Length of stay in the pediatrics emergency department and associated factors among pediatrics patients in Eastern Ethiopia public hospital, Ethiopia 2022. by Netsanet Melkamu, Amelmasin Faris, Muluken Yigezu, Mickiale Hailu, Anteneh Atle, Manaye Kasahun, Mohammed Kebede, Tsegasew Embiale, Tsinukal Tesfay, Sewmehone Amsalu, Yakob Tadese, Bruck Tesfaye, Gebrehiwot Berie

“…<h4>Methods</h4>An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among children who attended in pediatric emergency department of Eastern Ethiopia public hospital from May 01 to Jun 31, 2022. …”
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Rituales políticos, sexuales y sagrados en la literatura del siglo XIX. El Matadero como espacio de transición y mezcla by Lucía  Caminada Rossetti

“…In The slaughterhouse, the metaphor of the mix of fluids, liquids, bodies, ethnics and animals was also linked with the one of the “confused gender” of the man who became “feminine” after the sodomize from the barbaric torturers. …”
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Early systemic insults following severe sepsis-associated encephalopathy of critically ill patients: association with mortality and awakening—an analysis of the OUTCOMEREA database... by Michael Thy, Romain Sonneville, Stéphane Ruckly, Bruno Mourvillier, Carole Schwebel, Yves Cohen, Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Shidasp Siami, Cédric Bruel, Jean Reignier, Elie Azoulay, Laurent Argaud, Dany Goldgran-Toledano, Virginie Laurent, Claire Dupuis, Julien Poujade, Lila Bouadma, Etienne de Montmollin, Jean-François Timsit, on the behalf of the OUTCOME R. E. A. network

“…We included patients hospitalized in intensive care unit (ICU) for at least 48 h with severe SAE (defined by a score on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≤ 13 and severe sepsis or septic shock (SEPSIS 2.0 criteria)) requiring invasive ventilation and who had no primary brain injury. We analyzed early systemic insults (abnormal glycemia (< 3 mmol/L or ≥ 11 mmol/L), hypotension (diastolic blood pressure ≤ 50 mmHg), temperature abnormalities (< 36 °C or ≥ 38.3 °C), anemia (hematocrit < 21%), dysnatremia (< 135 mmol/L or ≥ 145 mmol/L), oxygenation abnormalities (PaO2 < 60 or > 200 mmHg), carbon dioxide abnormalities (< 35 mmHg or ≥ 45 mmHg), and the impact of their correction at day 3 on day-28 mortality and awakening, defined as a recovery of GCS > 13. …”
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Circulating Baseline CXCR3+Th2 and Th17 Cell Proportions Correlate With Trabecular Bone Loss After 48 Weeks of Biological Treatment in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis by Julia M. Scheffler, Christina Drevinge, Catharina Lindholm, Inger Gjertsson, Kristina Lend, Merete Lund Hetland, Mikkel Østergaard, Till Uhlig, Marte Schrumpf Heiberg, Espen A. Haavardsholm, Michael T. Nurmohamed, Jon Lampa, Tuulikki Sokka‐Isler, Dan Nordström, Kim Hørslev‐Petersen, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Gerdur Gröndal, Ronald vanVollenhoven, Hans Carlsten, Mattias Lorentzon, Anna‐Karin Hultgård Ekwall, Anna Rudin, Ulrika Islander

“…Methods Thirty patients with untreated early RA who met the American College of Rheumatology/EULAR 2010 criteria were included. …”
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Goal-Directed vs Traditional Approach to Intraoperative Fluid Therapy during Open Major Bowel Surgery: Is There a Difference? by Prabhu P. Sujatha, Anitha Nileshwar, H. M. Krishna, S. S. Prasad, Manjunath Prabhu, Shobha U. Kamath

“…Patients between 20 and 70 years of age, either gender, ASA I and II, and scheduled for elective open major bowel surgery were included in the study. Patients who underwent laparoscopic and other surgeries were excluded. …”
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Mixed methods evaluation of the Getting it Right First Time programme in elective orthopaedic surgery in England: an analysis from the National Joint Registry and Hospital Episode... by Stephen Morris, James Mason, Rosalind Raine, Peter Martin, Naomi J Fulop, Elena Pizzo, Andrew Hutchings, Helen Barratt, Jean Ledger, Raj Mehta, Sarah Jasim, Fiona Aspinal, Rafael Gafoor

“…Objective To evaluate the impact of the ‘Getting it Right First Time’ (GIRFT) national improvement programme in orthopaedics, which started in 2012.Design Mixed-methods study comprising statistical analysis of linked national datasets (National Joint Registry; Hospital Episode Statistics; Patient-Reported Outcomes); economic analysis and qualitative case studies in six National Health Service (NHS) Trusts.Setting NHS elective orthopaedic surgery in England.Participants 736 088 patients who underwent primary hip or knee replacement at 126 NHS Trusts between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2018, plus 50 NHS staff.Intervention Improvement bundle including ‘deep dive’ visits by senior clinician to NHS Trusts, informed by bespoke set of routine performance data, to discuss how improvements could be made locally.Main outcome measures Number of procedures conducted by low volume surgeons; use of uncemented hip implants in patients &gt;65; arthroscopy in year prior to knee replacement; hospital length of stay; emergency readmissions within 30 days; revision surgery within 1 year; health-related quality of life and functional status.Results National trends demonstrated substantial improvements beginning prior to GIRFT. …”
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Developing a decision support tool to predict delayed discharge from hospitals using machine learning by Mahsa Pahlevani, Enayat Rajabi, Majid Taghavi, Peter VanBerkel

“…Alternative Level of Care (ALC) patients who no longer need acute care yet face discharge barriers contribute to prolonged stays and hospital overcrowding. …”
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Augmentation index as a predictor of right ventricular dysfunction in coronary artery disease: a cross-sectional study by Arash Rahimi, Babak Geraiely, Hamed Vahidi, Mohammadreza Eftekhari, Ramyar Rahimi Darehbagh, Somayeh Mohammadi, Golrokh Ghaffari, Meysam Khoshavi

“…Methods In this cross-sectional study, 121 patients with stable CAD or acute coronary syndrome who underwent coronary angiography were enrolled. …”
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Clinicopathologic characteristics, therapeutic modalities and survival outcomes of plasmablastic lymphoma: A real-world study by Yan-Hua Zheng, Kun Xie, Hong-Yuan Shen, Zhuo Wan, Shan Gao, Wen-Rui Sun, Guang-Xun Gao, Li Liu, Juan Feng

“…The 1-year, 3-year and 5-year OS rates were 54.4%, 40.4% and 37.2% respectively. Patients who suffered from previous malignancy had a significant survival disadvantage compared to those without previous cancer. …”
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Comparative Study of Diode Laser Versus Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) for the management of Hirsutism in Sulaimani Government by Burhan Tahir Saeed

“…The present cross-sectional prospective study was carried out on 66 patients with hirsutism who regularly visited a dermatology clinic in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region-Iraq over a period of 8 months from February to October 2020. …”
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THE LEGAL REGIME OF NAMES EXCLUDED FROM PROTECTION BY INDICATIVE SIGNS by Adrian CURELEA

“…In its jurisprudence, CJEU has shown that in order to determine whether or not a name has become generic, the purpose for which a geographical indication or a designation of origin is registered under Regulation (EU) no. 1151/2012, namely that of avoiding abuse of a name by those who aim to benefit from the acquisition of a product protected by an indicative sign and for this the situation in the Member State of origin of the name and of consumption, the situation in other member states and the national or Community legislation must be taken into account. …”
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Implementation of multidisciplinary team decisions on the management of complex bone and joint infections: an observational study by Jaap L.J. Hanssen, Henrica M.J. van der Linden, Martha T. van der Beek, Robert J.P. van der Wal, Marco F. Termaat, Mark G.J. de Boer, Henk Scheper

“…Trauma surgeons were more likely to not implement an MDT decision (odds ratio 2.4, p = 0.01) The cure rate of patients who received a different surgical strategy than decided by the MDT was 33%. …”
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Preoperative Retinal Detachment Variables Causing Macular Detachment by Nishimura S, Okuda T, Higashide T, Sugiyama K

“…All patients with RRDs who underwent initial pars plana vitrectomy or scleral buckling were included. …”
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Developing generic clinical trial animated explainer videos in the UK: results of a survey and case study by Clare Calvert, Vicki S. Barber, Duncan Appelbe, Kirsty Sprange, Claire Nollett, Fiona Lugg-Widger, Samantha Tanner, Duncan B. Richards

“…The three topics prioritised for creation of animated explainer videos were as follows: (1) What is consent? (2) Who decides what treatment I get/What is randomisation? …”
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HUMAN CAPITAL AS THE SOURCE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH by Nhat Thien Tran

“…Our work is in line with Lucas (2015), who calls for not giving “too large a role to exogenous technological change” (p. 86) while advocating that “the contribution of human capital accumulation to economic growth deserves a production function of its own” (p. 87). …”
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Analysis of indoor radon concentration levels and trends in China by Bowei Ding, Yunyun Wu, Yanchao Song, Changsong Hou, Bing Shang

“…This paper also collected indoor radon concentration data from WHO, UNSCEAR publications and PubMed databases for other countries. …”
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Comparing Mortality Risk Predictive Ability of Different Scoring Systems in Cirrhotic Patients with Bacteremia by Chi-Chieh Hung, Yin-Chou Hsu, Kuo-Hsuan Lin

“…A single-center, retrospective cohort study was performed among adult patients who visited the emergency department from January 2015 to December 2018. …”
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Interaction of Hypertension and Insulin Resistance Exacerbates the Occurrence of Diabetes Mellitus in Healthy Individuals by Baomin Wang, Yumei Yang, Xiaomu Li

“…We conducted a retrospective study on 1251 adult medical examiners who were examined in the Physical Examination Center of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University (Shanghai, China) during 2015. …”
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Prognostic Implications of the Number of Lymph Node Metastases in Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Population Study of the SEER Database and an Institutional Registry by Wenjie Huang, Yu Zhang, Hao Li, Zhiying Liang, Shumin Zhou, Jie Pan, Hui Xie, Chao Luo, Shuqi Li, Guangying Ruan, Fei Ai, Yanfeng Chen

“…Materials and Methods Newly diagnosed and nonmetastatic adult patients with OTSCC who underwent curative resection were identified between January 2010 and December 2020. …”
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Is Weight Loss the Main Driver for A1C Improvement by Glucagon‐Like Peptide 1 (GLP‐1) Receptor Agonists? A 2.5‐Year Analysis in Real‐World Clinical Practice by Marwa Al‐Badri, Shilton Dhaver, Osama Hamdy

“…Methods We retrospectively evaluated 256 patients with T2D who were treated with exenatide (n = 84), dulaglutide (n = 99), or semaglutide (n = 73) for 2.5 years without interruption in real‐world clinical practice. …”
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