Cost Analysis and Clinical Outcomes of Ambulatory Care Monitoring in Medicare Patients: Describing the Diagnostic Odyssey by Renée JG Arnold, Andrew Layton

“…The objective of the current study was to characterize the number of patients and associated costs incurred in the diagnosis, additional monitoring, clinical events and sequelae after an initial Holter monitor in Medicare patients with arrhythmia—the diagnostic odyssey. # Methods We performed a retrospective, longitudinal claims analysis using a 5% random sample of Medicare beneficiaries’ claims from the Fee-for-Service (FFS) Standard Analytic Files. …”
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Clinical and endoscopic assessment of gastric state in systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome by I. A. Doroshkevich, S G Radenska-Lopovok, A E Karateev, M Y Krilov, T M Reshetnyk

“…To characterize gastric mucosa (GM) state in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Material and methods. Gastroscopy (GS) with GM biopsy and histological examination was performed in 85 pts (65 with SLE and 20 with primary APS). 26 from 65 pts with SLE had secondary APS. 21 SLE pt before inclusion did not receive glucocorticoids (GC). …”
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Activation of T-helper in vitro under the Influence of Yersinia pestis Antigens in People Vaccinated against the Plague by V. A. Kozhevnikov, A. L. Kravtsov, O. M. Kudryavtseva, T. N. Kashtanova, S. A. Bugorkova

“…The goal of the studyAims was to make a comparative assessment of the level helper T-cells activation by CD69 and HLA-DR markers, in people, vaccinated against plague, in an in vitro test, using the disintegrated by ultrasonic Y. pestis cells, grown at temperature 28 °C as a specific stimulator.Materials & Methods. A cytofluorimetric analysis of blood samples of 45 individuals vaccinated against the plague was carried out. …”
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Evaluation of Nulliparous Women Childbirth Anxiety in Baghdad Maternity Hospitals by Fatima Fadel Benyian

“…To find out the association between pregnant women’s anxiety with some demographical and gestational age. Methods: A descriptive design used a non-probability (purposive sample) of (200) nulliparous pregnant women to collect the data through a self-reported questionnaire. …”
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Deprivation and well-being in squalid living: a propensity score matched cross-sectional study of the English Housing Survey by Mike Norton, Stephen Kellett, Vyv Huddy

“…This study therefore sought to compare people living in squalor in terms of potential differences in deprivation and well-being. Methods Data was extracted from the English Housing Survey. …”
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The emotional consequences of negative personalist framing in the 2023 Spanish general election by Ismael Crespo-Martínez, Alberto Mora-Rodríguez, José Miguel Rojo-Martínez

“…In addition, the aim is to determine how these emotional reactions impacted on feelings toward Alberto Núñez Feijóo (PP) and Pedro Sánchez (PSOE).MethodsWe used the dataset of the Third National Survey on Political Polarization in Spain, based on a representative sample of the Spanish population (n = 1,223). …”
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The relationship between self-confidence and attitude of emergency medical technicians towards family presence during resuscitation by Jaber Najafi, Neda Gilani, Hadi Hassankhani, Mansour Ghafourifard, Abbas Dadashzadeh, Mahnaz Zali

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the self-confidence and attitudes of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) towards family presence during resuscitation (FPDR). Methods In this cross-sectional study, a random sample of 252 EMTs were selected from 110 prehospital emergency centers. …”
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Differences in the Psychopharmacological Trajectories of School-Age Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder with and without Intellectual Disability by Francisca Bastos Maia, Vânia Martins Miranda

“…Conclusion: Individuals with ID are diagnosed with more psychiatric comorbidities and are prescribed more psychotropic drugs. …”
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Attitudes of Japanese physicians not specializing in care toward people living with HIV and their care by Taketoshi Okita, Yosuke Inamoto, Keiko Yokota, Chiaki Kageyama, Jugo Hanai, Masazumi Yamaguchi, Takuma Shirasaka

“…Therefore, a nationwide survey was conducted to clarify the attitudes of general physicians, who do not specialize in HIV treatment, toward HIV and people living with HIV. Methods An online questionnaire-based quantitative survey (February 14–16, 2022) yielded 212 valid responses. …”
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Task Shifting, eHealth and Shared Decision‐Making—Preference Heterogeneity in the Adult Population for Developments in Outpatient Primary Healthcare by Zora Föhn

“…Knowing the population's preferences and subgroup preferences in these developments helps policymakers make healthcare delivery more responsive to patients' needs. Methods Primary data were collected using a representative sample of the adult Swiss population in the fall of 2020. …”
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Awareness and perceptions regarding autism among school teachers in Jazan region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Eman A. Otaif, Sarah M. A. Salih, Mohammed S. Mahfouz

“…This study was performed to assess the school teachers' level of knowledge and perception regarding Autism. Materials and Methods: An observational cross-sectional study was carried out in the Jazan region among a random sample of school teachers (males and females) who are working at the governmental primary Schools, throughout the scholastic year 2019–2020. …”
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Renal function estimation in critically ill newborns in Erbil. by Hameed Abdul Xafur, Lana Ahmed Mohammed

“…Two thirds 64.5% of the sample were less than seven days old. More than half 58.5% of the sample was males, and 57.5% of the neonates born by Cesarean section. …”
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Chaotic moving video quality enhancement based on deep in-loop filtering by Tong Tang, Yi Yang, Dapeng Wu, Ruyan Wang, Zhidu Li

“…Meanwhile, under close bit rate consumption, the proposed method could reconstruct more texture information, thereby significantly reducing the blocking artifacts and improving the visual quality.…”
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HOME protocol for a national online survey of people who inject drugs by Winston E. Luhur, Cristina L. Chin, Jazmine M. Li, Grey Marsh, Dan Coello, Aaron Fox, Honoria Guarino, Denis Nash, Viraj V. Patel, Czarina N. Behrends

“…These methods hold promise for obtaining larger and more diverse PWID samples, but there are no standards for using online recruitment and survey administration methods to reach large populations of PWID vulnerable to overdose and other threats. …”
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Assessment of computer and statistical literacy levels among medical students by N. Yu. Dmitrieva

“…When statistically processing the results, descriptive statistics were used, and to compare indicators, non-parametric methods were used: Mann-Whitney and the Kruskal-Wallis test, which allow working with small samples, as well as one-way analysis of variance and correlation analysis. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARAMETERS OF THE DENTAL APPARATUS AND RESPIRATORY ORGANS IN ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT by V.L. Bogdanov, T.A. Vyshemyrska, A.Ya. Grigorenko, N.N. Tormakhov, P.S. Flis

“…These methods do not always reflect the true position of the facial skull. …”
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Pea variety and dehulling effects on biorefinery efficiency and fraction quality by Busra Gultekin Subasi, Santanu Basu, Roger Andersson, Mehdi Abdollahi

“…Protein extraction efficiency, amino acid, and fatty acid profile did not show significant differences between whole and dehulled samples. Overall, these findings underscore the versatility of peas as a multiple-product biorefinery feedstock using the pH-shift method with the impact of variety being more pronounced on protein fraction quality, while preprocessing steps like dehulling play a decisive role in optimizing the composition and purity of fiber- and starch-rich fractions for targeted applications.…”
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SHOX2 and WT1 Promoter Methylation Correlates with the Lung Cancer in Iranian Patients by Mohammad taghi khatibi, shahla Mohammad Ganji, Somayeh Chavoshei, Arda Kiani, Seyed Mostafa Hosseini, Mahmoud Tavallaie

“…Since the disease is diagnosed in the middle or late stages of the cancer development a more efficient method for an early diagnosis of the disease is required. …”
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Galaxy evolution in the post-merger regime. II -- Post-merger quenching peaks within 500 Myr of coalescence by Sara Ellison, Leonardo Ferreira, Vivienne Wild, Scott Wilkinson, Kate Rowlands, David R. Patton

“…In this post-merger time range PSBs are more common than in control galaxies by factors of 30-100 (depending on PSB selection method), an excess that drops sharply at longer times since merger. …”
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Analysis of the patients' quality of life after radical cystectomy with the orthotopic neobladder or ileal conduit formation by S. V. Kotov, A. L. Khachatryan, D. P. Kotova, A. K. Zhuravleva, Sh. M. Sargsyan, D. M. Magomedov

“…Obviously, long-term studies with a large sample of patients are required to obtain more reliable results of a QoL evaluation after RCE with intestinal urine diversion.…”
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