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OBJECTIVES: We determined the historical trends at our institution in the extubation success rate, defined as avoiding tracheostomy, for infants with acquired laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS) who undergo anterior cricoid split (ACS) as primary treatment. METHODS: We performed a retrospective chart review of all neonates…

BACKGROUND: Appropriate closure of the pancreatic remnant after distal pancreatectomy is still debated. A variety of procedures have been recommended to reduce the frequency of pancreatic fistula. This review quantitatively compares the available techniques. METHODS: Original articles and abstracts published up to the…

AIMS: To describe the opinions and experiences of treatment of a cohort of patients prescribed injectable opiate treatment (IOT). DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: Cross-sectional survey of all patients on injectable diamorphine or methadone at a tertiary referral clinic in the northwest of England in June 2000. FINDING…

In Germany and elsewhere, few hospital electronic patient record usability surveys are available. Moreover, there seems to be a complete lack of validated instruments in the respective literature. Hence, this study's purpose is to validate a scale for measuring the usability of hospital electronic patient record system…

Actions to reduce neighbourhood-level socioeconomic inequities in mental well-being hinge on contemporary research exploring neighbourhood-level mechanisms, such as crime-a social factor widely known to be disproportionately distributed in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We used longitudinal data from the HABITAT study (…

BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, health and social care workers (HSCWs) are facing morally challenging situations and life-threatening decisions. Following exposure to potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) that undermine deeply held moral beliefs and expectations, HSCWs might experience moral injury (MI…

AIM: The aim of this study was to explore the online distress and help-seeking behavior of youths in Hong Kong. METHODS: A cross-sectional telephone-based survey was conducted among 1,010 young people in Hong Kong. Logistic regression analysis was then performed to identify the factors associated with those who report…

Sleep is a fundamental physiological process essential for maintaining both physical and mental well-being. Various biological, environmental, and nutritional factors influence sleep quality, with recent studies focusing on the role of trace elements. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the individual and combine…

OBJECTIVE: The aims of the study were to reflect on the methodological and conceptual evolution of the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study, summarize its key scientific contributions, and illustrate how such a cohort can shape future directions in spinal cord injury research, care, and policy. DESIGN: We conducted a…

Previous research has shown that young children commit perseverative errors from their observation of another person's actions. The present study examined how social observation would lead children to perseverative tendencies, using a robot. In Experiment 1, preschoolers watched either a human model or a robot sorting…

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been introduced as a major public health problem. It has been suggested that disruption in function or some adipokines and serum proteins' signaling could play crucial roles in lung diseases. This study's purpose was to investigate the association between ser…

Despite constituting part of the human commensal flora, Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum has been recognized as a potentially infectious agent, most frequently in immunocompromised patients or individuals with other morbidity factors, but significant association to comorbid states remains unproven. This study's pur…

A paper published in this journal, "Measuring the short-term impact of fluoridation cessation on dental caries in Grade 2 children using tooth surface indices," by McLaren et al had shortcomings in study design and interpretation of results, and did not include important pertinent data. Its pre-post cross-sectiona…

miRNA deregulation has been found to promote carcinogenesis. Little is known about miRNA deregulation in hereditary breast tumors as no miRNA expression profiling studies have been performed in normal breast tissue of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. miRNA profiles of 17 BRCA1- and 9 BRCA2-associated breast carcinoma…

BACKGROUND: Begun in 1947 and still ongoing, the epidemiological study of heart disease known as the Framingham study was one of the first prospective studies based on a large cohort and has rapidly been considered as the prototype and model for the cohort study. Nevertheless, an examination of its history reveals that…

BACKGROUND: Climate change increasingly impacts health, particularly of rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa due to their limited resources for adaptation. Understanding these impacts remains a challenge, as continuous monitoring of vital signs in such populations is limited. Wearable devices (wearables) present a v…

PURPOSE: The present study's purpose was to examine the size and location of the thyroid gland using anatomic dissection methods on fetal cadavers. METHODS: This study was performed on 200 spontaneously aborted human fetuses (100 males and 100 females) aged between 9 and 40 weeks of gestation. Fetuses without any exte…

OBJECTIVE: Despite advancements in treatment, multiple myeloma (MM) remains a challenging hematologic malignancy. It is crucial to stratify risk and perform prognostic assessment with various markers, including the expression of cluster of differentiation 56 (CD56) and cluster of differentiation 117 (CD117). However, t…

Research assessing the effects of mouthpieces on an individual's aerobic, anaerobic, or muscular performance have attributed cited improvements to the participant's ability to jaw clench. Jaw clenching research finds positive outcomes with the task of jaw clenching with targeted muscle groups in a controlled laboratory…

This study's aim was to examine selected objectively-measured and child specific built environment attributes in relation to proportion of out-of-school time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (%MVPA) and active travel in a group of ethnically and socio-economically diverse children (n=236) living in Auckl…