The evolving role of paramedicine educators: A scoping review by Judy Sheahan, Richelle Duffy, Charmaine Cunningham

“…There is a lack of clear role descriptions or definitions for paramedicine educators. …”
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USING A CASE METHOD TO BUILD ENVIRONMENTAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS OF ECONOMICS IN ESP LESSONS by Nataliia Ishchuk

“…Each case has an educational function and requires a certain amount of time. The case method creates opportunities to creatively use lexical material and allows students to adapt to real and potentially possible situations. …”
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ACL Repair: Rationale and When to Consider Over Reconstruction by Jalen N. Broome BA, MS, Rachel E. Cherelstein BS, Edward S. Chang MD

“…Technique Description: ACL tightrope repair initially requires identification of the ACL tear. …”
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Formation of settlement and payment mechanism in the banking security system by N.G. Vygovska, O.G. Popov

“…In order to structure the banking security system, the article singles out: 1) a functional-purpose subsystem (includes such elements as the purpose, tasks, functions, principles and subsystems of banking security). …”
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Latarjet Procedure for Recurrent Anterior Shoulder Instability by Marc Lubitz MD, Anup Shah MD, Evan Lederman MD

“…Graft integration rates are approximately 92.1%, and patients report improved shoulder function, with notable gains in Rowe and American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons scores. …”
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More than a Bundle? Developing Adaptive Guidance for Task Selection in an Online, Semantic-Based Cognitive Stimulation Program by Ana Rita Batista, Vasiliki Folia, Susana Silva

“…We analyzed accuracy data as a function of activity-related characteristics (complexity scores, sentence- vs. word-level) as well as participants’ spontaneous task selection. …”
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Public and patient involvement (PPI) in the design, execution and dissemination of a trial: the BISTRO trial by David Coyle, Paula Ormandy, Nancy Fernandes da Silva, Simon Davies

“…Background For people receiving haemodialysis, a balance has to be struck between removing sufficient but not too much fluid during a treatment session and maintaining any remaining kidney function they might have. In the BISTRO trial, this study sought to establish if getting the balance right might be improved by the additional use of bioimpedance, a device that measures body fluid composition to help decide how much fluid to remove during dialysis. …”
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A pilot evaluation of managed alcohol programs operating in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by Sybil Goulet-Stock, Tim Stockwell, Meaghan Brown, Deidre Rautenberg, Bernie Pauly

“…This study provides a description of novel program models and practices and an in-depth description of nine MAP participants in British Columbia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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NATURAL-SCIENCE EDUCATION: SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE CORRELATION IN THE VIEW OF A SYMMETRY PRINCIPLE. Ch. 2. Examples of religious content selection in general natural sci... by Vitalii L. Gapontsev, Marina G. Gapontseva

“…The concepts used by E. Wigner for the description of the structure of the scientific knowledge are analysed. …”
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Critical care services in Bagmati province of Nepal: A cross sectional survey [version 4; peer review: 4 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Subekshya Luitel, Sushila Paudel, Diptesh Aryal, Janaki Pandey, Hem Raj Paneru, Roshni Shakya, Prashant Acharya, Isha Amatya, Rashan Haniffa, Suman Pant, Abi Beane, Pradip Gyanwali

“…Results From 87 hospitals, a total of 123 ICUs were identified in the province, providing 1167 beds and 615 functioning ventilators. The average ICU bed availability per 100,000 population was 19, ranging from 3.6 in Makwanpur to 33.9 in Kathmandu. …”
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Perioperative Oral decontamination and ImmunoNuTrition (POINT) to prevent postoperative pulmonary complications in elderly patients scheduled for elective non-cardiac surgeries: pr... by Jing Zhang, Yuguang Huang, Wen Wang, Yuelun Zhang, Xiaochun Zheng, Lu Che, Junping Chen, Lan Yao, Jiawen Yu, Lining Huang, Qianmei Zhu, Lichi Xu, Ji Fu, Meizheng You, Chaolei Liu, Guoping Fan

“…Intention to treat principles will be applied to all outcomes. Descriptive analysis will be used to compare patients’ baseline characteristics. …”
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Critical care services in Bagmati province of Nepal: A cross sectional survey [version 3; peer review: 3 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Subekshya Luitel, Sushila Paudel, Diptesh Aryal, Janaki Pandey, Hem Raj Paneru, Roshni Shakya, Prashant Acharya, Isha Amatya, Rashan Haniffa, Suman Pant, Abi Beane, Pradip Gyanwali

“…Results From 87 hospitals, a total of 123 ICUs were identified in the province, providing 1167 beds and 615 functioning ventilators. The average ICU bed availability per 100,000 population was 19, ranging from 3.6 in Makwanpur to 33.9 in Kathmandu. …”
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Vaccination and its social and behavioural drivers in children with disability in Fiji by Susan Woolfenden, Nadia Badawi, Sarah Mcintyre, Israt Jahan, Gulam Khandaker, Kristine Macartney, Margie Danchin, Hayley Smithers-Sheedy, Donald Wilson, William May, Meru Sheel, Ilisapeci Tuibeqa, Rachel Devi, Litiana Volavola, Rosalie Power, Unise Vakaloloma, Sureni Perera, Lanieta Tuimabu

“…Caregivers were interviewed using a questionnaire to collect data on sociodemographic, functional characteristics (UNICEF’s child-functioning tool), child’s vaccination status according to Fiji’s National Immunisation Programme (NIP), and drivers of vaccination using the WHO-UNICEF Behavioural and Social Drivers Tool. …”
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Impact of treatment suspension on health-related quality of life in the EMBARK trial: a post hoc analysisResearch in context by Stephen J. Freedland, Ugo De Giorgi, Antti Rannikko, Fred Saad, Miguel Ramirez-Backhaus, Anchen F. Nasr, Jasmina I. Ivanova, Arijit Ganguli, Pavol Kral, Arlene L. Reisman, Neal D. Shore

“…Methods: Longitudinal change in HRQoL from treatment suspension at week 37 to subsequent assessments until week 109 was analyzed with mixed models for repeated measures (MMRM) and descriptively among these patients. Separate models were used to assess four patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments—Brief Pain Inventory – short form, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Prostate, QoL Questionnaire – Prostate 25, and European QoL 5-Dimensions 5-Levels health questionnaire—with predefined clinically meaningful thresholds. …”
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on outpatient psychiatric population well-being and symptomology utilizing COVID-19 Events Checklist (CEC) and Measurement Based Care by Sydney B. Jones, Hayoung Ko, Alyssa J. Gatto, Anita S. Kablinger, Hunter D. Sharp, Lee D. Cooper, Martha M. Tenzer, Virginia C. O’Brien, Robert S. McNamara

“…The study (1) provides descriptive CEC data, and (2) compares CEC results with PROMs evaluating anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7; GAD-7), depression (Patient Health Questionnaire; PHQ-9), and psychological distress (Brief Adjustment Scale-6; BASE-6). …”
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DigiBete, a Novel Chatbot to Support Transition to Adult Care of Young People/Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Outcomes From a Prospective, Multimethod, Nonrandomized Fe... by Veronica Swallow, Janet Horsman, Eliza Mazlan, Fiona Campbell, Reza Zaidi, Madeleine Julian, Jacob Branchflower, Jackie Martin-Kerry, Helen Monks, Astha Soni, Alison Rodriguez, Rob Julian, Paul Dimitri

“…Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and framework analysis. …”
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Optimalisasi Badan Penasihatan Pembinaan dan Pelestarian Perkawinan Kepenghuluan Dalam Meminimalisir Angka Perceraian by Bagus Kusumo Hadi, Opia Tatarisanto, Adam Dewantara Putra, Asyifa Nur Azizah, Taufik Pajar Pebriansyah

“…The results of this research indicate that the effectiveness of BP4 Kepenghuluan as advocacy assistance for married couples in various regions is currently disrupted in carrying out its functions due to various inhibiting factors so that it is not yet optimal. …”
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Barreras, facilitadores y estrategias que influyen en la participación femenina en juntas directivas de federaciones deportivas chilenas (Barriers, facilitators and strategies tha... by Gerard Foppiano-Vilo, Carlos Matus-Castillo, Miguel Cornejo-Améstica

“…The method was qualitative with a descriptive approach and the technique was the personal interview through the application of a semi-structured script of questions. …”
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Construção e Validação de um Modelo de Competências Digitais para alunos da Educação a Distância no Brasil: MCompDigEAD / Construction and Validation of a Model of Digital Competen... by Ketia Kellen Araújo da Silva, Patricia Alejandra Behar, Teresa Romeu-Fontanillas, Montse Guitert-Catasús

“…It is an exploratory-descriptive research, with a qualitative approach carried out between 2014 and 2018 in Brazil, through three procedures. …”

Contributions of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) to a fetal–placental circulation study (EVUPACUS): a protocol for a prospective comparative study in a population of women unde... by Marine Beaumont, Olivier Morel, Charline Bertholdt, Gabriela Hossu, Aboubaker Cherifi, Anne-Laure Fijean, Juliette Lefebvre, Matthieu Dap

“…The secondary objectives are as follows: (1) to describe the placental vascularisation parameters measured by CEUS; (2) to describe the parameters for quantifying vascularisation at different gestational ages via CEUS; (3) to study the associations between CEUS data and placental histological data and (4) to establish a biological collection of placentas to increase our knowledge of the development and functions of the placenta during pregnancy. The statistical analysis will include descriptive analysis for all study patients, with quantitative data described by means±SDs, medians, IQRs, and extreme values and qualitative data reported as counts and percentages. …”
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