Cervical cancer care at a tertiary oncology facility in Uganda: Comparing daily practice with national treatment targets on cervical cancer control. by Marlieke de Fouw, Melissa W M Boere, Carolyn Nakisige, Mariam Nabwire, Jane Namugga, Israel Luutu, Jackson Orem, Jan M M van Lith, Jogchum J Beltman

“…<h4>Patients and methods</h4>We retrospectively analyzed medical records of all cervical cancer patients presenting to UCI between January 2017 and March 2018 for sociodemographic characteristics and clinical variables with descriptive statistics. The clinical management of patients with early and advanced stage disease who initiated treatment at UCI was evaluated using the national targets formulated in the Uganda strategic plan for cervical cancer prevention and control.…”
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More than just staffing? Assessing evidence on the complex interplay among nurse staffing, other features of organisational context and resident outcomes in long-term care: a syste... by Matthias Hoben, Megan Kennedy, Katharina Choroschun

“…Our systematic review will identify and synthesise the available evidence on how nurse staffing and organisational context in residential LTC interact and how this impacts resident outcomes.Methods and analysis We will systematically search the databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Scopus and PsycINFO from inception for quantitative research studies and systematically conducted reviews that statistically modelled interactions among nurse staffing and organisational context variables. …”
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Assessment of knowledge and practices of exclusive breastfeeding among rural women during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt: a cross sectional study by Noura El-Gamel, Amina El-Nemer

“…A total of 98.3% of rural women had never made skin-to-skin contact, and 79.2% of them had not been vaccinated against COVID-19. Additionally, a statistically significant association between good knowledge and practice with highly educated women aged 26–30 years, with a monthly income of 4000–6000 L.E was found. …”
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Genotyping and Molecular Characterization of VP6 and NSP4 Genes of Unusual Rotavirus Group A Isolated from Children with Acute Gastroenteritis by Charilaos Dellis, Elizabeth-Barbara Tatsi, Dimitra-Maria Koukou, Filippos Filippatos, Evangelia-Eirini Vetouli, Emmanouil Zoumakis, Athanasios Michos, Vasiliki Syriopoulou

“…Children infected with RVA E2 strains had a statistically higher frequency of dehydration (50%) than those infected with RVA E3 strains (p=0.019). …”
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PIN2-mediated self-organizing transient auxin flow contributes to auxin maxima at the tip of Arabidopsis cotyledons by Patricio Pérez-Henríquez, Shingo Nagawa, Zhongchi Liu, Xue Pan, Marta Michniewicz, Wenxin Tang, Carolyn Rasmussen, Xinping Cui, Jaimie Van Norman, Lucia Strader, Zhenbiao Yang

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Prevalence and social determinants of smoking among men in Mauritius: a cross-sectional study by Miguel San Sebastián, Tuomilehto Jaakko, Stefan Söderberg, Paul Zimmet, Bhushan Ori, Jaysing Heecharan, Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez, Sudhirsen Kowlessur

“…People in the 25–34 age group (PR = 1.65; 95% CI: 1.12–2.41), those separated, divorced or widowed (PR = 1.57; 95% CI: 1.16–2.11), the ethnic groups Muslim-Mauritians (PR = 1.70; 95% CI: 1.00–2.89) and Creoles (PR = 1.97; 95% CI: 1.16–3.35), and those with secondary (PR = 1.29; 95% CI: 1.00–1.67) and primary education (PR = 1.47; 95% CI: 1.10–1.98) were statistically significantly associated with daily smoking. …”
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Long-term antibody responses to COVAXIN and COVISHIELD vaccines in rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy control population – A cross-sectional study by Vijaya Prasanna Parimi, Anand Pyati, Madhavi Eerike

“…Laboratory investigations included complete blood count, inflammatory markers, and antispike antibody levels. Statistical analyses assessed differences between COVAXIN and COVISHIELD subgroups, considering DMARDs usage and disease duration. …”
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Effect of Reperfusion on Time Domain Parameters of Heart Rate Variability by Sadia Mubarak, Bushra Riaz, Mehvish Ashfaq, Sidra Hamid, Amina Rasul, Mamoona Shafiq

“…Results: The results of our study demonstrated significantly decreased heart rate variability in coronary artery disease patients on comparison of pre and post-angioplasty values only SDNNi was significantly reduced (p-value = 0.035) whereas the reduction in SDNN and pNN50 was statistically insignificant (p-value > 0.05). On the contrary, SDANN and RMSSD displayed slight rise after angioplasty but it was not significant (p-value > 0.05). …”
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Using ChatGPT for medical education: the technical perspective by Kwan Yin Chan, Tsz Hon Yuen, Michael Co

“…From the quantitative approach, we launched the world’s first cross-territory virtual bedside teaching with our proposed application and conducted a survey between the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS). Descriptive statistics and Spearman’s Correlation were applied for data analysis. …”
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A Study of How Moral Courage and Moral Sensitivity Correlate with Safe Care in Special Care Nursing by Fateme Mohammadi, Banafsheh Tehranineshat, Afsaneh Ghasemi, Mostafa Bijani

“…The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, chi-square, multiple regression analysis, and Pearson’s correlation coefficient in SPSS v. 22. …”
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ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS, WORK LIFE BALANCE AND EMPLOYEES’ EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S (BiH) IT SECTOR by Ognjen Riđić, Adnan Avdibegović, Senad Bušatlić

“…Fourteen questions covered inferential and last four descriptive statistics. The study aims to test if there is a significant relationship between flexible work arrangements, work-life balance, and employee efficiency with respect to their gender, age, time they travel to work and their children status. …”
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Contrast sensitivity before and after refractive error correction among refractive error patients in Hawassa, Sidama, Ethiopia 2023 by Balcha Negese Kebede, Seid Mohammed Seid, Eyerus Gesesse Samuel

“…A P-value of ≤ 0.05 was used to indicate statistical significance. Results One hundred sixty-two patients attending refraction clinics participated in this study with response rate 98.19% of which 51.9% were male. …”
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Obesity and the Odds of Weight Gain following Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer by Lior Z. Braunstein, Ming-Hui Chen, Marian Loffredo, Philip W. Kantoff, Anthony V. D'Amico

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Treatment Patterns of Follicular Lymphoma in the United States: A Claims Analysis by Scott F. Huntington, Sreevalsa Appukkuttan, Wenyi Wang, Yuxian Du, Sari Hopson, Svetlana Babajanyan

“…Treatment pattern measures, including time to treatment from diagnosis, days from previous line of therapy, duration of therapy, and distribution of treatment regimens among lines of therapy, were assessed. Descriptive statistics were reported for baseline characteristics, primary outcome, and treatment pattern measures. …”
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Oxidative stress and antioxidant status among the elderly in Jakarta by Novi Silvia Hardiany, Daniya Qanita Amani, Jasmine Virginia Anjani, Prima Christin Natalia, Rheina Tamara Tarigan

“…MDA levels and antioxidant status were categorized based on age, blood pressure, and the number of chronic diseases, with statistical analysis performed using the Kruskal-Wallis test. …”
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Insecticide-treated nets utilization and influencing factors on middle school students in Southeast Nigeria. A cross-sectional study by Egbobe JohnPaul Otuomasiri, Magnus Michael Sichalwe, Ezaka Ephraim Ibeabuchi

“…Data were analyzed with SPSS version 23, employing descriptive statistics for univariate analysis to determine ITN usage proportions. …”
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Leader’s management decision-making style and emotional intelligence of higher education students studying in the speciality “Law Enforcement” by S. V. Kharchenko, O. V. Koldashov

“…The following psychodiagnostic techniques were used: the questionnaire “Assessment of Management Decision-Making Styles” and the test “Emotional Intelligence”. Statistical processing of the data was carried out using Spearman’s rank correlation and Mann-Whitney U test. …”
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Efficacy of the Enteroadsorbent Silicol®gel in Adults with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Subtypes IBS-D or Mixed: Observational Open-Label Study by Gordon Crawford, Rory Taylor, David Young, Chris G. Hatton

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Kayseri ili popülasyonundaki mandibular premolar dişlerin kök ve kanal morfolojilerinin konik ışınlı bilgisayarlı tomografi ile incelenmesi by Rıdvan Akyol, Serkan Yılmaz, Mehmet Amuk

“…İstatistiksel veriler, IBM SPSS Statistics v.22 paket programı ile ki-kare testi kullanılarak hesaplandı.Bulgular: Çalışmada 61 erkek, 62 kadın olmak üzere 123 bireyin KIBT görüntüleri incelendi. …”
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Accumulation of chemical elements in the roots of <I>Euphorbia fischeriana</I> Steudel in the Shilka river basin (Transbaikal region) by V. P. Makarov

“…The obtained data were statistically processed using the Microsoft Excel software.Results. …”
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