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OBJECTIVE: To improve the quality of outpatient clinic communication between Otolaryngology and primary care doctors. DESIGN: Three example outpatient letters with identical content were created using different structure styles - full prose, headline subheadings with full prose and full subheadings throughout. Electro…

BACKGROUND: Every year the scientific sessions of Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society (ANCIPS) are marked by presentation of free papers, posters, and award paper sessions, which are usually meant for presentation of new research which is not yet published. Hence, it is expected that these papers w…

Humans saccade to faces in their periphery faster than to other types of objects. Previous research has highlighted the potential importance of the upper face region in this phenomenon, but it remains unclear whether this is driven by the eye region. Similarly, it remains unclear whether such rapid saccades are exclusi…

OBJECTIVES: Substantial inequalities of health in various parts of Slovak Republic (SR) are observed. BACKGROUND: Our aim was to analyse the combination of sociological and medical aspects of these inequalities. METHODS: Sociological and mortality data from all 76 counties of SR were analysed by cluster analysis, ANO…

BACKGROUND AND AIM: We analyzed an inclusive gradient boosting model to predict hospital admission from the emergency department (ED) at different time points. We compared its results to multiple models built exclusively at each time point. METHODS: This retrospective multisite study utilized ED data from the Mount Si…

The process of communication between brain and spinal cord remains unclear. Therefore an attempt supported by spinal cord stereotaxy was made to disclose the physiological mechanisms underlying the cooperation between the brain and spine as generated by the spinal cord. The initializing stimulus was the discovery of mo…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate ChatGPT's ability to perform thematic analysis of medical Best Practice Advisory (BPA) free-text comments and identify prompt engineering strategies that optimize performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analyzed 778 BPA comments from a pilot AI-enabled clinical deterioration intervention at Stan…

Four large randomized trials to assess efficacy and toxicity of trastuzumab in adjuvant systemic therapy of breast cancer have been initiated. Results clearly demonstrate, that adjuvant treatment of trastuzumab significantly improves outcomes for women with HER2 positive breast cancer. The clinically most significant a…

BACKGROUND: Efficient generation of structured dose instructions that enable researchers to calculate drug exposure is central to pharmacoepidemiology studies. Our aim was to design and test an algorithm to codify dose instructions, applied to the NHS Scotland Prescribing Information System (PIS) that records about 100…

BACKGROUND: The goal of the first BioCreAtIvE challenge (Critical Assessment of Information Extraction in Biology) was to provide a set of common evaluation tasks to assess the state of the art for text mining applied to biological problems. The results were presented in a workshop held in Granada, Spain March 28-31, 2…

This study investigated mothers' experiences surrounding stillbirth in the United Kingdom, their memory making and sharing opportunities, and the effect these opportunities had on them. Qualitative data were generated from free text responses to open-ended questions. Thematic content analysis revealed that "stigma" was…

Here, we illustrate the clinical and technical implementation of interoperable health data for direct care from the viewpoint of practicing clinicians using examples from primary care. Interoperability allows people involved in the provision and receipt of care to seamlessly exchange and use the coded, free text and do…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the validity of recorded diagnoses of ischemic cerebrovascular events requiring hospitalization within The Health Improvement Network (THIN) UK primary care database. METHODS: We identified 15 397 individuals aged 40-84 years with a first recorded ischemic event in 2000-2004. Of these, 4239 had a…

The effects of alcoholic beverages on the cardiovascular system can take opposite forms, depending on how much of ethanol is consumed. The negative effects of alcoholism are well established. Alcoholism is a cause of cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrhythmias and hypertension. The best argument is the situation of Russian Fed…

Even though high-quality X- and gamma rays with photon energy below mega-electron volt (MeV) are available from large-scale X-ray free electron lasers and synchrotron radiation facilities, it remains a great challenge to generate bright gamma rays over 10 MeV. Recently, gamma rays with energies up to the MeV level were…

BACKGROUND: The use of text messaging is nearly ubiquitous and represents a promising method of collecting data from diverse populations. INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of text message surveys in a clinical setting and to describe key lessons to minimize attriti…

MOTIVATION: Controlled vocabularies such as the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus and the Gene Ontology (GO) provide an efficient way of accessing and organizing biomedical information by reducing the ambiguity inherent to free-text data. Different methods of automating the assignment of MeSH concepts have been…

Achieving high-quality electrical contact at metal/organic semiconductor interfaces is crucial for unlocking the full potential of single-crystal organic thin-film transistors (SC OTFTs). However, the delicate nature of organic single-crystalline films (OSCFs) and the harsh metal deposition process often introduce…

The imperative to re-analyze existing public sequencing data is central to modern biology, driven by new hypotheses and advanced analytical methods. However, this effort is critically hampered by the profound heterogeneity of repository data, particularly the non-standardized, free-text descriptions of biological exper…

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to develop and evaluate an algorithm for automatically screening citations when updating living network meta-analysis (NMA). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Our algorithm learns from the initial screening of citations conducted when creating an NMA to automatically identify eligible citations (i.e., nee…