Prioritizing Patients from the Most Deprived Areas on Elective Waiting Lists in the NHS in England: Estimating the Health and Health Inequality Impact by Naomi Kate Gibbs, Susan Griffin, Nils Gutacker, Adrián Villaseñor, Simon Walker

“…Following growth in waiting lists after COVID-19, the NHS published an elective recovery plan that includes an aim to prioritize patients from deprived areas. …”
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Male involvement in antenatal care follow-up and its determinants in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Gossa Fetene Abebe, Desalegn Girma, Melsew Setegn Alie, Lidiya Gutema Lemu, Yilkal Negesse, Zewditu Alelign

“…Objective To determine the involvement of males in antenatal care (ANC) follow-up and its determinants in Ethiopia.Design A systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources A systematic search was done on PubMed, African Journals Online, HINARI, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar and direct Google up to 20 November 2023.Eligibility criteria We included cross-sectional or case–control studies reporting male involvement in ANC service and its determinants in Ethiopia, which were published as full-length articles in English.Data extraction and synthesis The Joanna Briggs Institute checklist was used to appraise the included studies, and the I2 test was used to evaluate heterogeneity among the studies. …”
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The diagnostic accuracy of circulating free DNA for the detection of KRAS mutation status in colorectal cancer: A meta‐analysis by Wenli Xie, Li Xie, Xianrang Song

“…Searches were performed in PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library for published studies. We extracted true‐positive (TP), false‐positive (FP), false‐negative (FN), true‐negative (TN) values, survival rate of CRC patients with mutant and wild‐type KRAS and calculated pooled sensitivity and specificity, positive/negative likelihood ratios [PLRs/NLRs], diagnostic odds ratios [DORs], and corresponding 95% confidence intervals [95% CIs]. …”
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Reconstruction of S. Margherita Project of 1685 as designed by Agostino Barelli by Fabrizio Ivan Apollonio, Federico Fallavollita, Riccardo Foschi

“… • The reconstructive methodology is exhaustive, easily reproducible and transparent, and the 3D model is built and published in a way that is interoperableand accessible. …”
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Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) infections following intravesical BCG immunotherapy: a systematic review protocol by Roberta Monardo, Sana Arif, Aparna Rege, Erin Simon, Leila Ledbetter, Arthur W. Baker, Jason Stout, Manuela Carugati

“…Methods Systematic review of peer-reviewed published articles that describe the treatment of one or more persons with intravesical BCG and the occurrence of BCG infections among these patients. …”
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Effective interventions to prevent youth vaping behaviours: a rapid review by Ana Paula Belon, Laura Nieuwendyk, Tasha Allen, Melissa Worrell, Candace I J Nykiforuk

“…Objective To identify effective policies and non-policy interventions preventing youth vaping behaviour initiation and assess their effectiveness by the level of intrusiveness and subpopulations.Design This systematic rapid review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.Data sources Searches on MEDLINE and APA-PsycINFO for studies published between January 2019 and November 2023.Eligibility criteria Observational, intervention or mixed-method studies and quantitative systematic reviews/meta-analyses measuring the impact of interventions on youth (6–18 years) who never vaped or who had experimentally vaped.Data extraction and synthesis A predesigned form was used to extract data. …”
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Some Lexical Uses from Divân of Kâtebi of Neyshâbur by Mohammad Shadrooymanesh, Sara Ghaffari Cherati

“…So far Ghazals, from his Divân, and only Majma’-ul-Bahrayn and recently Mohebb-va-Mahbub (or Si-nâmeh), of his Masnawies, have been published. Ketabi has succeeded in contributing to the richness of the Persian language by usinf various forms and sublime themes as well as special attention to figures of speech and the coinage of new words and expressions. …”
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Detecting Freezing of Gait in Parkinson Disease Using Multiple Wearable Sensors Sets During Various Walking Tasks Relative to Medication Conditions (DetectFoG): Protocol for a Pros... by Sébastien Cordillet, Sophie Drapier, Frédérique Leh, Audeline Dumont, Florian Bidet, Isabelle Bonan, Karim Jamal

“…It is anticipated that the results will be published by the end of 2025. ConclusionsDetecting FoG episodes in various medical and clinical settings would provide a more comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon. …”
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Digital intervention promoting physical activity among obese people (DIPPAO) randomised controlled trial: study protocol by Bruno Pereira, Martine Duclos, Alexandre Mazéas, Aïna Chalabaev, Marine Blond

“…Results will inform the Kiplin app development, be published in scientific journals and disseminated in international conferences.Trial registration number NCT04887077.…”
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An Insurance Value Modeling Approach That Captures the Wider Value of a Novel Antimicrobial to Health Systems, Patients, and the Population by Mei S. Chan, Richard Holloway, Robert King, Rosie Polya, Rebecca Sloan, Jack C. Kowalik, Tom Ashfield, Luke S.P. Moore, Thomas Porter, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard

“…Components of this insurance value match previously published estimates of operational costs and mortality impacts. …”
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Prediction of transcript isoforms and identification of tissue-specific genes in cucumber by Wenjiao Wang, Chengcheng Shen, Xinqiang Wen, Anqi Li, Qi Gao, Zhaoying Xu, Yuping Wei, Yushun Li, Dailu Guan, Bin Liu

“…Conclusions By analyzing thousands of published transcriptome data, we identified abundant transcriptional events and tissue-specific transcripts in cucumbers. …”
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Costello Syndrome and Umbilical Ligament Rhabdomyosarcoma in Two Pediatric Patients: Case Reports and Review of the Literature by Carlos Sánchez-Montenegro, Alejandra Vilanova-Sánchez, Saturnino Barrena-Delfa, Jair Tenorio, Fernando Santos-Simarro, Sixto García-Miñaur, Pablo Lapunzina, Leopoldo Martínez-Martínez

“…A review of the literature published in English in MEDLINE from January 1971 to June 2016 using the search terms “Costello syndrome” and “rhabdomyosarcoma” was performed, including two new cases that we describe. …”
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Investigations of Long-Acting Formulations in Children, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review by Lynn Bertagnolli, Zhengyi Deng, Melissa Davy-Rothwell, Elaine J. Abrams, Charles Flexner, Ethel D. Weld

“…<b>Methods:</b> Pubmed, Embase, and Cochrane Library trials were searched. Studies published from 1980 through 2018 were included. After abstract review and duplication removal, full-text articles were obtained for further review, reviewed by two independent reviewers, and disagreements were resolved by a third reviewer. …”
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Boundary layer flow of a non-Newtonian fluid over an exponentially stretching sheet with the presence of a heat source/sink by Vinod Y．, K.R. Raghunatha, Suma Nagendrappa Nagappanavar, Nodira Nazarova, Manish Gupta, Sangamesh

“…The results align with previously published findings, validating the model. This research is significant for MHD flows of non-Newtonian fluids, with applications in polymer extrusion, metal casting, and cooling technologies. …”
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Malapposed Struts with Cre8, Biomatrix, and Xience Stents Assessed with OCT Immediately after Implantation and at 6-Month Follow-Up: Can the Different Biomechanical Characteristics... by Cristina Giglioli, Emanuele Cecchi, Chiara Formentini, Marco Chiostri, Niccolò Marchionni, Salvatore Mario Romano

“…In this study, which is a subanalysis of the previously published CREBX-OCT study, we compared optical coherence tomography (OCT) analysis at the index percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and at six-month follow-up in 37 patients randomly assigned to receive, by a single operator, three different second-generation drug-eluting stents (Cre8, Biomatrix, and Xience) aiming to clarify if the malapposition observed at six-month follow-up was persistent or late-acquired. …”
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Non-pharmacological interventions to improve the patient experience of colonoscopy under moderate or no sedation: a systematic review protocol by Nancy N Baxter, Jill Tinmouth, Diego Llovet, Teruko Kishibe, Colin Sue-Chue-Lam, Matthew Castelo

“…The review findings will be included in future efforts to develop an implementation strategy to reduce the use of deep sedation for routine colonoscopy. They will also be published in a peer-reviewed journal, presented at conferences and contribute to a doctoral thesis.PROSPERO registration number CRD42020173906.…”
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FEATURES OF THE MODEL OF A SPECIALIZED GEOSPATIAL DATABASE FOR VISUALIZING INDICATORS OF HUMAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC SECURITY IN WARTIME CONDITIONS by Zakharii S. Varnalii, Oleksii P. Fedchenko, Ihor V. Pampukha, Ihor V. Tolok

“…Services, thematic web maps, and web applications based on a specialized geospatial database and published on the ArcGIS Online portal highlight key components impacting socio-economic security in full-scale war conditions. …”
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KaRhab: an international online registry for cardiac rhabdomyomas by Vera-Maria Herrmann, Maria Arelin, Caroline G. Bergner, Julia Herrmann, Paula Janz, Henriette Kiep, Annika Mueller, Steffen Syrbe, Robert Wagner, Bardo Wannenmacher, Nadine Wolf, Michael Weidenbach, Vincent Strehlow

“…In addition we integrated previously published data from individual case reports and case series. …”
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Cost Effectiveness of Insulin Glargine versus Neutral Protamin Hagedorn Insulin in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Turkey by Ilhan Satman, Hayley Bennett, Candeger Yilmaz, Sazi Imamoglu, Goksun Ayvaz, Abdurrahman Comlekci, Demet Ozkaya, Toros Sahin

“…**Methods:** A previously published discrete event simulation model of T2DM progression was utilised to characterise the cost-effectiveness of insulin glargine in a Turkish population given the benefits observed in clinical practice. …”
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A prospective model of the potential clinical and economic impact of cervical cancer screening supported by a mobile phone app. by Fredrick Chite Asirwa, Brian W Bresnahan, Faith Yego, Dana Duncan, James K Karichu, Louis P Garrison

“…The model is structured to simulate a three-visit pathway for HPV-based screening used in a clinical trial of the app and based on epidemiological data, clinical guideline-based workflow, and patient-based behavioral pathways. Published literature, expert elicitation, and time-and-motion observations were used to estimate clinical data, care pathways, and visit-related costs. …”
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