Evidence Graph Analysis of Postoperative Pain Sensitization Induced by Perioperative Sleep Deprivation by XUE Jianjun, WANG Caihong, GUO Lingling, LI Xiuxia, ZHANG Jie, XU Ziqing, HOU Huaijing, YANG Kehu

“…ObjectiveTo describe and evaluate the clinical studies of postoperative pain sensitization caused by sleep deprivation through the evidence map system, understand the distribution of evidence in this field, and provide reference for subsequent evidence research.MethodsA computer-based search of PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane library, Web of Science, CNKI, Wanfang Data, VIP and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database from inception to August 2023 was conducted to obtain intervention studies, observational studies and systematic reviews/Meta-analysis of postoperative pain sensitization caused by sleep deprivation. …”
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Causal associations between osteoporosis and HBV infection across Asian and European populations: evidence from Mendelian randomization and colocalization analysis by Zhengnan Li, Jiarui Cao, Ke Li, Yixin Wu, Zhanpeng Luo, Rui Cao, Zhiheng Cheng, Zhendong Tian, Yiyang Han, Yuping Lai, Bangqi Wang, Shen Chen

“…The data we utilized were obtained from the genome-wide association studies (GWAS) database. Various MR methods, including inverse variance weighted (IVW), MR Egger, weighted median, simple median and simple mode were employed to estimate the association between HBV infection and osteoporosis. …”
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Metabolic response to burn injury: a comprehensive bibliometric study by Yixu Li, Yixu Li, Yifan Liu, Sujie Xie, Sujie Xie, Yushu Zhu, Yushu Zhu, Xinran Ding, Xinran Ding, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang, Shuyuan Xian, Shuyuan Xian, Guosheng Wu, Guosheng Wu, Hanlin Sun, Hanlin Sun, Jiale Yan, Bingnan Lu, Yuntao Yao, Weijin Qian, Yuwei Lu, Yiting Yang, Dayuan Xu, Dayuan Xu, Runzhi Huang, Runzhi Huang, Shizhao Ji, Shizhao Ji

“…Ultimately, we conducted an extensive review of the literature, synthesizing the findings to clarify the present understanding within our field of study.MethodsWe obtained 8,823 scientific publications on burn injury and metabolism from the core Web of Science (WOS) database collection. In this work, biblioshiny was used to visualize and analyze the data, and VOSviewer was used to verify the results.ResultsFrom a total of 8,823 publications, we found a general upward trend in annual publications and citation frequency. …”
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Artificial Intelligence–Related Dental Research: Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis by Wei Lu, Xueqian Yu, Yueyang Li, Yi Cao, Yanning Chen, Fang Hua

“…Methods: A literature search was conducted in the Web of Science Core Collection database to identify eligible “research articles” and “reviews.” …”
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Adequate Reporting Among Ventral Hernia Repair Operative Reports: A Cross-Sectional Study of Prevalence of Details and Association With Clinical Outcomes by Said Maldonado, BS, Nicole B. Lyons, MD, Jonathan S. Lall, BS, J. Scott Zimmerle, MBA, Brendan Rosamond, BS, Ashlynn Mills, BS, Yoolim Alex Seo, BS, Angelica Calderon Rodriguez, BS, Rainna Coelho, MD, Natalia Cavagnaro, MD, Zuhair Ali, MD, Mike K. Liang, MD

“…Operative reports describing VHR were obtained from a medical-legal database. Medical records were screened and data was extracted including clinical outcomes, such as surgical site infection (SSI), hernia recurrence, and reoperation and the presence of key details in each report. …”
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Previous treatment with anthracycline does not affect the course of sepsis in cancer patients: Retrospective cohort study by Camille Windsor, Adrien Joseph, Stephanie Pons, Djamel Mokart, Frederic Pène, Achille Kouatchet, Alexandre Demoule, Fabrice Bruneel, Martine Nyunga, Edith Borcoman, Matthieu Legrand, Michael Darmon, Lara Zafrani, Elie Azoulay, Virginie Lemiale

“…Methods: Data from cancer patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) for sepsis or septic shock were extracted from the Groupe de Recherche Respiratoire en Réanimation Onco-Hématologique database (1994–2015). Comparison between patients who received anthracycline and those who did not was performed using a propensity score, including confounding variables (age and underlying diseases). …”
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The Public Health Service “Increased Risk” 2020 Policy Change Has not Improved Organ Utilization in the United States: A Nationwide Cohort Study by Dane C. Paneitz, MD, MPH, Stanley B. Wolfe, MD, MPH, Duc Giao, BA, Shannon N. Tessier, PhD, Leigh Anne Dageforde, MD, MPH, Nahel Elias, MD, Seyed Alireza Rabi, MD, PHD, Eriberto Michel, MD, David A. D’Alessandro, MD, Asishana A. Osho, MD, MPH

“…This was a retrospective analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network database which compared donor organ utilization in the 2 years before the June 2020 PHS Guideline update for increased-risk donor organs (June 2018–May 2020) versus the 2 years after the update (August 2020–July 2022). …”
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Cytoreductive Nephrectomy and Nephrectomy/Complete Metastasectomy for Metastatic Renal Cancer by Paul Russo, Mark Synder, Andrew Vickers, Varuni Kondagunta, Robert Motzer

“…Between July 1989 and September 2003, we queried our department's renal tumor database for patients undergoing cytoreductive nephrectomy alone or in conjunction with complete metastasectomy. …”
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Correlation between the white blood cell/platelet ratio and 28-day all-cause mortality in cardiac arrest patients: a retrospective cohort study based on machine learning by Huai Huang, Guangqin Ren, Shanghui Sun, Zhi Li, Yongtian Zheng, Lijuan Dong, Shaoliang Zhu, Xiaosheng Zhu, Wenyu Jiang

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to evaluate the association between the white blood cell-to-platelet ratio (WPR) and 28-day all-cause mortality among patients experiencing cardiac arrest.MethodsUtilizing data from 748 cardiac arrest patients in the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV (MIMIC-IV) 2.2 database, machine learning algorithms, including the Boruta feature selection method, random forest modeling, and SHAP value analysis, were applied to identify significant prognostic biomarkers. …”
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Identification and validation of immune and diagnostic biomarkers for interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome by integrating bioinformatics and machine-learning by Tao Zhou, Can Zhu, Wei Zhang, Qiongfang Wu, Mingqiang Deng, Zhiwei Jiang, Longfei Peng, Hao Geng, Zhouting Tuo, Zhouting Tuo, Ci Zou

“…To address these challenges, we employed a comprehensive approach aimed at identifying diagnostic biomarkers that could facilitate the assessment of immune status in individuals with IC/BPS.MethodsTranscriptome data from IC/BPS patients were sourced from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. We identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) crucial for gene set enrichment analysis. …”
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Carbon footprint reduction practices in the Olympic Games: a policy mobility approach by Wesselia Isa Ngoenha

“…The text-based analysis is built on a database [DG1] of the Olympic Games' carbon footprint using M. …”
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The association between the interval from biopsy to radical prostatectomy and biochemical recurrence in patients with intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer by Carolin Siech, Mike Wenzel, Georgina Knoblich, Cristina Cano Garcia, Clara Humke, Felix Preisser, Miriam Traumann, Luis A. Kluth, Felix K. H. Chun, Philipp Mandel, Philipp Mandel

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the association between the interval from biopsy to radical prostatectomy (RP) and biochemical recurrence (BCR) in prostate cancer patients.MethodsWithin a tertiary-care database (01/2014 to 06/2023), D’Amico intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer patients were stratified according to interval from biopsy to RP (≤3 vs. …”
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Incidence of shoulder dislocations in the UK, 1995–2015: a population-based cohort study by Gary S Collins, Sarah E Lamb, Sally Hopewell, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Andrew Judge, Amar Rangan, Andrew J Carr, Jonathan L Rees, Nigel K Arden, Katherine Edwards, Tim A Holt, Anjali Shah, Antonella Delmestri, Rafael A Pinedo-Villanueva

“…Incidence in women increased with age to a peak of 28.6 per 100 000 person-years among those aged 61–70 years.Conclusions This is the first time the incidence of shoulder dislocations has been studied using primary care data from a national database, and the first time the results for the UK have been produced. …”
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A new signature associated with anoikis predicts the outcome and immune infiltration in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Yonglin Luo, Wenyang Wei, Yaxuan Huang, Jun Li, Weiling Qin, Quanxiang Hao, Jiemei Ye, Zhe Zhang, Yushan Liang, Xue Xiao, Yonglin Cai

“…Methods By using data from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, we employed machine learning methods to discover prognostic ARGs and create a risk score. …”
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Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of 16S rRNA Sequences Identified Two Lineages of Helicobacter pylori Strains Detected from Different Regions in Sudan Suggestive of Differential Evo... by Abeer Babiker Idris, Hadeel Gassim Hassan, Maryam Atif Salaheldin Ali, Sulafa Mohamed Eltaher, Leena Babiker Idris, Hisham N. Altayb, Amin Mohamed Abass, Mustafa Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, El-Amin Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohamed A. Hassan

“…Sanger sequencing was applied, and the resulted sequences were matched with the sequences of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) nucleotide database. The evolutionary aspects were analyzed using MEGA7 software. …”
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The impact of urolithiasis on urology services in a high-prevalence region: A multicenter study by Wissam Khalid Kamal, Musab M. Alghamdi, Raed A. Azhar, Ahmad Bugis, Mohammed Abuzenada, Majed Alharthi, Saeed Bin Hamri, Yahya Ghazwani, Yasser A. Noureldin, Hassan Aljifri, Abdulaziz Alamri, Hatem Hamed Althubiany, Mansour Alnazari, Badr Alharbi, Abdulrahman Al Own, Mohanad Jebril Bosily, Mohammed Almansour, Abdullah Alfakhri, Ibrahim Alowidah, Ali Abdel Raheem

“…Methods: Using the hospital surgery statistics database, data were gathered from the urology departments of 11 hospitals in Saudi Arabia. …”
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The global, regional, and national patterns of change in the burden of bacterial pyoderma from 1990 to 2019 and the forecast for the next decade by Hao Wang, Zihao Bai, Chong Shen, Jiaxi Kou, Yanqing Zhu, Huaxia Xie, Chen Chen, Ran Mo

“…Data were sourced from the GBD 2019 database, comprising various sources such as censuses, surveys, and registries. …”
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Dexmedetomidine improves clinical outcomes in sepsis-induced myocardial injury: a retrospective cohort study by Yuan Liu, Jianjie Ouyang, Cuicui Zhang, Pingping Niu, Pingping Niu, Baoling Shang, Baoling Shang, Gengzhen Yao, Gengzhen Yao, Yongyong Shi, Yongyong Shi, Xu Zou, Xu Zou

“…In this study, we explored the relationship between DEX use and clinical outcomes of patients with SIMI, focusing on the dosage and treatment duration.MethodsIn this retrospective cohort analysis, we identified patients with SIMI from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV (MIMIC-IV) database and categorized them into the DEX and non-DEX groups based on intensive care unit treatment. …”
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Overview of systematic reviews on strategies to improve treatment initiation, adherence to antiretroviral therapy and retention in care for people living with HIV: part 1 by Lehana Thabane, Shari Margolese, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Beth Rachlis, Winston Husbands, Carmen Logie, Marek Smieja, Elizabeth Alvarez, Daeria O Lawson, Anisa Hajizadeh, Annie Wang, Dominik Mertz, Anita C Benoit, Lisa Puchalski Ritchie, Babalwa Zani

“…We searched PubMed, Excerpta Medica dataBASE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PsycINFO, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library in November 2018. …”
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Proof of concept of fully automated adaptive workflow for head and neck radiotherapy treatments with a conventional linear accelerator by Gaia Muti, Marco M. J. Felisi, Angelo F. Monti, Chiara Carsana, Roberto Pellegrini, Edoardo Salmeri, Mauro Palazzi, Paola E. Colombo

“…Two different modalities are investigated, the fluence-to-position (FTP) and the adapt-to-shape (ATS) approach.Materials and methodsNine patients are used for the multi-atlas database. The organs at risk (OARs) of the H&N district and five additional structures (air, fat, tissue, bone and patient’s exterior) subsequently used for the creation of the synthetic CT are auto-contoured with the Elekta ADMIRE® software. …”
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