Dissemination of Evidence-Based Recommendations for Sickle Cell Disease to Primary Care and Emergency Department Providers in North Carolina: A Cost Benefit Analysis by Paula Tanabe, Audrey L. Blewer, Emily Bonnabeau, Hayden B. Bosworth, Denise H. Clayton, Nancy Crego, Marian F. Earls, Kern Eason, Grayson Forlines, Gary Rains, Matthew Young, Nirmish Shah

“…Tools were made available in paper, online, and in app formats to participating managed care network practices (n=1 800). …”
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Mapping an evidence-based end-of-life care framework for older adults in Chinese nursing homes: protocol for a scoping review by Yuanyuan Zhao, Boon How Chew, Yuehua Tu, Eva Marie Gacasan

“…Qualitative data analysis will be performed using a framework method and thematic analysis, employing both inductive and deductive approaches, with three reviewers participating in the review process.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval is not required because the data for this review is obtained from selected publicly available articles. …”
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Soviet and British diplomacy at international conferences on the eve of the formation of the USSR by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…Drawing on a wide range of primary sources from the Russian and British archives, as well as the memoirs of the participants, their official and personal correspondence, the author examines the achievements and miscalculations of Moscow and London in attempts to stabilize the Versailles-Washington world order on the eve and during these conferences. …”
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Alström syndrome: the journey to diagnosis by Akshat Sinha, Kerry Leeson-Beevers, Catherine Lewis, Elizabeth Loughery, Tarekegn Geberhiwot

“…Patients with visual impairment and cardiomyopathy were diagnosed much more quickly, either in infancy or early childhood. 41% of our research participants waited over 5 years for a diagnosis. Insufficient research and treatment advances can further impede the diagnostic process and limit access to therapies or clinical trials, ultimately impacting patient outcomes. …”
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Examining the Chemical and Optical Properties of Biomass-burning Aerosols and their Impact on Oxidative Potential by Suman Yadav, Taveen Singh Kapoor, Pradnya Vernekar, Harish C. Phuleria

“…Exposure to emissions from biomass cooking is linked with adverse respiratory health outcomes - likely mediated through the oxidative potential of particulate matter (PM). This study aims to measure the oxidative potential (OP) of biomass aerosols in rural kitchens and examine its association with aerosol chemical and optical properties. …”
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): Prevalence and Antimicrobial Sensitivity Pattern among Patients—A Multicenter Study in Asmara, Eritrea by Eyob Yohaness Garoy, Yacob Berhane Gebreab, Oliver Okoth Achila, Daniel Goitom Tekeste, Robel Kesete, Robel Ghirmay, Ruta Kiflay, Thomas Tesfu

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted among 130 participants recruited from two referral hospitals in Asmara, Eritrea. …”
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Nursing Stress and Thought Control in a Multiperspectival Interpretive Phenomenological Analyses from the United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland by Yumna Ali, Syeda Farhana Kazmi

“…Multiperspectival Interpretive Phenomenological Analyses (MIPA) are performed case by case and across the participants to establish convergence and divergence. …”
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The Complex Neural Network Model for Mass Appraisal and Scenario Forecasting of the Urban Real Estate Market Value That Adapts Itself to Space and Time by Leonid N. Yasnitsky, Vitaly L. Yasnitsky, Aleksander O. Alekseev

“…Such dynamic models are not intended for mass real estate appraisals. The aim of this article is to develop a methodology and create a complex model that has the properties of both static and dynamic models. …”
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Solar Power Generation in Smart Cities Using an Integrated Machine Learning and Statistical Analysis Methods by Ahmad Almadhor, K. Mallikarjuna, R. Rahul, G. Chandra Shekara, Rishu Bhatia, Wesam Shishah, V. Mohanavel, S. Suresh Kumar, Sojan Palukaran Thimothy

“…Machine learning could be used to identify renewable resources like transformational participation (TP) and photovoltaic (PV) technology; based on resident motivational strategies, the smart city concept offers a revolutionary suggestion for supplying power in a metropolitan region. …”
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Effects of Task-Based LSVT-BIG Intervention on Hand Function, Activity of Daily Living, Psychological Function, and Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease: A Randomized Control Tri... by YoungSeok Choi, DeokJu Kim

“…The results of this study suggest that the task-based LSVT-BIG program, which consists of activities desired by the participants, may be an effective intervention to improve hand function, ADL, psychological function, and quality of life in PD patients.…”
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Postoperative mortality in New Zealand following general anaesthetic: demographic patterns and temporal trends by James Stanley, Sarah Jackson, Jason K Gurney, Melissa McLeod, Doug Campbell, Luke Boyle, Elizabeth Dennett, Jonathan Koea, Dick Ongley, Diana Sarfati

“…Objectives In this manuscript, we describe broad trends in postoperative mortality in New Zealand (a country with universal healthcare) for acute and elective/waiting list procedures conducted between 2005 and 2017.Design, participants and setting We use high-quality national-level hospitalisation data to compare the risk of postoperative mortality between demographic subgroups after adjusting for key patient-level confounders and mediators. …”
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A comparison of dynamic warm-up and "warm-up" using self-massage tools on subsequent sit-and-reach displacement. by Michele Aquino, Frederick DiMenna, John Petrizzo, George Yusuff, Robert M Otto, John Wygand

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Thirty-two asymptomatic, physically-active participants (male; n = 17) aged 20.9 ± 1.5 years performed sit-and-reach tests before, immediately following and 10-, 20- and 30-minutes following eight minutes of each of the "warm-ups." …”
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The mC2HEST Score for Incident Atrial Fibrillation by Yanguang Li, MD, Qiaoyuan Li, MD, Lili Wang, MD, Tao Zhang, MD, Hai Gao, MD, Daniele Pastori, MD, PhD, Zhuo Liang, MD, Gregory Y.H. Lip, MD, Yunlong Wang, MD

“…Objectives: The performance of the mC2HEST score for predicting incident AF has scarcely been evaluated, especially in a multi-ethnic population. Methods: Participants from the MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis were enrolled in the present study, which involved population of different ethnicities (Caucasian, African-American, Chinese-American, and Hispanic) aged between 45 and 84 from 6 communities in the United States. …”
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Long-term exposure to PM2.5 and its constituents and visual impairment in schoolchildren: A population-based survey in Guangdong province, China by Jia-Hui Li, Hui-Xian Zeng, Jing Wei, Qi-Zhen Wu, Shuang-Jian Qin, Qing-Guo Zeng, Bin Zhao, Guang-Hui Dong, Ji-Chuan Shen, Xiao-Wen Zeng

“…Background: Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has been linked to visual impairment. …”
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Decreased Gray Matter Volume in the Frontal Cortex of Migraine Patients with Associated Functional Connectivity Alterations: A VBM and rs-FC Study by Zhijian Cao, Wenjing Yu, Zhengxiang Zhang, Maosheng Xu, Jiangnan Lin, Luping Zhang, Wenwen Song

“…Thirty-four patients with a history of migraine without aura presenting during the interictal period (MwoA-DI), 10 patients with migraine without aura presenting during the acute attack (MwoA-DA), and 32 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited in this study. All participants underwent scanning via MRI. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and seed-based resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) analysis were used to detect the brain structural and associated brain functional connectivity. …”
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Linguagem e apropriação: sobre a nomeação em Hannah Arendt e Carl Schmitt by Roan Costa Cordeiro

“…Por conseguinte, observando uma confluência entre essas abordagens, concluímos que a tomada dos acontecimentos na linguagem por meio da nomeação possui implicações inegavelmente práticas, as quais nos remetem a processos decisivos que são da ordem da política e do direito. …”
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General practitioner use of D-dimer in suspected venous thromboembolism: historical cohort study in one geographical region in the Netherlands by Angel M R Schols, Eline Meijs, Geert-Jan Dinant, Henri E J H Stoffers, Mariëlle M E Krekels, Jochen W L Cals

“…Objectives To investigate how many general practitioner (GP)-referred venous thromboembolic events (VTEs) are diagnosed during 1 year in one geographical region and to investigate the (urgent) referral pathway of VTE diagnoses, including the role of laboratory D-dimer testing.Design Historical cohort study.Setting GP patients of 47 general practices in a demarcated geographical region of 161 503 inhabitants in the Netherlands.Participants We analysed all 895 primary care patients in whom either the GP determined a D-dimer value or who had a diagnostic work-up for suspected VTE in a non-academic hospital during 2015.Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcomes of this study were the total number of VTEs per year and the diagnostic pathways—including the role of GP determined D-dimer testing—of patients urgently referred to secondary care for suspected VTE. …”
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Prediction of postoperative myocardial injury in patients undergoing laparoscopic pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma resection: protocol for an ambispective cohort study by Yuguang Huang, Yuelun Zhang, Ling Lan, Yi Zhang, Ye Ma, Le Shen, Yifei Zhao, Yaohan Li

“…Written informed consent will be obtained from all participants in the prospective cohort before enrolment in the study. …”
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The mediating role of body surface area-adjusted basal metabolic rate: effects of low muscle mass and central obesity on cognitive impairment in Chinese patients with type 2 diabet... by Ya-Jie Zhai, Ya-Jie Zhai, Fang Li, Chen-Ying Lin, Chen-Ying Lin, Fan Wu, Hui-Na Qiu, Jing-Bo Li, Jing-Na Lin

“…Logistic regression showed that participants in the fourth quartile of BMR, BMR/Height2, and BMR/BSA had approximately a 54% reduced risk of CI (odds ratio range 0.457 to 0.463). …”
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Future directions of spiritual care where spiritual care providers do not exist: a qualitative study by Nattawan Meeprasertsagool, Patiphat Anuraktham, Arthit Chaithanasarn, Itthipon Wongprom

“…Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 experts from palliative care, religious studies, and social work fields. The participants were recruited through purposeful sampling, and the data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. …”
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