Efficacy of Amflow®, a Real-Time-Portable Feedback Device for Delivering Appropriate Ventilation in Critically Ill Patients: A Randomised, Controlled, Cross-Over Simulation Study by Jong Won Kim, Sang O Park, Kyeong Ryong Lee, Dae Young Hong, Kwang Je Baek

“…The aim of this study was to test whether Amflow® (a newly designed portable ventilation feedback device) can assist rescuers in delivering target tidal volume (VT) and respiration rate (RR) during self-inflating bag (SB) ventilations in various clinical scenarios. …”
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Efficacy of Simple Eye Ointment, Polyethylene Cover, and Eyelid Taping in Prevention of Ocular Surface Disorders in Critically Ill Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Mehdi Ahmadinejad, Esmat Karbasi, Yunes Jahani, Maryam Ahmadipour, Maryam Soltaninejad, Zahra Karzari

“…Descriptive and analytical tests (ANOVA, chi-square, logistic regression, and zero-inflated Poisson regression) were used for statistical analysis by STATA14. …”
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Use of standardized nasal and skin decolonization to reduce rates of bacteremia in patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation by Madyson Taylor, Russell L Griffin, Jeremey Walker, Catina James, Angela Akinsanya, Mary Duncan, Rachael A Lee

“…The primary outcome was rate of ECMO-attributable positive blood cultures. Zero-inflated Poisson regression analysis was performed to estimate rate ratios (RRs) for the association between decolonization with BSI rates. …”
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Investigating the associations between personality functioning, cognitive biases, and (non-)perceptive clinical high-risk symptoms of psychosis in the community by Giulia Rinaldi, Stefan Lerch, Frauke Schultze-Lutter, Stefanie Julia Schmidt, Marialuisa Cavelti, Michael Kaess, Chantal Michel

“…Methods A community sample (N = 444, 17–60 years, 61.8% female) was assessed via clinical telephone interview and online questionnaires. Using zero-inflated Poisson models, we explored associations of personality functioning, cognitive biases, current psychopathology, and psychosocial functioning with likelihood and severity of overall CHR-P, as well as perceptive (per-) and non-perceptive (nonper-)CHR-P-symptoms distinctly. …”
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Hospital and physician-based mental healthcare during 12 months of opioid agonist treatment for opioid use disorder: Exploring costs and factors associated with acute care. by Tea Rosic, Glenda Babe, Myanca Rodrigues, Brittany B Dennis, Richard Perez, Claire de Oliveira, Andrew Worster, Lehana Thabane, Zainab Samaan

“…We fit a two-part zero-inflated negative binomial model to explore the association between factors of interest and healthcare costs.…”
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The sport and Lithuanian national identity by Ingvaras Butautas, Rasa Čepaitienė

“…The "sport-loving nation" stereotype was shaped by mass media because even sports contest visiting rates, generally mouthy and inflated in official protocols, prove the slight popularity of sport in Lithuania in comparison with other East-Central European countries. …”
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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…By doing so, they can prevent a self-fulfilling prophecy from inflating mortality rates. Clinicians’ pessimism about the patients’ quality of life can also distort how they communicate the “benefits” of treatment to the patient, and they ought to conscientiously mitigate ableist biases. …”
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