Investigating the Feasibility of Behavioral Nudges to Reduce the Phenomenon of Escape from Responsibility in Public Sector by Seyed Kamal Vaezi, Mahboubeh Hosseini

“…The statistical population consisted of experts in the fields of management, law, and high officials of public sectors who were selected by the snowball sampling method. …”
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Le corps féminin à Casablanca : un reflet mouvant des rôles de genre ? by Leila Bouasria, Nezha Aidi

“…It must be shaped and adapted to individual and collective requirements.Furthermore, difficulties in accessing the matrimonial market, prolonged celibacy, and the proliferation of intra- or extramarital intimate experiences, redefine the nature, formation, and expectations of couples, which are no longer solely focused on reproduction. Moroccan women, who are employed or financially autonomous, assert their right to reclaim their bodies through various aesthetic experiences to free themselves from societal constraints. …”
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Xpert Ultra stool testing to diagnose tuberculosis in children in Ethiopia and Indonesia: a model-based cost-effectiveness analysis by Peter J Dodd, Nyashadzaishe Mafirakureva, Rina Triasih, Debebe Shaweno, Jens Levy, Eveline Klinkenberg, Petra de Haas, Ineke Spruijt, Nastiti Kaswandani, Ahmed Bedru, Melaku Gebremichael, Edine W Tiemersma

“…Objectives The WHO currently recommends stool testing using GeneXpert MTB/Rif (Xpert) for the diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis (TB). …”
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Benefits and harms of pregabalin in the management of neuropathic pain: a rapid review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials by Igho J Onakpoya, Elizabeth T Thomas, Joseph J Lee, Ben Goldacre, Carl J Heneghan

“…The neuropathic pain conditions studied were diabetic peripheral neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, herpes zoster, sciatica (radicular pain), poststroke pain and spinal cord injury-related pain. Patients who took pregabalin reported significant reductions in pain (numerical rating scale (NRS)) compared with placebo (standardised mean difference (SMD) −0.49 (95% CI −0.66 to −0.32, p<0.00001), very low quality evidence). …”
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Correlations between spinopelvic parameters and health-related quality of life in degenerative lumbar scoliosis patients before and after long -level fusion surgery by Jiaqi Zhang, Yinhao Liu, Yan Zeng, Lei Yuan, Weishi Li

“…Methods This study retrospectively reviewed 130 consecutive patients who underwent long-level fusion with at least 1 year follow-up. …”
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Associations between specific and cumulative adverse childhood experiences, childhood obesity, and obesogenic behaviours by Ladan Hashemi, Maryam Ghasemi, Brooklyn Mellar, Pauline Gulliver, Barry Milne, Fiona Langridge, Tracey McIntosh, Christa Fouche, Boyd Swinburn

“…The study sample was restricted to those who provided obesity data at age 8 and one child per mother, resulting in an analytic sample of 4895 children. …”
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The superiority of veno-arterial over veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for operative support of lung transplantation by Sen Lu, Pin Wang, Xiao-qin Zhang, Gang Feng, Hong-li He, Yue Chen, Xiao-bo Huang, Chun Pan, Jing-chao Luo

“…Methods We conducted an 8-year retrospective analysis of 62 lung transplant recipients who received intraoperative ECMO (29 V-A, 33 V-V). …”
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Assessing the use of geospatial data for immunization program implementation and associated effects on coverage and equity in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Dosithée Ngo-Bebe, Patricia Mechael, Fulbert Nappa Kwilu, Théophane Kekemb Bukele, Félicité Langwana, Genèse Lolimo Lobukulu, Marcelo Ilunga Kalonji, Bahindwa Kalalizi, Kevin Tschirhart, Christophe Lungayo Luhata, Carine Gachen

“…A secondary analysis of immunization coverage survey data (2020–2022) was conducted to assess the associated effects on immunization coverage, especially changes in rates of zero dose children, defined as those aged 12–23 months who have not received a single dose of Pentavalent vaccine. …”
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An mHealth Intervention With Financial Incentives to Promote Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity Among Black Adults: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial by Adam Alexander, Michael Businelle, Marshall Cheney, Amy Cohn, Lorna McNeill, Kevin Short, Summer Frank-Pearce, David Bradley, Kimberly Estrada, Iván Flores, Jack Fronheiser, Darla Kendzor

“…MethodsA total of 60 Black adults who smoke (≥5 cigarettes/d) and are insufficiently physically active (engaging in <150 min of weekly moderate-intensity physical activity) will be randomly assigned to either HealthyCells intervention (incentives for smoking abstinence only) or HealthyCells+ intervention (incentives for both smoking abstinence and daily step counts). …”
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Early- and Late-Onset Preeclampsia: A Comprehensive Cohort Study of Laboratory and Clinical Findings according to the New ISHHP Criteria by Anna Wójtowicz, Małgorzata Zembala-Szczerba, Dorota Babczyk, Monika Kołodziejczyk-Pietruszka, Olga Lewaczyńska, Hubert Huras

“…Patients with preeclampsia accounted for 1.7% of the women who delivered during the study period. The EOP and LOP groups did not differ in the distribution of risk factors for preeclampsia. …”
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Aetiological research on the health of migrants living in Germany: a systematic literature review by Oliver Razum, Florian Fischer, Ina Danquah, Claudia Hövener, Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Tracy Bonsu Osei, Isabel Mank, Raissa Sorgho

“…Outcomes under investigation were categorised according to the WHO major disease groups, and their associations with risk factors were synthesised as a heat map.Results Out of 2407 articles retrieved, we included 68 publications with a total number of 864 518 participants. …”
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Evaluation of Performance in Colon Capsule Endoscopy Reading by Endoscopy Nurses by Yukiko Handa, Konosuke Nakaji, Kayo Hyogo, Makiko Kawakami, Tomomi Yamamoto, Akiko Fujiwara, Rika Kanda, Motoyasu Osawa, Osamu Handa, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Eiji Umegaki, Akiko Shiotani

“…CCE videos of 20 consecutive patients who performed both CCE and CS with clinically significant localized lesions were selected. …”
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Barriers and Facilitators to Collecting Surgical Outcome Data in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An International Survey by Thomas Diehl, MD, Taylor J. Jaraczewski, MD, MS, Kaleem Sohail Ahmed, MBBS, MSAI, Muhammad Rizwan Khan, MBBS, FCPS, FRCS, FACS, MHPE, Ewen M. Harrison, MB, ChB, MSc, PhD, FRCS, Belay Mellese Abebe, MD, Asad Latif, MD, MPH, Nabiha Mughal, MD, Sadaf Khan, MBBS, FACS, FACRS, K. A. Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH, FASA, Girma Tefera, MD, Syed Nabeel Zafar, MBBS, MPH, FACS

“…Mentorship and research training was available in <50% of respondent’s institutions; however, those who had these were more likely to publish SOD (P = 0.02). …”
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Cohort profile: maternal and child health and parenting practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ceará, Brazil: birth cohort study (Iracema-COVID) by Marcia C Castro, Márcia Maria Tavares Machado, Simone Farías-Antúnez, David Augusto Batista Sá Araújo, Ana Luiza Penna, Francisco Ariclene Oliveira, Camila Machado de Aquino, Antônio Silva Lima Neto, Geziel dos Santos de Sousa

“…Purpose Maternal and child health and parenting practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ceará (Iracema-COVID) is a longitudinal, prospective population-based birth cohort designed to understand the effects of the pandemic and social withdrawal in maternal mental health, child development and parenting practices of mothers and families.Participants A sample of mothers who gave birth in July and August 2020 (n=351) was enrolled in the study in January 2021. …”
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The predictive value of echocardiographic parameters regarding appearance of atrial fibrillation in patients with acute coronary syndrome by V.Y. Tseluyko, F. Ben Salem, N.A. Lopina

“…Group 1 included patients with AF. Those of them who had the new-onset AF during ACS hospitalization constituted subgroup 1a (n = 41). …”
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Association between sleep during pregnancy and birth outcomes: a prospective cohort study by Libing Huang, Huanjun Chen, Fuhui Yao, Zhonghan Sun, Shijiao Yan, Yuwei Lai, Chuanzhu Lv, Xiong-Fei Pan, Rixing Wang, Xingyue Song

“…In the multivariable model, compared with 7.1–8 h/night, sleep ≤ 7 h/night during second trimester increases the risk of preterm birth (OR: 1.43, 95% CI: 1.12,1.85), and the risk of preterm birth was decreased in pregnant women who slept > 9 h/night (OR: 0.79, 95% CI: 0.53,0.93). …”
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طوابع البرید التذکاریة المصریة عبر الحقب التاریخیة المختلفة کمصدر من مصادر المعلومات غیر التقلیدیة : دراسة ببلیومتریة... by د. نها محمد عثمان

“…It also commemorates the personalities who played a greatrole in Egypt's modern and contemporary history.The study aims at identifying the reality of Egyptian commemorativepostage stamps as a source of non-traditional information, and the numerical,qualitative and linguistic trends of these stamps. …”
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Association of hepatitis B virus DNA levels with efficacy and safety and the impact of antiviral therapy on prognosis in liver cancer patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor... by Hongxia Cui, Su Li, Wu Lv, Jing Xiang

“…The risk of HBVr in the high HBV DNA group was lower than that in the low HBV DNA group (OR = 0.30, 95% CI 0.15–0.58), especially among patients who received antiviral therapy (OR = 0.42, 95% CI 0.18–0.98).ConclusionHigh HBV DNA was associated with worse OS, but not with PFS, ORR, or DCR in liver cancer patients receiving ICIs. …”
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High clinical burden of classical homocystinuria in the United States: a retrospective analysis by Mahim Jain, Mehul Shah, Kamlesh M. Thakker, Andrew Rava, Agnes Pelts Block, Colette Ndiba-Markey, Lionel Pinto

“…Methods This non-interventional retrospective cohort analysis from January 01, 2016, through September 30, 2021, used Optum’s de-identified Market Clarity Data. Patients who had 1 or more International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision code for homocystinuria (E72.11) or the signs, disease, and symptoms term homocystinuria in the natural language processing dataset were included. …”
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Clinical characteristics and risk factors of Clostridioides difficile infection in children with diarrhoea by Ning Wang, Kun Jiang, Jinyue Huang, Mengzhu Hou, Lu Wang, Wei Wang, Yulian Fang

“…Multi-factor logistic regression analysis was used to show that a history of hospitalisation within the last three months, a history of antibiotic treatment for ≥7 days, non-breastfeeding, and a history of antibiotic combined with probiotic treatment were risk factors for CDI in children with diarrhoea (P &lt; 0.05).ConclusionsA history of hospitalisation within the last three months, previous antibiotic treatment for ≥7 days or combined with probiotic treatment, and non-breastfeeding are risk factors for CDI in children with diarrhoea, so children with diarrhoea who present as described above need to be alerted to CDI and are advised to have active investigations to facilitate rapid and effective control of the disease and improve prognosis.…”
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