What strategies are used to select patients for direct admission under acute medicine services? A protocol paper for a systematic review of the literature by Elizabeth Sapey, Catherine Atkin, Samuel Evans, Austin Hunt, Georgina Ball, Charlotte Cassidy, Alexander Costley-White, Louise Toy, Rebecca Wilding

“…These pressures can lead to significant delays in care for patients presenting with emergencies when admitted via traditional routes through the emergency department. …”
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Neglected Questions on the “Forgotten War”: South Korea and the United States on the Eve of the Korean War by Mark Caprio

“…These questions demand information on the interactions by members of the southern triangle prior to the outbreak of conventional war.It is well known that South Korean President Syngman Rhee equaled his North Korean counterpart’s ambitions to use military force to reunite his homeland, and that the United States was determined to prevent his doing so on his own. …”
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Pericardial mesothelioma mimicking mediastinal lymphoma and systemic rheumatic disease: a case report by Grzegorz Hirnle, Michał Kapałka, Michał Krawiec, Tomasz Hrapkowicz

“…As heart failure progressed, the patient was admitted to the cardiology department. Tissue Doppler echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed features indicative of constrictive pericarditis. …”
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Intestinal Parasitic Infections, Treatment and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in Sao Tome and Principe: A Cross-Sectional Study by Alexandra Vasconcelos, Swasilanne Sousa, Nelson Bandeira, Marta Alves, Ana Luísa Papoila, Filomena Pereira, Maria Céu Machado

“…A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted among pregnant women admitted to the HAM who had undergone antenatal copro-parasitological screening. …”
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Patient and Hospital Characteristics Associated with Admission Among Patients With Minor Isolated Extremity Firearm Injuries: A Propensity-Matched Analysis by Arielle C. Thomas, MD, MPH, MS, Regina Royan, MD, MPH, Avery B. Nathens, MD, PhD, Brendan T. Campbell, MD, MPH, Susheel Reddy, MPH, Sarabeth Spitzer, MD, Doulia Hamad, MD, Angie Jang, BA, Anne M. Stey, MD, MSc

“…Patients were 88.0% male, 56.6% Black, and 71.7% aged 16 to 36 years old, and 22.1% were admitted. A total of 2090 patients were matched on propensity for admission. …”
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Prognostic Significance of Admission CRP Levels as a Predictor of Mortality in Burn Patients by Maria Syed, Qaiser Jehangir, Ijaz Hussain Shah, Sana Shaukat Siddiqui, Sara Ishaq, Sarah Zaka

“…Data were collected from 48 patients admitted to Sheikh Zayed Hospital between 16.02.2023 and 15.08.2023, focusing on demographics, burn characteristics, and laboratory findings. …”
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Down syndrome and outcomes in critically ill pediatric patients by José Tantaleán Da Fieno, Rosa León Paredes, Patricia Palomo Luck, Carlos Del Águila Villar, Emiliana Rizo Patrón

“…IntroductionInformation regarding children with Down syndrome (DS) in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is limited and conflicting. We aimed to investigate the association between DS and clinical outcomes in pediatric patients admitted to the PICU at the Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño (National Institute for Child Health, INSN for the acronym in Spanish) and to assess nutritional status within the study cohort.MethodsThis study involved the secondary analysis of a database. …”
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Sociodemographic, clinical, and other serological profile of opioid-dependent intravenous drug users infected with hepatitis C virus: A cross-sectional study by Piyush Mahajan, Malvika Dahuja, Manjit Singh, Medi Nagapadma, M Ramasubba Reddy

“…To study the sociodemographic factors of HCV-infected IDUs admitted in the psychiatry ward of Sri Guru Ram Das (SGRD) Medical College, Vallah, Amritsar. 2. …”
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The prognostic importance of the pan-immune-inflammation value in patients with septic shock by Yasemin Bozkurt Turan

“…Method This prospective study was performed with 82 patients aged 18 or over admitted to a tertiary ICU with diagnoses of septic shock. …”
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Clinical implications of the newly defined concept of ventilator-associated events in trauma patients by Tae Yeon Lee, Jeong Woo Oh, Min Koo Lee, Joong Suck Kim, Jeong Eun Sohn, Jeong Hwan Wi

“…Results Among 491 trauma patients admitted to the trauma center, 73 patients who received ventilator care were analyzed. …”
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Prevalence of community-acquired pneumonia among Egyptian children from rural areas of the Delta region: a single-centre cross-sectional study by Magdy Zedan, Nashwa K. Abousamra, Engy Osman, Asmaa S. Gebril

“…Results Out of 39,130 admitted cases, a total of 768 children from Delta region fitted the diagnosis of CAP with an overall prevalence of 1.96% (45.6% from rural areas). …”
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Effect of floral therapy in mothers of premature newborns: A randomized controlled trial by Tatiana Carneiro de Resende, Karla Oliveira Marcacine, Erika de Sá Vieira Abuchaim, Marcia Barbieri, Maria Cristina Gabrielloni, Ana Cristina Freitas de Vilhena Abrão

“…Their children were admitted to a Maternity Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, from June 2019 to May 2021. …”
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Increased Rates of Hospitalized Children with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Central Brooklyn during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Assia Miller, Shalu Joseph, Ahmed Badran, Vatcharapan Umpaichitra, Renee Bargman, Vivian L. Chin

“…We conducted a retrospective chart review of children admitted to our two hospitals from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2020. …”
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Management considerations in grease versus non-grease scald burns in adults: A retrospective cohort study at a tertiary burn care facility by William Rice, Hemasree Yeluru, Miles Reese, Ricardo Rendel, Alexa Soult, Jessica Burgess

“…Results: Of 165 patients with scald burns, 41 out of 91 (45.1 %) with grease burns and 43 out of 74 (58.1 %) with non-grease burns were admitted. No statistically significant difference in length of hospital stay existed between admitted grease and non-grease burns (p = 0.45). …”
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Factors Associated with Alcohol Withdrawal or Alcohol-Withdrawal Delirium among Inpatients with Alcohol Use in a General Hospital Setting: A Comparison Before and During the COVID-... by Sukrit Teeratanatorn, Woraphat Ratta-apha, Sitigarn Puangtai, Naratip Sa-nguanpanich, Nantawat Sitdhiraksa, Sirirat Kooptiwoot

“…A retrospective chart review of patients diagnosed with alcohol dependence and admitted to a general hospital pre- and post-coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak was conducted. …”
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Burden of Road Traffic Injuries in Tanzania: One-Year Prospective Study of Consecutive Patients in 13 Multilevel Health Facilities by Hendry R. Sawe, Sveta Milusheva, Kevin Croke, Saahil Karpe, Meyhar Mohammed, Juma A. Mfinanga

“…Overall, 36.1% of patients were admitted, 10.6% transferred to other facilities, and mortality was 2%. …”
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Acquired Elliptocytosis as a Manifestation of Myelodysplastic Syndrome with Ring Sideroblasts and Multilineage Dysplasia by Jacob D. Kjelland, Denis M. Dwyre, Brian A. Jonas

“…Here we report the case of an elderly male who was admitted to the hospital with chest pain, dyspnea, and fatigue and was found to be anemic with an elliptocytosis that had only recently been noted on peripheral smears of his blood. …”
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Group Classification of a General Bond-Option Pricing Equation of Mathematical Finance by Tanki Motsepa, Chaudry Masood Khalique, Motlatsi Molati

“…We show that the equation admits a three-dimensional equivalence Lie algebra. …”
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Special Kähler geometry and holomorphic Lagrangian fibrations by Li, Yang, Tosatti, Valentino

“…Given a holomorphic Lagrangian fibration of a compact hyperkähler manifold, we use the differential geometry of the special Kähler metric that exists on the base away from the discriminant locus, and show that the pullback of the tangent bundle of the base to the total space of a family of minimal rational curves admits a parallel splitting. The splitting is nontrivial when the base is not half-dimensional projective space. …”
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Fazendas corporativas e espoliação no início do século XXI: o despontar dos novos senhores da terra na região do MATOPIBA by Raoni Fernandes Azerêdo, Marco Antonio Mitidieiro Junior

“…This article analyzes the agribusiness regionalization process in MATOPIBA, which, unlike other fractions of the Brazilian territory, has the predominance of corporate farms in soybean agricultural expansion, with a strong presence and association with internationalized / financierized capital, land and labor outsourcing. We found a typology of seven groups of corporate farms operating in the region and the intense interrelationship between them, whose strategies of accumulation by spoliation are derived from production (agricultural producers), but also from speculation and financialization (agricultural real estate) or both.…”
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