Data linkage of German statutory health insurance claims data and care needs assessments preceding a population-based cohort study on nursing home admission by Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Dominik Domhoff, Kathrin Seibert, Susanne Stiefler, Dirk Peschke

“…The resulting dataset should enable the identification of factors in healthcare predicting the time between the onset of long-term care dependency and the admission to a nursing home in Germany in subsequent analyses.Design A deterministic record linkage was conducted using the key variables region, sex, date of birth and care level. …”
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Stem Cell Therapy: A Compassionate Use Program in Perianal Fistula by M. D. Herreros, D. Garcia-Olmo, H. Guadalajara, T. Georgiev-Hristov, L. Brandariz, M. Garcia-Arranz

“…Regarding fistula-in-ano, there were 18 Crohn’s-associated and 24 cryptoglandular. 49 cases (94.2%) showed partial response starting 6.5 weeks of follow-up. 24 cases (46.2%) healed in a mean time of 5.5 months. A year later, all patients cured remained healed. …”
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Construction and application of a stratified nursing intervention program for postoperative delirium after Stanford type A aortic dissection: a quasi-experimental trial by Xueping Li, Miaomiao Zheng, Ailin Lin, Chaohong Chen, Yuanbo Wu, Huai Zhang, Zhiqin Yin

“…When the incidence and beginning time of delirium in the general ward were compared, there were no significant differences between the two groups (P > 0.05). …”
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Assessing patient experiences with a Virtual Triage and Assessment Centre (VTAC): a mixed-methods study using an online survey and semi-structured interviews in Renfrew County, Ont... by Antoine St-Amant, Cayden Peixoto, Dez Bair-Patel, Martha Heideman, Kayla Menkhorst, Jonathan Fitzsimon

“…VTAC addresses this gap by providing timely access to a family doctor. Our findings demonstrate patient acceptability and satisfaction with VTAC, offering insights that could guide the design of similar healthcare programs. …”
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Prevalence of prescribing topical corticosteroids to patients with lichen sclerosus following surgery for vulvar cancer: a survey among gynaecologic oncologists in The Netherlands by Féline O. Voss, Karelina L. Groenewegen, Hester Vermaat, Maaike C.G. Bleeker, Marc van Beurden

“…If treatment was initiated, ultra-potent (class IV) TCS were most commonly prescribed for an indefinite period of time for both patient groups. The most reported reason for treating patients in both groups with TCS was symptoms, followed by clinical aspects of the lesion and prevention of progression to dVIN and VSCC.Conclusion The majority of GOs who participated in our study endorse the utilisation of long-term ultra-potent TCS therapy in both patients with LSnoVSCC and LSVSCC. …”
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SumGPT: A Multimodal Framework for Radiology Report Summarization to Improve Clinical Performance by Tipu Sultan, Mohammad Abu Tareq Rony, Mohammad Shariful Islam, Samah Alshathri, Walid El-Shafai

“…In the future, this approach could pave the way for applications in other medical domains while further optimizing the model for real-time clinical use.…”
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Sixth-Month Perinatal Outcomes of Anemic Pregnancies by Emel Kıyak Çağlayan, Öznur Küçük, Ayşe Yeşim Göçmen, Levent Seçkin, Ayla Aktulay, Yaprak Engin Üstün

“…Maternal age, occupation, number of live births, Hb and hematocrit (Hct) levels, mode of delivery, labor time, and head circumference, weight and height of infants at birth and 6th month were compared. …”
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Modern possibilities of tear film stability restoration by V.V. Brzheskiy, G.G. Кim, V.А. Bobryshev

“…The use of cross-linked sodium hyaluronate 0.2% (hyaluronic acid sodium salt) in the background mode "by feeling" and at intervals of every 1.5 hours while working at the computer, significantly improved the condition of the patient's ocular surface and increased the duration of his "asymptomatic" time working at the computer. </p> <p> <b>Keywords:</b> dry eye syndrome, cross-linked hyaluronic acid, treatment efficacy. …”
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Genetic mechanisms of the influence of light and phototransduction on Drosophila melanogaster lifespan by I. A. Solovev, M. V. Shaposhnikov, A. A. Moskalev

“…In principle, in the context of aging, not only the exposure time, but also the age at the onset of exposure to constant illumination matter, the reverse effects are valid for the maintenance of experimental animals in the constant darkness. …”
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Development and Application of Well-Test Model after Injection Biological Nanomaterials by Qing Feng, Ping Gao, Xianchao Chen, Jiang Li, Jingchao Zhou, Feng Qian, Shengsheng Li, Yanni Sun, Yingying Wang

“…In practical application, they have the advantages of long validity period and more environmental friendliness. At the same time, due to the short effective period of conventional plugging removal measures such as acidizing and fracturing, which are not friendly to the environment, nanomaterials are gradually applied to reduce pressure and increase injection of injection wells, and good application results are obtained. …”
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Enhancing the targeted and untargeted analysis of honey by vacuum-assisted SPME-GC × GC-MS. A green, practical, and highly informative approach by Damien Eggermont, Francesca Pardi, Giorgia Purcaro

“…The use of vacuum-assisted headspace (Vac-HS) coupled with solid-phase microextraction (SPME) is a technique that has been recently proven to be highly beneficial for enhancing the extraction of semi-volatile in shorter time and milder temperatures. This technique indeed increases the extraction kinetics by reducing the mass transfer resistance at the interface between the sample and headspace. …”
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Development and internal validation of prognostic models for event-free survival in newly diagnosed Ewing sarcoma patients based on routinely collected clinical characteristics fro... by Richard Riley, BERNADETTE BRENNAN, Kym Snell, Piers Gaunt, Laura Kirton

“…The models will incorporate prognostic factors, identified from a literature review, to predict patients’ probability of event-free survival at clinically important time points. Three models will be developed, for comparison of their performance and stability, using different methods of model selection and penalisation for overfitting (full model or backwards selection applying uniform shrinkage; and lasso variable selection). …”
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Study on Mechanical Properties and Fire Resistance of Epoxy Nanocomposite Reinforced with Environmentally Friendly Additive: Nanoclay I.30E by Tuan Anh Nguyen, Thi Mai Huong Pham, Thi Huong Dang, Thi Hanh Do, Quang Tung Nguyen

“…We investigate appropriate dispersion conditions such as stirring speed, mechanical stirring temperature, ultrasonic stirring time, and ultrasonic stirring capacity, which affect the mechanical properties and fire resistance of nanocomposite materials. …”
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Cancer Loyalty Card Study (CLOCS): protocol for an observational case–control study focusing on the patient interval in ovarian cancer diagnosis by Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Sudha Sundar, Yasemin Hirst, Hannah R Brewer, James M Flanagan

“…Introduction Ovarian cancer is the eighth most common cancer in women worldwide, and about 1 in 5 women with ovarian cancer do not receive treatment, because they are too unwell by the time they are diagnosed. Symptoms of ovarian cancer are non-specific or can be associated with other common conditions, and women experiencing these symptoms have been shown to self-manage them using over-the-counter medication. …”
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Dose-response relationship between lipids and all-cause mortality in the dialysis population: a meta-analysis by Ye Yao, Jing Xiong, Mi-Yuan Wang

“…In contrast, Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) masked its association with all-cause mortality due to changes in death spectrum, differences in relative time risks, and other factors. In the 50–450 mg/dL range, all-cause mortality in the dialysis population was positively associated with triglycerides (TG), with a 2.5% increase in all-cause mortality per 50 mg/dL increase in TG (HR = 1.025, 95% CI = 1.003–1.048, P = 0.01). …”
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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Medical Students of Sulaimani Regarding Modern Lifestyle and Its Effect on Health by Bushra M. Ali, Saman Mohammed, Shajwan Akram, Saya Salar, Lezan Baxtiar, Lawen Ismail, Shad Nawzad

“…Participants in general had good knowledge and positive attitude regarding the topic, but they had a negative practice with managing stress, time and depression and had negative habits regarding exercise and having healthy diet. …”
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Microbiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Profile in Patients with Diabetic Foot Sepsis at a Central Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa by Simran Patel, Emeline Jooste, Charalambia Glynos, Onyiyechukwu Mbajiorgu, Anelisa Sipahlanga, Wandile Ngubane, Gopala Maharaj, Maeyane Stephens Moeng, Thifhelimbilu Emmanuel Luvhengo

“…<b>Background</b>: Diabetic foot sepsis (DFS) is the leading cause of lower extremity amputations and timely initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is paramount during its management. …”
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Investigating the effects of home-based rehabilitation after intensive inpatient rehabilitation on motor function, activities of daily living, and caregiver burden. by Kenji Sato, Eri Otaka, Kenichi Ozaki, Kenta Shiramoto, Rie Narukawa, Takeshi Kamiya, Masaki Kamiya, Daiki Shimotori, Chiaki Kamizato, Naoki Itoh, Hitoshi Kagaya, Izumi Kondo

“…<h4>Results</h4>The participants included in this study had orthopedic (n = 76), cerebrovascular (n = 50), neuromuscular (n = 11), cardiovascular (n = 5), respiratory (n = 3), cancer (n = 3) and other diseases (n = 2). The mean (SD) time from discharge to the start of rehabilitation was 4 (4) days. …”
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Detection of human noroviruses in sewage by next generation sequencing in Shandong Province, 2019–2021 by Suting Wang, Mingyi Xu, Xiaojuan Lin, Ping Xiong, Yao Liu, Aiqiang Xu, Meng Chen, Shengxiang Ji, Zexin Tao

“…Methods Between January 2019 and December 2021, 36 sewage samples were collected and analyzed using real-time quantitative PCR to detect noroviruses. Partial VP1 region was amplified and subjected to NGS analysis to assess the abundance and genetic characterization of various norovirus genotypes across different samples. …”
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Heterogeneous graph convolutional neural network for protein-ligand scoring by Kevin Crampon, Alexis Giorkallos, Xavier Vigouroux, Stephanie Baud, Luiz Angelo Steffenel

“…It is still an active area of research in both academic and industrial sectors with efforts on reducing time and cost. Computational simulations like molecular docking enable fast exploration of large databases of compounds and extract the most promising molecule candidates for further in vitro and in vivo tests. …”
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