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We sought to systematically analyze the influence of dose of pain rehabilitation programs (PRPs) for patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) on disability, work participation, and quality of life (QoL). Literature searches were performed in PubMed, Cochrane Library, Cinahl, and Embase up to October 2012, using MeSH…

CONTEXT: In the last few years, the treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has progressed significantly, and some histopathologic issues have become important for selection and follow-up after medical and surgical therapies. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this collaborative article is to review the most recent literature on t…

Sparse energy functions that ignore long range interactions between residue pairs are frequently used by protein design algorithms to reduce computational cost. Current dynamic programming algorithms that fully exploit the optimal substructure produced by these energy functions only compute the GMEC. This disproportion…

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…

OBJECTIVES: National fatality rates for commercial tow truck operators exceed those of other first responders who also perform traffic incident management services. The objectives of the current study are to (1) characterize causal factors associated with injuries among commercial tow truck operators engaged in roadsid…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether application of a rigid dressing (RD) to the residual limb soon after transtibial amputation reduces the time from amputation to the first prosthetic casting/fitting compared with the residual limb managed with a soft dressing (SD). DATA SOURCES: Studies in humans were identified by a…

The objective of this study was to compare how well medical professionals are able to retrieve relevant literature references using two computerized literature searching systems that provide automated (non-human) indexing of content. The first program was SAPHIRE, which features concept-based indexing, free-text input…

BACKGROUND: Blood Perfusion is a key factor in the development and healing of wounded tissues including Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU), a harmful chronic wound caused by diabetic neuropathy. Recent works have explored the use of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to non-invasively quantify the quality of blood perfusion with high…

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Parkinson's disease patients (PwPD) rely heavily on their family caregivers. However, there remains uncertainty regarding the subjective experience of the family caregivers of PwPD. This study aims to provide an in-depth summary of the current knowledge about the subjective experiences of family ca…

BACKGROUND: Although frailty of older people has been shown to be associated with numerous adverse health outcomes, evidence on healthcare costs associated with frailty is scarce. METHODS: Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, and AMED were electronically searched in January 2019 based on a protocol in accordance with the PRISMA…

OBJECTIVES: to determine the efficacy of the fascia iliaca block in providing analgesia to patients with a proximal femoral fracture in the emergency department. METHODS: EMBASE, PubMed, CINAHL and Google Scholar were searched. Free text keywords for population, intervention and outcome were identified to create a sea…

BACKGROUND: The use of a standard human sequence variant nomenclature is advocated by the Human Genome Variation Society in order to unambiguously describe genetic variants in databases and literature. There is a clear need for tools that allow the mining of data about human sequence variants and their functional conse…

AIM: Negative symptoms of schizophrenia (NSS) have been linked with poor functional outcomes. A literature review was performed to identify instruments used to assess functional outcomes and quality of life in clinical trials and observational studies conducted in groups of people with NSS. METHODS: Literature search…

OBJECTIVES: The transition from manual to automatic cephalometric landmark identification has not yet reached a consensus for clinical application in orthodontic diagnosis. The present umbrella review aimed to assess artificial intelligence (AI) performance in automatic 2D and 3D cephalometric landmark identification.…

OBJECTIVE: The impact of social determinants of health (SDoH) on patients' healthcare quality and the disparity is well known. Many SDoH items are not coded in structured forms in electronic health records. These items are often captured in free-text clinical notes, but there are limited methods for automatically extra…

The relaxation of photoexcited nanosystems is a fundamental process of light-matter interaction. Depending on the couplings of the internal degrees of freedom, relaxation can be ultrafast, converting electronic energy in a few fs, or slow, if the energy is trapped in a metastable state that decouples from its environme…

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of improving the attitude of dental students towards the use of a full-body patient simulation system (SIMROID) compared to the traditional mannequin (CLINSIM) for dental clinical education. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The participants were 10 male undergr…