Reliability of Acoustic Pharyngometry and Rhinometry Examination in Children and Adolescents by Camilla Hansen, Liselotte Sonnesen

“…Objectives: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the method error and reliability of acoustic pharyngometry and rhinometry in children and adolescents and to describe the feasibility of these methods in a young population. …”
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Biochemical test as an efficient system to improve safety in parenteral nutrition for premature infants by Carlota Salazar-Santander, Maria Teresa Miana-Mena, Bernardino González-de-la-Presa, Carmen López-Cabezas

“…We tested 1,734 parenteral nutritions from 218 premature neonates; 58 (3.3%) results were out of the acceptance range, and 7 were considered to be potentially dangerous compounding errors. Conclusions: The biochemical test of glucose and electrolytes is an efficient and reproducible method that prevents possible compounding errors from reaching the patient.…”
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Practice Patterns for N-acetylcysteine Dosing for Acetaminophen Toxicity in the United States by Michael Thomas, Christopher Edwards, Amanda Dunlap

“…Reasons for making the change were for simplicity, to decrease errors or adverse events, or based on local poison center recommendations. …”
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Vertical equilibrium simulation for industrial-scale CO2 storage in heterogeneous aquifers by Hatem Alamara, Christophe Blondeau, Sylvain Thibeau, Igor Bogdanov

“…The study demonstrates that neglecting geological heterogeneity in the vertically-averaged relative permeability and pseudo-capillary pressure may lead to significant errors in predicted CO2 plume extents. These errors result from unjustifiably assuming homogeneous-acting formations to highly heterogeneous formations. …”
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Blood pressure measurement practices in children and adolescents within primary care setting by Kamilė Čeponytė, Karolis Ažukaitis, Augustina Jankauskienė

“…Only 3.3 percent of respondents reported no issues with BP measurement procedure. The most common errors included single measurements of BP (81.4%), lack of feedback (60.2%), incorrect positioning (40.7%), miscuffing (39.2%) and lack of rest period (27.9%).ConclusionsOur study reveals not only insufficient BP screening rates within Lithuanian primary care setting, but also high rates of technical errors during BP measurement procedure. …”
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Implementing an Intervention to Improve Physicians’ Incident Reporting in the Hospital Setting: A Pilot Study by Naomi Akiyama, Keisuke Koeda, Ryuji Uozumi, Fumiaki Takahashi, Kuniaki Ogasawara

“…Objectives: To improve patient safety, information regarding errors must be collected. This practice constitutes one of the strategies that hospital managers use to understand the types of errors that occur at their hospitals. …”
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PROBABILITY SELECTION USING PROMETHEE GDSS METHOD by Tea Šestanović, Zoran Babić

“…They are usually compared using different goodness-of-fit measures including the log-likelihood, sum of squared errors, sum of absolute errors and chi-square statistics which can sometimes lead to divergent conclusions. …”
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Accuracy of 7 intraocular lens power calculation formulas in primary angle-closure glaucoma eyes, according to axial length and anterior chamber depth by Han Xu, Yuanjin Zheng, Xinlei Lu, Longyuan Liu, Rui Wan, Shaodan Zhang, Guoxing Li, Rongrong Le, Yuanbo Liang

“…The main outcome measures comprised mean prediction error (ME), mean absolute refractive error (MAE), median absolute refractive error (MedAE). …”
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Causes of revision hip arthroplasty after hemiarthroplasty for femoral neck fracture by Alexander N. Tsed, Nikita E. Mushtin, Alexander K. Dulaev

“…It should be noted that infections among patients from Groups 2 and 3 developed up to 24.7 months after primary arthroplasty. Conclusions. Errors associated with incorrect choice of the acetabular endoprosthesis component size during primary hemiarthroplasty lead to early complications: erosion and protrusion of the acetabulum. …”
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Identifying key competencies for supporting second victims in different contexts: a scoping review by José Joaquín Mira, Kris Vanhaecht, Deborah Seys, Massimiliano Panella, Reinhard Strametz, Paulo Sousa, Andrea Conti, Alicia Sánchez-García, Clara Pérez-Esteve, Eva Potura

“…It covers all professional roles susceptible to human errors affecting people’s well-being. The focus is on peer support and psychological first aid, encompassing relevant competencies, attitudes and knowledge for addressing safety-related incidents and workplace errors.Sources of evidence The scoping review was conducted following Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. …”
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Artificial intelligence driven 3D reconstruction for enhanced lung surgery planning by Xiuyuan Chen, Chenyang Dai, Muyun Peng, Dawei Wang, Xizhao Sui, Liang Duan, Xiang Wang, Xun Wang, Wenhan Weng, Shaodong Wang, Heng Zhao, Zhenfan Wang, Jiayi Geng, Chen Chen, Yan Hu, Qikang Hu, Chao Jiang, Hui Zheng, Yi Bao, Chao Sun, Zhuoer Cui, Xiangyu Zeng, Huiming Han, Chen Xia, Jinlong Liu, Bing Yang, Ji Qi, Fanghang Ji, Shaokang Wang, Nan Hong, Jun Wang, Kezhong Chen, Yuming Zhu, Fenglei Yu, Fan Yang

“…The system significantly improves the accuracy of anatomical variant identification by 8% (p < 0.01), reducing errors by 41%. Improvements in secondary endpoints are also observed. …”
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Concordance of data on key malaria indicators between DHIS2 and source documents, and influencing factors at public primary health facilities in eastern Uganda: a mixed methods stu... by Shivan Nuwasiima, Arthur Mpimbaza, Laban Muteebwa, Elizabeth Nagawa, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, Faizo Kiberu, David Livingstone Ejalu, Jovan Mugerwa, Charles Batte, John Mukisa, Bosco Agaba, David Mukunya, Joan N. Kalyango, Moses R. Kamya, Joaniter I. Nankabirwa

“…Alternatively, electronic primary data capture may help in reducing errors that arise during data capturing and aggregation.…”
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Automatic failure mode evaluation using non-linear phase contrast correction to improve flow measurement accuracy in cardiovascular magnetic resonance phase contrast imaging by Ana Beatriz Solana, Savine C.S. Minderhoud, Piotr A. Wielopolski, Juan Antonio Hernandez-Tamames, Ricardo P.J. Budde, Willem A. Helbing, Martin A. Janich, Alexander Hirsch

“…The percentage of regurgitation reclassification of ≥1 category decreased to 8% (8/323) after nPCcor correction, 3% better than for uncorrected images. Conclusion: nPCcor with automatic failure mode evaluation improved accuracy with respect to no correction and linear correction and successfully identified PC scans that are likely to result in unreliable flow measurements. nPCcor performance and phase offset errors varied greatly among scanners using the same CMR protocol. nPCcor has higher impact in scanners exhibiting the largest background phase offsets. …”
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Acceptability and usability of oral fluid HCV self-testing among health-facility users from Brazil: a cross-sectional study of 685 participants by Hugo Perazzo, Cristiane Villela-Nogueira, Maria K. Gomes, Andre Daher, Cristiane Siqueira-do-Valle, Ketiuce Zukeram, Ana Cristina G. Ferreira, Karen Cristine Tonini, Elton Carlos de Almeida, Sandra W. Cardoso, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Valdilea G. Veloso

“…Usability was assessed by observed errors and documented need of assistance by a Healthcare Worker (HCW). …”
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Reliability of 2D motion analysis software for evaluation of dynamic smile asymmetry using smartphone technology by Dhelal Al-Rudainy, Hadeel Adel Al-Lami, Talib Al-Ameri, Liu Yang

“…The means of the absolute differences in the repeated distances and speeds for all the landmarks were calculated.Results The total errors of the repeated distances and speeds were around 0.4 millimetres (mm), except for asymmetrical maximum smile speeds, the errors were around 0.7 mm/sec. …”
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Precision of Cup Positioning Using a Novel Computed Tomography Based Navigation System in Total Hip Arthroplasty by Hassan M. Nemati, Albin Christensson, Andreas Pettersson, Gunnar Németh, Gunnar Flivik

“…In patients’ surgeries, the mean errors were −0.07 ± 2.72° for anteversion, −0.2 ± 0.86° for inclination, and 0.28 ± 0.78 mm for cup depth. …”
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Clinical and neuropsychological correlates of substance use disorders in a sample of Egyptian adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder by Omar E. Arafa, Fatma A. Eldeeb, Hossam A. Hodeib, Mohammad A. Seleem

“…High commission errors and high variability of performance in CPT might also distinguish youth with ADHD + SUD from those with ADHD only. …”
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Gain-of-function mutations in the K(ATP) channel (KCNJ11) impair coordinated hand-eye tracking. by James S McTaggart, Ned Jenkinson, John-Stuart Brittain, Siri A W Greeley, Andrew T Hattersley, Frances M Ashcroft

“…In this task, iDEND patients incurred more discrepancy errors (p = 0.009) and more velocity errors (p= 0.009) than controls.…”
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Characterization of original research presented at the COVID-19 First National Scientific Conference , CovidCien2021 by Luis Enrique Jiménez Franco, Claudia Díaz de la Rosa, Jayce Díaz Díaz

“…Difficulties such as the absence of the research objective and errors in the methodology that make its reproduction impossible were observed.…”
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Detection of colistin resistance via four methods in multidrug-resistant Gram-negative rods isolated from blood cultures by Rama Alhamwi, Lütfiye Öksüz

“…Although there were no major errors in these methods, the macrodilution (12%) and commercial microdilution (20.6%) methods showed the most minor errors. …”
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