Risk factors associated with mortality among vaccinated COVID-19 patients: A retrospective study by Hossein Lajmiri, Nioosha Ahmadi, Saeedeh Ebrahimi, Hadi Razavi Nikoo, Mehrdad Farrokhnia, Elham Heidari, Elham Mousavi

“…The median age of those who died was 69.9 years. Dementia and genitourinary system-related diseases was associated with an increased risk of death [6.00 (95% CI: 1.14-31.66) and 4.93 (95% CI: 1.80-13.52)]. …”
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Planned, ongoing and completed tuberculosis treatment trials in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa: a 2019 cross-sectional descriptive analysis by Tamara Kredo, Duduzile Edith Ndwandwe, Lindi Mathebula, Lovemore Mapahla, Dilyara Nurkhametova, Liliya Eugenevna Ziganshina, Mikateko Mazinu, Esme Jordan

“…Methods and analysis We searched the WHO-ICTRP portal (20 January 2019) and the Russian Federation Registry (30 March 2019) to identify TB trials conducted in BRICS countries. …”
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New Product Presale Strategies considering Consumers’ Loss Aversion in the E-Commerce Supply Chain by Chongfeng Lan, Jianfeng Zhu

“…First, consumers were divided into two types—those who are risk averse and those who are not. Then, considering different presale discounts applied for new products, three presale strategy models were discussed: no-presale strategy, presale strategy with a moderate discount, and complete presale strategy, and the optimal decisions of e-commerce supply chain members were obtained under different valuations of the new product by consumers. …”
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Actively protective combinatorial analysis: A scalable novel method for detecting variants that contribute to reduced disease prevalence in high-risk individuals by J Sardell, S Das, K Taylor, C Stubberfield, A Malinowski, M Strivens, S Gardner

“…We exemplify this by identifying individuals who remain healthy despite possessing several disease signatures associated with increased risk of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). …”
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Is Everyone Beating Around the Bush?: A Qualitative Study Examining the Status of Shared Decision-Making Between Veterans Affairs Providers and Surgical Patients in the ICU by M. Andrew Millis, MD, MPH, C. Ann Vitous, MA, MPH, Cara Ferguson, BS, Maedeh Marzoughi, BS, Erin Kim, BS, Sarah E. Bradley, PhD, MPH, CPH, Ashley Duby, MS, Pasithorn A. Suwanabol, MD, MS

“…Qualitative interviews were conducted with providers who provide ICU-level care to surgical patients in Veterans Affairs hospitals. …”
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Bioethics knowledge, attitudes, and practices among healthcare professionals in Cameroon: a cross sectional analytical observational study of doctors and nurses in Cameroon’s South... by Kevin T. J. Dzi, Oscaline N. Ndong, Elisabeth Z. Menkem, Nicholas Tendongfor

“…The percentage of healthcare professionals who demonstrated good knowledge regarding the most commonly applied biomedical ethics principles varied from 62.9 to 73.1%. …”
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Continuous professional development and instructors’ beliefs about and practice of active learning method in Bahir Dar university by Mulugeta Teka Kahsay

“…More precisely, the analysis revealed that instructors who participated in the HDP are not anymore strategic in handling learning situations through deploying appropriate ALM techniques than those who did not take the training. …”
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Prevalence and impact of pelvic floor dysfunctions on quality of life in women 5–10 years after their first vaginal or caesarian delivery by Alba González-Timoneda, Nerea Valles-Murcia, Paula Muñoz Esteban, María Sol Torres López, Elisa Turrión Martínez, Patxi Errandonea Garcia, Lola Serrano Raya, Francisco Nohales Alfonso

“…The literature agrees that PFD prevention strategies begin with identifying women who are most at risk of developing PFD in the future. …”
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Blood Transfusions in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: An Analysis of Outcomes by Thomas Danninger, Rehana Rasul, Jashvant Poeran, Ottokar Stundner, Madhu Mazumdar, Peter M. Fleischut, Lazaros Poultsides, Stavros G. Memtsoudis

“…Various studies have raised concern of worse outcomes in patients receiving blood transfusions perioperatively compared to those who do not. In this study we attempted to determine the proportion of perioperative complications in the orthopedic population attributable to the use of a blood transfusion. …”
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First Report of Two Cases of Acute Gastric Ischemia after Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy by Nikolaos Grivas, Alexander D. Horsch, Esther Wit, Annemarie Bruining, Johanna van Sandick, Henk G. van der Poel

“…The second case was a 73-year-old male who developed abdominal pain and fever 5 days after robotic cystectomy and Bricker. …”
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Influence of the Level of Emergency Medical Facility on the Short-Term Treatment Results of Cardiac Arrest: Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Interhospital Transfer by Je Young Chung, Yuri Choi, Jinwoo Jeong, Sung Woo Lee, Kap Su Han, Su Jin Kim, Won Young Kim, Hyunggoo Kang, Eun Seog Hong

“…The immediate outcome of OHCA patients who were transported to EDs was not inferior to that of EMCs. …”
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Role of the Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio in Guillain Barré Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Shirin Sarejloo, Shokoufeh Khanzadeh, Samaneh Hosseini, Morad Kohandel Gargari, Brandon Lucke-Wold, Seyedarad Mosalamiaghili, Pouria Azami, Sanaz Oftadehbalani, Shahram Sadeghvand

“…Moreover, NLR was a stable predictor of outcome or response to treatment in such patients (SMD=1.01, 95%CI=0.65 to 1.37, P<0.001); the higher the NLR, the worse the outcome. In addition, patients who underwent mechanical ventilation had higher levels of NLR compared to those who did not (SMD=0.93, 95%CI=0.05 to 1.82, P=0.03). …”
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Risk Factors of Periprocedural Bradycardia during Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Yong Li, Shuzheng Lyu

“…We enrolled 2,536 acute STEMI patients who had PPCI from November 2007 to June 2018 in Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University. …”
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Pengaruh Gaya Kepemimpinan Situasional, Motivasi dan Kompensasi Terhadap Produktivitas Kerja Karyawan by Yuni Pratikno, Bambang Nurakhim, Eric Hermawan, Maulana Arief Rachman Hakim

“…Background: The competition in the business world is so tight, but the development of manufacturing companies that are increasingly showing that the positive trend is related to the role of leaders who are figures who regulate the company's operational system. …”
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Health system adaptations for extreme heat: Protocol for an international scoping review of reviews. by John Richmond, Mark Clowes

“…A complementary search for related reports by major international agencies (e.g. WHO; International Association of Emergency Managers), as well as local searches for current guidance and case studies, will be conducted in parallel. …”
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Improving children’s cooperativeness during magnetic resonance imaging using interactive educational animated videos: a prospective, randomised, non-inferiority trial by Evelyn Gabriela Utama, Seyed Ehsan Saffari, Phua Hwee Tang

“…Results: In the interactive video group (n = 277), 86 (31.0%) children needed repeated MRI sequences, two (0.7%) needed GA and the proportion of children who had confidence in staying still for more than 30 min increased by 22.1% after the video. …”
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Assessment of different genotyping markers and algorithms for distinguishing Plasmodium falciparum recrudescence from reinfection in Uganda by Alex Mwesigwa, Monica Golumbeanu, Sam Jones, Sara L. Cantoreggi, Benson Musinguzi, Joaniter I. Nankabirwa, Everd Maniple Bikaitwoha, Joan N Kalyango, Charles Karamagi, Mateusz Plucinski, Samuel L. Nsobya, Christian Nsanzabana, Pauline Byakika-Kibwika

“…Recently, WHO proposed replacing glurp with microsatellites (Poly-α, PfPK2, TA1). …”
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Imaging Characterization Lumbar Disk Hernia in Operated patients. by Enrique Hernández Padrón, Félix Dueñas Ros

“…Gustavo Aldereguía Lima” of Cienfuegos, from 2000 to 2005, including all the patients who required imaging studies for a suspect of lumbar disk hernia, who received surgical treatment in that institution. …”
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Evaluation of the Screening Performance of Ultrasonographic Abdominal Circumference and Estimated Fetal Weight in Predicting Small for Gestational Age Newborns by Yusuf Dal, Fatih Akkus, Sebnem Karagun, Ahmet Zeki Nessar, Sefanur Gamze Karaca, Hakan Aytan, Ayhan Coskun

“…STUDY DESIGN: Three hundred thirty-one pregnant women who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in the study. …”
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Fish Tank Granuloma Presenting as a Nasal Cavity Mass by Motoki Sekine, Fumiyuki Goto, Kosuke Saito, Shoji Kaneda, Hikaru Yamamoto, Tomoaki Murakami, Takahide Hamano, Kenji Okami

“…Granulomatous skin infection from M. marinum in people who are exposed to fish or aquatic environments is a rare condition known as fish tank granuloma. …”
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