Integrated care teams in primary care improve clinical outcomes and care processes in patients with non-communicable diseases by Pei Lin Hu, Cynthia Yan-Ling Tan, Ngoc Hoang Long Nguyen, Rebekah Ryanne Wu, Juliana Bahadin, Nivedita Vikas Nadkarni, Ngiap Chuan Tan

“…Clinical outcomes included the proportion of patients (ICT vs. UC) who attained their treatment goals after 12 months. …”
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The dark side of the association between internet use and older adults’ subjective wellbeing: the role of subjective social class by Denghao Zhang, Jiaming Shi, Zhixin Feng

“…Results The results revealed that older adults who used the internet were more likely to report higher levels of subjective wellbeing than those who did not. …”
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Development of an Anatomy Attitude Scale for Medical School Students and Analysis of Their Attitudes by Mehmet Ali Can

“…This study included 700 Term 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 students studying in the School of Medicine of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMU) in the academic year 2020-2021 who agreed to take part in the study. Of these students, 345 were recruited for factor analysis and 355 for investigation of attitudes. …”
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Beyond the storms: Exploring predictors of posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth among survivors of hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico by Marie-Claire Meadows, Noelle Serino, Dahianira M. Camacho-Monclova, Kaumudi Joshipura, Sarah R. Lowe

“…This analysis focused on 484 individuals who completed structured interviews 20 to 34 months after the hurricanes. …”
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Impact of Covid-19 infection on thyroid functions by Hanaa S. Hamed, Reda El khodary, Samah Mohamed Lotfy, Maha Mahmoud Hamed Sakr, Mohammad Walaa Saied

“…Methods We evaluated thyroid function tests (TFTs) in 129 patients who were hospitalized to Zagazig University Hospitals with confirmed COVID-19 infection. …”
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What factors are important to whom in what context, when adults are prescribed hearing aids for hearing loss? A realist review protocol by Helen Henshaw, Paige Church, Emma Broome, Carly Meyer

“…Introduction Hearing aids are the gold standard treatment to help manage hearing loss. However, not everyone who needs them has them, and of those who do, a significant proportion of people do not use them at all, or use them infrequently. …”
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Deep learning based tractography with TractSeg in patients with hemispherotomy: Evaluation and refinement by Johannes Gruen, Tobias Bauer, Theodor Rüber, Thomas Schultz

“…We compare results to those on 25 healthy controls who have been imaged with the same setup.We find that TractSeg generalizes remarkably well, given the severity of the abnormalities. …”
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury by Farnaz Mahdavi, Sima Fallah-Arzpeima, Zoheir Reihanian, Khatereh Asadi, Nooshin Zaresharifi, Roghaye Zare, Mohammad Ali Yazdanipour, Masoud Shabani Chobe

“…Among the COVID-19 patients, those who were anticoagulant users experienced a higher ACHV than those who did not use this medication (P=0.015). …”
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المواقع الالکترونیة العربیة للفتوى والارشاد: دراسة تحلیلة مقارنة لمعماریتها ومحتواها المعلوماتى by د. هبة فتحى دنیا

“…And warn the public and others who addressfatwas without knowledge, and alert them to the danger of this action.…”
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Microbial Contamination and Antimicrobial Resistance in Use of Ophthalmic Solutions at the Department of Ophthalmology, Jimma University Specialized Hospital, Southwest Ethiopia by Lemlem Tamrat, Yeshigeta Gelaw, Getenet Beyene, Addisu Gize

“…Contaminations of eye drops were high among patients who self-administer the medications and those individuals who apply the medication less frequently. …”
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Clinical, Paraclinical, and Evolutionary Profiles of Kidney Failure in Gold Miners Hospitalized in a Nephrological Service in a Sub-Saharan African Country by Gérard Coulibaly, Gaoussou Sanou, Moumouni Sanon, Aïda H. Y. Lengani, Juste Y. Bonzi, Aoua Semde

“…Included were all gold miner patients who stayed and worked at an artisanal gold mining site for at least three months and who were diagnosed with acute or chronic kidney failure during hospitalization in the nephrology service. …”
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Constituer des archives en sexologie francophone : un essai d’autoethnographie by Alain Giami

“…The autoethnographic approach thus puts into tension the questions and difficulties of the researcher, who is a personally involved actor, with those of potential archive holders and institutions that may receive such archives. …”
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Cancer Mortality Attributed to Air Pollution in Türkiye in 2019 by Didem Han Yekdeş, Ali Cem Yekdeş, Ülfiye Çelikkalp, Pelin Sarı Serin, Miraç Çağlayan, Galip Ekuklu

“…Mortality rates attributed to PM2.5 were calculated with the WHO AIRQ+ program, and the monthly percent change (MPC) in air pollution level was computed by the JP regression method. …”
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Practical skills of psychology bachelors in working with automated HR platforms by P. Bleshmudt, O. Fil

“…The integration of such platforms into the curriculum helped students to be prepared for the real challenges of the modern labour market, where HR technologies play a key role. Students who learn how to work with these platforms gain a competitive advantage, as many companies are looking for professionals who can effectively use digital technologies. …”
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Present(ed) bodies, absent agency: “patients’ perspectives” at the Museum Vrolik of the body and medicine by Azia Lafleur

“…I deploy the concept of “patients’ perspectives” as a conceptual tool for looking at those who have been impacted by medicine’s medicalizing gaze and handling. …”
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Quality of Life and Healthcare Seeking Behavior among Internal Migrant Laborers in Coimbatore, India: A Community-based Analytical Cross-sectional Study by P Aparnavi, M Malarkodi, Sivagami Ramanathan, Madhavi Sambandan, Jeevithan Shanmugam, Mohan Kumar, Shanmuga Priya, Seetharaman Narayanan, Ramesh Rathinamoorthy

“…A pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data on socio-demography, QoL (using the WHO BREF scale), HCSB, and healthcare expenses. …”
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The rationale, design of the Assisted reproductive technology cohort nested in a pre-pregnancy family cohort (APP-Cohort) by Wei Xiong, Qinghan Liang, Xiaojie Han, Qiaolu Cheng, Qihang Liu, Xifang Zuo, Huiyu Wang, Huijing He, Guangliang Shan

“…However, there is a shortage of cohorts that include families who have utilized assisted reproductive technology (ART), particularly initiated at the early stages before pregnancy. …”
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Surgical treatment of obesity and excess risk of developing heart failure in a controlled cohort study by Christina E. Lundberg, Shabbar Jamaly, Martin Adiels, Jesper Lagergren, Carl Johan Svensson, Lena Björck, Annika Rosengren

“…The obesity cohort was divided into two groups: 27 882 patients who had undergone gastric bypass surgery within 2 years of obesity diagnosis and 39 564 patients who had not undergone such surgery. …”
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Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation using post-transplant cyclophosphamide in patients with inborn errors of immunity: Experience in a reference center in Colomb... by Diego Medina, Jhonier Orlando Castro, David Esteban Castro, Estefanía Beltrán, Eliana Manzi, Alexis Antonio Franco, Manuela Olaya

“…To determine survival, usefulness of weekly chimerism monitoring, immune reconstitution, and complications in patients with inborn errors of immunity who underwent haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at a reference center in Colombia. …”
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Inverse Occlusion: A Binocularly Motivated Treatment for Amblyopia by Jiawei Zhou, Zhifen He, Yidong Wu, Yiya Chen, Xiaoxin Chen, Yunjie Liang, Yu Mao, Zhimo Yao, Fan Lu, Jia Qu, Robert F. Hess

“…Patients who required refractive correction or whose refractive correction needed updating were given a 2-month period of refractive adaptation. …”
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