Prenatal Diagnosis of Cardiac Diverticulum with Pericardial Effusion in the First Trimester of Pregnancy with Resolution after Early Pericardiocentesis by Raquel Garcia Rodriguez, Azahara Rodriguez Guedes, Raquel Garcia Delgado, Lourdes Roldan Gutierrez, Margarita Medina Castellano, Jose Angel Garcia Hernandez

“…We describe a case of cardiac diverticulum complicated with pericardial effusion during the first trimester of pregnancy and resolved by intrauterine pericardiocentesis at 17 weeks of pregnancy. We made a systematic review of the literature with the cases reported of cardiac diverticulum, management, and outcomes.…”
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Exploring Host Genetic Polymorphisms Involved in SARS-CoV Infection Outcomes: Implications for Personalized Medicine in COVID-19 by Omar Ramos-Lopez, Lidia Daimiel, Ana Ramírez de Molina, Diego Martínez-Urbistondo, Juan A. Vargas, J. Alfredo Martínez

“…Although caution must be taken, the results of this systematic review suggest that multiple genetic polymorphisms are associated with SARS-CoV infection features by affecting virus pathogenesis and host immune response, which could have important applications for the study and understanding of genetics in SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and for personalized translational clinical practice depending on the population studied and associated environments.…”
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Public health policies for children and youth with special health care needs in OECD member countries and Brazil: A scoping review protocol. by Ângela Cristina Rocha Gimenes, Elenir Rose Jardim Cury

“…<h4>Method</h4>A scoping review protocol was developed as per the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) manual and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses-Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist, for application to the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, PubMed, and Embase databases;to theLatin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS)multilingual thesaurus; and to gray literature.The review will map the principal documents (irrespective of time frame or language) addressing public health policies for CYSHCN up to 19 years old. …”
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Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) as an Uncommon Extraintestinal Complication of Crohn’s Disease: Case Vignette and Systematic Literature Review by Raisa Epistola, Tiffanie Do, Ritika Vankina, Daniel Wu, James Yeh, Michael W. Fleischman, Jennifer M. Lee

“…We present a case of a 27-year-old man who presented with medically refractory CD and ITP who responded to surgical management with colectomy and splenectomy, along with a systematic review of the literature. These cases suggest that colectomy should be considered in the treatment of medically refractory ITP among patients with concomitant CD.…”
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Vitamin D and Chronic Pain in Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Patients—Investigation of the Relationship and Comparison with Native Western Populations by Sebastian Straube, R. Andrew Moore, Sheena Derry, Ernst Hallier, Henry J. McQuay

“…Immigrant and ethnic minority populations have been shown to have lower vitamin D levels than native Western populations and often to be vitamin D deficient. This systematic review investigates the relationship between vitamin D and chronic pain in immigrant and ethnic minority populations. …”
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Identification of Environmental Determinants Involved in the Distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Southeast Asia using MaxEnt software. by Jose Francis V Abrantes, Zenn Ashley P Cariño, Hozeo Luis S Mercado, Fatima N Vicencio, Gio Ray S Sosa, Miguel Angelo M Habaña, Nikki Heherson A Dagamac

“…This study aimed to determine the environmental variables that would predict the most suitable ecological niche for this pathogenic bacterium in SEA by maximum entropy (MaxEnt) modeling. Systematic review and meta-analysis of data for melioidosis were obtained from public databases such as PubMed, Harmonized World Soil (HWSD) and WorldClim. …”
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Empathy as a professional quality of a counselling psychologist by O. Dudar

“…This study was formed on the basis of a systematic review of materials that identified correlates of the impact of the empathic level on the psycho-emotional state of a person, as well as explained the role of empathy for a person from the opposite aspects of its study. …”
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Hyperglycemia in Hospitalized Patients Receiving Parental Nutrition Is Associated with Increased Morbidity and Mortality: A Review by Puja Rajender Kumar, Pam Crotty, Maitreyi Raman

“…This paper aims to provide a descriptive systematic review regarding the effects of PN-induced hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients, either in the intensive care unit or ward, while formulating and complementing existing guidelines on the administration of PN and glucose monitoring in hospitalized patients. …”
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BEST PROSTHESIS FOR UNICOMPARTMENTAL KNEE ARTHROSIS: FIXED OR MOBILE? by Fabrício Luz Cardoso, Deusimar Cristian dos Santos Gomez, Fabrício Roberto Severino, Patrícia Maria Moraes de Barros de Fucs

“…Level of Evidence I; Systematic review of randomized controlled trials.…”
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Quality circles for quality improvement in primary health care: Their origins, spread, effectiveness and lacunae- A scoping review. by Adrian Rohrbasser, Janet Harris, Sharon Mickan, Kali Tal, Geoff Wong

“…We identified 19 papers that described individual studies, one paper that summarized 3 studies, and 1 systematic review that suggested that quality circles can effectively change behaviour, though effect sizes varied, depending on topic and context. …”
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A comprehensive transcriptional reference for severity and progression in spinal cord injury reveals novel translational biomarker genes by Rubén Grillo-Risco, Marta R. Hidalgo, Beatriz Martínez-Rojas, Victoria Moreno-Manzano, Francisco García-García

“…Our approach involved a systematic review, individual transcriptomic analysis, gene meta-analysis, and functional characterization. …”
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WHAT ARE THE CAUSES AND TYPES OF FARMER TRAUMA? A LITERATURE REVIEW by Arista Maisyaroh, Eko Prasetya Widianto, Syaifuddin Kurnianto

“…Review: The method used in this study was a literature review with an electronic database search through Springer Link, Science Direct, Pub-med, and Google Scholar based on the inclusion criteria respondents that were farmers who had experienced work-related trauma and there were interventions in the form of assessment of trauma events in farmers, using the method of a systematic review or analytical retrospective study or a population-based observational study or cross-sectional study, using Indonesian and English, published in 2018-2022. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Iguratimod for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis by Jiangtao Li, Hejuan Mao, Yan Liang, Yanrong Lu, Shuo Chen, Nanping Yang, Guixiu Shi

“…The results of this systematic review suggest that more high-quality and large-scaled RCTs were needed to determine the efficacy of iguratimod for RA and whether iguratimod is as effective as other DMARDs besides MTX and SASP.…”
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Delving into the Design and Implementation of Specifications Grading Systems in Higher Education by William J. Howitz, Kate J. McKnelly, Renée D. Link

“…This work presents a systematic review of the current literature to analyze the variety of ways specifications grading systems are executed, including the diverse design and implementation considerations, as well as to present and discuss emergent themes. …”
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Social robots in adult psychiatry: a summary of utilisation and impact by Maja Kling, Alfred Haeussl, Nina Dalkner, Frederike T. Fellendorf, Melanie Lenger, Alexander Finner, Julia Ilic, Irina S. Smolak, Lena Stojec, Ina Zwigl, Eva Z. Reininghaus

“…Although the evidence regarding the benefits of robotic interventions in adult psychiatry is still low, it suffices to assume that investing in larger, randomised, and controlled trials is worthwhile and promising.Systematic review registrationasprediced.org, identifier 128766.…”
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Relationship of asprosin and diabetes: a meta-analysis by Xiandong Zeng, Xin Sun, Wei He, Jing Xie, Caihong Xin

“…Conclusions This systematic review is the first to evaluate the relationship between asprosin levels and diabetes. …”
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Managing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Canadian Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline by Darcy D Marciniuk, Donna Goodridge, Paul Hernandez, Graeme Rocker, Meyer Balter, Pat Bailey, Gordon Ford, Jean Bourbeau, Denis E O’Donnell, Francois Maltais, Richard A Mularski, Andrew J Cave, Irvin Mayers, Vicki Kennedy, Thomas K Oliver, Candice Brown, Canadian Thoracic Society COPD Committee Dyspnea Expert Working Group

“…The present document was compiled to address these important clinical issues using an evidence-based systematic review process led by a representative interprofessional panel of experts.…”
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Challenges of employment in the agrifood sector of developing countries—a systematic literature review by Tamás Mizik, Judit Nagy, Endre Mihály Molnár, Zalán Márk Maró

“…This study synthesizes existing literature to identify the key challenges of employment in the agri-food sector in developing countries. 17,125 articles were identified in the Scopus database and based on a two-stage systematic review of 173 articles (final database), six principal topics were identified and analyzed: (1) family farms; (2) special characteristics of employment; (3) gender disparities; (4) wages; (5) education; (6) productivity. …”
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Natural products against resistant bacterial infections: A systematic literature review by Harshit Kaushik, Ruchika Sharma, Anoop Kumar

“…Aim: Thus, we have conducted a systematic review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines to determine the role of natural products. …”
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Association between Reactive Attachment Disorder/Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder and Emerging Personality Disorder: A Feasibility Study by Khadija Mirza, Gracia Mwimba, Rachel Pritchett, Claire Davidson

“…A systematic review of reactive attachment disorder (RAD)/disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED) in adolescence highlighted that young people with the disorder had indiscriminate friendliness with difficulties in establishing and maintaining stable relationships. …”
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