Opportunities for collaboration: the synergy between antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship in pediatrics by Brandy M. Hoyt, Kevin Messacar, Anna C. Sick-Samuels, Preeti Jaggi, Stacey L. Hamilton, Sarah Janelle, Sarah K. Parker

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Recruiting participants for focus groups in health research: a meta-research study by Jonas Lander, Simon Wallraf, Dawid Pieper, Ronny Klawunn, Hala Altawil, Marie-Luise Dierks, Cosima John

“…Results Nearly half (n = 38/80) of the studies were from the USA and Canada, many addressing issues related to diabetes, cancer, mental health and chronic diseases. …”
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Characteristics of US hospitals using extraordinary collections actions against patients for unpaid medical bills: a cross-sectional study by Dominique Vervoort, Farah Hashim, Sanuri Hennayake, Christi M Walsh, Chen Dun, Joseph Giuseppe Paturzo, Indrani G Das, Emily A Stewart, Jonathan A Teinor, Morissa A Schochet, Allyson Keslar, Ge Bai, Martin Makary

“…In the remaining 74 hospitals, the study team did not identify extraordinary collection actions through the court system.Conclusions Standardised medical debt collections best practices and metrics of medical debt collections quality are needed to increase public accountability for hospitals, particularly non-profit hospitals. …”
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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

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Alleviating effects and mechanisms of action of large-leaf yellow tea drinking on diabetes and diabetic nephropathy in mice by Guangshan Zhao, Jianyuan Teng, Ruixia Dong, Qiuyan Ban, Lian Yang, Kang Du, Yifei Wang, Hanlin Pu, Chung S. Yang, Zhe Ren

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Central Obesity Is Associated with Variations in TSH and ACTH Levels among Euthyroid Obese Individuals by Difei Lu, Zhenfang Yuan, Ying Gao, Wei Liu, Junqing Zhang

“…Overweight and obese patients who regularly visited the multidisciplinary team (MDT) for obesity at Peking University First Hospital were enrolled in the study. …”
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Adapting the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist to High-Income Settings: A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial Protocol by Nathan Turley, MA, MBA, Karolina Kogut, BA, Barbara Burian, PhD, Rachel Moyal-Smith, DrPH, PA-C, James Etheridge, MD, MPH, Yves Sonnay, MScPH, William Berry, MD, MPH, Alan Merry, MD, MBChB, Alexander Hannenberg, MD, Alex B. Haynes, MD, MPH, Roger D. Dias, MD, PhD, MBA, Kathryn Hagen, MD, George Molina, MD, MPH, Lisa Spruce, DNP, RN, Carla Williams, RN, MHSM, Mary E. Brindle, MD, MPH, FRCSC

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Convolutional neural networks for sea surface data assimilation in operational ocean models: test case in the Gulf of Mexico by O. Zavala-Romero, O. Zavala-Romero, A. Bozec, E. P. Chassignet, J. R. Miranda, J. R. Miranda

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From the guest editors by Abba Gumel, James Watmough

“…In September of 2003, on the tail of the outbreak of Severe AcuteRespiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the Greater Toronto Area, MITACS(www.mitacs.ca), one of Canada's Networks of Centres ofExcellence, teamed up with Health Canada in funding a workshopentitled the MITACS-PIMS-Health Canada meeting on SARS atthe magnificent Banff International Research Station (BIRS) . …”
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Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation by A Wise, N E Diana, B Bobat, R T Saggers, S Bhoora, S Budhram, L Chauke, V G Lala, A Mahomed, D Mokgoko, M Seabi, B Moore, S Naidoo, R B Nyakoe, N Odell, G Paget, L Wium, J Zamparini

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Total productive maintenance: an in-depth review with a focus on overall equipment effectiveness measurement by Joyeshree Biswas

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New Horizons In The Treatment Of Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer by Zein El Amir

“…Despite having adopted an integrated modular system, most medical schools in Pakistan, UK, and USA still teach anatomy in the first two years at the most.  …”
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Anatomy In The Undergraduate Medical Curriculum; Blending The Old And New by Ayesha Yousaf

“…Most medical schools in Pakistan, UK and USA, despite having adopted an integrated modular system, still teach anatomy in the first two years at the most.…”
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Advanced decision analytics with fuzzy logic integrating AI and computational thinking for personnel selection by Mudiarasan Kuppusamy, Jugindar Singh, Priya Raman, Neda Abdolrahimi

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Construção colaborativa do conhecimento tecnológico, pedagógico e do conteúdo de professores de matemática by Arthur B. Powell

“…Este se constitui quando um professor usa apropriadamente as tecnologias digitais para fornecer oportunidades aos seus alunos para interagirem colaborativamente para fazer Matemática (GATTEGNO,  1987).    …”
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Effects of awareness of breast cancer overdiagnosis among women with screen-detected or incidentally found breast cancer: a qualitative interview study by Brooke Nickel, Alexandra Barratt, Kirsten McCaffery, Kristen Pickles, Jolyn Hersch, Jayant S Vaidya

“…Most found that their initial clinical teams were not forthcoming about the possibility of overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and many found it difficult to deal with their set management protocols.Conclusion The experiences of this small and unusual group of women provide rare insight into the profound negative impact of finding out about overdiagnosis after breast cancer diagnosis. …”
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Study protocol for Video Images about Decisions to Improve Ethical Outcomes with Palliative Care Educators (VIDEO-PCE): a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of older... by Joshua R Lakin, Na Wang, Howard J Cabral, Michael K Paasche-Orlow, Charlotta Lindvall, Angelo Volandes, Aretha Delight Davis, Michael R Winter, Edward T Moseley, Lori Henault, Sophia N Zupanc, Sophiya Das, Kate Sciacca, Edith A Burns, Maria T Carney, Jennifer Itty, Santiago Lopez, Kaitlin Emmert, Narda J Martin, Sherene Lambert, Jennifer Polo, Shreya Sanghani, Julianne N Dugas, Michele Gomez, Shira Gabry-Kalikow, Alexandra Dobie, Meredith Amshoff, Traci Cucinotta, Milton Joel, Lisa B Caruso, Ana Maria Ramirez, Kathleen Salerno, Qausarat Ogunneye

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