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PURPOSE: Protracted in-patient stays affect trauma patient costs and hospital resource utilizations. Proper discharge placement stratification may help with early discharge planning in this group of patients. No standardized discharge destination prediction model exists. A scoring model has been developed after examini…

OBJECTIVE: Due to their medical vulnerability, youngsters with congenital heart disease (CHD) may experience more overwhelming emotions than healthy peers. This multi-informant-based study aims to examine differences between these youngsters and their peers in psychosocial functioning, attachment and emotion regulation…

BACKGROUND: Self-esteem refers to the evaluative and affective dimensions of the self-concept and is important for positive mental health and overall functioning during adolescence. The Rosenberg Self-esteem scale (RSES) is one of the most frequently used and widely accepted instruments assessing self-esteem; however,…

OBJECTIVE: This cross-sectional study investigates the immediate psychological effects of disaster relief operations on team members following 2 consecutive major earthquakes in Turkey. METHODS: A total of 170 participants, including professional firefighters, search and rescue (SAR) workers, and volunteers, were surv…

PURPOSE: This study aimed to investigate the variables that affect early adolescents' parents' digital self-efficacy and digital parenting awareness. DESIGN AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted between May and June 2022, with a sample of 2402 parents. Data were collected using a Parent Information Form,…

This study's goal is to evaluate if there is a causal connection between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), despite past epidemiological studies suggesting an association between the 2 disorders. The impact of RA on AMD is still unknown. Mendelian randomization (MR) was utilized in th…

PURPOSE: Recent publications have suggested incorporating coronal diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) sequences and axial DWI sequences to enhance the detection of posterior fossa infarcts (PFIs). This study evaluated the utility of coronal DWIs compared with axial DWIs for assessing PFIs in the emergency department (ED).…

BACKGROUND: This study compared sugammadex and neostigmine as agents for routine neuromuscular blockade reversal in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) to determine the optimal choice that achieves a shorter operation time and improved turnover efficiency while enhancing postoperative outcomes and ensuring pati…

BACKGROUND: Globally, the burden of maternal malnutrition remains an enormous public health problem; malnourished pregnant women are at increased risk of having low-birth-weight (LBW) infants. Several reports suggest a possible association between malnutrition among lactating mothers and the production of smaller quant…

OBJECTIVE: The masticatory function is intricately linked to several factors like natural teeth count, occlusion, masticatory muscles, and tongue coordination. This study's goal was to formulate a comprehensive masticatory function model, considering sarcopenia's conceptual structure, and subsequently validate its meas…

AIM: The study's main objective was to use a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to identify the configuration of recipes that predict nurses' safety compliance behaviour. DESIGN: A cross-sectional design. METHODS: A survey was used where questionnaires were collected from 285 nurses across four primary health…

BACKGROUND: Low cardiac power (product of flow and pressure) has been shown to be associated with mortality in patients with cardiogenic shock after acute myocardial infarction, but has not been studied in cardiac surgical patients. This study's hypothesis was that cardiac power during cardiopulmonary bypass for cardia…

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is the most common cause of prolonged hospitalization with a high cost of care due to unsatisfactory outcomes with the current mode of therapy. Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) is a new technology in the care of nonhealing wounds. The study's main objective was to compare the healing pa…

PURPOSE: To assess which patient factors and procedure-related factors contribute to hypoxemia during esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and determine whether prophylactic oropharyngeal suctioning reduces the rate of hypoxemia when compared to oropharyngeal suctioning when clinically indicated by patient's coughing or se…

Sex differences in anatomy and physiology are the primary underlying factor for distinctions in running performance. Overall participation in recreational running events has been dominated by males, although increasing female participation has been reported in recent years. The NURMI study participants filled in a surv…

BACKGROUND: The mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is necessary for the morbidity of tuberculosis (TB), but it is insufficient. Many risk factors increase the risk of disease among infected people. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of modifiable risk factors of TB and their related population attributable fraction (PAF…

INTRODUCTION: Correct and prompt diagnosis is essential for the appropriate management of patients. Often, children and their caretakers cannot provide a reliable history to allow clinicians to determine the cause of the pain. This study's objective was to find out the prevalence of abnormal ultrasonographic findings a…

In the face of the contemporary COVID-19 pandemic, health service providers have emerged as the most at-risk individuals who are likely to contract the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).To measure the prevalence of fibromyalgia (FM) during COVID outbreak among health workers in Saudi Arabia u…

OBJECTIVE: This study's primary objective was to evaluate the impact of a pharmacist-led educational program on undergraduate college students' knowledge about PrEP. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional, pre- and postprogram survey study. The study included undergraduate students at least 18 years old at a university i…

PURPOSE: Many offenders struggle when attempting to reintegrate into society after release from prison, and the conditions they face after release often lead to reoffending. The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual model on reintegration after prison. The model has the potential to guide practitioners in th…