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Large regional variations in hysterectomy rates cannot be explained by gynecologic need alone, giving rise to concerns about unnecessary surgery. This study's population consists of women insured through a major insurance carrier in 1987 who were required to obtain a second opinion for an elective hysterectomy. Of the…

A group of 58 American Indian alcoholic admissions and a group of 211 White alcoholic admissions to a California State Mental Hospital were interviewed utilizing a 141-item interview scale. The two groups were compared as to their responses to the interview items by a series of one-way analyses of variance. Statistical…

BACKGROUND: Utilizing iterative and collaborative tools, Human-centered Design (HCD) facilitates the creation of tailored solutions for multifaceted issues by fostering empathy and a deep understanding of human behaviors. This paper presents insights gleaned from employing HCD tools to center communities in global heal…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the clinical effect of minocycline regimen in the radical handling of helicobacter pylori and its adverse reactions. METHODS: The meta-analysis was conducted from February to April 2024, and comprised literature search on Chinese Biomedical, Wanfang, VIP, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, C…

PURPOSE: During endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), difficult-to-reach pathologies need an extended endoscopic approach or an external approach. We started to use a flexible interventional endoscope (FIE) to evaluate the necessity of those approaches. The study's objective is to describe our experience and define patients…

We know that reading involves coordination between textual characteristics and visual attention, but research linking eye movements during reading and comprehension assessed after reading is surprisingly limited, especially for reading long connected texts. We tested two competing possibilities: (a) the weak associatio…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether there are differences between the root canal disinfection, comparing the passive ultrasonic irrigation technique with the conventional technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The following electronic databases were searched: Pubmed; VHL; Web of Sciences and OVID with no publication date res…

INTRODUCTION: Anterior knee instability caused by anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficiency results in meniscal as well as chondral femorotibial and/or femoropatellar damages over a more or less long duration delay. This study's objectives were, in chronically deficient ACL patients, to assess onset delay for develop…

UNLABELLED: The presence of extensive obstructive airway disease in many patients leads to an interpretation of intermediate or indeterminate probability for pulmonary emboli using ventilation/perfusion lung scans. We observed that patients with extensive obstructive airway disease having perfusion abnormalities matchi…

Despite widespread engagement in quality improvement activities, little is known about the designs of studies currently published in quality improvement journals. This study's goal is to establish the prevalence of the types of research conducted in articles published in journals dedicated to quality improvement. A cro…

PURPOSE: To systematically review the results of systematic studies regarding open versus arthroscopic Bankart repairs for recurrent anterior shoulder instability and quantitatively analyze the effect of primary-literature publication dates on reported outcomes in these systematic studies. METHODS: A systematic search…

This study explores thermal stress conditions (i.e. heat, humidity, sunlight exposure) sports tourists can expect when attending the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Sports tourism's growth is driven by international mega-events like FIFA World Cups and Olympic Games. With planning ongoing for the 2026 FIFA World Cup football (soc…

While current clinical research generally employs complex computational methods to analyze large amounts of data, reproducible research is a growing movement within the scientific community. This methodology paper consists of five sections discussing the definitions of replicability, reproducibility, and reproducible r…

PURPOSE: This article presents the results of a training program in emotional intelligence. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: Emotional Intelligence (EI) involves two important competencies: (1) the ability to recognize feelings and emotions in oneself and others, and (2) the ability to use that information to resolve conf…

Sibling incest is an understudied field despite its high prevalence rates. The current study was designed to characterize the way children describe their experiences and perceptions following alleged sibling incest. The sample consisted of 20 forensic investigations with children who were referred to forensic investiga…

The objective of this paper is to present the results obtained from a qualitative research study conducted in a forensic psychiatric setting and to explore the dual role associated with being both "agents of care and agents of social control." Following the narratives provided by nurses working in this field, the analy…

This study's aim was to describe: (a) How life-sustaining treatment (LST) decisions are made for critically ill children in Italy; and (b) How these decisional processes are experienced by physicians, nurses and parents. Focus groups with 16 physicians and 26 nurses, and individual interviews with 9 parents were conduc…

In 1968 R. Gordon Wasson first proposed his groundbreaking theory identifying Soma, the hallucinogenic sacrament of the Vedas, as the Amanita muscaria mushroom. While Wasson's theory has garnered acclaim, it is not without its faults. One omission in Wasson's theory is his failure to explain how pressing and filtering…

This study examined the relation between academic factors and senior high school students' general happiness using a nationally representative sample of 11,061 11th graders in Taiwan. Pearson correlation analyses indicated that English teacher-perceived academic performance, mathematics teacher-perceived academic perfo…

This study's objective was to identify, the repercussion of the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome in the life of those who suffer from that disease. It was an exploratory-descriptive research with qualitative approach, carried out with 18 people randomly selected, who have the disease in the city of Vanini, Rio Grande do…