Principles to award learning achievements for lifelong learning in health using micro-credentials: an international Delphi study by Sharon Mitchell, John Hart, Muntaha Gharaibeh, Graham T. McMahon, Anthea Rhoda, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Tana Wuliji, Janusz Janczukowicz

“…The process culminated in a final workshop in March 2023. Results A total of 53 participants completed the Delphi, with results analysed by researchers using qualitative analysis. …”
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Spatiotemporal Response of MODIS Derived Vegetation index to climatic condition Case study: Kohgiloyeh O Boirahmad Province of Iran by Mohammad Hossein Nasserzadeh, zahra Hejazizadeh, Zahra Gholampour, Bohloul Alijani

“…The results indicated that during winter (December to March) the spatial distribution of NDVI is highly correlated with LST spatial distribution. …”
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Determinants of burnout syndrome among undergraduate nursing students in Poland: a cross-sectional study by Katarzyna Szwamel, Wiesława Kowalska, Ewa Mazur, Anna Janus, Iwona Bonikowska, Justyna Jasik-Pyzdrowska

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 841 bachelor’s degree nursing students from March 2022 to June 2022. The Maslach Burnout Inventory, Athens Insomnia Scale, Modified Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and Perceived Stress Scale were used. …”
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Comparative efficacy of precut over a pancreatic duct stent and transpancreatic precut sphincterotomy for difficult biliary cannulation in ERCP by YAO Wenfei, QI Yang, LI Qianyi, WU Yuquan, XU Ruiyun, YAO Wei, KONG Lei, LI Nengping

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of all consecutive patients underwent ERCP by the same doctor in our hospital between April 2019 and March 2023. According to the selected method during difficult biliary cannulation when guidewire entered pancreatic duct unintendedly, the patients were divided into two groups,1) PPDS group: placing a pancreatic duct stent first, then using a needle knife to cut bile duct sphincter on the surface of the pancreatic duct stent, preserving pancreatic duct sphincter, and then selectively cannulate bile duct; 2) TPS group: precut through pancreatic duct sphincter first, then a pancreatic duct stent was placed, and bile duct was selectively cannulated. …”
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The Effectiveness and Safety of Tibial-Sided Osteotomy for Fibula Untethering in Lateral Close-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy: A Novel Technique with Video Illustration by Keun Young Choi, Man Soo Kim, Yong In

“…<i>Materials and Methods</i>: Between March and December 2023, 13 patients who underwent LCWHTO with TSO for fibula untethering were enrolled. …”
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Multidrug Resistant Enteric Bacteria from Cancer Patients Admitted in Douala Laquintinie Hospital, Littoral Region of Cameroon by Michael F. Kengne, Ornella D. Tsobeng, Ballue S. T. Dadjo, Victor Kuete, Armelle T. Mbaveng

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2021 to March 2023. Stool samples from 307 cancer patients with enteric disorders and 200 noncancer patients with enteric disorders were examined to diagnose the presence of bacteria using various techniques. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in inflammatory bowel disease: a meta-analysis by Xin Feng, Jie Hu, Xin Zhang

“…We conducted this study to calculate the prevalence and identify predictors of SIBO in IBD.MethodsPubMed, Cochrane Library, and EMBASE from inception to March 2024 were searched for studies evaluating the prevalence of SIBO in IBD. …”
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Phenotypic Identification of Streptococcus mutans and Attendant Bacteria From Dentin Caries and Necrotic Pulp, and Its Correlation with Caries Activities Tests by Enas Yaseen Shehab, Basima A. Abdullah, Anmar A. AlTaie

“…Materials and Methods: Two samples were collected from every 150 patients including one from dentin caries and the other from necrotic pulp, who have attended the Dental Teaching Hospital at the University of Mosul, in Mosul, Iraq with ages ranging between 6 and 76 years, and both sexes, from the beginning of March 2022 to the end of October 2022. Results: VITEK 2 compact system used to identify of S. mutans at a high number of 39 (32.5%) in dentin caries while Enterococcus faecalis gave a high number of 43 (35.8%) in necrotic pulp in addition to other different bacterial species were identified as Streptococcus sanguinis, Streptococcus gordonii, Streptococcus anginosus, Lactococcus acidophilus, Staphylococcus aureus, Actinomycus spp., Staphylococcus hominis, Enterococcus faecium, Lactococcus lactis, Lactococcus garvieae, Lactococcus raffinolactis, Kocuria rosea, Pediococcus acidilactici, Pediococcus pentosaceus, and the fungal Candida albicans. …”
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Effectiveness of Percutaneous Hypodermic Needle Release of Trigger Finger: A Prospective Study by R Sahaya Jose, M Syed Moosa, SL Binesh

“…Material and methods: This is a prospective study conducted between March 2021 and February 2023. A total of 25 patients of both sexes who were not responding to conservative management with trigger-finger were included. …”
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COVID-19 and arterial hypertension: whether normal blood pressure is a sign of a benign course of COVID-19 by O.V. Kuryata, Ye.O. Frolova, O.I. Stadnyk, V.V. Semenov

“…From 260 patients that were hospitalised to the unit subdivision of stable patients of COVID-center between March, 2020, and December, 2020, 163 patients with confirmed infection with SARS-CoV-2 virus and hypertension were selected. …”
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The Lost Gambit: The Third War between Israel and Egypt, its Causes and Lessons by Alek D. Epstein

“…By analyzing the causes of the war of June 1967 between Egypt and Israel it is proved that they laid to a certain significant extent beyond the context of bilateral relations of these countries.The tragic experience of June 1967 is important nowadays when it is taken for granted that a new war between Israel and Egypt could not erupt because these countries have nothing to divide after the return of the Sinai Peninsula. Once upon a time, in March 1957, Israel has already withdrawn its forces from the Sinai. …”
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A data-driven approach to study temporal characteristics of COVID-19 infection and death Time Series for twelve countries across six continents by Sabyasachi Guharay

“…The datasets cover twelve distinct countries across six continents, from January 22, 2020 till March 1, 2022. This time span is partitioned into three windows: (1) pre-vaccine, (2) post-vaccine and pre-omicron (BA.1 variant), and (3) post-vaccine including post-omicron variant. …”
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Progress towards 90-90-90 and 95-95-95 strategy implementations and HIV positivity trends in the City of Johannesburg by J C Y Nyasulu, I Maposa

“…The study has shown that by March 2022, 15 months after December 2020, CoJ had reached 91-65-88. …”
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Impact of Saharan dust on particulate matter characteristics in an urban and a natural locality in Central Europe by Jan Loskot, Daniel Jezbera, Martina Nalezinková, Adéla Holubová Šmejkalová, Danilo Fernandes, Jan Komárek

“…Abstract In late March to early April 2024, an unusually high amount of sand dust was wind-blown to Europe from the Sahara Desert. …”
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The Impact of DNA Methylation on IL6 mRNA Levels in Hematinic Deficiency and Atopy-Associated Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis Patients by Nanan Nur’aeny, Dida Akhmad Gurnida, Oki Suwarsa, Irna Sufiawati

“…Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, from January–March 2019 and was approved by the Health Research Ethics Committee of Universitas Padjadjaran (Ethics No. 990/UN6.KEP/EC/2018). …”
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A quality improvement initiative to improve growth monitoring of children attending immunization clinic in an urban primary health centre in Delhi by Ravneet Kaur, Udita Singh, K. Srinath, Anjusha Ranjith, Baridalyne Nongkynrih

“…Methodology A Quality Improvement (QI) initiative was undertaken in the immunization clinic of an urban primary health centre in southern Delhi, from January to March 2024. A multi-faceted QI team was formed. The baseline coverage of weight-for-age growth chart plotting in the immunization clinic was 31%. …”
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An analysis of heavy silicone oil treatment for inferior proliferative vitreoretinopathy by Maximilian Hammer, Amanda Ie, Katharina Eibenberger, Gerd Uwe Auffarth, Kanmin Xue

“…Methods A retrospective cohort study of 20 eyes that underwent vitrectomy for inferior PVR with use of heavy silicone oil (Densiron 68) between March 2021 and October 2022 at Oxford Eye Hospital. …”
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Reassessment of disease severity routine laboratory tests in the COVID-19 infection by A. A. Simushev, E. Yu. Medvedeva, Yu. O. Shulpekova, V. M. Nechaev, M. R. Skhirtladze, I. R. Popova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Publications demonstrate some limitations of National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS-2) accuracy in assessment on coronavirus infection severity.The purpose of this study was to determine the value of the patient’s age and routine laboratory parameters in the assessment of patient’s general condition in coronavirus pneumonia and their relation to NEWS-2 scale parameters.Materials and methods. 50 case reports of patients with COVID-19 infection observed in the Sechenov University in January–March 2021 were analyzed. 34 % of patients were males aged 31 to 89 years (average age 55 years) and 66 % — females aged 40 to 91 (mean age 63). …”
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Characteristics of exacerbators in the US Bronchiectasis and NTM Research Registry: a cross-sectional study by Nicole C. Lapinel, Radmila Choate, Timothy R. Aksamit, Joseph Feliciano, Kevin L. Winthrop, Andreas Schmid, Sebastian Fucile, Mark L. Metersky

“…Methods A cross-sectional cohort study of patients ≥18 years with bronchiectasis enrolled in the US Bronchiectasis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Research Registry (BRR) September 2008–March 2020. Patients were stratified by exacerbation frequency in their 2 years before enrolment. …”
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Feasibility and complications of videocapsule endoscopy in dogs weighing 7 kg or less by Camille St‐Jean, Allison Collier, Alex Zur Linden, Alexa Bersenas, Alice Defarges

“…Methods Retrospective study describing the signalment, previous GI imaging, indications, findings, and complications of canine VCE studies submitted to Infiniti Medical between March 2020 and January 2023. Results The median weight and age of dogs was 5.6 kg (range, 3‐7) and 8.8 years (range, 1‐16), respectively. …”
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