Integrating acute care surgery in South Korea: enhancing trauma and non-trauma emergency care by Jin Young Lee, Seheon Kim, Jin Bong Ye, Jin Suk Lee, Younghoon Sul

“…Conclusion Integrating ACS into South Korea’s healthcare system is essential to optimize resource allocation and improve emergency care, ultimately leading to enhanced public health outcomes.…”
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Perceptions and practices of dental faculty members of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan regarding smartphones as an adjunct teaching tool by Syed Muhammad Junaid, Brekhna Jamil, Usama Aurangzeb, Sana Shah, Natasha Nadeem

“…The demand to use smartphones and other forms of technology into healthcare is growing in tandem with the population. …”
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Population mobility : spatial spillover effect of government health expenditure in China by Simin Wan, Mengying Wang

“…Local governments should institute healthcare systems tailored to the urban scale and developmental stages, with due consideration for PM. …”
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An unmet need: Pancreatic beta cell replacement by F Mohamed, C Adams, B Mansfield

“… Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a growing public health concern in South Africa (SA) and poses a substantial economic burden on healthcare globally. A century has passed since the discovery of insulin, and despite advances in diabetes management, exogenous insulin remains a primary treatment for type 1 DM, posing challenges of hyperglycaemia and hypoglycaemia. …”
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Surgical Management of Gestational Gigantomastia: A Case Report Highlighting Therapeutic Intervention by Misha A. Lemma, MD, Yisihak S. Debodina, MD, Martha F. Gebremedhin, MD, Meki K. Aman, MD, Don Eliseo III Lucero-Prisno, MD, MSc, PhD

“…Although bromocriptine treatment holds potential benefits, its availability may vary in different healthcare settings. Therefore, the consideration of surgical management as an alternative approach becomes crucial, particularly when bromocriptine is not accessible or proves ineffective. …”
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COVID-19 CONSPIRACISM IN THE AGE OF POST-TRUTH by Ömer Ersin Kahraman

“…The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered one of the most important structural crises of the world as the pandemic has not just had a great impact on the healthcare systems, but it has overwhelmed the world economically, politically and socially due to the extreme measures applied to mitigate the propagation of the virus. …”
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Deprescribing: An umbrella review by Japelj Nuša, Horvat Nejc, Knez Lea, Kos Mitja

“…Reviews reporting deprescribing were included, while those where depre-scribing was not planned and supervised by a healthcare professional were excluded. A total of 94 systematic reviews (23 meta--analyses) were included. …”
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Quality of registration and adherence to guidelines for blood management in CABG surgeries: a case study by Giulia M.R., Eline Vlot, Thomas van Dijk

“…The widespread adoption of electronic health record (EHR) offers the opportunity to improve clinical outcomes through use of decision support system to guide the healthcare providers through best practices and guidelines. …”
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How Do Low-Income Urban African Americans and Latinos Feel about Telemedicine? A Diffusion of Innovation Analysis by Sheba George, Alison Hamilton, Richard S. Baker

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In Vivo MR Microneurography of the Tibial and Common Peroneal Nerves by Paolo F. Felisaz, Eric Y. Chang, Irene Carne, Stefano Montagna, Francesco Balducci, Giulia Maugeri, Anna Pichiecchio, Fabrizio Calliada, Maurizia Baldi, Stefano Bastianello

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Barriers and enablers towards integrated care for survivors of sexual violence in humanitarian settings: A real-time qualitative Delphi study by Engy Sawah, Karina Kielmann, Joris Michielsen

“…Professional-related challenges included lacking expertise among healthcare professionals (HCPs), high staff attrition rates, and compassion fatigue. …”
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Activins and Follistatin in Chronic Hepatitis C and Its Treatment with Pegylated-Interferon-α Based Therapy by Bassem Refaat, Ahmed Mohamed Ashshi, Adel Galal El-Shemi, Esam Azhar

“…Hence, the development of new sensitive and specific predictor markers could provide a useful tool for the clinicians and healthcare providers, especially in the new era of interferon-free therapy, for the classification of patients according to their response to the standard therapy and only subscribing the novel directly acting antiviral drugs to those who are anticipated not to respond to the conventional therapy and/or have absolute contraindications for its use. …”
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Retained multiple contact lenses in a vulnerable dementia patient by Rohit SHARMA, Zuhair SHARIF

“…Treated ‘on and off ’ by various doctors and healthcare professionals with antibiotic drops for eight months with no improvement. …”
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PVC/MXene electrospun film triboelectric nanogenerator for efficient mechanical energy harvesting and multifunctional human motion sensing by Lina Liu, Weiqiu Zhu, Haotian Ma, Junyu Zhou

“…It also demonstrates excellent environmental durability, stability, and multifunctional sensing capabilities, including monitoring physiological signals and biomechanical movements, making it a promising candidate for self-powered wearable sensors, energy harvesting, gesture recognition, and healthcare applications. This research highlights the potential of PM-TENG as high-performance, self-powered systems for energy harvesting and multifunctional sensing, paving the way for advancements in wearable electronics, health monitoring, and sustainable energy solutions.…”
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Qualitative study on nurse preceptors’ preparedness, roles and familiarity with the basic principles of teaching and learning in a district hospital in Ghana by Dorothy Serwaa Boakye, Vida Maame Kissiwaa Amoah, Edward Appiah Boateng, John Antwi, Joyce Yeboah, Jennifer Owusu

“…Environmental barriers like noise concerns hindered the adoption of more interactive, student-centred pedagogies.Conclusion The study highlights the need for comprehensive preceptor training programmes that provide robust onboarding, set clear expectations and equip preceptors with diverse evidence-based teaching methodologies tailored to healthcare contexts. Continued research involving larger samples, multimodal data and stakeholder perspectives can inform ongoing programme refinement.…”
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Stated-preference research in HIV: A scoping review. by John M Humphrey, Violet Naanyu, Katherine R MacDonald, Kara Wools-Kaloustian, Gregory D Zimet

“…These methods are increasingly used in healthcare research, but their applications within the field of HIV research have not yet been described. …”
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Pain catastrophizing is associated with high-dose opioids in patients with cancer pain by Simon van Rysewyk, Melanie Lovell, Paul Glare

“…The correlation between opioid dose with catastrophizing and anxiety indicates that healthcare providers may have not assessed unhelpful pain cognitions, and opioids may have been used by patients to cope with psychological or spiritual distress rather than for analgesia.…”
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Analysis of Travel Mode Choice To Hospitals concerning Socio-Economic Attributes (Case Study: Shiraz Downtown) by sanam afaridi, fereshte ahmadi, ali soltani, mahmood mohamdi

“…Movement pattern cognition in accessibility to special urban land uses, has an efficient role in urban policies and planning, which can be generalized and indigenize to healthcare travel behavior in other geographical areas. …”
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Ethical dilemmas concerning orthodontic treatment among orthodontists in a sample from Saudi Arabia: a pilot study by Nawaf H. Al Shammary, Abdulrahman K. Alshammari

“…Abstract Background Ethics is based on moral principles that should be the foundation for every healthcare decision, however, ethical concepts can often be challenging to define in specific clinical scenarios. …”
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Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review by G Venkatesh

“…The reviewer fondly hopes that this will motivate more concerted transdisciplinary applied research predicated on the Sustainable Development Goals – a collaboration among the disciplines of healthcare, sociology, psychology, urban planning, sustainable development, environmental engineering, and even art and poetry. …”
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