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BACKGROUND: The article describes a healthcare staffing exercise that took place in a Cancer Hospital IV, Brazil's first public palliative care unit. There are numerous gaps in the literature on specialized cancer staffing. Palliative care is a therapy modality that should begin with the diagnosis of a chronic disease,…

BACKGROUND: A subset of melanomas carrying a B-Raf proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase gene (BRAF) V600E mutation, which is the most common targetable mutation in melanoma, arise in association with a melanocytic nevus that is also harboring a BRAF V600E mutation. The detailed histomorphologic characteristics of ne…

BACKGROUND: Mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene-many of which cause cystic fibrosis-have also been reported in patients with chronic pancreatitis. The authors examine whether mild or severe CFTR mutations, homozygous or compound heterozygous CFTR mutations, or even simple cy…

The purpose of this ex post facto correlational study was to compare exit examination scores and NCLEX-RN(®) pass rates of baccalaureate nursing students who differed in level of participation in a standardized test package. Three cohort groups emerged as a standardized test package was introduced: (a) students wh…

In Israel, whistleblowing in the nursing profession has been largely ignored. This topic is neither part of the professional-ethical discourse nor a subject for research. Focusing on the divide between internal and external whistleblowing, this article presents a study that explores nurses' willingness to disclose an a…

The current study used meta-analysis to examine the criterion-related validity of the relationships between safety climate, safety performance (participation and compliance), and occupational accidents and injuries. Support was found for the study's hypotheses linking organizational safety climate to employee safety co…

An analysis of the most recent self-study reports of the 46 teacher preparation programs approved by the Council on Education of the Deaf yielded data on program demographics, curriculum and content, faculty, practicum, students, and graduates. Only 4 of the 46 teacher preparation programs had been established since 19…

This article addresses a number of methodological weaknesses in the group comparison design of the Israeli High-Risk Study. It would seem that 25 years ago constraints of experimental design may have led the investigators to select as schizophrenic probands patients who today would no longer qualify for schizophrenic d…

Molecular mechanisms of cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) include specific modes of cell signaling like activation of nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB and vascular cell adhesion molecules (VCAM)-1 expression. The study's hypothesis is that cisternal cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) from patients after SAH may…

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic impact of prostaglandin E2 receptor 3 (EP3) receptor expression might have on the two different breast cancer entities: multifocal/multicentric versus unifocal. As the prognosis determining aspects, we investigated the overall- and disease-free survival by uni-and mu…

OBJECTIVE: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in IL28B and IL10 regions are important in predicting the antiviral response in hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients. In this study, the association of IL28B and IL10 genetic polymorphisms and other clinical factors was assessed as a predictive marker for the sustained viro…

This comment evaluates dela Cruz-Chuh et al.'s AI-based label-free workflow for analyzing T-cell mediated tumor killing via brightfield imaging. The study's core strengths include eliminating fluorescent labeling artifacts, achieving comparable consistency to conventional segmentation-based methods, and accommodating p…

The well-established finding that migrants tend to be lonelier than their counterparts without a migration background in the country of settlement is typically ascribed to challenges that come with international migration. This study's point of departure is that migrants' high levels of loneliness may, in part, also re…

OBJECTIVE: The study's goal was to diagnose the condition at an earlier stage by employing the optimization-based technique for image segmentation to find deformities in MRI and Aura images Methods: Our methodology was based on two case studies. The diseased data set of MRI images obtained from the UCI data set and Aur…

OBJECTIVE: This meta-review summarizes and synthesizes the most reliable findings regarding attentional bias in eating disorders across paradigms and stimulus types and considers implications for theory and future research. METHOD: Four databases were systematically searched, along with reference lists of included rev…

The importance of more countries contributing to precise and comparable statistics on violence against women (VAW) is undeniable. Methodological adaptation is a very important aspect to increase the probability of women disclosing violence and safeguard their integrity. Research on VAW adapted to ethnic populations is…

BACKGROUND: Primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is an undertreated disease. This study's purpose is to determine if the calcium levels correlate with prevalence of symptoms and surgical treatment in patients with primary HPT. METHOD: Patients treated in 2006-2015 with serum calcium≥10.0 mg/dL and PTH>65&#x…

This study's main objective was to explore whether beliefs legitimizing dating violence predict dysfunctional social information processing (SIP) when adolescents deal with ambiguous dating situations, and whether this more proximal cognitive processing acts as a mediator between acceptance of violence beliefs and dati…

BACKGROUND: No studies were found that consider the role of race and gender concordance in patient-physician extender relationships. METHODS: A telephone survey in summer 2012 allowed measures of the relationship between physicians and physician extenders with race and gender concordance. Randomized stratified sampled…

Recently, Levy et al questioned the effectiveness of mobile compression devices (MCDs) as the sole method of thromboprophylaxis following simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA). This study's purpose was to assess if the addition of aspirin to MCDs improves venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention following…