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BACKGROUND: Families and clinicians need more information about complications associated with congenital pulmonary malformations (CPMs) to engage in shared decision-making about surgery for asymptomatic children. The study's aim was to prospectively describe symptoms in children with a CPM and to identify markers assoc…

OBJECTIVE: Decades of research have established how to measure metacognition (i.e., awareness of one's cognitive abilities), whereas relatively little is known about how to assess the integrity of financial awareness (FA; awareness of one's financial abilities), a related construct with practical implications for vulne…

UNLABELLED: IntroductionQTc prolongation has been reported in adults following cardiopulmonary bypass; however, this phenomenon has not been studied in children with congenital cardiac disease. This study's aim was to formally assess QTc in children undergoing cardiac surgery. METHODS: Pre-operative and post-operative…

OBJECTIVE: assessment of the in hospital death among the patients with healthcare associated infection (HA1) provoked by multi drug resistant strains (MDR) ofP. aeruginosa or A. baumanii. METHODS: enrolled in the study were patients with bloodstream, surgical site and urinary tract HAI infection, reported during 2006-…

BACKGROUND: Many alcohol treatment outcome studies exclude some patients with particular problems, such as psychiatric disorders, noncompliance, and homelessness. Such criteria may increase the likelihood of a study being successfully conducted, but may also have the unintended consequence of reducing a study's ability…

BACKGROUND: In the absence of well-powered, randomised, direct-comparison trials, indirect comparisons are the only option for comparing treatment strategies. Several methodologies have been developed and each has sparked criticism. Using direct comparisons of escitalopram versus venlafaxine extended release (XR), we e…

UNLABELLED: To the authors' knowledge, no outcome-based, randomized clinical trial of the safety of opioid analgesics in acute abdominal pain exists. OBJECTIVES: 1) To assess the feasibility of a randomized clinical trial of opioid safety by estimating the adverse outcome rate among patients with abdominal pain severe…

BACKGROUND: The recent human monkeypox (mpox) outbreak in 2022 has become a serious concern due to its rapid expansion to various non-endemic countries. There is limited information about the knowledge regarding mpox among the Bangladeshi population. Therefore, this study's objectives were to: (i) determine the level o…

Video-Based Learning (VBL) is growing in popularity across various industries, specifically healthcare, for learning procedural skills. Videos offer benefits by providing captivating learning experiences and minimizing the necessity for lengthy in-class explanations. Nevertheless, conventional videos frequently lack cr…

BACKGROUND: Patients in the urology ward often require peripheral intravenous catheters for cancer chemotherapy, antibiotics to treat urinary tract infections, surgery, and other treatments. Moreover, as the elderly population within urology has a high incidence of cancer, many patients also have fragile vasculature. P…

OBJECTIVES: The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is an important public health issue. However, few studies have investigated the perceptions and attitudes of healthcare professionals toward its applications in nursing. This study aimed to explore the knowledge, attitudes, and concerns of health…

BACKGROUND: Some social networks, such as Twitter (now known as X), have proven to be very useful for sharing and discussing multiple aspects related to the healthcare field. However, the use of Twitter as a method of communication and knowledge transfer to nursing students has been limited. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate th…

BACKGROUND: Chronic urticaria (CU) carries many risk factors for osteoporosis, but data on the relationships between CU and osteoporosis are lacking. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the association between CU and osteoporosis in a large community-based study. METHODS: A nationwide observational longitudinal cohort study was…

OBJECTIVE: Higher serum melatonin levels have previously been found in patients with severe sepsis who died within 30 days of diagnosis than in survivors. The objective of our study were to determine whether serum melatonin levels during the first seven days of severe sepsis diagnosis could be associated with sepsis se…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess educator views on the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by IPE facilitators and to explore their attitudes toward and experiences with non-clinician facilitators of IPE activities, particularly health sciences librarians. METHODS: This qualitative study utiliz…

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted human resource gaps and physician shortages in healthcare systems in New Brunswick (NB), as evidenced by multiple healthcare service interruptions. In addition, the New Brunswick Health Council gathered data from citizens on the type of primary care models (i.e. physici…

AIM: The present study's aim was to assess the pattern of palatine ridges/rugae to identify gender. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study consists of a total of 50 participants (25 males and 25 females). Participants of the age range of 20 to 50 years were selected from the outpatient department. According to the shape an…

BACKGROUND: Anemia of prematurity is invariably observed in very low birth weight infants and may become symptomatic enough to be treated with packed red cell transfusions. Recently, treatment of this condition with recombinant human erythropoietin has been advocated. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: To compare the costs of…

BACKGROUND: Health leaders globally, especially those in Iran, bear the significant responsibility of ensuring healthcare quality for individuals with diabetes. As a result, conducting comprehensive studies to gain insights into various aspects of diabetes management and developing research-based models and strategies…

RATIONALE: Increased exposure to particulate air pollution (PM(10)) is a risk factor for death and hospitalization with cardiovascular disease. It has been suggested that the nanoparticulate component of PM(10) is capable of translocating into the circulation with the potential for direct effects on the vasculature. O…