Patients’ Use of e-Consultations as an Alternative to Other General Practitioner Services: Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Eli Kristiansen, Helen Atherton, Bjarne Austad, Trine Strand Bergmo, Børge Lønnebakke Norberg, Chris Salisbury, Paolo Zanaboni

“…Helsenorge is the national citizen portal for digital health services in Norway, including e-consultations with the GP. All users who sent e-consultations through Helsenorge were invited to participate between January and February 2023. …”
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Integrating Videoconferencing Therapist Guidance Into Stepped Care Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child and Adolescent Anxiety: Noninferiority Randomized Contr... by Sonja March, Susan H Spence, Larry Myers, Martelle Ford, Genevieve Smith, Caroline L Donovan

“…MethodsParticipants included 137 Australian children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years (male: n=61, 44.5%) with a primary anxiety disorder who were recruited from participants presenting to the BRAVE Online website. …”
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Correlations among hope, fertility quality of life and negative emotions for couples undergoing their first in vitro fertilization–embryo transfer: a cross-sectional analysis by Hui Ye, Jing Zhao, Yujie Zou, Xiaorun Song, Mi Xu, Yu Zhang, Lili Zhang, Gaohua Wang

“…From February 2023 to October 2023, 1425 patients who received IVF-ET treatment for the first time participated in the questionnaire survey. …”
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Application of refined nursing model based on Watson’s theory of human caring for patients undergoing electronic bronchoscopy (基于Watson人性照护理论的精细化护理模式在电子支气管镜检查中的应用)... by LI Lin (李琳), LIU Yinshuang (刘银双), FENG Wenying (冯文英), ZHAO Jing (赵静)

“…Methods Totally48 patients who underwent electronic bronchoscopy between April 2022 to October 2022 were selected as the control group, and received routine nursing during treatment. …”
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Distal Femur Type III Open Fractures: Functional Outcome Analysis by Arul R Bhagyaraj, Anand Ashok, Manisha J Kumar, Krupakaran Ganesan, Anand Kurian, Dan B Inja, Manasseh Nithyananth, Vinoo M Cherian, Jeremy Bliss

“…The primary fixation group had 64% patients with excellent functional outcomes, whereas among those who underwent staged procedures, only 30% had excellent functional outcomes. …”
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Effect of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on birth weight in Ethiopia: protocol for a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial by Joanna Schellenberg, Charles Opondo, Tanya Marchant, Lars Åke Persson, Masresha Tessema, Atkure Defar, Alemneh Kabeta Daba, Girum Taye, Senait Alemayehu, Elias Asfaw, Anene Tesfa, Bedasa Tessema, Kalkidan Zenebe

“…A 2019 meta-analysis reported a mean increase of 35 g in birth weight among newborns of women who took multiple micronutrient supplements in pregnancy compared with those who took iron-folic acid. …”
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Indication of frailty transitions on 2-year adverse health outcomes among older Chinese inpatients: Insight from a multicenter prospective cohort study. by Miao Yu, Jiaqi Ding, Xinjuan Wu, Xianxiu Wen, Jingfen Jin, Hui Wang, Dongmei Lv, Shengxiu Zhao, Jing Jiao, Tao Xu

“…Compared with patients who persistently non-frail patients, those who frailty improvement, persistent pre-frailty, worsening frailty, and persistent frailty showcased escalated risks of mortality within 2 years after enrollment [HR (95% CI): 1.32 (1.06-1.64)], 1.71 (1.37-2.13), 2.43 (1.95-3.02), and 2.44 (1.81-3.29), respectively. …”
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Measuring the uptake of clinic-based HIV treatment and prevention services following HIV testing and referral at private pharmacies in Kenya by Victor Omollo, Stephanie D. Roche, Shengruo Zhang, Magdalene Asewe, Bernard K. Rono, Benn Kwach, Greshon Rota, Patricia Ong’wen, Kendall Harkey, Josephine Odoyo, Daniel Were, Kenneth Ngure, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Katrina F. Ortblad

“…We called clients three months after study completion to see if they had initiated the recommended service. Among clients who reported PrEP referral, we used Poisson regression models to examine characteristics associated with PrEP initiation and calculated adjusted prevalence ratios (aPRs). …”
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Restoring coronal pre-arthritic alignment in mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: mid- to long-term outcomes by Yankun Jiang, Changquan Liu, Qidong Zhang, Guoyuan Sun, Ran Ding, Nianfei Zhang, Cheng Huang, Weiguo Wang, Wanshou Guo

“…This study evaluated whether patients who achieve pre-arthritic alignment following mobile-bearing UKA with the kinematic alignment technique experience superior postoperative knee function compared with those who do not. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Risankizumab in Patients with Psoriasis Showing Suboptimal Response to Secukinumab or Ixekizumab: Results from a Phase 3b, Open-Label, Single-Arm (aIMM) Stud... by Richard B. Warren, Lev Pavlovsky, Antonio Costanzo, Michael Bukhalo, Neil J. Korman, Yu-Huei Huang, Georgios Kokolakis, Andreas Pinter, Nadia Ibrahim, Yanbing Zheng, Leonidas Drogaris, Vassilis Stakias, Ahmed M. Soliman, Simone Rubant, Diamant Thaçi

“…Conclusions Directly switching to risankizumab improved outcomes and QoL in patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis who had suboptimal responses to anti-IL-17 inhibitors (secukinumab or ixekizumab). …”
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Kinomic profiling to predict sunitinib response of patients with metastasized clear cell Renal Cell Carcinoma by Jeannette C. Oosterwijk-Wakka, Liesbeth Houkes, Loes F.M. van der Zanden, Lambertus A.L.M. Kiemeney, Kerstin Junker, Anne Y Warren, Tim Eisen, Ulrich Jaehde, Marius T Radu, Rob Ruijtenbeek, Egbert Oosterwijk

“…Results: Kinome data was available from 94 patients who received sunitinib as 1st-line treatment and had complete follow-up of their clinical data (PFS, OS and toxicity) for at least 6 months. …”
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Clinical Features and Changes in Insulin Requirements in People with Type 2 Diabetes Requiring Insulin When Hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Antonella Corcillo, Aaisha Saqib, Niruthika Sithamparanathan, Amina Khanam, Jamal Williams, Abhiti Gulati, Dulmini Kariyawasam, Janaka Karalliedde

“…A single-centre study of 113 people with T2DM who were not on insulin before their admission for SARS-CoV-2 infection. …”
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The Exordium of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Poetry by Adedotun Ogundeji

“…Such relations include Jímọ̀ Ọládẹ̀jọ, who was adept in proverbs, and his childless aunt, an oríkì (charcterizational) poetry exponent. …”
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Involvement of Pneumocystis jirovecii in infectious and other diseases in children and adults with immunosuppression of various origin by Rybalkina T.N., Karazhas N.V., Kornienko M.N., Avetisyan L.R., Boshyan R.E., Pulnova N.L., Kabikova O.F., Ivanova M.Yu., Chereshneva E.V.

“…Markers of acute pneumocystosis were found in 36.7% of children who underwent transplantation and 10.0% with HIV infection (t = 2.4). …”
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Chemoimmunotherapy as induction treatment in concurrent chemoradiotherapy for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma stage IVa by Kun-Peng Wu, Qing-Qing Li, Xu-Qiang Luo, Xiao-Xi Wang, Yan-Zhen Lai, Dan Tian, Hong-cheng Yang, Xue-Ling Wei, Lan-Ying Wang, Qiu-Ming Li, Dao Zhu, Si-Jie Chen, Yang-Si Li

“…Median follow-up was 24 months. Patients who received induction chemoimmunotherapy had longer event-free survival (EFS) compared to those who received induction chemotherapy (p = 0.029, Hazard Ratio and 95%confidence interval [CI]: 0.24 [0.07–0.85]). …”
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Safety and efficacy of filgotinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: final results of the DARWIN 3 long-term extension study by Arthur Kavanaugh, Paul Emery, René Westhovens, Mark C Genovese, Kevin L Winthrop, Rieke Alten, Dick de Vries, Lorenzo Dagna, Patrick Verschueren, Maria Greenwald, Regina Cseuz, Robin Besuyen, Vikas Modgill, Ly Huong Le

“…Safety and efficacy analyses included all enrolled patients who received ≥1 dose of filgotinib in DARWIN 3.Results 739 patients entered the LTE. …”
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Prevalence, Incidence and Predictors of Anal HPV Infection and HPV-Related Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions in a Cohort of People Living with HIV by Margherita Sambo, Alessandra Bailoni, Federico Mariani, Massimo Granai, Natale Calomino, Virginia Mancini, Anna D’Antiga, Francesca Montagnani, Mario Tumbarello, Stefano Lazzi, Franco Roviello, Massimiliano Fabbiani

“…<b>Methods</b>: This is a retrospective single-center study on a cohort of PLWH who performed longitudinal screening for anal dysplasia and HPV infection. …”
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Influence of Anti-TNF and Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs Therapy on Pulmonary Forced Vital Capacity Associated to Ankylosing Spondylitis: A 2-Year Follow-Up Observational St... by Alberto Daniel Rocha-Muñoz, Aniel Jessica Leticia Brambila-Tapia, María Guadalupe Zavala-Cerna, José Clemente Vásquez-Jiménez, Liliana Faviola De la Cerda-Trujillo, Mónica Vázquez-Del Mercado, Norma Alejandra Rodriguez-Jimenez, Valeria Díaz-Rizo, Viviana Díaz-González, Ernesto German Cardona-Muñoz, Ingrid Patricia Dávalos-Rodríguez, Mario Salazar-Paramo, Jorge Ivan Gamez-Nava, Arnulfo Hernan Nava-Zavala, Laura Gonzalez-Lopez

“…In an observational study, we included AS who had FVC% <80% at baseline. Twenty patients were taking DMARDs and 16 received anti-TNF + DMARDs. …”
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Discussion Paper for the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations - The housing crisis as a problem of intergenerational justice: The case of Germany by Elena Lutz

“…First-time home buyer programmes: First-time home buyer programmes support individuals who are buying their first home through grants or other financial stimuli, such as a first-time home buyer tax credit. …”
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Superstition in Surgery: A Population-Based Cohort Study to Assess the Association Between Surgery on Friday the 13th and Postoperative Outcomes by Sanjana Ranganathan, MBE, Carlos Riveros, MD, Michael Geng, BS, Courtney Chang, MD, Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, MPH, PhD, Bheeshma Ravi, MD, PhD, Zachary Melchiode, MD, Siqi Hu, MD, PhD, Kathleen Kobashi, MD, MBA, Brian J. Miles, MD, Zachary Klaassen, MD, MSc, Avery Nathens, MD, MPH, PhD, Natalie Coburn, MD, MPH, Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, CM, Angela Jerath, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FANZCA, Christopher J. D. Wallis, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Raj Satkunasivam, MD, MS

“…We sought to examine whether the outcomes of patients who receive a surgical procedure on Friday the 13th differ from patients who receive surgery on flanking Fridays. …”
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