Evaluating the implementation of a multicomponent intervention to improve faecal immunochemical test-based (FIT) colorectal cancer screening in primary care by Kamala Adhikari, James Whitworth, Gary F Teare, Muhammad Kashif Mughal, Danica Hignell, Barbara Moysey, Jawad Chishtie

“…The baseline FIT completion rate across participating clinics was 62%, which increased by 13 percentage points to 75% during the intervention period. Of the 75% who completed the FIT, 56% did without a reminder call, whereas 19% did so after receiving one or more reminders. …”
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Physical and Muscular Performance in a Professional Soccer Player with a Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Following an Isokinetic Exercise Program: A Case Report by Fernanda QRC Mostagi, Pedro AC Silva, Giovana R Munaro, Raiane G Marcato, Daniel B Nampo, Gabriel F Santiago, Karen Obara, Jefferson R Cardoso

“…# Background and Purpose The comprehensive treatment for an athlete who sustains a complete posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injury remains unclear. …”
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Effect of Conservative Interventions for Musculoskeletal Disorders in Preprofessional and Professional Dancers: A Systematic Review by Justine Benoit-Piau, Christophe Benoit-Piau, Nathaly Gaudreault, Mélanie Morin

“…# Background Preprofessional and professional dancers are among the athletes who sustain the most musculoskeletal disorders. …”
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Histopathological Finding of Microdamage Accumulation in Atypical Subtrochanteric Femoral Fracture by Yo Watanabe, Naoki Kondo, Tomomi Fukuhara, Norio Imai, Masahiko Yamada, Naoto Endo

“…Histopathological findings of atypical femoral fractures have not been clarified. Herein, we report the case of a 61-year-old woman who fell while walking, which prompted her to visit our facility. …”
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PROVIDING DISTANCE EDUCATION DURING THE WAR: THE EXPERIENCE OF UKRAINE by Lidia Londar, Marcus Pietsch

“…Destroyed schools and forced displacement can result in students no longer being able to learn in their typical learning environments. …”
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Parental Evaluation of a Responsive Parenting Program for Infants with Hearing Loss by Reinhild Glanemann, Karen Reichmuth, Stephanie Brinkheetker, Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen, Katrin Neumann

“…Objective: We aim to receive feedback from parents regarding the process and outcomes of their participation in the MPP. …”
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The Influence of the Hyaluronic Acid Gel on the Postoperative Sequelae following Surgical Removal of the Impacted Mandibular Third Molar in Comparison with the A-PRF: A Randomized... by Thoulfokar Shokor Al-Saadi, Ahmed Fadhel Al-Quisi

“…A randomized controlled trial was conducted at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit, Dental Teaching Hospital. Healthy patients who required surgical removal of the impacted mandibular third molar were divided randomly into three groups. …”
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Effect of daily alcohol consumption and age over 40 years on COVID-19 vaccination antibody titers in the Delta era among hospital workers in northern Okinawa, Japan: A retrospectiv... by Takuji Kishimoto, Daisuke Tasato, Yoshitaka Nagasawa, Akihiro Yamashiro, Hayashi Shokita

“…Methods: Antibody titers of 354 hospital workers who received two COVID-19 vaccination doses were measured five times for more than six months. …”
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Exploring factors of physicians’ preferences for continuing medical education by Ruzica Nikolic Mandic, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Zoran Bukumiric, Zorica Terzic-Supic, Jovana Todorovic, Sandra Grujicic, Dejan Nesic, Ulrich Laaser

“…The score on the clinical emergency domain, besides the female gender, was associated with work in primary health care (B = 0.748), being a specialist (B=-1.592) and being a subspecialist (B=-1.023). …”
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Characteristics of Medical Care During in-hospital Cardiopulmonary-cerebral Resuscitation by Viviana de la Concepción García Escudero, Liset Fuentes Santana, Víctor René Navarro Machado, Aymara Marcia Hernández Cardoso, Yanisleidys Chacón Blay, Camilo Rodríguez Pérez

“…Gustavo Aldereguía Lima University General Hospital in Cienfuegos. <br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in the five intensive care units of the Emergency Department, from January to June 2020. 152 patients who suffered cardiorespiratory arrest were studied. …”
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Machine learning-based prediction of in-hospital mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury by Tianyun Gao, Zhiqiang Nong, Yuzhen Luo, Manqiu Mo, Zhaoyan Chen, Zhenhua Yang, Ling Pan

“…Objectives This study aims to develop and validate a prediction model in-hospital mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) based on machine learning algorithms.Methods Patients who met the criteria for inclusion were identified in the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV (MIMIC-IV) database and divided according to the validation (n = 2440) and development (n = 9756, 80%) queues. …”
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Beliefs and perceptions towards congenital anomalies in Dilla town, Gedeo Zone, Southern Ethiopia; a qualitative study by Addisu Getnet, Zerihun Figa, Desalegn Tarekegn, Rediet Gido, Getanew Aschalew Tesfa

“…A total of 33 participants who were selected conveniently among permanent residents of Dilla town were included. …”
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Electrocardiographic Changes in Pregnant Patients With Congenital Heart Disease by Maria A. Pabon, Amrit Misra, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Madeline E. Duncan, Ava Conklin, Katherine E. Economy, Fred M. Wu, Thomas Tadros, Anne Marie Valente, For the STORCC Investigators

“…Patients were included if they had at least two EKGs across the perinatal period and were grouped by specific conditions: atrial septal defect (ASD), tetralogy of Fallot, congenital pulmonary stenosis, coarctation of the aorta (CoA), bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), systemic right ventricle (SRV), and Fontan circulation. …”
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Analytical validation of a novel bioassay for thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulin by Paul D. Olivo, Hannah Kim, Lynn Miao, Jeffery A. Houtz, George J. Kahaly

“…Analytical performance studies were performed on numerous samples, over multiple days, by two users at two sites.ResultsThe limit of blank, limit of detection and limit of quantitation were determined to be 0.007 IU/L, 0.014 IU/L, and 0.021 IU/L, respectively. …”
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Prevalence of disability in Iranian older adults in Tehran, Iran: A population-based study by Vahid Rashedi, Mohsen Asadi-Lari, Mahshid Foroughan, Ahmad Delbari, Reza Fadayevatan

“…There were statistically significant differences in terms of age, BMI, and educational background between the group of individuals who reported one or more types of disability and the group of individuals reporting none. …”
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Neonatal BCG vaccination and child survival in TB-exposed and TB-unexposed children: a prospective cohort study by Peter Aaby, Per Kallestrup, Christine Stabell Benn, Sanne M Thysen, Ane Fisker, Victor Francisco Gomes, Frauke Rudolf, Christian Wejse, Adam Roth

“…Children residing in the same house as a TB case were classified as TB-exposed from 3 months prior to case registration to the end of follow-up.Methods Using Cox-proportional hazards models with age as underlying time scale, we compared mortality of children with and without neonatal BCG between October 2003 and September 2017.Main outcome measure HR for neonatal BCG compared with no neonatal BCG by TB-exposure status.Results Among the 39 421 children who entered the analyses, 3022 (8%) had observation time as TB-exposed. …”
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Overnight oximetry in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy: a single center experience by C. Carrie Liu, Kathleen H. Chaput, Valerie Kirk, Warren Yunker

“…Results Data was collected from 389 children. Two hundred and seventy-one children underwent pre-operative oximetry (69.7%). …”
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Differences in Sexual Function Between Trimesters During Pregnancy: An Observational Study by Sunullah Soysal, Abdullah Sarioz, Umran Kilincdemir Turgut, Gokce Anik Ilhan, Yusuf Arman, Begum Yildizhan, Tanju Pekin

“…Desire scores were highest in women aged between 18 and 25 years, in women who were newly married (1-3 years), and during the second trimester. …”
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The Line of Beijing in Settlement of Problems in the Basin of the South China Sea by V. Y. Vorobyev, A. V. Ivanov

“…Now, however, opponents of China in the dispute over the islands, who had previously been negotiating with Beijing on a bilateral basis, have taken the first step towards the internationalization of the debate. …”
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PRAGMATIZMO RECEPCIJA POSTFILOSOFIJOJE by Jūratė Baranova

“…RECEPTION OF PRAGMATIZM IN POSTPHYLOSOPHY Jūratė Baranova Summary What unites philosophers from two different philosophical cultures: Williams James, who wrote at the end of XIX and at the beginning of XX century and contemporary postmodernists - Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida? …”
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