Impact of alternative diagnostic labels for melanoma in situ on management choices and psychological outcomes: protocol for an online randomised study by Brooke Nickel, Lisa Parker, Jon Emery, Richard A Scolyer, Raymond Barnhill, David Elder, Katy JL Bell, Elspeth Davies, Blake O'Brien, Adewole S Adamson, Alexander C J van Akkooi, Farzaneh Boroumand, Zhuohan Wu, Peter M Ferguson, Donald Low, Cynthia Low, Sherrie Liu, Stacey Lewis, Bella Spongberg-Ross

“…The results of the study will be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, and a plain language summary of the findings will be shared on the Wiser Healthcare publication page (https://www.wiserhealthcare.org.au/category/publications/).Trial registration number Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ID 386943).…”
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Screening, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of developmental dysplasia of the hip in Brazilian population: a scoping review by Emily Schaeffer, Patricia Moreno Grangeiro, Patrícia Eduarda Conrado Martins Rocha Jaleca, Sheila Lam, Sana Arora, Daniel Frank Liggio

“…The articles were then analysed across four categories: screening, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.Results 52 studies, published between 1951 and 2023, were included. Reported prevalence rates ranged from 0.75 to 56.4 cases per 1000 children. …”
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Health literacy and medication adherence in adults from ethnic minority backgrounds with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a systematic review by Jinal Parmar, Aymen El Masri, Freya MacMillan, Kirsten McCaffery, Amit Arora

“…Methods Medline (Ovid), The Cochrane Library, Embase (Ovid), PsycInfo (EBSCO), and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) (EBSCO) were searched systematically for peer-reviewed literature, published until January 2024. Studies were included in this review if they assessed health literacy and medication adherence among ethnic minority people with T2DM. …”
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Utility of 5-ALA for resection of CNS tumours other than high-grade gliomas: a protocol for a systematic review by Michael D Jenkinson, Ashwin Venkatesh, Colin Watts, Michael T C Poon, Victoria Wykes, Stephen John Price, Puneet Plaha, Georgios Solomou, Melissa Gough, Conor S Gillespie, Aref-Ali Gharooni, Waqqas Patel

“…The data will be presented nationally and internationally and the manuscript will be published in a peer-reviewed journal. No ethical approvals were needed. …”
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Criminological analysis of criminal radicalism state among convicts in penal institutions by P. Yu. Danylchenko

“…It has been found that criminal radicalism is a manifestation of radical, violent influence on the components of the punishment environment, prohibited by the law on criminal liability, with the aim of fundamentally changing them. …”
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Mesenchymal stem cell and exosome-based therapy for liver diseases: can it overcome conventional therapeutic inconsistencies? by Zahid Hussain

“…Importantly, all the clinical challenges should be noted and addressed before stem cell cytotherapy should be considered safe and effective for patients with liver diseases. Published literature indicated that MSC therapy has the potential to substitute conventional options in the treatment of high-grade fibrosis and cirrhosis.…”
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Realist inquiry into Maternity care @ a Distance (ARM@DA): realist review protocol by Andrew Booth, Catrin Evans, Stephen Timmons, Helen Spiby, Mark Clowes, Nia Jones, Kerry Evans, Benash Nazmeen, Candice Sunney, Georgia Clancy

“…The review will draw on four sources of evidence: (1) published literature (searching nine bibliographic databases), (2) unpublished (grey) literature, including research, audit, evaluation and policy documents (derived from Google Scholar, website searches and e-thesis databases), (3) expertise contributed by service user and health professional stakeholder groups (n=20–35) and (4) key informant interviews (n=12). …”
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Realist evaluation of the impact of the research translation process on health system sustainability: a study protocol by Yvonne Zurynski, Delia Hendrie, Suzanne Robinson, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Abby Mosedale

“…This approach to evaluation of a research translation funding programme may be adapted to similar programmes operating in other settings.Ethics and dissemination Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee, Western Australia, approved this study (approval number: HRE2020-0464). Results will be published in scientific journals, and communicated to respondents and relevant partners.…”
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Quality of Life in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review by Joanna Campbell, Louis Lavoie, Mariana Farraia, Rachel Huelin, Quanwu Zhang, Amir Abbas Tahami Monfared

“…This systematic review aims to summarize the published evidence on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in individuals with MCI due to AD and mild AD dementia. …”
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Madame de Genlis on the Victorian Stage by Juan Manuel Ibeas Altamira

“…The book appeared in print in 1781, a year after having been published in France, which shows the interest that English readers had towards her work and the type of dramatic pieces she developed. …”
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Efficacy of the Foodbot Factory digital curriculum-based nutrition education intervention in improving children’s nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in elementary school... by Wendy Lou, Michael Farkouh, JoAnne Arcand, Jacqueline Marie Brown, Saman Tahir, Beatriz Franco-Arellano, Ann LeSage, Janette Hughes, Bill Kapralos, Ellen Vogel, Claire Tugault-Lafleur

“…Results of the trial will be published in peer-reviewed journals and lay summaries will be available to stakeholders.Trial registration number NCT05979259.…”
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aDolescent and prEconception health peRspectiVe of Adult Non-communicable diseases (DERVAN): protocol for rural prospective adolescent girls cohort study in Ratnagiri district of K... by Suvarna Patil, Netaji Patil, Charudatta Joglekar, Arvind Yadav, Anup Nilawar, Ulka Banavali, Rohit Bhat, Vijay Dombale, Bhushan Warpe, Rachana Mohite, Kiran Joshi

“…The registration code is CTRI/2019/04/018453.Appropriate written informed consent and assent are obtained from the parents and the adolescent girls, respectively. We plan to publish our results in peer-reviewed journals.…”
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A foundation systematic review of natural language processing applied to gastroenterology & hepatology by Matthew Stammers, Balasubramanian Ramgopal, Abigail Owusu Nimako, Anand Vyas, Reza Nouraei, Cheryl Metcalf, James Batchelor, Jonathan Shepherd, Markus Gwiggner

“…Design Seven scholarly databases (ACM Digital Library, Arxiv, Embase, IEEE Explore, Pubmed, Scopus and Google Scholar) were searched for studies published between 2015 and 2023 that met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Potential biomarkers for cerebral small vessel disease with cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Libin Liao, Weiquan Huang, Rongchao Ma, Xuan He, Xuan He, Moxi Su, Dujuan Sha, Dujuan Sha, Dujuan Sha

“…Through a systematic review and meta-analysis, this study aimed to assess the relationship between circulating factors and cognitive impairment associated with cerebral small vessel disease, especially the possibility of becoming the potential biomarkers for diagnosis. Articles published before November 2023 were searched in four databases, PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Library, to identify all relevant studies reporting circulating markers in patients with CSVD. …”
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Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, or, Using Human Skins in Books Binding: A historical study by د. حامد معروف الزیات

“…The motivations of this phenomenon havebeen varied between a punishment of the guilty criminals and a desire of somepeople to prevent their skin from decomposition after death, also the marginalizedand the poor, in addition to the judicial decisions as a source of access to humanskin. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review of the Epidemiology, Health-Related Quality of Life Impact, and Economic Burden of Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy by Christina Soeun Kwon, Patrick Daniele, Anna Forsythe, Christopher Ngai

“…**Introduction:** This systematic literature review analyzed published evidence on IgA nephropathy (IgAN), focusing on US epidemiology, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and economic burden of illness. …”
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Study protocol: an observational study of distress, immune function and persistent pain in HIV by John A Joska, Mark R Hutchinson, Maia Lesosky, Victoria J Madden, Ncumisa Msolo, Luyanduthando Mqadi, Gillian J Bedwell, Jonathan Grant Peter, Romy Parker, Andrew Schrepf, Robert R Edwards

“…To test the hypothesis that IR is positively associated with SH, data from the subsample will be analysed with generalised mixed effects models to estimate the association between IR and group membership, with SH as the dependent variable.Ethics and dissemination Information obtained from this study will be published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at scientific meetings. …”
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Efficacy of brief intervention for drug misuse in primary care facilities: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol by Toshi A Furukawa, Yan Luo, Norio Watanabe, Ethan Sahker, Masatsugu Sakata, Rie Toyomoto, Chiyoung Hwang, Kazufumi Yoshida

“…If heterogeneity is present, subgroup analyses will consider patient variables of age, sex/gender, race/ethnicity, per cent insured, baseline severity and primary drug misused.Ethics and dissemination This study will use published aggregate data and will not require ethical approval. …”
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Common agricultural weeds among alien invasive plants in China: Species lists and their practical managing strategies by Zeyue Huang, Min Lin, Guoqi Chen

“…In order to reveal the list of common weed species among alien invasive plants, and reveal practical management strategies, we extracted the species lists of common alien agricultural weeds (CAAWs) of various arable lands and plantations, by comparing the lists of alien invasive plant species and common weed species published in China. Totally 88 species from 18 families were recognized as CAAWs, among which 43.0 % are native to North America, followed by South America (34.4 %), Europe (29.0 %), Asia (23.7 %) and Africa (17.2 %); 62.4 % were introduced into China from 1840 to 1949. …”
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Healthcare Workers’ Perspectives on the Barriers to Providing HIV Services to Children in Sub-Saharan Africa by Chipo Mutambo, Khumbulani Hlongwana

“…Methods. English articles published between 2010 and April 2018 were searched in electronic databases including Sabinet, MEDLINE, PubMed, and Google Scholar. …”
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