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BACKGROUND: The scientific meetings disseminate the results of the latest research. However, if the presented work is not published later, the information is lost. OBJECTIVE: To know and compare the fate of the abstracts produced by our nephrology community that were submitted to the Instituto Mexicano de Investigacio…

UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Evidence implementation refers to the application of appropriate enabling strategies to improve clinician engagement with the best available evidence. To date, little attention has been paid to evidence implementation in disciplines such as naturopathy. This study addresses this…

Shared decision making (SDM) is a central component of patient-centered care; however, a minimal amount is known about what health care chaplains contribute to this process. Data from 463 full-time chaplains practicing in the United States collected by an online survey was analyzed using SPSS 26 for bivariate and multi…

Adult spinal ependymoma presents a rare low-grade tumor entity. Due to its incidence peak in the fourth decade of life, it mostly affects patients during a professionally and physically active time of life. We performed a retrospective monocentric study, including all patients operated upon for spinal ependymoma betwee…

BACKGROUND: Informed consent discussions have been identified as a core entrustable professional activity for medical students by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Medical students, however, rarely receive formal instruction on how to appropriately conduct informed consent discussions before residency, resu…

BACKGROUND: A Mental Health Task Force (MHTF) was developed in a large public college of nursing in the Southeastern United States to address the urgent mental health needs expressed by growing numbers of nursing students related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). AIMS: The purpose of this study was to report…

Residual tumor after curative intent therapy in patients with Ewing's sarcoma is of great clinical significance. Surgeons use the resection margin to indicate the completeness of a surgical excision. However, this margin may be either nonviable/necrotic or viable. This systematic review examines the 5-year event-free s…

The assembly of the HIV-1 immature capsid (HIC) is an essential step in the virus life cycle. In vivo, the HIC is composed of [Formula: see text] hexameric building blocks, and it takes 5-6 min to complete the assembly process. The involvement of numerous building blocks and the rapid timecourse makes it difficult…

INTRODUCTION: This article describes the evaluation of a prototype speech-input interface to an anaesthesia patient record, conducted in a full-scale anaesthesia simulator involving six doctor-nurse anaesthetist teams. OBJECTIVE: The aims of the experiment were, first, to assess the potential advantages and disadvanta…

OBJECTIVE: Natural language processing (NLP) can identify cohorts of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) from free text. However, limited sharing of code, models, and data sets continues to hinder progress. The aim of this study was to evaluate multiple open-source NLP models for identifying IBD cohorts, rep…

IMPORTANCE: Rapid and accurate diagnosis of late-onset infection in newborn infants could inform treatment decisions and avoid unnecessary administration of antibiotics. OBJECTIVE: To compare the accuracy of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) with that of microbiological blood culture for diagnosing late-onset infection i…

IMPORTANCE: Counseling prior to thyroid cancer (TC) treatment is an essential component of informed consent. An informed patient affects treatment-related expectations and patient engagement, factors that contribute significantly to patient-reported quality-of-life outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To describe experiences with pre…

BACKGROUND: At emergency medical dispatch centres (EMDCs) telephone triage takes place in three steps: identifying the event, assessing the caller’s need for support, and prioritizing the response. Some calls are considered to be more difficult to handle than others, and decision support systems may in these sit…

INTRODUCTION: Tumour growth has been used to successfully predict progression-free survival in low-grade glioma. This systematic review sought to establish the evidence base regarding the correlation of volumetric growth rates with histological diagnosis and potential to predict clinical outcome in patients with mening…

OBJECTIVES: To review the literature and provide an updated summary on the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in male infertility. METHODS: A review of PubMed, Cochrane review, and Web of Science databases for full-text English-language articles published between 1943 and 2017 was performed, focusing on the aetiolo…

INTRODUCTION: At the University of Fukui Hospital, a national university corporation in Japan, an original rotation-based training program is implemented for newly graduated nurses. In this educational program, nurses rotate through several hospital wards before being permanently assigned to one. Each rotation requires…

OBJECTIVES: Fentanyl is a highly potent opioid and has, until recently, been considered an unwanted contaminant in the street drug supply among people who use drugs (PWUD). However, it has become a drug of choice for an increasing number of individuals. This systematic review evaluated intentional non-medical fentanyl…

INTRODUCTION: Treatment-related attributes and process characteristics such as dosing frequency, timing flexibility, ease of use of injection devices and unpleasant side-effects may have small but measurable effects on quality of life (QoL) in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). A literature review was performed to iden…

BACKGROUND: Strokes are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. People with a lower socioeconomic position (SEP) (i.e. with regards to education, income and occupation) are at a higher risk of having a stroke and have worse clinical outcomes compared to the general population. Good knowledge levels about stroke r…