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BACKGROUND: The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has generated growing interest in its use to support teaching and learning in nursing education. This scoping review aimed to map the existing literature on AI-supported teaching approaches in nursing education, examine how learning outcome domains…

OBJECTIVE: Systemic therapy (ST) is a well-established treatment approach to reduce symptoms, yet its effects across outcome domains, informants, and assessment methods remain underexplored. METHOD: We conducted a systematic literature review in multiple databases (PsycINFO, Pubmed, Embase, Cochrane CENTRAL), includin…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Tibial nerve stimulation (TNS) has long been used to effectively treat lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD). Although numerous studies have concentrated on TNS, its mechanism of action remains elusive. This review aimed to concentrate on the mechanism of action of TNS against LUTD. MATERIAL…

OBJECTIVE: Up to 50% of patients hospitalized for acute heart failure (AHF) show resistance to diuretics. This condition contributes to a prolonged hospital length of stay and a higher risk of death. This review aimed to investigate whether a diuretic therapeutic approach more effective than furosemide alone exists for…

Nodules in the thyroid are frequent. Preoperative investigations including fine-needle cytology and ultrasound cannot in all patients rule out malignancy. Thus, surgical excision for histopathologic examination is often needed. In this narrative review, we examine aspects of the surgical management of indeterminate thy…

For the past two decades, agricultural workers in regions of Central America have reported an epidemic of chronic kidney disease of undetermined etiology (CKDu) that is not associated with established risk factors of chronic kidney disease. Several hypotheses have emerged, but the etiology of CKDu remains elusive and c…

Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread pain, sleep problems, fatigue, functional impairment, psychological distress, and cognitive dysfunction. The objective of this meta-analysis is to synthesize the available data on the effectiveness of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions across all domains in…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify the presence of gender and laterality bias in patients with hemifacial microsomia. METHODS: We performed a systematic search of PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Systematic Reviews, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials to identify trials p…

BACKGROUND: To assess the quality of research presentations made in conferences, its success or failure to be published in a peer-reviewed journal is a well-accepted marker. However, there is no data regarding the publication of research presentations made in Indian conferences of anesthesiology. OBJECTIVE: The primar…

BACKGROUND: Evoked potentials are used to detect conduction disturbances in the central nervous system. This paper provides an overview of the areas in which evoked potentials are used in clinical neurophysiological diagnostics, with the emphasis on coma and demyelinating disease. METHOD: The article is based on a lit…

INTRODUCTION: Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy remains the most common cause of hospitalization in the first half of pregnancy. Although the exact cause is largely unknown, an interaction of genetic, biological and psychological factors is plausible. An endocrine trigger for hyperemesis has been linked with both ovaria…

CONTEXT: High ankle sprains are common in athletes who play contact sports. Most high ankle sprains are treated nonsurgically with a rehabilitation program. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: All years of PUBMED, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CINAHL PLUS, SPORTDiscuss, Google Scholar, and Web of Science were searched to…

Pharmacological management of neurobehavioral disorders following traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common practice. However, the evidence available to guide this practice remains sparse. This review summarizes, in brief, the state of knowledge, organized via a time continuum from injury as well as by symptom complex. Th…

This project aims to assess the utility of bibliographic databases beyond the three major ones (MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane CENTRAL) for finding controlled trials of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Fifteen databases were searched to identify controlled clinical trials (CCTs) of CAM not also indexed in ME…

PURPOSE: Scientific literature is a vital tool that we rely on to communicate the findings of our studies; however, we rarely direct our study to the writing itself. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Here, we make use of modern natural language processing algorithms coupled with the large, open access PubMed Central corpus to an…

BACKGROUND: Lymphedema is a chronic progressive disease that results in interstitial edema in the limbs, and to a lesser extent in the genitals and face, due to damage to the lymphatic system. METHODS: Research was conducted between July 2022 and September 2022 in biomedical databases: PubMed, Cochrane Central Registe…

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a chronic inflammatory disorder of the apocrine-bearing skin, presents with deep seated inflamed nodules, abscesses, draining sinus tracts, and scarring with a profound impact on quality of life. In this review of Pubmed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Central databases, we focus on the role of hor…

Mycoplasma hominis, a commensal of the genital tract, is a potential underestimated pathogen causing both genitourinary and extragenital infections including neonatal infections. Septic arthritis, prosthetic joint infection, central nervous system (CNS) infections, infective endocarditis and abscess formation are commo…

In April 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented the Public Access Policy (PAP), which mandated that the full text of NIH-supported articles be made freely available on PubMed Central - the NIH's repository of biomedical research. This paper uses 600,000 NIH articles and a matched comparison sample to…

The literature on neuroscience has grown rapidly in recent years with the emergence of new domains of research. In the context of this progress, creating a knowledge organization system (KOS) that can quickly incorporate terms of a given domain is an important aim in the area. In this article, we develop a systematic m…