Application of stoma powder, skin protective film and hydrocolloid dressing and one-piece ostomy pouch in ICU patients with incontinence-associated dermatitis (护肤粉、皮肤保护膜、水胶体敷料联合一体式... by ZHU Congmei (朱丛梅)

“…Conclusion The combination use of ostomy powder, skin protective film, hydrocolloidal dressing and one-piece ostomy pouch can effectively improve the perianal skin healing, shorten the time-consuming of skin care and improve the quality of nursing among ICU patients with IAD. …”
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Demographic and clinical impact on preoperative BREAST-Q ePROM completion and baseline outcomes in women undergoing breast cancer surgery: a quantitative descriptive study at a Dan... by Karin Piil, Volker Jürgen Schmidt, Stine Thestrup Hansen, Lone Bak Hansen, Anna Mejldal, Julie Hougaard Prüsse, Lotte Gebhard Ørsted

“…Linear regression models were employed to determine the demographic variables associated with BREAST-Q subscale scores.Results The response rate for ePROMs was 72.5% with a median age of responders at 62 years. Older patients reported lower breast satisfaction (unadjusted coefficient bu=−0.26 (95% CI −0.44; −0.07), p=0.006) but better physical well-being (adjusted coefficient ba=0.23 (0.08; 0.37), p<0.001). …”
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Real-world experience with nucleos(t)ide analogue therapy and patient survival rates in chronic viral hepatitis B treatment centers in Eritrea by Michael Berhe Solomon, Ghirmay Ghebrekidan Ghebremeskel, Oliver Okoth Achila, Aron Rezene Mebrahtu, Mohammed Elfatih Hamida, Araia Berhane Mesfin

“…A total of 413 patients with HBV (median age (IQR) at diagnosis: 39 (IQR: 28–50 years; females: 118(28.6%); followed for a total of 22,921 person days) were studied. …”
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Traditional and Non-Traditional Risk Factors of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Young Women: Evidence from the ANCORS-YW Study by Ibdah R, Al-Nusair M, Abuhalimeh R, Mahmoud SA, Laswi B, Rawashdeh S, Hamoudeh A, Kheirallah KA

“…Bivariate analyses and logistic regression models were used to predict independent risk factors of ACS using adjusted odds ratios (AOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).Results: The study included 572 young women (≤ 50-years) with a median age of 45-years, divided into an ACS group (n=154, 26.9%) and a control group with no atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (n=418, 73.1%). …”
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Long-term outcome in people who use drugs successfully treated for hepatitis C infection with glecaprevir/pibrentasvir by Shana Yi, David Truong, Brian Conway

“…Results: Of the 108 individuals making up the inception cohort for this analysis, all chose to remain in care at the VIDC. We note a median age of 47 (22–75) years, 28 % female, 21.3 % identifying as indigenous, the majority with mild fibrosis (90.8 % F0–F2), slightly more than half with unstable housing. …”
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Development, validation, and clinical application of a machine learning model for risk stratification and management of cervical cancer screening based on full-genotyping hrHPV tes... by Binhua Dong, Zhen Lu, Tianjie Yang, Junfeng Wang, Yan Zhang, Xunyuan Tuo, Juntao Wang, Shaomei Lin, Hongning Cai, Huan Cheng, Xiaoli Cao, Xinxin Huang, Zheng Zheng, Chong Miao, Yue Wang, Huifeng Xue, Shuxia Xu, Xianhua Liu, Huachun Zou, Pengming Sun

“…Of these, 254,434 (age [years, median, IQR]: 48, 42–54), 297,479 (49, 43–55), 38,500 (37, 32–44), 1950 (38, 33–46), 1590 (53, 47–58), 779 (38, 31–49) and 4311 (40, 33–50) were in the development, temporal validation and external validation 1–5 datasets, respectively. …”
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Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) drug efficacy study landscape: A systematic scoping review of clinical trials and observational studies to assess the feasibility of esta... by Sauman Singh-Phulgenda, Rishikesh Kumar, Prabin Dahal, Abdalla Munir, Sumayyah Rashan, Rutuja Chhajed, Caitlin Naylor, Brittany J Maguire, Niyamat Ali Siddiqui, Eli Harriss, Manju Rahi, Fabiana Alves, Shyam Sundar, Kasia Stepniewska, Ahmed Musa, Philippe J Guerin, Krishna Pandey

“…Eight (14.3%) were randomised clinical trials, and 48 (85.7%) were non-randomised studies. The median post-treatment follow-up duration was 365 days (range: 90-540 days) in 8 RCTs and 360 days (range: 28-2,373 days) in 48 non-randomised studies. …”
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Clinicopathological analysis of adrenal intravascular large B-cell lymphoma by LIN Jiaxin, WEI Ran, SHUI Ruohong, LU Hongfen, LI Xiaoqiu, YU Baohua

“…Results: All of the 5 patients were male, with median age 52 years (ranged 50-82 years). Two cases had low-grade fever, 1 case had abdominal pain, 1 case was found by physical examination, and the information of the remaining one was unknown. …”
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Behaviors of Water Intake, Hydration Status, and Related Hydration Biomarkers among Physically Active Male Young Adults in Beijing, China: A Cross-Sectional Study by Na Zhang, Jianfen Zhang, Xing Wang, Yibin Li, Yi Yan, Guansheng Ma

“…Finally, 109 participants completed the study. The median daily total water intake (TWI), TDF, and WFF were 2701, ik1789, and 955 mL, respectively. …”
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Mendelian randomization analysis of plasma proteins reveals potential novel tumor markers for gastric cancer by Wenhai Fan, Zhenjiang Wu, Shenghao Xu, Zhiheng Liu, Yiming Huang, Pan Wang

“…Convergent results from Weighted Median and MR-Egger analyses confirmed these associations. …”
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Ketamine Infusion as an Adjunct to Opioid Analgesia in Pediatric Patients with High-Risk Neuroblastoma Undergoing Treatment with Dinutuximab: Adverse Effects and Safety in a Non-IC... by Streby KA, Tobias JD, McPhaden E, Downie S, Stanek J, Roth C, Patel PO

“…The average daily IVMME during post-consolidation dinutuximab infusions was greater in admissions with ketamine (median 11.67 mg/day vs 6.09 mg/day; p = 0.0005). Ketamine was not significantly associated (p = 0.77) with daily IVMME when examining opioid use longitudinally over dinutuximab cycles and controlling for patient age. …”
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Clinical and biochemical characteristics of patients with acromegaly and normal or increased prolactin levels by Yuliya A. Kukushkina, Irena A. Ilovayskaya

“…The patients with acromegaly and hyperprolactinemia noticed their first symptoms of the disease at a younger age (median 37 [25; 46] years vs 41.5 [32; 51.5] years, р = 0.004) and were diagnosed with acromegaly also earlier, than the patients with acromegaly without hyperprolactinemia (45 [34.5; 55] years vs 52 [42; 61] years, р 0.001). …”
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Outcomes Following Metabolic Bariatric Surgery at a Single Center in the United Arab Emirates by Allum M, Buckley A, Suliman SGI, Suliman M, Hamdan K, Al Hadad M

“…Pre-operatively, mean age was 34.2 ± 0.2 years, median BMI was 41.0 (IQR 37.8– 45.2) kg/m2; 92.5% had SG and 7.5% RYGB. …”
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Comparative cardiometabolic safety and effectiveness of aripiprazole in people with severe mental illness: A target trial emulation. by Alvin Richards-Belle, Alvin Richards-Belle, Naomi Launders, Sarah Hardoon, Al Richards, Kenneth K C Man, Neil M Davies, Elvira Bramon, Joseph F Hayes, David P J Osborn

“…We included 26,537 patients (aripiprazole, n = 3,573, olanzapine, n = 8,554, quetiapine, n = 8,289, risperidone, n = 6,121). Median (IQR) age was 53 (42-67) years, 55.4% were female, 82.3% White, and 18.0% were diagnosed with schizophrenia. …”
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Renal dysfunction contributes to deteriorated survival outcomes in patients with upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding: insights from a cohort study of 1160 cases by Orsolya Anna Simon, Levente Frim, Nelli Farkas, Zoltán Sipos, Nóra Vörhendi, Eszter Boros, Dániel Pálinkás, Brigitta Teutsch, Patrícia Kalló, Vivien Vass, Andrea Szentesi, Roland Hágendorn, Péter Hegyi, Bálint Erőss, Imre Szabó

“…Among others, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (ml/min/1.73 m2) was used as continuous variable, mean, standard deviation, median, interquartile range and minimum/maximum values were calculated. …”
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Designing the alignment model of petrochemical projects with the country's industrial strategies in the Ministry of Petroleum by Abdolrasoul Shojaeian, ghanbar abbaspour esfadan, Changiz Valmohammadi, Aboutorab Alirezaei

“…The statistical population of the research includes 20 experts and senior managers of the Ministry of Petroleum and Petrorefineries in Tehran, selected by theoretical sampling. To collect and analyze the data, the data-based theory research strategy was used. …”
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Replication Study of “Visual Fixation on the Thorax Predicts Bystander Breathing Detection in Simulated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest” by Marco Pedrotti

“…Each second spent examining the thorax increased the odds of success by 16% (OR = 1.16, 95% CI,1.04-1.29). Median diagnosis time was 17.9 seconds (range = 2-119 seconds).Conclusions: Educating lay responders on how to look for chest movement enhances breathing detection performance.Contexte: La réanimation cardio-pulmonaire (RCP) pratiquée précocement par des témoins est associée à une amélioration des chances de survie en cas d'arrêt cardiaque extrahospitalier (OHCA). …”
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Prediction of Pathologic Response in Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Downstaging with Locoregional and Systemic Combination Therapy by Yang C, Chen Y, Sheng L, Wang Y, Zhang X, Yang Y, Ronot M, Jiang H, Song B

“…Furthermore, the system-defined dual-positive responders showed improved median RFS (not reached) than non-responders (7.1 months for AFP-positive group [p=0.043] and 13.3 months for AFP-negative group [p=0.099]).Conclusion: mRECIST was more indicative of pathologic response after combination therapy than RECIST 1.1. …”
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Optimizing N-1 Contingency Rankings Using a Nature-Inspired Modified Sine Cosine Algorithm by Irnanda Priyadi, Novalio Daratha, Teddy Surya Gunawan, Kalamullah Ramli, Febrian Jalistio, Hazlie Mokhlis

“…Kajian ini menangani tugas kritikal dalam perangkingan kontingensi dengan menilai tahap keparahan gangguan yang disebabkan oleh pemutusan talian penghantaran. Penilaian sebegini membolehkan pengendali sistem tenaga membuat keputusan yang berinformasi dan strategik dalam senario masa nyata. …”
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¿A dónde exportan las firmas, por qué eligen ese mercado, quiénes venden más y cuántas comercian? Un análisis con firmas manufactureras localizadas en México by Carlos Enrique Cardoso Vargas

“…En términos de diversificación de las ventas externas, el sustituir el comercio con el mercado de Norteamérica es complicado; no obstante, los destinos más razonables serían Europa y Asia. La estrategia para ampliar las exportaciones a otros países en empresas pequeñas y medianas debería enfocarse en incrementar tanto su productividad y tamaño como en mejorar su acceso a esas áreas; para empresas más grandes, mejorar el acceso sería no sólo una estrategia indispensable, sino la que muy posiblemente podría dar resultados en un menor tiempo.…”
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