Central Venous Catheterization before Versus after Computed Tomography in Hemodynamically Unstable Patients with Major Blunt Trauma: Clinical Characteristics and Factors for Decisi... by Ji Hun Kim, Sang Ook Ha, Young Sun Park, Jeong Hyeon Yi, Sun Beom Hur, Ki Ho Lee

“…Methods This retrospective study included 70 hemodynamically unstable patients with chest or/and abdominal blunt injury who underwent WBCT and CVC between March 2013 and November 2017. Results Univariate analysis revealed that the injury severity score, intubation, pulse pressure, focused assessment with sonography in trauma positivity score, and pH were different between the pre-CT (34 patients, 48.6%) and post-CT (all, p<0.05) groups. …”
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The efficacy and safety of patient-controlled intravenous analgesia with esketamine after total hip arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial by Song Qu, Wen-Jie Zhang, Hai-Jiao Zhou, Fei Deng, Rui-Juan Liu, Wen-Jun Yan

“…Trial registration : ChiCTR2300069632 ( https://www.chictr.org.cn/ ) (March 22th, 2023).…”
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Analysis of the Propagation Characteristics of Meteorological Drought to Hydrological Drought and Their Joint Effects on Low-Flow Drought Variability in the Oum Er Rbia Watershed,... by Ismaguil Hanadé Houmma, Abdessamad Hadri, Abdelghani Boudhar, Ismail Karaoui, Sabir Oussaoui, El Mahdi El Khalki, Abdelghani Chehbouni, Christophe Kinnard

“…The linear correlation between the annual rainfall deficit and the monthly groundwater storage index was the lowest (0.15) in December and the highest (0.83) in March. This suggests a seasonal response of groundwater drought to the cumulative effects of precipitation deficits. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Glycemic Control and Its Associated Factors among Diabetes Mellitus Patients by Daniel Asmelash, Netsanet Abdu, Samson Tefera, Habtamu Wondifraw Baynes, Cherie Derbew

“…Diabetic patients who were attending the University of Gondar Hospital from March to May 2018 were included in the study. The data was collected using questionnaires, and individuals that can fulfill our inclusion criteria were selected by a simple random sampling technique. …”
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Transition to Virtual Care Services during COVID-19 at Canadian Pain Clinics: Survey and Future Recommendations by Victoria Borg Debono, Samuel Neumark, Norman Buckley, Ramesh Zacharias, Eleni Hapidou, Jennifer Anthonypillai, Susy Faria, Carrie-Lynn Meyer, Thomas Carter, Nadia Parker, Brenda Lau, Emmanuel Abreu, Scott Duggan, Etienne Bisson, Josie Pierre, Regina Visca, Patricia Poulin

“…Survey responses were collected between January and March of 2021. The survey was administered to the leadership teams of 11 adult pain clinics affiliated with the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans. …”
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The status and influencing factors of death anxiety among Chinese college students under the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study by Guangjian Li, Zhou Wang, Tingye Gao, Xin Gao, Junli Sun, Peng Li, Fengda Wu, Shouzhi Wu, Jie Zhou, Yaping Kong, Xugui Sun

“…Abstract Background To comprehend the current state of death anxiety among Chinese college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, analyze its influencing factors, and provide recommendations for mitigating death anxiety among these students. Methods From March to May 2023, utilizing a cluster sampling method, students from three universities in Changzhou, Jiangsu, were selected as research participants. …”
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Association of leukocyte elastase in semen and seminal plasma with sperm parameters and pregnancy outcomes in male fertility by Mausumi Das, Maha Gumssani, Julia Mullaney, Ralf Henkel, Suks Minhas, Marie Claire Aquilina, Channa N Jayasena

“…Methods: This systematic review followed PRISMA guidelines and included studies from PubMed, Medline, Embase and Scopus (March 22–25, 2024) using the keywords ‘elastase’, ‘sperm’ and ‘semen’. …”
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Effect of trauma center operation on emergency care and clinical outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury by Han Kyeol Kim, Yoon Suk Lee, Woo Jin Jung, Yong Sung Cha, Kyoung-Chul Cha, Hyun Kim, Kang Hyun Lee, Sung Oh Hwang, Oh Hyun Kim

“…Methods The participants of this study were all TBI patients, patients with isolated TBI, and patients with TBI who underwent surgery within 24 hours, who visited our level 1 trauma center from March 1, 2012 to February 28, 2020. Patients were divided into two groups: patients who visited before and after the operation of the trauma center. …”
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Clinical, Paraclinical, and Evolutionary Profiles of Kidney Failure in Gold Miners Hospitalized in a Nephrological Service in a Sub-Saharan African Country by Gérard Coulibaly, Gaoussou Sanou, Moumouni Sanon, Aïda H. Y. Lengani, Juste Y. Bonzi, Aoua Semde

“…This was a longitudinal and descriptive study with a retrospective collection of data for the period from February 1, 2013, to March 31, 2018. Included were all gold miner patients who stayed and worked at an artisanal gold mining site for at least three months and who were diagnosed with acute or chronic kidney failure during hospitalization in the nephrology service. …”
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Dexmedetomidine for delirium prevention in adult patients following cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Chang Meng, Duo Wang, Yue Zhao, Jing Sun, Guobin Miao, Lijuan Chen, Ying Bai, Peng Liu

“…Methods We searched the PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library databases for randomized controlled trials from the last 10 years up to March 10, 2024. We then conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of dexmedetomidine in preventing delirium after cardiac surgery in adults. …”
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Practice, Knowledge, and Attitude of Health Care Providers regarding Cancer Pain Management: A National Survey by Jinmei Liu, Ming Zhang, Juan Luo, Jiyi Xie, Xu Chen, Hanxiang Wang, Shijun Li, Shengli Yang, Chunfen Peng, Liangle Yang, Bin Deng, Yu Zhang, Cong Wang, Jianli Hu, Chen Shi

“…An open online survey was adopted using social media software (WeChat) as the platform to conduct a nationwide survey of HCPs involved in CPM in public medical institutions at all levels in China from March to June 2019. Results. A total of 1279 physicians, 2267 nurses, and 1466 pharmacists participated in the survey. …”
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Changes in grocery shopping behaviour among low-income households during the COVID-19 pandemic by Angela CB Trude, Caitlin M Lowery, Gabriela M Vedovato, Shahmir H Ali, Josephine M Dudzik

“…Design: In this mixed-methods study, participants completed a survey on online grocery shopping, and a purposefully sampled subset participated in focus groups or in-depth interviews between November 2020 and March 2021. Setting: Predominantly urban households in Maryland Participants: Primary shoppers of SNAP-eligible households with young children (n 310) Results: Most participants reported first shopping for groceries online after the OPP was implemented (57 %). …”
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A smartphone application to objectively monitor music listening habits in adolescents by Danique E. Paping, Jantien L. Vroegop, Simone P. C. Koenraads, Carlijn M.P. le Clercq, André Goedegebure, Robert J. Baatenburg de Jong, Marc P. van der Schroeff

“…Data were collected from May 2017 to March 2019. Results A total of 311 adolescents aged 12 to 15 years were included, of whom 237 (76.2%) completed the postal questionnaire. …”
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Evaluating Radio Occultation (RO) Constellation Designs Using Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) for Ionospheric Specification by Nicholas Dietrich, Tomoko Matsuo, Chi‐Yen Lin, Brandon diLorenzo, Charles Chien‐Hung Lin, Tzu‐Wei Fang

“…Patrick's Day storm on March 13–18, 2015. Errors from models and EDP retrieval are realistically accounted for in this study through distinct I‐T models and by retrieving synthetic EDPs through an extension Abel inversion algorithm. …”
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Effects of Revised Toll-by-Weight Policy on Truck Overloading Behavior and Bridge Infrastructure Damage Using Weigh-in-Motion Data: A Comparative Study in China by Haiyun Huang, Junyong Zhou, Junping Zhang, Wangxi Xu, Zhixing Chen, Ningning Li

“…This study aimed at investigating the effects of China’s recently revised toll-by-weight policy on truck overloading behavior and bridge infrastructure damage using weigh-in-motion data that spanned seven years (January 2011 to March 2018) and two successive toll-by-weight policies (with the new one implemented from August 2016), wherein truck data were measured from a typical national freeway segment. …”
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Regional differences in triage decisions affect hospital mortality among frail COVID-19 patients in the COvid MEdicaTion study by Julia Minnema, Roos Sablerolles, Janneke van Kempen, Hugo van der Kuy, Harmke Polinder-Bos, Bob van de Loo, Jorie Versmissen, Miriam L. Haaksma, Melvin Lafeber, Miriam C. Faes, on behalf of the COMET research team^

“…Methods The COMET study is a multicenter, observational cohort study, including adult patients hospitalized for COVID-19 between March 2020– July 2020. Patients’ characteristics, prescribed medication, clinical characteristics, and CFS were collected. …”
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The Role of Butirprost^® as an Adjuvant in Enhancing the Effect of Antibiotics in Patients Affected by Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis: A Randomized Prospective Trial by Felice Crocetto, Armando Calogero, Michele Santangelo, Agostino Fernicola, Filippo Varlese, Benito Fabio Mirto, Fabio Machiella, Alfonso Falcone, Giovanni Pagano, Fabrizio Dinacci, Gaetano Giampaglia, Domenico Varriale, Francesco Trama, Salvatore Iaconis, Francesco Del Giudice, Gian Maria Busetto, Matteo Ferro, Francesco Lasorsa, Giuseppe Lucarelli, Ciro Imbimbo, Biagio Barone

“…<i>Materials and Methods</i>: Patients diagnosed with prostatitis (positive Meares–Stamey test and symptom duration > 3 months) at the University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy, from March 2024 to July 2024 were included in this study. …”
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First‐in‐Man Study of a Novel Peripheral Plaque Atherectomy Device by Hui Wang, Dikang Pan, Shijun Cui, Zhu Tong, Xixiang Gao, Yongquan Gu, Jianming Guo, Lianrui Guo

“…Ten patients with symptomatic LEAD (Rutherford class 2–5) were enrolled in a prospective, single‐center study from March to April 2024. Patients aged 18–85 years with target lesions showing ≥70% stenosis and reference vessel diameters ≥1.8 mm underwent treatment using a novel atherectomy device with a “shaving” mechanism to excise calcified plaques. …”
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Efficacy and safety of pharmacotherapy for cancer cachexia: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis by Hao Chen, Masashi Ishihara, Hiroki Kazahari, Ryusuke Ochiai, Shigeru Tanzawa, Takeshi Honda, Yasuko Ichikawa, Nobuyuki Horita, Hisashi Nagai, Kiyotaka Watanabe, Nobuhiko Seki

“…Three databases (PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science) were searched for the period from January 1, 2000, to March 20, 2024. The netmeta package in R software was used to calculate the pooled effect, employing a random effects model. …”
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Effect of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin on QT Interval Prolongation and Other Cardiac Arrhythmias in COVID-19 Confirmed Patients by Seyed Parsa Eftekhar, Sohrab Kazemi, Mohammad Barary, Mostafa Javanian, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Naghmeh Ziaei

“…One hundred seventy-two confirmed COVID-19 patients were included in this study, hospitalized at Babol University of Medical Sciences hospitals between March 5, 2020, and April 3, 2020. Patients were divided into two groups: hydroxychloroquine alone and hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin. …”
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