An overview of healthcare-associated Candida auris outbreaks in Ministry of Health hospitals-Saudi Arabia 2020-2022; Retrospective multicentric study. by Khalid H Alanazi, Hala M Roushdy, Waad I ALzubaidi, Arwa S Alanazi, Nawal M Alanazi, Ahlam H Alamri, Yahya I Alnshbah, Nawaf M Al Almatrafi, Zainah M Al Shahrani, Adel S Alanazi, Nasser H Alshanbari

“…The majority of cases were admitted in the ICU unit (95.5%). Approximately 18.8% of cases were diabetes, and 18.5% were hypertensive. …”
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Effect of frailty on the short-term functional outcome of elderly patients with traumatic brain injury by Yujing Gu, Huiqin Cui, Yang Gu, Xiaojiang Liu

“…[Methods] A retrospective analysis was conducted on 127 elderly patients with traumatic brain injury admitted to Hai’an People’s Hospital from April 2019 to April 2022.General information, demographics, clinical indicators and imaging results were collected.The clinical frailty scale that provides an assessment of the presence and severity of frailty was applied.The in-hospital mortality and neurological status at 3 months of onset were compared between the frail and non-frail groups.Multivariate logistic regression were used to clarify the factors affecting the prognosis of patients' neurological function, and clarify the predictive power of Glasgow coma scale and logistic regression model for neurological function prognosis through ROC curve analysis. …”
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Clinical and Biochemical Characteristics of Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis Admissions to COVID-19 Free UAE Tertiary Center during Pandemic by Shoroogh Marei, Dalia Ra’a Said, Raya Almazrouei, Walid Kaplan, Noura Al Hassani

“…Methods: This descriptive retrospective study included 130 episodes of DKA for patients aged below 16 years admitted to Tawam Hospital, a COVID-19-free hospital, between March 2017 and Feb 2021. …”
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Efficacy of vericiguat in patients with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction: a prospective observational study by Yinge Zhan, Liu Li, Jie Zhou, Yishan Ma, Xuchong Guan, Suo Wang, Ya Chang

“…Methods A prospective observational study was conducted from May 2022 to May 2023, focusing on patients with HFrEF admitted to our hospital. Eligible patients were sequentially numbered and enrolled based on specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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Characteristics of paediatric burn injuries seen in the tertiary emergency centre, South Africa by Ntsovelo Mugwena, Rule Human, Maria M. Geyser

“…Only 108 (40.6%) patients were admitted and the median length of hospital stay (interquartile range [IQR]) was 7 days (2 to 9). …”
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Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection following Introduction of a Central Line Bundle in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Molly Bannatyne, Judith Smith, Malavika Panda, Mohamed E. Abdel-Latif, Tejasvi Chaudhari

“…The research undertaken was a retrospective cohort study in which newborn infants admitted to the Canberra Hospital NICU between January 2011 and December 2016 and had a central line inserted were included in the study. …”
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Factors Associated with Fluid Sequestration in Patients with Acute Pancreatitis: A Prospective Study in Tertiary Centre Hospital in Nepal by Raju Bhandari, Krishna Sapkota, Seema Subedi, Som Kumar Shrestha, Edward Sutanto, Prabhat Jha, Ramesh Singh Bhandari

“…A prospective observational study was carried out on all adult patients with AP admitted to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Nepal, from January to September 2017. …”
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Impact of Hyperoxia and Hypocapnia on Neurological Outcomes in Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Retrospective Study by Kin Chio Li, Catherine Wing Yan Tam, Hoi-Ping Shum, Wing Wa Yan

“…Patients with aSAH who were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary hospital in Hong Kong between January 2011 and December 2016 were retrospectively recruited. …”
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Factors associated with, and variations in, COVID-19 hospital death rates in England’s first two waves: observational study by Alex Bottle, Paul Aylin, Stephen Brett, Puji Faitna

“…The median odds ratio for wave 1 was just 1.05 and for wave 2 was 1.07. At 99.8% control limits, 3% of hospitals were high and 7% were low funnel plot outliers in wave 1; these figures were 9% and 12% for wave 2. …”
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Energy Transition in Northern Netherlands: seeking a balance between top-down and bottom-up initiatives [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 4 approved with reservations, 1 not app... by Cyril Tjahja, Bas Oldenbroek, Tineke van der Schoor, Ifigenia Psarra

“…Additionally, clear mutual communication on short and long-term planning and ambitions of the involved parties is of key importance for the alignment of the interests and the course of actions. …”
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Percutaneous closure of a traumatic ventricular septal defect: a case report and literature review by Camilo Andres Calderon-Miranda, Maria Juliana Reyes-Cardona, Gabriel Roberto Lopez-Mora, Fernando Andrés Guerrero-Pinedo, Jairo Sanchez-Blanco, Carlos Enrique Vesga-Reyes, Jorge Alexander Zambrano-Franco, Pastor Olaya

“…Case presentation A 19-year-old man was admitted in cardiorespiratory arrest after a precordial stab wound. …”
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Cardiac manifestation of phenylketonuria in adulthood by Péter Homródi, Emese Tóth-Zsámboki, Róbert Gábor Kiss, Orsolya Lovász, Gábor Zoltán Duray

“…Our 55-year-old male patient receiving long-term supplementation due to confirmed PKU was diagnosed with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) during a cardiological control examination, and an intact coronary system was described during the subsequent coronary angiography. In 2023, he was admitted to our department due to cardiac decompensation. …”
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Clinical Predictors of Hospital-acquired Pneumonia Associated with Acute Ischemic by Alexis Suárez Quesada, Ezequiel López Espinosa, Noelsis García Verdecia, Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés

“…<strong><br />Methods:</strong> a prospective cohort study was conducted in 201 patients diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke consecutively admitted to the stroke unit of the General Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Teaching Hospital during the first seven days after the onset, from January 2012 through December 2013. …”
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Examining the etiology and pregnancy outcomes of 152 critically ill pregnant patients in the Intensive Care Unit by Weiman Liu, Junyou Su, Sumei Wang

“…Methods This study retrospectively included 152 critically ill pregnant women admitted to the ICU. They were grouped according to the main reason for ICU admission as well as the variety of diseases present at the time of admission. …”
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Protocol for a meta-review of interventions to prevent and manage ICU delirium by Andrew Booth, Maria Pufulete, Ben Gibbison, Burak Kundakci, Katherine Louise Jones

“…Introduction Intensive care unit (ICU) delirium is an acute brain dysfunction that affects up to 7 out of 10 patients admitted to ICUs. Patients who develop ICU delirium cannot think clearly, have trouble paying attention, do not understand what is happening around them and may see or hear things that are not there. …”
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Clinical characteristics, complications and satisfaction of megameatus intact prepuce (MIP) hypospadias variant: a 15 year retrospective study by Meng He, Songqiao Fan, Ning Sun, Jun Tian, Minglei Li, Hongcheng Song, Weiping Zhang

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was performed for 31 patients with MIP admitted to our hospital from January 2008 to February 2023. …”
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Mortality and morbidity patterns in Yaoundé, Cameroon: an ICD-11 classification-based analysis by Georges Nguefack-Tsague, Fabrice Zobel Lekeumo Cheuyem, Boris Edmond Noah, Valérie Ndobo-Koe, Adidja Amani, Léa Melataguia Mekontchou, Marie Ntep Gweth, Annick Collins Mfoulou Minso Assala, Marie Nicole Ngoufack, Pierre René Binyom

“…Abstract Background In Cameroon, like in many other resource-limited countries, data generated by health settings including morbidity and mortality parameters are not always uniform. …”
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Stress, Anxiety and Depression in First-year Medical Undergraduates and Coping Strategies Employed during COVID-19-induced Online Learning: A Cross-sectional Study from North India by Rashmi Malhotra, Manisha Naithani, Anita Verma, Yogesh Bahurupi, Kanchan Bisht, Brijendra Singh, Tanmay Joshi

“…Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study undertaken in first-year MBBS students who were admitted in February 2021 due to delay in the admission process. …”
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The NT-ProBNP Test in Subjects with End-Stage Renal Disease on Hemodialysis Presenting with Acute Dyspnea: Is Knowing Worth the Cost? by Shaffer R. S. Mok, Jose Avila, Barry Milcarek, Richard Kasama

“…A retrospective case series of 250 subjects were admitted to Cooper University Hospital, 07/2010-03/2011, with ESRD and HD presenting with dyspnea. …”
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Cervical Spinal Osteomyelitis with Epidural Abscess following an Escherichia coli Urinary Tract Infection in an Immunocompetent Host by Abdelmoniem Moustafa, Rowida Kheireldine, Zubair Khan, Hussam Alim, Mohammad Saud Khan, Mohd Amer Alsamman, Eslam Youssef

“…A 69-year-old male with a past medical history significant for prostatitis was admitted with fever, altered mental status, neck pain, progressive lower extremities weakness, and frequent falls for 7 days. …”
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