Hormonal Influences on ADC Values in Breast Tissues: A Scoping Review of DWI in Pre- and Post-menopausal Women [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Neil Barnes Abraham, Abhimanyu Pradhan, Suresh Sukumar, Sneha Ravichandran, Winniecia Dkhar, Rajagopal Kadavigere

“…Method Following the Arksey and O’Malley framework, we conducted a comprehensive search of Scopus, Embase, and PubMed databases for relevant studies published between January 2000 and 2021. Inclusion criteria encompassed 1.5 Tesla MRI studies reporting ADC values in female subjects, considering menopausal status. …”
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Infection control Surveillance of dialysis events at outpatient hemodialysis centers in Saudi Arabia: A 3-year national data by Mohammed ALQahtani, Aiman El-Saed, Faisal Alsheddi, Ahlam H. Alamri, Atef M. Shibl, Khalid H. Alanazi

“…After adjusting for the differences in the type of vascular access, the rates of dialysis events in the Saudi HESN were lower, 54%–83%, than those of the American National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN, P<0.001 for each) and a less extent 27%–55% lower when compared with the published results from Chinese people. Conclusions: The current findings provide benchmarking data for different dialysis events that can promote fair comparisons and interest in dialysis event surveillance.…”
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Health inequities among persons with disabilities: a global scoping review by Emre Umucu, Andrew A. Vernon, Deyu Pan, Sang Qin, Guillermina Solis, Rebecca Campa, Beatrice Lee

“…The selection criteria for articles in this study were as follows: (a) publication between 2011 and 2022, (b) written in English, (c) published in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, and (d) a quantitative comparison of health inequities between persons with and without disabilities.ResultsA total of 363 scholarly works were initially identified, with 51 meeting the inclusion criteria after rigorous screening. …”
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Personalized Organoid-Based Treatments in Older Patients with Cancer: A Registry Study in Progress by Pirmin Häuptle, Kirsten Mertz, Michèle Voegeli, Robert Rosenberg, Emanuel Burri, Svetozar Subotic, Anna Romanens, Anne Leuppi-Taegtmeyer, Christian Regenbrecht, Lena Wedeken, Marcus Vetter

“…PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE **Peer reviewers:** Dr Andreas Hochstrasser, Hospital Thun, Thun, Switzerland Dr Bich Doan Nguyen-Sträuli, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland Received on April 22, 2024; accepted after peer review on October 23, 2024; published online on October 30, 2024.…”
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The Labial Adhesion in Postmenopausal Women: A Systematic Review by Nastaran Mahmoudnejad, Mohammad Hamidi Madani, Roozbeh Roohinezhad

“…The included studies were in English and published from 1985 until December 2023 with the keywords including vulvar diseases, agglutination, menopause, postmenopause, and recurrence. …”
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Current knowledge about early childhood caries in the gulf cooperation council with worldwide reflection: Scoping review of the scientific literature (2010-2021). by Asmaa Othman Alkhtib, Hasaan G Mohamed

“…A search was conducted in PubMed, Medline, Scopus, the Cochrane Collaboration database, and Google Scholar to identify relevant studies published between 2010 and 2021 using specific keywords. …”
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Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case by Gustavo Candela, Olga Holownia, Max Odsbjerg, Mirjam Cuper, Nele Gabriëls, Katrine Hofmann, Edward J. Gray, Sally Chambers, Mahendra Mahey

“…We identified common features and best practices and we provide a detailed analysis that can be useful for organisations interested in publishing reproducible code combined with documentation such as Jupyter Notebooks. …”
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Social robots in research on social and cognitive development in infants and toddlers: A scoping review. by Solveig Flatebø, Vi Ngoc-Nha Tran, Catharina Elisabeth Arfwedson Wang, Lars Ailo Bongo

“…We included empirical studies published between 1990 and May 29, 2023. We searched for literature in PsychINFO, ERIC, Web of Science, and PsyArXiv. …”
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Incidence and outcomes of neonatal group B streptococcal sepsis in Qatar-a multicentre study by Sajid Salim Thyvilayil, Anvar Paraparambil Vellamgot, Khalil Salameh, Sudheer Babu Kurunthattilthazhe, Abdurahiman Elikkottil, Liliana Llerena Dominguez, Dhanya Banarjee

“…The overall mortality was similar to previously published data. Further prospective studies are recommended.…”
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Application of Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (Rusle) Model to Assess Soil Erosion in “Kalu Ganga” River Basin in Sri Lanka by D. L. D. Panditharathne, N. S. Abeysingha, K. G. S. Nirmanee, Ananda Mallawatantri

“…Digital Elevation Model (30 × 30 m), twenty years’ rainfall data measured at 11 rain gauge stations across the basin, land use and soil maps, and published literature were used as inputs to the model. …”
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The use and operationalization of “structural stigma” in health-related research: A scoping review by Evan L. Eschliman, Edwina P. Kisanga, Long Jie Huang, Ohemaa B. Poku, Becky L. Genberg, Danielle German, Sarah M. Murray, Lawrence H. Yang, Michelle R. Kaufman

“…Results Of the 298 articles identified, over half (53%) were published from 2021 onward. Articles most commonly were set in the United States (n = 163, 55%), investigated stigma toward sexual minority people (n = 163, 55%), and cited the introduction of a special issue of Social Science & Medicine as their source of the concept (n = 84, 28%). …”
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Physician demography in Lebanon 2024: identifying gaps and proposing solutions for sustainable healthcare system by Jana Doghman, Salim Saba, Joseph Bakhach

“…Physician density is calculated using the most recent published data on the number of populations in Lebanon. …”
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COLLABORATIVE ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LEARNING: SUGGESTIONS FOR UKRAINIAN MEDICAL EDUCATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY COOPERATION by Yu.V. Lysanets, J. Ward, C. Zhang, T. Downing, O.M. Bieliaieva

“…The authors outlined the benefits of COIL initiatives between partners, as well as possible challenges in their implementation relying on the corpus of research papers published within the last 5 years available online in PubMed, Google Scholar and other databases, applying the methods of analysis and synthesis, systematization, generalization, comparative and contrastive methods. …”
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A Comparative Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research on Adaptation Interventions for Healthy Aging at Home by Wusi Zhou, Xiaoyang Lyu, Yuxi Huang, Biya Jiang, Jianzhong Jiang

“…There has been a gradual increase of housing adaptation research papers since 2006, with a total of 406 published by 116 journals in 2022. 1,152 authors from 672 institutions in 42 countries have been involved. …”
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The REpeated ASSEssment of SurvivorS in intracerebral haemorrhage: protocol for a multicentre, prospective observational study by Daniel Woo, Richard Thompson, Carl D Langefeld, Nichol McBee, Daniel Hanley, Matthew L Flaherty, Lauren Sansing, Karen Lane, Lee A Gilkerson, Achala Vagal, Nathan Walborn, Wendy Ziai, Noeleen Ostapkovich, Kevin Triene, Timothy David Howard

“…The findings of the study will be published in academic peer-reviewed journals.Trial registration number NCT05611918; ClinicalTrials.gov; registered on 23 May 2023.…”
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Implementing Dementia Care Mapping in Dementia Care: A Narrative Realist Literature Review by Andreia Fonseca de Paiva, Ana Barbosa, Lindsey Collins, Siobhan Reilly

“…Several databases were searched to identify studies published in English from 2000 to 2022. Seven DCM expert mappers took part in the focus group. …”
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Aortic stenosis post-COVID-19: a mathematical model on waiting lists and mortality by Chris P Gale, Jonathan Weir-McCall, James H F Rudd, Mamas Mamas, Ramesh Nadarajah, Ben Gibbison, Louise Sun, Christian Philip Stickels, Houyuan Jiang, Kieran J Sharkey, Nick Holliman, Sara Lombardo, Lars Schewe, Matteo Sommacal, Katherine Cheema, Feryal Erhun

“…Objectives To provide estimates for how different treatment pathways for the management of severe aortic stenosis (AS) may affect National Health Service (NHS) England waiting list duration and associated mortality.Design We constructed a mathematical model of the excess waiting list and found the closed-form analytic solution to that model. From published data, we calculated estimates for how the strategies listed under Interventions may affect the time to clear the backlog of patients waiting for treatment and the associated waiting list mortality.Setting The NHS in England.Participants Estimated patients with AS in England.Interventions (1) Increasing the capacity for the treatment of severe AS, (2) converting proportions of cases from surgery to transcatheter aortic valve implantation and (3) a combination of these two.Results In a capacitated system, clearing the backlog by returning to pre-COVID-19 capacity is not possible. …”
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Video role-play versus powerpoint lecture in the knowledge domain among medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic era: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Sungkono, Firdian Makrufardi, Annisa Fairuz Nur Azizah, Firdiawan Ekaputra

“…PubMed, MEDLINE, and Embase were systematically searched, and studies published before October 2023 were considered. Fixed and random-effects meta-analyses were performed to calculate the pooled effect of estimates. …”
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Effect of the Application of Cold Plasma Energy on the Inactivation of Microorganisms, Proteins, and Lipids Deterioration in Adobera Cheese by Blanca Rosa Aguilar Uscanga, Montserrat Calderón Santoyo, Juan Arturo Ragazzo Sánchez, Mario Iván Alemán Duarte, Julia Aurora Pérez Montaño, Edgar Balcázar-López, Josué Raymundo Solís Pacheco

“…Cheeses are perishable foods that must fulfill sanitary and quality requirements according to the parameters established globally. …”
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A Review of the Health Impact of Nicotine Pouches by Radosław Chmiel, Daria Michałka, Natalie Papachristoforou, Zuzanna Gałuszka, Monika Makar, Tomasz Bartuś, Natalia Tekiela, Emilia Bąk, Justyna Głowacka, Aleksandra Kocjan

“…Review Methods The review is based on 39 articles found in PubMed databases published between 2006–2024.  Conclusion While nicotine pouches and snus are marketed as lower-risk alternatives to smoking, their health implications are still significant. …”
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