Retrospective review of dosing trends in botulinum toxin injections for the treatment of adductor spasmodic dysphonia in a long-term cohort by Gabrielle French, J. Douglas Bosch, Derrick R. Randall

“…The mean total BT dosage for our population was 1.54 ± 0.35 Units per side. The majority of subjects had decreasing doses over time with a small subgroup having slowly increasing doses. …”
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Qualitative evaluation of survey questions to assess treatment preference for daily oral or long‑acting injectable antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV. by Cindy Garris, Irina Kolobova, Vasiliki Chounta, Alberto Díaz De Santiago, Robin Dretler, Tulika Singh, Gary Sinclair

“…Thirty adults in the United States currently receiving HIV treatment were enrolled in a cross-sectional study involving one-on-one concept confirmation and cognitive debriefing interviews. …”
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Comparing Health Care Financing in Indonesia and Thailand from 1995-2010: What Lessons Could Be Learned? by Darius Erlangga, Lizheng Shi

“…For analysis, the authors followed The Health Systems Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual Version 1.0 issued by Health Systems 20/20 supported by United States Agency for International Development (USAID). …”
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Association between metabolic score for visceral fat index and BMI-adjusted skeletal muscle mass index in American adults by Yifan Zhou, Xiangjie Su, Haitao Tan, Jun Xiao

“…Controlling for relevant covariables, we primarily investigated the association between METS-VF and SMI values utilizing weighted multivariable linear regression models. …”
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Habitat associations of six‐lined racerunners in longleaf pine managed with a short fire rotation for northern bobwhites by Isaiah W. Samek, Steven J. Price, Theron M. Terhune II, Darin J. McNeil

“…Racerunners may also specialize on microhabitats (e.g., upland areas with relatively high bare ground cover) that occur most frequently in recently burned portions of bobwhite management units.…”
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Association of Sociodemographic Factors With Overtriage, Undertriage, and Value of Care After Major Surgery by Tyler J. Loftus, MD, Matthew M. Ruppert, MS, Benjamin Shickel, PhD, Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti, PhD, Jeremy A. Balch, MD, Kenneth L. Abbott, MD, Die Hu, MS, Adnan Javed, MD, Firas Madbak, MD, Faheem Guirgis, MD, David Skarupa, MD, Philip A. Efron, MD, Patrick J. Tighe, MD, William R. Hogan, MD, Parisa Rashidi, PhD, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Jr, MD, Azra Bihorac, MD

“…To determine whether certain patients are vulnerable to errant triage decisions immediately after major surgery and whether there are unique sociodemographic phenotypes within overtriaged and undertriaged cohorts. …”
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Bridging the gap: attitudes and practices toward complementary and alternative medicine among oncology patients and healthcare professionals in Croatia by Ljerka Armano, Vanja Vasiljev, Tomislav Rukavina, Denis Juraga, Aleksandar Racz, Aleksandar Racz, Vanja Tešić, Vanja Tešić, Vanja Tešić

“…The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among oncology patients ranges from 30 to 80%, particularly higher in the United States compared to Europe. However, limited research exists on the attitudes of healthcare professionals and oncology patients toward CAM, especially within Western evidence-based medical settings. …”
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Detecting Freezing of Gait in Parkinson Disease Using Multiple Wearable Sensors Sets During Various Walking Tasks Relative to Medication Conditions (DetectFoG): Protocol for a Pros... by Sébastien Cordillet, Sophie Drapier, Frédérique Leh, Audeline Dumont, Florian Bidet, Isabelle Bonan, Karim Jamal

“…Using wearable sensors such as inertial measurement units (IMUs) to detect FoG episodes offers greater objectivity and accuracy. …”
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The association between pretransplant malignancy and post-transplant survival and cancer recurrence in bilateral lung transplantation: An analysis of 23,291 recipients by Wongi Woo, MD, Hye Sung Kim, MD, Ankit Bharat, MBBS, Young Kwang Chae, MD, PhD, MBA

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Mechanical Percussion Devices: A Survey of Practice Patterns Among Healthcare Professionals by Scott W Cheatham, Russell T Baker, David G Behm, Kyle Stull, Morey J Kolber

“… # Purpose To survey and document the knowledge, clinical application methods, and use of mechanical percussion devices among healthcare professionals in the United States. # Design Cross-sectional survey study…”
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Suicides of famous chefs of today: stories and reasons by Oksana Nykyha, Olha Romanchuk, Rostyslav Koval, Myroslava Danylevych, Yuliia Kalymon

“…The chefs in question used to work in the best restaurants in the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain and Australia. …”
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The New Approach Research on Singing Voice Detection Algorithm Based on Enhanced Reconstruction Residual Network by Lilin Liu

“…The first stage of reconstruction is to complete the hierarchical learning of singing voice features through dense residual units to improve the integration of information. …”
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Humoral and cell-mediated immune responses to COVID-19 vaccines up to 6 months post three-dose primary series in adults with inborn errors of immunity and their breakthrough infect... by Dana Unninayar, Emilia L. Falcone, Hugo Chapdelaine, Donald C. Vinh, Karina A. Top, Beata Derfalvi, Thomas B. Issekutz, Hélène Decaluwe, Anne Pham-Huy, Julia Upton, Stephen D. Betschel, Tamar Rubin, Sneha Suresh, Nicola A. M. Wright, Luis Murguía-Favela, Tatiana Kalashnikova, Lisa Barrett, Sharon Oldford, Marc-Andre Langlois, Corey Arnold, Manish Sadarangani, Tinghua Zhang, Tim Ramsay, Dina Yazji, Juthaporn Cowan, Juthaporn Cowan

“…Geometric mean anti-spike IgG (binding antibody units/mL) and spike-specific T-cell responses [IFN-γ+ T cells/106 peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)] were significantly lower in IEIs compared to controls at D2 + 4wk, D3 + 4wk, and D3 + 24wk. …”
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Elicitation of Health-related Quality-of-life Concepts Associated with Overactive Bladder: A Qualitative Study by Natalia Hawken, Zalmai Hakimi, Samuel Aballéa, Jameel Nazir, Isaac A. O. Odeyemi, Mondher Toumi

“…**Methods:** Patients diagnosed with OAB living in the United Kingdom were interviewed on the telephone by a trained psychologist using an interview discussion guide. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of Leading Countries in Conducting Artificial Intelligence Research by Ahmed H. Al-Marzouqi, Alya A. Arabi

“…These three countries (along with the United States) also had the highest economic impact as measured by the patent citations per scholarly output, which was aligned with the high FWCI values for these countries. …”
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Identification of serum metabolite biomarkers in premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: protocol for a multicentre prospective observational cohort study by Ping Zhou, Jun Chen, Ying Liu, Cheng Chen, Xin Guo, Zhangbin Yu, Jiebo Liu, Yanping Guo, Dan Dan Rao, Shengnan He, Xudong Yan, Wanxiang He, Songzhou Xu, Ruolin Zhang

“…It will be conducted in six major neonatal intensive care units in Shenzhen, China, involving preterm infants born at gestational ages <32 weeks. …”
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Nursery subsidy as an instrument of legislative and expenditure independence of a commune self-government by Anna Ostrowska

“…In order to prove the above thesis, the conducted research included a comparative analysis of the nursery subsidy with other subsidies granted from budgets of local government units (in particular with an educational subsidy), as well as an analysis of supervisory and judicial decisions regarding resolutions of municipal councils adopted on the basis of the authorization under Article 60(2) of the above Act. …”
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Knowledge of the ovulatory cycle and its determinants among adolescent females in Ghana by Grace Frempong Afrifa-Anane

“…All associations were considered statistically significant at 95% confidence level in the fixed effect results. The random effects were quantified in terms of Intra-Class Correlation (ICC) and Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) variance. …”
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The influence of COVID-19 pandemic on secondary prevention in non-COVID patients with cardioembolic stroke by Lučić-Prokin Aleksandra L., Bogdanović Milan M., Pustahija Tatjana L., Stamenković Marija S.

“…Data indicate a reduction in the functioning of stroke units, a decrease in neuroimaging diagnostic procedures, and changes in therapeutic interventions for stroke patients. …”
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Temporal changes in hospital readmissions for postpartum hypertension in the US, 2010 to 2019; a serial cross-sectional analysis. by Ashwini Deshpande, Deepti Agnihotri, Alexa I K Campbell, Jerome J Federspiel, Evan R Myers, Osondu Ogbuoji

“…<h4>Background</h4>Hypertension is the most common primary diagnosis associated with postpartum readmissions within 42 days of delivery hospitalization. In the United States, nearly half of the cases of eclampsia, a severe form of preeclampsia, develop during the postpartum period, and the postpartum onset of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, like antepartum hypertension poses long-term health risks to pregnant individuals, including an increased likelihood of developing overall cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, heart failure, and chronic hypertension. …”
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