Optimising transitions of care for acute kidney injury survivors: protocol for a mixed-methods study of nephrologist and primary care provider recommendations by Rozalina Grubina McCoy, Kianoush B Kashani, Joan M Griffin, Heather Personett May, Abby K Krauter, Dawn M Finnie, Erin F Barreto

“…Both deductive analysis and inductive analysis will occur to identify and compare themes.Ethics and dissemination This study has been reviewed and deemed exempt by the Institutional Review Board at Mayo Clinic (IRB 20–0 08 793). The study was deemed exempt due to the sole use of survey and interview methodology. …”
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I-SPY COVID adaptive platform trial for COVID-19 acute respiratory failure: rationale, design and operations by Carolyn S Calfee, Michael A Matthay, Paul Henderson, Martin Eklund, Laura J Esserman, Chirag Patel, Angela Haczku, Michelle Jung, Tony Oliver, Alessio Crippa, Andrea Discacciati, Kathleen D Liu, Ellen L Burnham, Nuala J Meyer, Fady A Youssef, Derek W Russell, Julie Lang, Kevin W Gibbs, Daniel C Files, Sheetal Gandotra, Purnema Madahar, Nathan K Cobb, Timothy E Albertson, Rajiv Sonti, John P Reilly, Alejandra Jauregui, Iván García, Luis E Huerta, Daniel Clark Files, Neil R Aggarwal, Adam L Asare, Jeremy R Beitler, Paul A Berger, George Cimino, Melissa H Coleman, Paul T Henderson, Caroline A G Ittner, Kashif T Khan, Jonathan L Koff, Mary LaRose, Joe Levitt, Ruixiao Lu, Jeffrey D McKeehan, Karl W Thomas, Aaron M Mittel, Albert F Yen, Alexis E Suarez, Alexis L Serra, Alpesh N Amin, Amanda Rosen, Amy L Dzierba, Anna D Barker, Ariel R Weisman, Brian M Daniel, Brian M Morrissey, Caroline AG Ittner, Chayse Jones, Christina Creel-Bulos, Christina M Angelucci, Diana Ng, Fredy Chaparro-Rojas, Gavin H Harris, Harsh V Barot, Heny Su, Jacqueline B Sutter, Jamal Dodin, Jerry S Lee, John Kazianis, Joshua F Detelich, Julie E Lang, Justin Muir, Katarzyna Gosek, Katherine L Nugent, Kimberly Yee, Laura G Rodrigues, Laura R Macias, Lindsey A Orr, Lindsie L Boerger, Lissette Rosario-Remigio, Lucia Kufa, Maged Tanios, Maria B Reyes, Max W Adelman, Maya M Juarez, Michelle Meyers, Mitchell P Sternlieb, Neil Aggarwal, Nilam S Mangalmurti, Patrice Jones, Paul L Saban, Peter S Marshall, Philiip A Robinson, Philip Yang, Rahul Nair, Richard Anthony Lee, Richard G Wunderink, Romina Wahab, Roxana A Lupu, Santhi I Kumar, Sara C Auld, Scott Fields, Se Fum Wong, Skyler J Pearson, Spencer Whealon, Timothy F Obermiller, Anita Darmanian, John Schicchi, Esmeralda Martinez, Farjad Sarafian, Julie Nguyen, Bethany Weiler-Lisowski, Jaime Wyatt, Daniel Blevins, Marylee Melendrez, Brenda Lopez, Hiwet Tzehaie, Omowunmi Amosu, Austin Simonson, Erin Hardy, Brett Lindgren, Gregory Peterfreund, Leigha Landreth, Lisa Parks

“…Enrolment and adaptation of the trial design are ongoing.Ethics and dissemination ISPY COVID-19 operates under a central institutional review board via Wake Forest School of Medicine IRB00066805. …”
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Mindfulness-based retreat for mothers of paediatric heart transplant recipients: protocol for a pilot intervention study by Sara Ahola Kohut, Joanna Mitchell, Samantha J Anthony, Taylor Robertson, Heather Telfer, Mirna Seifert-Hansen

“…The primary outcomes will be feasibility in relation to implementation effectiveness and participants’ perception of social support for efficacy of the MBR intervention.Ethics and dissemination This study received Institutional Research Ethics Board approval from The Hospital for Sick Children (Number: 1000064719). …”
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Investigating male factors and their relationships with reproductive health outcomes: a case-control study protocol for Towards Optimal Fertility, Fathering, and Fatherhood studY (... by Fabian Yap, See Ling Loy, Yin Bun Cheung, Jerry Kok Yen Chan, Keith Godfrey, Chee Wai Ku, Jun Wei Pek, Melissa D/O Tharmalingam Durgahshree, Melinda Chan, Yie Hou Lee

“…Multivariable linear regression will be used to explore relationships between male modifiable exposures and semen parameters.Ethics and dissemination The study protocol has received approval from the Centralised Institutional Review Board of SingHealth (2024/2120), Singapore. Participants will provide written informed consent. …”
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First Results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D: The Fast Outflow in a Red Quasar at z = 0.44 by Weizhe Liu, Sylvain Veilleux, Swetha Sankar, David S. N. Rupke, Nadia L. Zakamska, Dominika Wylezalek, Andrey Vayner, Caroline Bertemes, Yuzo Ishikawa, Yu-Ching Chen, Jenny E. Greene, Timothy Heckman, Guilin Liu, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Dieter Lutz, Sean D. Johnson, Nicole P. H. Nesvadba, Patrick Ogle, Nadiia Diachenko, Andy D. Goulding, Kevin N. Hainline, Fred Hamann, Hui Xian Grace Lim, Nora Lützgendorf, Vincenzo Mainieri, Ryan McCrory, Grey Murphree, Lu Shen, Eckhard Sturm, Lillian Whitesell

“…Our new observation with the integral field unit mode of the Near-infrared Spectrograph on board JWST opens a new window to examine this spectacular outflow through the Pa α emission line with ~3× better spatial resolution than previous work. …”
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Which social determinants of health have the highest impact in community oncology to advance patient care equity and improve health outcomes? A scoping review by Kayleigh R. Majercak, Emily F. Gorman, Nicholas J. Robert, Barbara Palmer, Henry Asante Antwi, C. Daniel Mullins

“…The study was guided by the “10‐Step Framework for Continuous Patient Engagement” and a Community Advisory Board to assure relevance to patients and community providers. …”
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Effect of Russian Current in Motor Performance among Chronic Stroke Survivors: A Pilot Study by Joshin Joy, Hariharasudhan Ravichandran, Noble Vavachan, Adwaid Nambiar, Archana Shetty, Joseph Oliver Raj Alexander

“…Materials and Methods: The Institutional Review Board approval was obtained for this pilot study, and a total of 36 chronic stroke survivors were recruited from the outpatient department of Alva’s College of Physiotherapy and Research Center, Moodubidire, Karnataka. …”
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Prevalence of Risk Factors of the Female Athlete Triad among Young Elite Athletes of Pakistan by Jaweria Syed, Anam Jamil, Nazma Namroz, Madiha Shakeel, Ayesha Malik, Sumaira Kanwal, Huma Riaz

“… # Study Design & Methods A cross sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted in 2018 at Pakistan Sports Board to investigate the risk factors of The Female Athlete Triad among young elite athletes based in national training camps of major metropolitan cities. …”
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Compliance with ethical standards in the reporting of donor sources and ethics review in peer-reviewed publications involving organ transplantation in China: a scoping review by Angela Ballantyne, Wendy Rogers, Matthew P Robertson, Brette Blakely, Ruby Catsanos, Robyn Clay-Williams, Maria Fiatarone Singh

“…Objectives The objective of this study is to investigate whether papers reporting research on Chinese transplant recipients comply with international professional standards aimed at excluding publication of research that: (1) involves any biological material from executed prisoners; (2) lacks Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval and (3) lacks consent of donors.Design Scoping review based on Arksey and O’Mallee’s methodological framework.Data sources Medline, Scopus and Embase were searched from January 2000 to April 2017.Eligibility criteria We included research papers published in peer-reviewed English-language journals reporting on outcomes of research involving recipients of transplanted hearts, livers or lungs in mainland China.Data extraction and synthesis Data were extracted by individual authors working independently following training and benchmarking. …”
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Protocol for development of an assessment tool for competency of ECG interpretation: expert consensus by the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method and cross-sectional testing using mult... by Shinji Inaba, Toshi A Furukawa, Osamu Yamaguchi, Masatsugu Sakata, Kazumichi Yamamoto, Tomohiro Kaga, Muhammad Wannous

“…A test set of question items for ECG interpretation will be proposed on the basis of the extracted parameters.Ethics and dissemination The protocol of this study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine (IRB number: 2209008). …”
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Medication following bariatric surgery for type 2 diabetes mellitus (BY-PLUS) study: rationale and design of a randomised controlled study by Alexander Dimitri Miras, Carel le Roux, Alexis Sudlow, Ricardo Vitor Cohen, Hassan Kahal, Dimitri J Pournaras, Jill Townley, Helen Heneghan

“…The primary endpoints are the proportion of patients in each arm with an HbA1c<6.5% (48 mmol/mol) at 1 year and the proportion of patients in each arm achieving the composite endpoint of HbA1c<6.5% (48 mmol/mol), BP<130/80 mm Hg and LDL<2.6 mmol/L at 5 years.Ethics and dissemination The local institutional review board approved this study. This study represents the first RCT to examine the safety and efficacy of combining bariatric surgery with intensive medical therapy compared with bariatric surgery and usual care for long-term diabetes control.Trial registration number NCT04432025.…”
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What all physicians should know about women’s health: a Delphi study by Susanna Price, Eva Gerdts, Julien Mazières, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Fedde Scheele, Chiara Benedetto, Kerry Wilbur, Gertraud Stadler, Marieke Wermer, Jeanine Roeters van Lennep, Merel H de Heer-Koster, Vesna Bjegović-Mikanović, Indre Banaitytė-Baleišienė, Mary Perdiou, Alyson McGregor, Connie Newman, Simona Stankevičiūtė, Iris E Sommer, Florence Thibaut, Karine van 't Land

“…This study aimed to reach consensus on what all physicians taking care of women should know about women’s health.Methods A Delphi study was executed involving statements prepared by experts in women’s health across 10 medical specialties and a patient advisory board. Participants were recruited from Europe and Northern America through the experts’ networks and snowball sampling. …”
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Perinatal Outcomes among Cases of Predicted and Unpredicted Macrosomia by Merita Isaku, Enxhi Vrapi, Tedi Bimbashi, Ina Cala, Kizjona Perdja, Redi Hoxhallari, Astrit Bimbashi

“…Data were stored in a secure database. The review board of the institution approved the study. Statistical analysis is performed utilizing the Mann-Whitney U test for continuous data, the chi-square test for cardinal variables, and logistic regression analysis. …”
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Feasibility of an artificial intelligence phone call for postoperative care following cataract surgery in a diverse population: two phase prospective study protocol by Sarah Khavandi, Ernest Lim, Aisling Higham, Nick de Pennington, Amin Hatamnejad, Sohel Somani, Eric S Tam, Hannah H Chiu

“…Qualitative data from the interviews will further gauge patient opinions about Dora’s usability, appropriateness and level of satisfaction.Ethics and dissemination Research Ethics Board William Osler Health System (ID: 22–0044) has approved this study and will be conducted by guidelines of Declaration of Helsinki. …”
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Role of cardiac CT in the diagnostic evaluation and risk stratification of patients with myocardial infarction and non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA): rationale and design... by Konstantinos Tsioufis, Haralambos Karvounis, George Giannakoulas, Theodoros Karamitsos, Ronny R Buechel, Konstantinos Kouskouras, Ioannis Vogiatzis, Konstantinos Toutouzas, Nathaniel R Smilowitz, Georgios P Rampidis, Polydoros Ν Kampaktsis, Athanasios Samaras, Georgios Benetos, Andreas Α Giannopoulos, Alexandros Kallifatidis, Antonios Samaras, Stavros Hadjimiltiades, Antonios Ziakas, Catherine Gebhard, Panagiotis Prassopoulos, Harmony Reynolds

“…MINOCA-GR aims to be the first study to explore the role of CCTA in combination with CMR and ICA in the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms and assisting in diagnostic evaluation and prognosis of patients with MINOCA.Ethics and dissemination The study protocol has been approved by the institutional review board/independent ethics committee at each site prior to study commencement. …”
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Reverse Dipping of Blood Pressure in Patients of Hypertension with and without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Kanwal Shahid, Nauman Ismat Butt, Tooba Iqbal, Rubaba Khan, Anum Rasheed, Iqra Azam

“…Methodology: This descriptive, Cross-sectional study was conducted at Medical Unit of Pakistan Ordinance Factories Hospital Wah Cantt from April 2020 to April 2021 after institutional ethical review board approval. Ninety patients with hypertension of both sexes, aged 18-85 years were enrolled using non-probability consecutive sampling technique. …”
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Aweak phenotype associated with novel ABO*A allele variant c.106delinsGG by Sanmukh Ratilal Joshi, Glenda Millard, Mayuri Vekariya, Priya Radadiya, Manisha Rajapara, Hiren Dhanani, Gaurav Shastri, Prabhat Sharma, Brett Wilson, Yew-Wah Liew

“…Binary alignment mapping files, generated on board the Illumina MiSeq instrument and aligned to the GRCh37/Hg19 reference genome, were uploaded to the QIAGEN CLC genomics workbench software (version. 20) where variant call files were generated and analyzed. …”
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Surveying the aftermath: a qualitative and semiquantitative study of post-COVID-19 sequelae in the lungs by Kurian C. Eapen, Leena Robinson Vimala, Barney Isaac, Aparna Irodi

“…Methods Institutional Review Board approval was obtained for this study. We conducted a retrospective study to assess the post-COVID-19 findings on CT imaging of thorax. …”
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Renal Function in Patients with Hypertension Associated Congestive Cardiac Failure Seen in a Tertiary Hospital by C. U. Osuji, C. U. Nwaneli, B. J. Onwubere, E. I. Onwubuya, G. I. Ahaneku

“…Ethical clearance was obtained from the Ethical Review Board of our institution and data analysed using SPSS-version 16. …”
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Inclusion of young people with disabilities in the future of work: forecasting workplace, labour market and community-based strategies through an online and accessible Delphi surve... by Arif Jetha, Kathleen A Martin Ginis, Emile Tompa, Monique A M Gignac, Dwayne van Eerd, Kay Nasir

“…Following the completion of the second round, consensus-based and future-focused recommendations will be generated that can support young people with disabilities in the world of work over the coming decades.Ethics and dissemination The study protocol has been cleared by the University of Toronto’s research ethics board (#40727). The study will identify future-focused support strategies that will be shared with people living with disabilities, policy makers and disability employment service providers through an integrated knowledge transfer and exchange approach.…”
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