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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…

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…

INTRODUCTION: Targeted temperature management (TTM) is recommended for cardiac arrest patients. Successful implementation of a TTM protocol depends on the nurses' knowledge and skills. The study's aim was to compare the level of knowledge, psychomotor skills, confidence and satisfaction before, immediately after and at…

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…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Sharing individual participant data (IPD) among researchers, on request, is an ethical and responsible practice. Despite numerous calls for this practice to be standard, however, research indicates that primary study authors are often unwilling to share IPD, even for use in a meta-analysis. T…

BACKGROUND: It is currently unclear if the three manometric patterns of esophageal achalasia represent distinct entities or part of a disease continuum. The study's aims were: a) to test the hypothesis that the three patterns represent different stages in the evolution of achalasia; b) to investigate whether manometric…

BACKGROUND: Family dysfunction has been proposed as one of the environmental mechanisms whereby risk of depression is transmitted from mothers to their children. Using our sample of offspring at high and low familial risk for depression, we hypothesized that: a) high-risk offspring (n = 79) and their mothers will repor…

OBJECTIVE: pre-morbid patient conditions and hospitalization complications possibly play a role in status epilepticus short-term outcome, although evidence is incomplete and non-conclusive. The study's aim was to define whether comorbidities and in-hospital complications arising after status epilepticus affect its prog…

PURPOSE: To examine the extent and source of occupational violence and aggression (OVA) experienced by nursing and caring professionals. This study also examines the relative contributions of demographic characteristics and workplace and individual safety factors in predicting OVA. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study desi…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to calculate the incidence and prevalence of radiating low back pain, to explore the long-term clinical course of radiating low back pain including the influence of radiculopathy (in a subsample of the study population) and non-radiating low back pain thereon, and to describe genera…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Urine eosinophils (UEs) have been shown to correlate with acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) but the four largest series that investigated the test characteristics did not use kidney biopsy as the gold standard. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: This is a retrospective study of…

HYPOTHESIS: Resection of the gallbladder together with the dilated bile duct is the preferred treatment for pancreaticobiliary maljunction (PBM) with bile duct dilatation, whereas this treatment for PBM without bile duct dilatation is still controversial. DESIGN: Retrospective study of 196 patients from January 1979 t…

OBJECTIVES: Patient safety and safer practices are central themes to many national strategies for accountability. The multinational Quality Indicator Project (QI Project) database is used to identify patterns of indicator use to measure safety of care in Asia, Europe, and the USA. The second objective is to assess, wit…

A prospective study of 28 growing children (mean age of 8 years 3 months) with Class III malocclusions was consecutively treated using rapid maxillary expansion and maxillary protraction. All patients were treated from a negative overjet to a positive overjet and from a Class III dental malocclusion to a Class I dental…

BACKGROUND: Rubber latex hypersensitivity is an important concern for health care workers. PURPOSE: The Center for Devices and Radiological Health, in collaboration with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, conducted a multicenter study of the prevalence of latex-specific IgE antibodies among United States hospital…

OBJECTIVES: Stress due to experiences of racism could contribute to African-American women's adverse birth outcomes, but systematic efforts to measure relevant experiences among childbearing women have been limited. We explored the racism experiences of childbearing African-American women to inform subsequent developme…

This paper presents a mixed-method approach to analyzing news media, combining quantitative linguistic metrics with qualitative discourse frameworks. We first extract linguistic features such as quotations, readability levels, and lexical richness, then perform named entity recognition and topic modeling. To add depth,…

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The study's aim was to gain more knowledge about patient transportation from the perspective of taxi drivers. This knowledge is important to improve the quality of patient transitions. Nurses are responsible for ensuring the needs of patients during transport, admission, discharge and recovery. ME…

Psychophysiological research is an inherently complex undertaking due to the nature of the data, and its analysis is characterized by many decision points that shape the final dataset and a study's findings. These decisions create a "multiverse" of possible outcomes, and each decision from study conceptualization to st…