnóstico de mastitis subclínicas en cabras lecheras by V.H. SUAREZ, G.M. MARTINEZ, V. GIANRE, L. CALVINHO, A. RACHOSKI, M. CHAVEZ, A. SALATIN, S. OROZCO, V. SANCHEZ, E. BERTONI

“…Además, con sólo 30 muestras se evaluó un test comercial “PortaSCC goat” para leche caprina. …”
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Twelve-Week Quadriceps Strength as A Predictor of Quadriceps Strength At Time Of Return To Sport Testing Following Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone Autograft Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by Joseph P Hannon, Sharon Wang-Price, Shiho Goto, Steven Singleton, Lindsey Dietrich, James Bothwell, Curtis Bush, Craig Garrison

“…All participants were level 1 or 2 cutting and pivoting sport athletes who underwent a primary bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft ACL-R. Participants were tested at two time points: 12 weeks following surgery and again at time of RTS testing. …”
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