How Effective Is Help on the Doorstep? A Longitudinal Evaluation of Community-Based Organisation Support. by Lorraine Sherr, Alexa R Yakubovich, Sarah Skeen, Lucie D Cluver, Imca S Hensels, Ana Macedo, Mark Tomlinson

“…The ravages of HIV on family functioning has included a widespread community response. …”
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Intraarticular hip corticosteroid injections offer no meaningful benefit in delaying time to total hip arthroplasty in patients with hip osteoarthritis by Ramesh B. Ghanta, Ellen Tsay, Musa Zaid, Derek Ward, Jeffrey Barry

“…Of 117 patients in the CSI-noTHA group at mean 25 months follow-up, only 43 (12% of all injection patients) had not had THA because they found injections effective. …”
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Mental health disorders among children with special health needs: A population-based cohort study using linked administrative data from Manitoba, Canada. by Jennifer E Enns, Caroline Reid-Westoby, Gilles R Detillieux, Marni Brownell, Nathan C Nickel, Anne Gadermann, Astrid Guttmann, Teresa Bennett, Eric Duku, Barry Forer, Monique Gagné Petteni, Katholiki Georgiades, Martin Guhn, Ana Hanlon-Dearman, Brenda T Poon, Magdalena Janus

“…Children with SHN (vs. none) had higher odds of a mental health disorder if they had 1 + impairment (OR 1.67, 95%CI 1.50-1.85). …”
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Effect of Dietary Patterns on Muscle Strength and Physical Performance in the Very Old: Findings from the Newcastle 85+ Study. by Antoneta Granic, Carol Jagger, Karen Davies, Ashley Adamson, Thomas Kirkwood, Tom R Hill, Mario Siervo, John C Mathers, Avan Aihie Sayer

“…Men in DP1 and women in DP3 also had overall slower TUG than those in DP2 (β = 0.08, p = 0.001 and β = 0.06, p = 0.01, respectively), but similar rate of decline after adjusting for sociodemographic, lifestyle, health, and functioning factors. …”
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Monitoring of administrative accounts regulating tourist activity in Russia (on the Example of social network “Vkontakte”) by А. A. Chugunova, A. N. Pisareva

“…A number of organizations, even which initially had a large audience of subscribers, either did not update their content or did so irregularly. …”
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Outcomes after Surgery for Malignant Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors by Omar Hama Ghalib Azeez Hawramy, Karzan Seerwan Abdullah, Barham M.M. Salih, Qalandar Hussein A. Kasnazani, Dana Taib Gharib, Dara Ahmed Mohammed

“…One (6.3%) patient had functional tumor, and the rest 15 (93.8%) were nonfunctional tumors; all of the patients were sporadic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. …”
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Impact of Multimorbidity on Symptom Burden and Symptom Clusters in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy by Carolyn Harris, Marilyn J. Hammer, Yvette P. Conley, Steven M. Paul, Bruce A. Cooper, Joosun Shin, Kate Oppegaard, Lisa Morse, Jon D. Levine, Christine Miaskowski

“…In addition, they had a higher body mass index, poorer functional status, were a longer time since their cancer diagnosis, and were more likely to have received previous cancer treatments and have metastatic disease. …”
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The 'missing babies' cases: Constitutional court vs. European court of human rights? by Draškić Marija

“…Serbia (it is noted that the body of the applicant's son was never released to the applicant or her family, the cause of death was never determined, the applicant was never provided with an autopsy report or informed of when and where her son had allegedly been buried, and his death was never officially recorded) from the documentation that has been filed with the Constitutional Court follows that the constitutional complainant could not have had any doubts regarding the report on the death of his children or uncertainty about the 'crucial factual or legal issues' i.e. credible information as to what really happened to his children. …”
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Application of predictive models in boosting power of Alzheimer's disease clinical trials: A post hoc analysis of phase 3 solanezumab trials by Ali Ezzati, Christos Davatzikos, David A. Wolk, Charles B. Hall, Christian Habeck, Richard B. Lipton

“…Features used in predictive models included baseline demographics, apolipoprotein E ε4 genotype, neuropsychological scores, functional scores, and volumetric magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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Prevalence of dry eye disease among operating room nurses in tertiary care hospital: Cross-sectional survey by Natwarlal Patidar, Talagatoti David Ratna Paul, Ravi Gaur, Shoma Mukharjee, Nitika Thakur, R Sreeraja Kumar

“…Out of this 22.9% (26/50) had mild DED, 12.2% (14/50) had moderate and 08.4% (10/50) had sever DED. …”
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On the possibility of therapeutic action after transdermal patch application by E. G. Kuznetsova, O. M. Kuryleva, L. A. Salomatina, S. V. Kursakov, V. Yu. Belov, Z. Z. Gonikova, Yu. B. Basok, V. I. Sevastianov

“…As scientific knowledge about the peculiarities of the structure and functional properties of the skin increased, it became clearer that during transdermal administration, drug may accumulate in the deep layers of the dermis and subsequently get diffused into the bloodstream even after the transdermal therapeutic system (TTS), also called transdermal patch, had been removed. …”
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The involvement of kidneys in chronic heart failure patients with liver steatosis by O. M. Drapkina, E. V. Zyatenkov

“…More than a half (66%) of patients with CHF had C2 stage ofCKD, 6% — С1, 12% — С3а, 9% — С3б, 4% — С4 stage of CKD. …”
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An Anatomical Study of Median Nerve Branches for Distal Nerve Transfer in Isolated Anterior Interosseous Nerve Syndrome by Krit Utrapat, MD, Nuttapat Khusritheppratan, MD, Parunyu Vilai, MD, Vichununt Kerdput, PhD, Wisuit Pradidarcheep, PhD

“…Results: All donor nerves had sufficient length for transfer, with FCR providing the greatest length (32.8 mm) and causing the least postoperative tension. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on acute stroke care in a tertiary stroke centre by Máté Héja, István Fekete, Sándor Márton, László Horváth, Klára Fekete

“…We recorded demographic and clinical data, imaging parameters, functional outcome and mortality at one year. Beside descriptive statistics we performed χ2-probe, Mann-Witney U-test, Student t-probe and multivariate testing. …”
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Resiliency in Child–Caregiver Dyads and the Impact on Health Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease by Jessica A. Zavadil, Melissa Azul, Brian D. Carpenter, Cecelia Calhoun

“…Children with one to two hospitalizations within the last year had significantly lower median resiliency scores compared with those who had experienced no hospitalizations (median 65 vs. 76, <i>p</i> = 0.0386), but displayed no relationship with genotype, history of stroke, or stem cell transplant. …”
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Acute Ischaemic Stroke in Patients Treated with Direct Oral Anticoagulants: Potential Causes, Clinical Characteristics, and Short-Term Outcomes by Katarzyna Sawczyńska, Ewa Włodarczyk, Aleksandra Pawlicka, Bartosz Kołodziejczyk, Paweł Wrona, Kamil Wężyk, Tomasz Homa, Paulina Sarba, Dominik Wróbel, Kaja Zdrojewska, Maria Sobolewska, Dawid Rolkiewicz, Agnieszka Slowik

“…Patients with prestroke DOAC treatment had worse functional condition before stroke and higher stroke severity on admission but similar short-term outcomes and similar short-term effects of treatment with MT. …”
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Clinic and diagnosis of encephalopathy of critical conditions in children with infectious diseases by E. S. Egorova, A. V. Klimkin, A. A. Vilnits, N. V. Skripchenko, V. B. Voitenkov, Yu. P. Vasilyeva, M. A. Bedova

“…Purpose: to assess the functional state of the brain in critically ill encephalopathy in children with infectious diseases.Materials and methods: 75 patients aged from 1 month to 17 years 11 months with infectious diseases, who were in the intensive care unit of the clinic, were examined, divided into two groups: the main group and the comparison group. …”
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Carbon footprint and cost analysis of a bicycle lane in a municipality by J. Prasara-A, A. Bridhikitti

“…The scope of this study covers the processing of raw material acquisition, transportation, construction, use, and disposal. The functional unit set for this study is the use of a bicycle lane for one year. …”
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Navigating menstrual stigma and norms: a qualitative study on young people’s menstrual experiences and strategies for improving menstrual health by Eva Åkerman, Anna Wängborg, Maria Persson, Renita Sörensdotter, Marie Klingberg-Allvin

“…While managing their emotional discomfort and other menstrual complaints, they also had to deal with the public stigma and norms about menstruation contributing to shame and worries. …”
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Burden assessment of podoconiosis in Wayu Tuka woreda, east Wollega zone, western Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study by Kebede Deribe, Gail Davey, Kenate Bekele, Tsige Amberbir, Geleta Tadele, Abdi Samuel

“…Of participants in the second phase of the study, 43% had stage 2 disease and 38.1% had ‘moss’-like skin changes. …”
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