Dupuytren’s contracture of hand and its medical and social review by V. O. Vishnevskiy

“…Conclusions: Dupuytren’s contracture is the complex orthopedic pathology that can be interpreted as dysplasia of connective tissue. …”
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Study on infrasonic leakage monitoring and signal processing for product oil pipeline by Yuanbo YIN, Yuxing LI, Wen YANG, Shu LU, Chen ZHANG, Cuiwei LIU, Kai YANG, Wuchang WANG

“…Conclusion This study showcases the favorable experimental efficacy of infrasonic leakage monitoring technology for product oil pipelines, emphasizing extremely low false alarm rates and missing alarm rates, alongside small positioning errors. …”
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Psychological and Social Factors in Jury Decision-Making: An Analysis of the Influence of Implicit Bias and Prejudice by João Miguel Alves Ferreira, Sergii Tukaiev

“…Moreover, the use of technology, such as trial simulations and decision-support tools, has been proposed to help neutralise the effects of psychological biases in the judicial process [1][2][3][4][5]. CONCLUSION: While the jury system aims to ensure justice and impartiality, it is vulnerable to psychological and social influences that may compromise the fairness of verdicts. …”
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PROFILE OF TRANSFUSION REACTIONS RELATED TO THE INFUSION OF HEMATOPOIETIC CELL IN A PEDIATRIC CENTER by ECDS Pirolli, RAF Tutumi, FW Garcia, R Nomura, ER Pinto, MJ Piloni, JLM Bach, C Bonfim

“…Results: A total of 108 HC infusions were conducted during the analyzed period; 37% (n = 40) had malignant diseases, 31% (n = 23) had hemoglobinopathies, 17% (n = 18) had immunodeficiencies, 13% (n = 14) had inborn errors of metabolism, and 12% (n = 13) had bone marrow failures. …”
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Application of AI Chatbot in Responding to Asynchronous Text-Based Messages From Patients With Cancer: Comparative Study by Xuexue Bai, Shiyong Wang, Yuanli Zhao, Ming Feng, Wenbin Ma, Xiaomin Liu

“…ConclusionsThe GPT-4 chatbot performs comparably to physicians in patient education by providing comprehensive and empathetic responses. …”
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Development and evaluation of a national administrative code-based system for estimation of hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism in Ireland by Barry Kevane, Fionnuala Ní Áinle, Richard Daly, Ciara Kirke, Deirdre Lynch, Emer Gallagher, Therese Dalchan, Jacqui Curley, Ruth Buckley, Maeve P Crowley, Ann Marie O’Neill

“…The mean PPV in the tertiary hospital was 0.37, with false positives attributed to acute illnesses, historical VTE coding errors and dual VTE diagnoses at admission.Discussion HA-VTE is a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality, necessitating accurate measurement. …”
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Major depression among pregnant women attending a tertiary teaching hospital in Northern Uganda assessed using DSM-V criteria by Jerom Okot, Henry Ochola, Nozuko P. Blasich, Michael Job Aeku, Pebalo Francis Pebolo, Felix Bongomin, Simple Ouma

“…Modified Poisson regression analyses with robust standard errors was constructed to evaluate for factors independently associated with major depression. …”
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Administration of dehydroepiandrosterone improves endometrial thickness in women undergoing IVF/ICSI: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ling Huang, Ying Gao, Shuo Liang, Mei Jiang

“…Trial sequential analysis was used in order to control for random errors. Results A total of 16 trials included 1973 women. …”
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Construction and validation of a presenteeism prediction model for ICU nurses in China by Jijun Wu, Yuxin Li, Yuxin Li, Xiaoli Liu, Yuting Fan, Ping Dai, Baixia Chen, Zhenfan Liu, Xian Rong, Xiaoli Zhong

“…The clinical decision curve showed that the model had good clinical validity.ConclusionThe predictive model of presenteeism risk for ICU nurses constructed in this study has good predictive ability. …”
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Correlation between Rainfall and Runoff in Fuchun River Basin Based on Copula Functions and Kernel Density Estimation by YANG Sheng-mei, ZHU De-kang, CHENG Xiang, LI Bo, ZHU Yan-ze, MA Wen-sheng

“…Simulation performance for both marginal and joint distributions was validated using root mean square error (RMSE) and Euclidean distance. [Results] (1) By comparing the RMSEs between the estimated results using four kernel density functions (Gaussian, Uniform, Triangle, Epanechnikov) and the empirical frequencies of rainfall and runoff in the river basin, the Gaussian was found to have the smallest errors. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with self-medication for COVID-19 among slum dwellers in Jinja City, Uganda, in 2021 by Prossy Nakito, Abel Wilson Walekhwa, Gloria Tumukunde, Charity Mutesi, Nicholas Muhumuza, Carolyne Nyamor, David Musoke, Geofrey Musinguzi, Dathan Mirembe Byonanebye

“…Poisson regression with robust standard errors was used to determine the crude (CPR) and adjusted prevalence ratios (APR) (95% CI) of factors associated with selfmedication. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of unsuccessful tuberculosis treatment outcomes among persons with TB/HIV co-infection in Ghana: a 10-year retrospective study by Alhaji Ibrahim Cobbinah, Jacob Solomon Idan, Kingsley Boakye, Anthony Enimil, Nicholas Karikari Mensah, Ebenezer Adangabe, Sulemana Baba Abdulai, Charles Martyn-Dickens, Aliyu Mohammed

“…Modified Poisson regression with robust standard errors was performed using Stata version 17.0 to identify predictors of unsuccessful outcomes. …”
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Analysis of the accuracy of disease prediction in pediatric ward patients based on the modified early warning score for children: A randomized controlled trialWhat is already known... by Kang Lin, Xiaojun Weng, Bing Du, Ting Tian, Xiaoxiang Quan

“…Background: Due to their young age and limited ability to communicate, pediatric patients in internal medicine wards are at risk of nursing assessment errors, which can lead to adverse events and disputes. …”
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EXPERIENCE OF USING DIGITAL SYSTEMS FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF HYPERTROPHIC SKIN SCARS OF FACE by D.S. Avetikov, O.P. Bukhanchenko, I.O. Ivanytsky, N.A. Sokolova, I.V. Boyko

“…Despite significant pathogenetic and morphological differences of scarring, some of their types often have clinically similar features, resulting in a significant number of diagnostic errors. In its turn, carrying out the treatment without taking into account the clinical and morphological structure of scars usually leads to the lack of tangible therapeutic effect, recurrence and increased growth of scar tissue. …”
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Revisiting sylvian fissure dissection - A preliminary investigation into surgical process modelling for evaluating surgical proficiency by Félix Buyck, Jef Vandemeulebroucke, Ine Dirks, Jan Frederick Cornelius, Johnny Duerinck, Sebastien Froelich, Henry Schroeder, Wietse Geens, Frederick Van Gestel, Michaël Bruneau

“…Introduction: Understanding the factors that contribute to efficient surgical behaviour and the prevention of technical errors poses a significant challenge in neurosurgery. …”
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Change in choroid thickness and vascularity index associated with accommodation and aberration after small-incision lenticule extraction by Dan Cheng, Yi-Lin Qiao, Xue-Ying Zhu, Kai-Ming Ruan, Heng-Li Lian, Mei-Xiao Shen, Shu-Lin Wang, Li-Jun Shen, Yu-Feng Ye

“…Choroid parameters on SS-OCT varies in eyes with different refractive errors after SMILE and has an association with accommodation and visual quality.…”
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Evaluation of proton and carbon ion beam models in TReatment Planning for Particles 4D (TRiP4D) referring to a commercial treatment planning system by Yinxiangzi Sheng, Lennart Volz, Weiwei Wang, Marco Durante, Christian Graeff

“…The γ-PRs were ≥93.92% and ≥91.83% for patient plans, except for one proton beam with a range shifter (γ-PR of 64.19%). Conclusion: The absorbed dose between TRiP4D and SyngoRT were identical for both proton and carbon ion plans in the WP. …”
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Prediction of dam deformation using adaptive noise CEEMDAN and BiGRU time series modeling by WANG Zixuan, OU Bin, CHEN Dehui, YANG Shiyong, ZHAO Dingzhu, FU Shuyan

“…【Result】Case analysis demonstrates that, compared to traditional prediction models, the proposed model achieves a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.031 9 mm, mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.015 3 mm, mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 2.51%, and determination coefficient (R2) of 0.971 2.…”
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Genetic insights into MIS-C Post-COVID-19 in Kuwaiti children: investigating monogenic factors by Mohammed Dashti, Hessa AlKandari, Hessa AlKandari, Md Zubbair Malik, Rasheeba Nizam, Sumi Elsa John, Sindhu Jacob, Arshad Channanath, Fouzeyah Othman, Safa Al-Sayed, Osama Al-Hindi, Mona Al-Mutari, Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj, Fahd Al-Mulla

“…BackgroundMultisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a severe complication arising from SARS-CoV-2 infection, with indications that rare inborn errors of immunity may play a role in its pathogenesis. …”
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Lifestyle and Job-Related Factors Associated with Sleep Quality: Gender-Specific Insights from Taiwanese Hospital Physicians by Hou WH, Hsu TC, Chen FL, Wu JC

“…By contrast, higher job demands were significantly associated with poorer sleep quality in the male physicians (β = 0.16, p = 0.03).Conclusion: In physicians, sleep quality is influenced by gender-specific factors. …”
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