Incidence and Risk Factors of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia among Patients with Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Observational Study by Morteza Shamsizadeh, Ali Fathi Jouzdani, Farshid Rahimi-Bashar

“…A total of 108 patients with delirium were identified using the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) for the ICU and Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC) and enrolled in this study. …”
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Treating Children\'s Diseases in Iran: A Systematic Review by Pouran Varvani Farahani, Candan Ozturk

“…After removing duplicates and screening titles and abstracts, 808 were excluded for not meeting inclusion criteria, resulting in 26 full-text articles selected for the analysis. …”
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FDT Perimetry for Glaucoma Detection in Comprehensive Health Checkup Service by Ryo Terauchi, Takashi Wada, Shumpei Ogawa, Masanobu Kaji, Tomohiro Kato, Masayuki Tatemichi, Tadashi Nakano

“…We aimed to investigate the efficacy of frequency doubling technology (FDT) perimetry for glaucoma detection in comprehensive screening examinations. We performed a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data of participants who underwent a comprehensive health checkup service. …”
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Effectiveness of a Mixed Martial Arts-Based Training Program in Reducing Obesity and Improving Cardiovascular Health Among Women in Indonesia by Surya Adi Saputra, Septiani Dewi Hamni, Exie Shirley, Helen Knowles

“…Participants underwent comprehensive health screenings, and measurements of Body Mass Index (BMI) and blood pressure were taken before and after the intervention. …”
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Study of Antibacterial Activity of Root Bark, Leaves, and Pericarp Extracts of Diploknema butyracea and Evaluation of Prospective Antioxidant Activity by Alisha Karki Chhetry, Subhila Dhakal, Lalita Chaudhary, Khimdhoj Karki, Ram Bahadur Khadka, Gautam Prasad Chaudhary, Tonking Bastola, Amrit Poudel, Pramod Aryal, Jitendra Pandey

“…The plant parts were collected and extracted by cold maceration, using hexane, ethyl acetate, methanol, and distilled water. Phytochemical screening of different samples of D. butyracea in different solvents revealed the presence of varied extent of alkaloid, saponin, terpenoid, anthraquinones, tannin, cardiac glycoside, flavonoid, carbohydrate, polyphenol, protein and amino acid, resin, and phytosterol. …”
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Assessment of genetic diversity of some Siberian and Far Eastern species of the genus Spiraea (Rosaceae) by newly developed multiplex panels of nuclear SSR loci by T. A. Poliakova, A. V. Shatokhina, G. N. Bondarenko, D. V. Politov

“…Taxonomic and population genetic studies of the genus Spiraea (Rosaceae) species require new informative genetic markers. We screened 37 previously published heterologous oligonucleotide primer pairs for nuclear microsatellite loci and selected eight polymorphic and most reproducible of them for PCR multiplexing which substantially increases performance of routine mass genotyping. …”
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Reliability of the Expanded Cutting Alignment Scoring Tool (E-CAST) to Assess Trunk and Limb Alignment During a 45-Degree Side-Step Cut by Lauren S. Butler, Alexa R. Martinez, Dai Sugimoto, Charles W. Wyatt, Eryn K. Milian, Sophia Ulman, Ashley Erdman, Alex Loewen, Kristin Hayden, Amie DeVerna, Kirsten Tulchin-Francis, PRiSM Injury Prevention Research Interest Group

“…# Background Current clinical screening tools assessing risky movements during cutting maneuvers do not adequately address sagittal plane foot and ankle evaluations. …”
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Genetic variability of the fifth generation of nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus using microsatellite DNA markers by Gloria Ika Satriani, Dinar Tri Soelistyowati, Dian Hardianto, Ratu Siti Aliah

“…The total of 180 specimens have been collected from fifth generation of nine reciprocal mating between three families selected from fourth generation of Nile tilapia and were screened for genetic variability at three microsatellite loci (UNH 123*, UNH 172*, UNH 216*). …”
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Diagnostic delay in cerebral creatine deficiency disorders: lessons learned from a cross-sectional single center study, and guanidinoacetate and creatine measurements in Switzerlan... by Christina Kaufman, Anaïs D’Andrea, Annette Hackenberg, Martin Poms, Olivier Braissant, Johannes Häberle

“…To reduce the diagnostic delay and the outcome of patients, the current practice of sample referral should be reflected and first-contact healthcare providers should be encouraged to initiate selective screening.…”
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Feeding Problems Assessment Tools in Children: A Scoping Review by Suci Destriatania, Judhiastuty Februhartanty, Fariz Nurwidya, Rini Sekartini

“…Data management and analysis carried out manually through discussion with the team. Authors 1 and 2 screened titles and abstracts, then full texts were discussed with the full team to identify articles that met inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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Does Current General Mental Health Status Relate to Current Smoking Status in Pregnant Women? by Diane Liu, Emily Younger, Stacy Baker, Stephanie Touch, Tamara Willmoth, Jessica L. Hartos

“…Given that current mental health issues and current tobacco use may harm both mother and child, be highly related in pregnant women, and change throughout the pregnancy, pregnant women should be screened automatically for both at each visit.…”
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DATA MINING ALGORITHMS FOR PREDICTION OF STUDENT TEACHERS’ PERFORMANCE IN ICT: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW by Juma Habibu Shindo, Mohamedi Mohamedi Mjahidi, Mohamed Dewa Waziri

“…On November 6, 2022, about 196 scholarly articles were downloaded from three digital libraries: Science Direct (38), ACM Digital Library (72), IEEE Xplore (51), and 35 from the Google Scholar search engine. After screening and eligibility checking, 28 scholarly articles were selected and analysed through content analysis in terms of the most commonly used algorithms, the year of publication, the study purposes, and the accuracy performance metrics. …”
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Comparison of clinician- and patient-reported outcome measures in 95 abdominoplasty cases using BODY-Q and MCCRO-Q by Samuel Thomas Kitching, Claudia Rocco, Rachel Harwood, Gary Ross

“…Abstract/Summary: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and clinician-reported outcome measures (CROMs) are not routinely compared and they could be used to assess outcomes and aid patient selection and informed consent.Between July 2016 and February 2020, we performed a cohort study comparing PROM versus CROM scores in 95 abdominoplasty cases with all patients undergoing psychological assessment using the Royal Free Hospital and Centre for Appearance Research (RoFCAR) screening tool.Patients and clinicians described significantly improved outcomes from an abdominoplasty procedure (p<0.001; p<0.001), and patients also derived psychological benefits with improved RoFCAR scores (p<0.001). …”
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Exploring the Relationship between Perfectionism and Pain in Patients with Temporomandibular Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study by Xin Xiong, Shi-Yong Zhang, Jing Zhang, Nan Jiang, Li-Ming Zhang, Hao-Lun Yang, Yuan Yue

“…It is suggested that pain-related TMD patients could be screened for perfectionism and perfectionism could be considered when proposing psychological treatment strategies to PT patients.…”
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Study on the Fingerprint Spectrum and the Spectrum-Effect Relationship of Analgesic and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of the Aqueous Extract from Dalbergia hancai Benth by Qin Qiu, Xiaofang Liu, Chunying Huang, Yanling Guo, Dandan Zhen, Junhao Shi, Baojun Gu, Hanshen Zhen, Miao Zhang

“…Therefore, this study aims to serve as an effective analytical method for screening and predicting the effective substances of traditional Chinese medicine on the basis of the spectrum-effect relationship.…”
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Determinants of burnout syndrome among undergraduate nursing students in Poland: a cross-sectional study by Katarzyna Szwamel, Wiesława Kowalska, Ewa Mazur, Anna Janus, Iwona Bonikowska, Justyna Jasik-Pyzdrowska

“…We recommended carrying out regular screening tests for burnout, insomnia, anxiety, stress, and depression (e.g., once a year) among students. …”
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Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) infections following intravesical BCG immunotherapy: a systematic review protocol by Roberta Monardo, Sana Arif, Aparna Rege, Erin Simon, Leila Ledbetter, Arthur W. Baker, Jason Stout, Manuela Carugati

“…A search concept representing BCG and intravesical administration will be applied after validation against a set of pre-selected articles. Screening and data extraction will be performed in duplicate by two independent reviewers. …”
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Deployment of next-generation sequencing approach for variant detection in myocardial infarction: A concise investigation by Desaraju Suresh Bhargav, Nadeem Siddiqui, Bhadra Murthy V, Vijaya Tartte, Vanaja V

“…Till date there are no preventive diagnosis/screening molecular mechanism to identify the responsible markers for this cholesterol metabolism and associated risk factors. …”
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Lysine requirement of weaned piglets by S. Goethals, P. Bikker, J.H.M. Rijpert, B. Ampe, J.W. Spek, S. Millet

“…The literature review yielded 344 studies that were screened for title and abstract. In total, 41 experiments met the inclusion criteria, resulting in a dataset of 206 treatment means. …”
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Impact of tunnel enlargement on patient-reported outcomes following isolated posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by Kun-Han Lee, Tai-Jung Huang, Hsuan-Hsiao Ma, Kun-Hui Chen, Hsiao-Li Ma, En-Rung Chiang

“…Methods Patients who received primary isolated PCLR were screened. Femoral and tibial tunnel size was measured using an anteroposterior and lateral view of radiographs at least 6 months after surgery. …”
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