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PURPOSE: To describe the effect that validation of venous thromboembolism (VTE) coded entries in the health improvement network (THIN) has on incidence rates of VTE among a cohort of rivaroxaban/warfarin users. METHODS: Among 36 701 individuals with a first prescription for rivaroxaban/warfarin between 2012 and…

AIMS: The NHS Stop Smoking Service (NHS-SSS) helps approximately half its clients to quit for 4 weeks. However, most initially successful quitters relapse within 6 months. Short message service (SMS) texting has been shown to facilitate stopping smoking. We describe the development, implementation and subsequent evalua…

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a life-threatening lung disorder whose recent prevalence has led to an increasing burden on public healthcare. Phenotypic information in electronic clinical records is essential in providing suitable personalised treatment to patients with COPD. However, as ph…

Pulse-echo reconstruction of sound speed has long been considered a difficult problem within the domain of quantitative biomedical ultrasound. However, recent results (Jaeger 2015 Ultrasound Med. Biol. 41 235-50; Jaeger and Frenz 2015 Ultrasonics 62 299-304; Jaeger et al 2015 Phys. Med. Biol. 60 4497-515) have demonstr…

Third molars are teeth that have little functional value and a relatively high rate of associated pain and disease. Their value as a part of the dentition of modern people is dubious. Our aim is to review the evolution, morbidity and complications of the third molars (Ref. 19). Full Text (Free, PDF) www.bmj.sk.

We propose an approach to predicting implicit gene-disease associations based on the inference network, whereby genes and diseases are represented as nodes and are connected via two types of intermediate nodes: gene functions and phenotypes. To estimate the probabilities involved in the model, two learning schemes are…

This study presents and describes the variation of the vertebral artery arising from the aortic arch as a case report. This variation was found in one of the cadavers at the Institute of Anatomy of Medical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava. Anomalous arising was discovered during the student's dissection of…

BACKGROUND: Low rates of adherence to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) regimens increase the risk of treatment failure and may lead to drug resistance, threatening the sustainability of current anti-malarial efforts. We assessed the impact of text message reminders on adherence to ACT regimens. METHODS: Hea…

BACKGROUND: The presence of dental caries impacts on children's daily lives, particularly among those living in deprived areas. There are successful interventions across the United Kingdom for young children based on toothbrushing with fluoride toothpaste. However, evidence is lacking for oral health improvement progra…

The U.S. Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) of 2009 paved the way for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to propose nine different graphic warning labels (GWLs) intended for prominent placement on the front and back of cigarette packs and on cigarette advertisements. Those GWLs…

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that modifiable risk factors which can be targeted by prevention are vascular diseases, such as diabetes, midlife hypertension (HTN), midlife obesity, midlife cholesterol, mid- and late-life depression as well as lifestyle factors such as smoking, physical inactivity, and poor diet. METHO…

OBJECTIVE: Text messaging interventions are effective. Despite high utilization of smartphones, few studies evaluate text messaging for cessation in middle-/lower-income countries. Initiating tobacco treatment in hospitals is an effective but underutilized approach for reaching smokers. We evaluated a hybrid phone coun…

The oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES) is a well-established substitute for maximum oxygen uptake ((Equation is included in full-text article.)O2 max) in submaximal exercise effort among adolescents and adults. Few studies have analyzed the exercise capacity (EC) and OUES of children aged 4 to 6 (preschoolers). Body…

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled prediction of odorant perception from molecular structure, opening new avenues for odor classification. However, most existing models are limited to predicting percepts from fixed vocabularies and fail to capture the full richness of olfactory experience. Progress is furthe…

This article provides a brief history of the development of the MEDLINE database and its huge impact within the UK, from its inception to the present time. The origins of MEDLINE can be traced back to a collection of books in the US Surgeon General's Office during the American Civil War and John Shaw Billings' decision…

Two Caucasian sisters, XZ and YZ, suffered from DH. However, the clinical course of their diseases was different; patient XZ, contrary to her sister YZ, suffered besides dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) also from coeliac disease (CD) and an autoimmune thyroid disease. The sisters were ordered to adhere to gluten-free diet…

Quality improvement activities in healthcare are limited by the substantial time burden associated with manual clinical text review. To address this limitation within an established hospital discharge summary improvement project, we aimed to automate quality monitoring using large language models. Models were trained t…

The front cover artwork is provided by Dr. Alberto Fernández-Alarcón. The image symbolizes the interactions of a molecule, via its orbitals, with an electromagnetic field, to produce the spectroscopic signals observed in NMR. Read the full text of the Concept at 10.1002/cphc.202200667.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: [corrected] In this study, decision and timing of fenestration closure are discussed. We review our experiences with transcatheter occlusion of fenestration or residual baffle leak using Amplatzer occluder. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We have retrospectively reviewed the cath lab records of 26 pat…