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PURPOSE: Since the McGill consensus conference, numerous reports have proposed the advantages of the 2-implant-retained overdenture over the conventional denture in the restorative management of the edentulous mandible. The purpose of this article was to demonstrate the use of the 2-implant-retained overdenture in the…

We report a vignette study and a survey to investigate which study characteristics influence quality ratings psychology academics give of articles submitted for publication, and psychology academics and students to theses written by psychology students. In the vignette study, 800 respondents evaluated the quality of an…

Oncology Global Safety Teams (GSTs) are not universally tasked with the development of the risk section of the products target product profile (TPP). This fact makes little sense since the GST is tasked by the company to identify, analyze, and mitigate a product's risks. The TPP, in essence, establishes boundaries for…

The study titled "Effect of Wearing Glasses on Risk of Infection With SARS-CoV-2 in the Community - A Randomized Clinical Trial" by Fretheim et al drew our attention. This prospective clinical trial examined the impact of eyeglass usage on COVID-19 risk. By surveying 3717 participants, the authors concluded that wearin…

AIM: This study aimed to examine the factors affecting nurses' attitudes towards risks in the work environment. BACKGROUND: Nurses' attitudes towards work environment-associated risks affect both risk management and employee health. METHODS: This descriptive study was conducted with 338 nurses working in a public hos…

OBJECTIVE: To compare treatment outcomes of open foot wounds with significant soft tissue defects using either negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) or standard wet-to-moist saline-soaked gauze dressings. SUBJECTS: : Forty-seven subjects with open wounds with significant soft tissue defects. DESIGN: A retrospective…

BACKGROUND: The potentials of audit and feedback (AF) to improve healthcare are currently not exploited. To unlock the potentials of AF, this study focused on the process of making sense of audit data and translating data into actionable feedback by studying a specific AF-case: limiting antimicrobial resistance (AMR).…

BACKGROUND: Health inequity is interlinked with the good health and well-being of an individual. Health inequity can be due to various socioeconomic factors like income levels or social status. Digital health interventions have the potential to reduce the existing health inequities. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to ident…

BACKGROUND: Suicidal ideation and its most extreme outcome are important issues that should be studied from different theoretical approaches. Traditionally, it has been approached from the perspective of psychology; however, this study proposes an approach from the perspective of economics. The main objective of this s…

Using a longitudinal, cross-lagged design, this study examined the bidirectional relations between mothers' and fathers' sensitivity and children's externalizing (EXT) and internalizing (INT) behavior from middle childhood into adolescence. The subsample comprised families (N = 578) in which the mother and father cohab…

COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is associated with psychological distress for patients as well as their partners. Dyadic coping can be negatively impacted by stressors. This study's objective was to compare the dyadic coping of couples in which one partner suffered from COPD with healthy couples of the sam…

OBJECTIVE: The objective was to assess highly confounded patterns in a standardized mortality ratio (SMR) analysis of lung cancer in beryllium worker cohorts. METHODS: We used Cox proportional hazards single- and multi-variate models to assess confounding and the SMR patterns. RESULTS: We confirmed the lack of associ…

UNLABELLED: This paper explores the potentiality of Bach flower remedies as a means of pain relief through a retrospective case-study analysis to establish how clients suffering with painful conditions responded to the therapy. RESULTS: Of 384 subjects, 41 suffered pain. Of these, 46% felt treatment had relieved their…

OBJECTIVE: Filicide, or parental murder of offspring, constitutes a major portion of lethal violence perpetrated against children worldwide. Despite the global nature of the phenomenon, researchers have focused their studies on the developed industrialized societies with the consequent neglect of small, developing soci…

This longitudinal epidemiologic study examined how levels of psychiatric distress over one year may be influenced by both concurrent levels of alcohol use and by prior drinking levels. The study's data were gathered during the 1981-1982 Eastern Baltimore Mental Health Survey (EBMHS), as part of the 5-site National Inst…

This study evaluated the association between pediatric multiple sclerosis and vaccinations within 5 years before diagnosis using German ambulatory claims data. Children with multiple sclerosis ( = 346) aged 9-17 were analyzed with logistic and Poisson regression. Control groups included children wi…

Pesticides and mycotoxins, prominent chemical hazards in the food chain, are commonly found in plant-based foods, contributing to their pervasive presence in the human body, as evidenced by biomonitoring programs. Despite this, there is limited knowledge about their co-occurrence patterns. While intervention studies ha…

BACKGROUND: There has been little research exploring paternal needs while experiencing a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) stay. Some tools exist to measure paternal needs, but do not incorporate items to capture important information about how fathers cope with stress differently, and may have different needs. There…

Acute hemolytic transfusion reactions (AHTRs) are feared complications of packed red blood cell (PRBC) transfusions. This study aimed to investigate the clinical consequences of isolated enzyme-phase crossmatch-incompatible PRBC transfusions by clinically observing all events during the study period at a single institu…

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To assess nurses' infection control knowledge at basic health care clinics and knowledge in practices nurses on infection control. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: This is cross-sectional study, conducted in primary health care centers within descriptive research in Al-Hilla City, from…