Screening, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of developmental dysplasia of the hip in Brazilian population: a scoping review by Emily Schaeffer, Patricia Moreno Grangeiro, Patrícia Eduarda Conrado Martins Rocha Jaleca, Sheila Lam, Sana Arora, Daniel Frank Liggio

“…The articles were then analysed across four categories: screening, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.Results 52 studies, published between 1951 and 2023, were included. Reported prevalence rates ranged from 0.75 to 56.4 cases per 1000 children. …”
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Health literacy and medication adherence in adults from ethnic minority backgrounds with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a systematic review by Jinal Parmar, Aymen El Masri, Freya MacMillan, Kirsten McCaffery, Amit Arora

“…Methods Medline (Ovid), The Cochrane Library, Embase (Ovid), PsycInfo (EBSCO), and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) (EBSCO) were searched systematically for peer-reviewed literature, published until January 2024. Studies were included in this review if they assessed health literacy and medication adherence among ethnic minority people with T2DM. …”
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Myoepithelial Carcinoma of the Breast Treated with Surgery and Chemotherapy by Yumi Endo, Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroko Yamashita, Satoru Takahashi, Nobuyasu Yoshimoto, Mai Iwasa, Tomoko Asano, Tatsuya Toyama

“…Myoepithelial carcinoma (malignant myoepithelioma) of the breast is a rare tumor, for which only a limited number of reports have been published. Most of the reports emphasized diagnosis and pathology but not biological behavior and treatment. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of postpartum PTSD following emergency cesarean sections: implications for perinatal mental health care: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Eirini Orovou, Evangelia Antoniou, Ioannis Zervas, Antigoni Sarantaki

“…Methods Undertaking extensive searches of Scopus, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar, we have incorporated studies published from 2013 onwards that examined the occurrence of PTSD following emergency C-sections. …”
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Quality of reporting in abstracts of clinical trials using physical activity interventions: a cross-sectional analysis using the CONSORT for Abstracts by Angélica Trevisan De Nardi, Leony Morgana Galliano, Nórton Luís Oliveira, Daniel Umpierre

“…METHODS: This study is a descriptive, cross-sectional study of the Strengthening the Evidence in Exercise Sciences (SEES) Initiative. RCTs published in 9 exercise science journals and 2 general medicine journals during 2019 were eligible. …”
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Exhibitionism - a review of research by Krystian Wdowiak, Agnieszka Maciocha, Julia Wąż, Aleksandra Witas, Justyna Drogoń, Weronika Chachaj, Paulina Słomka, Ewa Gardocka

“…The search focused on articles published between 2014 and 2024, with an emphasis on studies exploring the etiology, prevalence, and treatment of exhibitionism. …”
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Predicting deamidation and isomerization sites in therapeutic antibodies using structure-based in silico approaches by David Hoffmann, Joschka Bauer, Markus Kossner, Andrew Henry, Anne R. Karow-Zwick, Giuseppe Licari

“…The resulting quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model was trained using previously published forced degradation data from 57 clinical-stage mAbs. …”
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Realist evaluation of the impact of the research translation process on health system sustainability: a study protocol by Yvonne Zurynski, Delia Hendrie, Suzanne Robinson, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Abby Mosedale

“…This approach to evaluation of a research translation funding programme may be adapted to similar programmes operating in other settings.Ethics and dissemination Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee, Western Australia, approved this study (approval number: HRE2020-0464). Results will be published in scientific journals, and communicated to respondents and relevant partners.…”
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Quality of Life in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review by Joanna Campbell, Louis Lavoie, Mariana Farraia, Rachel Huelin, Quanwu Zhang, Amir Abbas Tahami Monfared

“…This systematic review aims to summarize the published evidence on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in individuals with MCI due to AD and mild AD dementia. …”
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Addressing Gender Disparities in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Scoping Review of Life Skills-Based Education in Pakistan by Bushra Anwar, Sayema Awais, Muhammad Moeed Azwar Bhatti, Sania Ahmed, Muhammad Bin Aslam Zahid, Hafsa Malik

“…Methodology: A systematic search was conducted across PubMed, Medline, Google Scholar, Web of Science, PakMediNet, and Popline for randomized, quasi-randomized trials, and evaluation studies on LSBE programs published in the past two decades. Studies included were those conducted in schools or communities to improve adolescents' life skills and reproductive health knowledge. …”
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Efficacy and safety of high-intensity focused ultrasound combined with suction curettage for the treatment of caesarean scar pregnancy: a systematic review and single-arm meta-anal... by Yu Jiang, Yang Liu, Nian Liu, Shize Qin, Shuting Zhong, Xiaohua Huang

“…This study aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of combining high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) with suction curettage for treating CSP.Methods We conducted a comprehensive search in four databases, namely PubMed, Web of Science, Embase and Cochrane Library, to identify published studies evaluating the use of HIFU combined with suction curettage to treat CSP. …”
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Meta-Analysis and Evidence Base for the Efficacy of Autologous Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Knee Cartilage Repair: Methodological Guidelines and Quality Assessment by Mohamed E. Awad, Khaled A. Hussein, Inas Helwa, Mohamed F. Abdelsamid, Alexandra Aguilar-Perez, Ibrahim Mohsen, Monte Hunter, Mark W. Hamrick, Carlos M. Isales, Mohammed Elsalanty, William D. Hill, Sadanand Fulzele

“…The aim of this study is to review all the published clinical trials on autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) in the repair of cartilage lesions of the knee. …”
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A foundation systematic review of natural language processing applied to gastroenterology & hepatology by Matthew Stammers, Balasubramanian Ramgopal, Abigail Owusu Nimako, Anand Vyas, Reza Nouraei, Cheryl Metcalf, James Batchelor, Jonathan Shepherd, Markus Gwiggner

“…Design Seven scholarly databases (ACM Digital Library, Arxiv, Embase, IEEE Explore, Pubmed, Scopus and Google Scholar) were searched for studies published between 2015 and 2023 that met the inclusion criteria. …”
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مداخلة علمیة حول النشر العلمى فى مصادر الوصول الحر Open Access بین التأیید والرفض by Gamal Al Dahshan

“…Scientific publishing is the scientific and important way, but it is one of themost important criteria used to estimate the level of scientific productionIt has also become one of the most important international standards forthe classification of universities, Therefore, universities and research centers areinterested in publishing the results of their scientific research in the publishedpublishing vessels, which adopt the strict scientific standardsSuch as specialized scientific journals or conference books, in order toshare knowledge and results so that research can continue and its results andobjectives will be integrated.The Free Access and Free publishing movement has emerged in the pasttwo decades as a result of its benefits in improving the flow of information. …”
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Catastrophizing Has a Better Prediction for TMD Than Other Psychometric and Experimental Pain Variables by Lisa Willassen, Anders Arne Johansson, Siv Kvinnsland, Kordian Staniszewski, Trond Berge, Annika Rosén

“…The results for anxiety, depression, and catastrophizing have been published earlier, and the reused data in this study are compared with RMS and pain thresholds. …”
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Experiences and Expectations: Drivers of Urban Tourist Destination Competitiveness by Vladimir Pavković, Tamara Vlastelica, Milica Kostić-Stanković, Jasmina Dlačić

“…Motivation: Most of the published research in this field focuses on a general approach to the competitiveness, while the effect of the individual dimensions of tourist destination attractiveness, especially in case of urban tourist destinations, is still insufficiently explored. …”
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Publication Rates of Oculoplastic Surgery and Orbit Abstracts Presented at Turkish Ophthalmological Association National Congresses: 10-Year Analysis by Yusuf İkbal Erdoğdu, Nilay Yüksel

“…Of these, 122 abstracts (15.2%) were published (56 [45.9%] oral, 66 [54.1%] poster presentations). …”
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Effective community engagement in one health research in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review by Sidney Sangong, Farrukh Ishaque Saah, Luchuo Engelbert Bain

“…Empirical peer-reviewed research articles on community engagement in one health research published from January 2000 to September 2023 in English or French were retrieved from seven databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, WHO Afro Library, the National Institute for Health Research, and African Journals Online databases. …”
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Common agricultural weeds among alien invasive plants in China: Species lists and their practical managing strategies by Zeyue Huang, Min Lin, Guoqi Chen

“…In order to reveal the list of common weed species among alien invasive plants, and reveal practical management strategies, we extracted the species lists of common alien agricultural weeds (CAAWs) of various arable lands and plantations, by comparing the lists of alien invasive plant species and common weed species published in China. Totally 88 species from 18 families were recognized as CAAWs, among which 43.0 % are native to North America, followed by South America (34.4 %), Europe (29.0 %), Asia (23.7 %) and Africa (17.2 %); 62.4 % were introduced into China from 1840 to 1949. …”
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Racialized migrant women’s discrimination in maternal care: a scoping review by Jasmine Therese Arcilla, Alexandra Nanou, Sarah Hamed, Fatumo Osman

“…Methodology This scoping review mapped out all available English-language scientific empirical literature published between 2012 and 2023. All authors agreed on the inclusion criteria. …”
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