Operative Versus Nonoperative Management of Pyogenic Flexor Tenosynovitis: An Analysis of the National Readmissions Database by Justin D. Sawyer, MD, Justin Davis, MD, Steven Scaife, MS, Michael W. Neumeister, MD, Timothy H.F. Daugherty, MD

“…Baseline characteristics were determined, and in those who were readmitted, the top 10 diagnoses of 90-day readmissions were identified. …”
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Exploring Career Barriers Faced by Female Doctors Due to Gender Bias: A Qualitative Analysis by Anam Zahra, Tayyaba Azhar, Hajra Talat

“…Methodology: This qualitative phenomenological study, conducted at a private medical college in Lahore, Pakistan, from August 2023 to July 2024, involved 13 faculty members (8 females, 5 males) selected through purposive and snowball sampling across various specialties. Female doctors who had experienced delayed promotions or held leadership positions, and male doctors with experience supervising or working alongside female colleagues, participated in semi-structured interviews. …”
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Association of oxidative balance score with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in overweight and obese by Shuxin Ying, Hongyan Ding, Yanjin Chen, Su Zheng

“…Mediation analysis indicates that white blood cell count (WBC) and gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) serve as significant mediators in the association between OBS and mortality risk.ConclusionElevated levels of OBS were strongly linked to reduced potential for both cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among individuals who are overweight or obese.…”
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The Relationship between Routine Blood Parameters and the Prognosis of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department by Birsen Ertekin, Mehmet Yortanlı, Ozan Özelbaykal, Ali Doğru, A. Sadık Girişgin, Tarık Acar

“…A total of 500 patients, who were diagnosed with severe COVID-19 and hospitalized in the intensive care unit between 01.04.2020 and 01.02.2021 in the emergency department of a pandemic hospital, were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Acute Renal Failure in a Patient with Rivaroxaban-Induced Hypersensitivity Syndrome: A Case Report with a Review of the Literature and of Pharmacovigilance Registries by Gisela Marcelino, Ould Maouloud Hemett, Eric Descombes

“…We report on the case of an 82-year-old patient who, two weeks after the prescription of rivaroxaban for atrial fibrillation, was hospitalized for a drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome whose main clinical manifestations were low-grade fever with a petechial rash in the legs and acute renal failure (ARF). …”
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Individual variability in cortical representations of tonic pain by Bettina Deak, Anne Stankewitz, Astrid Mayr, Viktor Witkovsky, Pauline Jahn, Enrico Schulz

“…However, pain research predominantly focuses on artificial brief and repeated singular painful events.Here, we aimed to approximate clinically relevant pain in 152 sessions from 38 participants who underwent four sessions each. We applied variable levels of contact heat pain to the forearm using a thermode. …”
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Case report: The value of early application of mNGS technology in the diagnosis and treatment of severe Legionnaires’ disease: reports of two cases with different outcomes by Jianqing Fang, Zhe Wang, Yu Shen, Xuenong Wu, Hao Fang, Xiaokui Sun, Ting Yu, Qingqing Zhang

“…To help clinicians better recognize Legionnaires’ disease in its early stage and to illustrate the diagnostic value of mNGS technology, we reviewed and summarized two cases of severe Legionnaires’ disease.Methods and analysisWe selected two patients with severe Legionnaires’ disease who were admitted to our department in recent years. …”
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Towards the Universal Health Coverage in Ghana: An exploratory, cross-sectional study on the National Health Insurance Scheme by Richard Boateng, Alfred E Yawson

“…Method: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2017 on 300 adult participants, who were recruited by a convenience random sampling from subscribers of the formal and informal sectors, living in Accra, Ghana. …”
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Human Development from Concept "Soft Skills" Communication by Emilawati Binti Othman, Masfizaizan Binti Manaf

“…In order to realize this study, various metadological methods have been highlighted for intensive them is to distribute questionnaires to students of IPS who are currently undergoing the PUB2014 module, Human Development, adapting the theory learned by exposing the students IPS2-S1 to Demong Beach Resort Besut, Terengganu and students of IPS2-S2 went to the Woman's Welfare Association and Poverty Permata Al-Insyirah, Kuantan. …”
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Development of an interpretable machine learning model based on CT radiomics for the prediction of post acute pancreatitis diabetes mellitus by Xiyao Wan, Yuan Wang, Ziyi Liu, Ziyan Liu, Shuting Zhong, Xiaohua Huang

“…Clinical and imaging data from 271 patients who had undergone enhanced CT scans after first-episode acute pancreatitis from March 2017–June 2023 were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Programming for Stimulation-Induced Transient Nonmotor Psychiatric Symptoms after Bilateral Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease by Xi Wu, Yiqing Qiu, Keith Simfukwe, Jiali Wang, Jianchun Chen, Xiaowu Hu

“…Materials and Methods. 454 PD patients who underwent programming sessions after STN-DBS implantations were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Integration of Universities and Employers – Potential in Building Social Capital by S. M. Apenko, A. V. Lukash, A. I. Davydov

“…Based on the analyzed sources, the following hypotheses were confirmed: firstly, representatives of employers who have experience of cooperation with universities are more likely to prefer to use and develop such formats of integration with educational organizations that are focused on solving the problems of youth employment, i.e. they use the accumulated social capital to build up the human capital of their organizations; secondly, the level of students’ readiness to recommend an educational organization for admission and graduation. …”
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Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements by Anna Oksuzyan, Rune Jacobsen, Karen Glaser, Cecilia Tomassini, James W. Vaupel, Kaare Christensen

“…All individuals alive and aged at least 60 years in 1996 and who became widowed in the period from 1996 to 2003 were selected from the 5% sample of the total Danish population and all Danish twins. …”
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Association between Sarcopenia and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1, Myostatin, and Insulin Resistance in Elderly Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis by Novira Widajanti, SoebagijoAdi Soelistijo, Usman Hadi, Mochammad Thaha, null Aditiawardana, null Widodo, Hadiq Firdausi, YafanitaIzzati Nurina, MiraDelima Asikin, Hersih Srinowati, NoerHalimatus Syakdiyah

“…A total of 40 subjects aged 60 years or more who undergoing hemodialysis in Dr. Soetomo Hospital Surabaya were included in this cross-sectional study. …”
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Rothia mucilaginosa Meningitis in a Child with Myelodysplastic Syndromes by Fumihiro Ochi, Ryota Nakamura, Reiji Miyawaki, Kyoko Moritani, Shinobu Murakami, Hisamichi Tauchi

“…We herein report the case of a 12-year-old boy with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) presenting with a change in mental status who was diagnosed as having febrile neutropenia and bacterial meningitis caused by R. mucilaginosa at 23 days after unrelated cord blood transplant. …”
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Evolving prognostic paradigms in lung adenocarcinoma with brain metastases: a web-based predictive model enhanced by machine learning by Min Liang, Zhiwen Zhang, Langming Wu, Mafeng Chen, Shifan Tan, Jian Huang

“…Abstract Introduction Patients with lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) who develop brain metastases (BM) face significantly poor prognoses. …”
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Blood Transfusion Frequency and Indications in Yemeni Children with Sickle Cell Disease by Abdul-Wahab M. Al-Saqladi, Dikra M. Maddi, Aida H. Al-Sadeeq

“…A retrospective, descriptive study of all children (≤16 years) with SCD who received blood transfusion therapy during their hospital admissions in the pediatric department at Al-Sadaqa Teaching Hospital in Aden, Yemen, for a period of one year. …”
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Clinical, immune and genetic risk factors of malaria-associated acute kidney injury in Zambian children: A study protocol. by Chisambo Mwaba, Sody Munsaka, David Mwakazanga, David Rutagwerae, Owen Ngalamika, Suzanna Mwanza, Mignon McCulloch, Evans Mpabalwani

“…AKI is defined using the 2012 KIDGO AKI creatinine criteria, and cases are defined as children admitted with malaria who develop AKI within 72 hours of admission, while controls are children admitted with malaria but with no AKI. …”
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An analysis of the cultivation, consumption and composition of home-grown cannabis following decriminalisation in the Australian Capital Territory by Cilla Zhou, Isobel Lavender, Rebecca Gordon, Danielle McCartney, Richard C. Kevin, Miguel A. Bedoya-Pérez, Iain S. McGregor

“…ACT residents (n = 311) who currently cultivate or have previously cultivated cannabis completed a cross-sectional online survey (‘CAN-ACT’) and provided home-grown cannabis for phytocannabinoid analysis (optional). …”
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Association between edaravone use and activities of daily living in older patients with atherothrombotic stroke: an observational study using Japanese real-world data by Yukari Ogawa, Hiroko Akiyama, Takeshi Horii, Kiyoshi Mihara

“…Methods This retrospective observational research using the Medical Data Vision database in Japan included patients aged 65 years and older who had acute ischemic stroke of the atherothrombotic subtype. …”
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