Association between out-of-pocket expenditure and health-related quality of life among patients receiving cancer treatment: a cross-sectional study from Nepal by Pratik Khanal, Suman Sapkota, Nirmal Poudel, Achyut Raj Pandey, Bidwata Bhattarai, Etna Khatiwada, Ravi Kant Mishra, Biraj Man Karmacharya, Shiva Raj Adhikari, Kjell Arne Johansson, Krishna Kumar Aryal

“…Similarly, we collected sociodemographic and treatment-related data, including OOPE and patient satisfaction. We used the ordinary least squares estimation with robust standard errors to identify the association between OOPE and HRQoL (EQ-5D-5L index score). …”
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Treatment goals indicate palliative care hospital costs: a longitudinal economic study by Monika Hagemann, Barbara Janina Kidszun, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Odile Stalder, Steffen Eychmüller, Maud Maessen

“…METHODS: We performed a retrospective, observational analysis of hospital costs using administrative data from a Swiss university hospital of all specialist palliative care inpatients in the period 2016–2022. …”
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Timely post-discharge medication reviews to Improve Continuity—the Transitions Of Care stewardship (TIC TOC) study in rural and regional Australia: a parallel-group randomised cont... by Sepehr Shakib, Manya Angley, Jonathan Penm, Charley Budgeon, Kim Nguyen, Rebekah Jane Moles, Faye McMillan, Rohan A Elliott, Paul Yates, Katie Phillips, Jenny Chen, Stephen Ross Carter, Kingston Yeung, Deirdre Criddle, Deborah Rigby, Frank Mario Sanfilippo, Jerry Yik, Deborah Hawthorne, Cristen Fleming, Anna Packer, Linda Krogh, Simon K Poon, Brett Chambers, Shania Liu, Fatemeh Emadi, Klaudia Englezos, Ganga Ratnanayagam, Michelle Penm, Andrew Hawthorne, Alexander Khlentzos, Jilian Khlentzos

“…Usual care will include informing the patient’s clinical inpatient treating team that the patient is at high risk of medication misadventure and may benefit from a post-discharge Home Medicines Review (a GP-referred pharmacist medication review funded by the Australian Government).Data analysis will be performed on a modified intent-to-treat basis. …”
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Procedure Type and Preoperative Patient-Reported Outcome Metrics Predict Variation in the Value of Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement by Michael C. Dean, B.A., Nathan J. Cherian, M.D., Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges, Ph.D., Zachary L. LaPorte, B.A., Kieran S. Dowley, B.A., Kaveh A. Torabian, M.S., Ryan E. Dean, M.D., Scott D. Martin, M.D.

“…To protect the confidentiality of internal hospital cost data, the study average for value was normalized to 100. …”
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Viral suppression and continued participation in the Community Retail Pharmacy Drug Distribution Point model among people living with HIV in Uganda by Paul Lwevola, Rodgers Katwesigye, Derrick Kimuli, Happy Annet Walusaga, Ibrahim Twinomujuni, Joan Nangendo, Immaculate Ddumba, Fred Ntuuyo, Sheila Kyobutungi, Samuel Kawuma, Moses Arinaitwe, Fred C. Semitala

“…Continued participation in the model, viral load at enrollment, latest viral load (at study time), and associated factors were assessed using a log-binomial regression analysis with robust standard errors at a 5% significance. …”
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The Paleochrono-1.1 probabilistic model to derive a common age model for several paleoclimatic sites using absolute and relative dating constraints by F. Parrenin, M. Bouchet, C. Buizert, E. Capron, E. Corrick, R. Drysdale, K. Kawamura, A. Landais, R. Mulvaney, I. Oyabu, S. O. Rasmussen

“…We demonstrate the ability of Paleochrono-1.1 in an experiment involving only the MSL speleothem in Hulu Cave (China), and we compare the resulting age model with the Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis version 2 (SISALv2) age models. We then demonstrate the multi-archive capabilities of Paleochrono in a new ice-core–speleothem dating experiment, which combines the Antarctic Ice Core Chronology 2023 dating experiment, based on records from five polar ice cores, with data from two speleothems from Hulu Cave, dated<span id="page8736"/> using uranium / thorium radiometric techniques. …”
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Comparison of the effect of role-playing and team-based learning on interpersonal communication skills of emergency medical personnels by Mohsen Sayahi, Reza Nabi Amjad, Mahmoud Kohan

“…Introduction: Effective communication and interpersonal skills among medical emergency staff enhance service quality, reduce errors, boost patient satisfaction, and decrease stress. …”
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Dynamic Tensile Properties of Ultra–High–Performance Concrete Under Impact Splitting Tensile Load Based on Digital Image Correlation Technology by Xudong CHEN, Xuyang WANG, Tao JI, Jixuan LIU, Yingjie NING

“…The experiment utilized a 100 mm large diameter split Hopkinson compression rod as a dynamic loading device, Different strain rates were applied by adjusting the impact air pressure, with three repeated specimens are selected under different air pressures to minimize errors. Based on one-dimensional stress wave theory, the stress, strain, and strain rate of the specimen under dynamic impact splitting tensile load were calculated from the stress wave data collected by strain gauges on the incident and transmission rods. …”
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Improving outcomes for people with autism spectrum disorders by reducing mental health problems: the IAMHealth research programme including one RCT by Emily Simonoff, Gillian Baird, Bryony Beresford, Tony Charman, Martin Knapp, Andrew Pickles, Carol Povey, Tom Purser, Paramala Santosh, Vicky Slonims, Stephen Scott

“…A subset completed the questionnaire on two occasions to obtain test–retest reliability. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) identified the structure which was replicated in an independent sample using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). …”
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Lessons learned from the co-development of operational climate forecast services for vineyards management by N. Pérez-Zanón, V. Agudetse, E. Baulenas, P.A. Bretonnière, C. Delgado-Torres, N. González-Reviriego, A. Manrique-Suñén, A. Nicodemou, M. Olid, Ll. Palma, M. Terrado, B. Basile, F. Carteni, A. Dente, C. Ezquerra, F. Oldani, M. Otero, F. Santos-Alves, M. Torres, J. Valente, A. Soret

“…Afterwards the climate forecasts outputs were integrated with impact model data. Substantial efforts were directed at the harmonisation of climate services information with the decision-making system of end-users. …”
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A Measurement of the Largest-scale CMB E-mode Polarization with CLASS by Yunyang Li, Joseph R. Eimer, John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett, Michael K. Brewer, Sarah Marie Bruno, Ricardo Bustos, Carol Yan Yan Chan, David T. Chuss, Joseph Cleary, Sumit Dahal, Rahul Datta, Jullianna Denes Couto, Kevin L. Denis, Rolando Dünner, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Kathleen Harrington, Kyle Helson, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Iuliano, John Karakla, Tobias A. Marriage, Nathan J. Miller, Carolina Morales Perez, Lucas P. Parker, Matthew A. Petroff, Rodrigo A. Reeves, Karwan Rostem, Caleigh Ryan, Rui Shi, Koji Shukawa, Deniz A. N. Valle, Duncan J. Watts, Janet L. Weiland, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Lingzhen Zeng

“…The analysis demonstrates effective mitigation of systematic errors and addresses challenges to large-angular-scale power recovery posed by time-domain filtering in maximum-likelihood map-making. …”
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Peculiarities of Clinical Indices, Duration and Complication of Acute Pancreatitis in Patients With Comorbid Obesity by Kebkalo A., Tkachuk O., Reiti A.

“…The total score ranges from 0 to 10, respectively: up to 3 points – mild course, 4-6 points – moderate flow, 7 or more – severe course of acute pancreatitis. The obtained data were statistically processed in Exel 2010 using a descriptive method with relative, absolute numbers, mean square deviations and their errors. …”
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Extended clinical phenotypes and treatment modalities in 32 JAGN1-deficient patients: a multicenter study by ESID and EBMT IEWP by Julia Fekadu-Siebald, Emilia Salzmann-Manrique, Jan Robert Heusel, Andre Willasch, Fabian Hauck, Luis Ignacio Gonzalez-Granado, Zahra Chavoshzadeh, Samin Sharafian, Franziska Cuntz, Safa Baris, Andrea Finocchi, Mattia Algeri, Roya Sherkat, Maja Klaudel-Dreszler, Cornelia Zeidler, Christine Bellanné-Chantelot, Gerhard Kindle, Blandine Beaupain, Catherine Paillard, Markus Seidel, Peter Bader, Michael H. Albert, Bénédicte Neven, Jean Donadieu, Shahrzad Bakhtiar

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