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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…

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…

Health care professionals' adoption of evidence-based practice (EBP) remains limited, although most health care professionals are familiar with EBP and believe in its value. This systematic review aimed to bring together the best methods used to teach EBP to health professionals. The authors conducted a systematic sear…

AIMS: To conduct a systematic review to identify types and implications of incorrect or incomplete coding or classification within diabetes or between diabetes and other conditions; also to determine the availability of evidence regarding frequency of occurrence. METHODS: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and free-text…

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…

: Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a routinely available blood marker that measures platelet size and activation, and it has been evaluated as a potential marker for thyroid malignancies. Platelets participate in tumor genesis through angiogenesis, immune evasion, and metastasis, making them plausible adjuncts for cancer…

INTRODUCTION: Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection drives T cells into a dysfunctional state due to persistent antigen exposure. This state persists despite viral clearance with previously used interferon-based treatments. Treatment exclusively with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), introduced in 2014, has revoluti…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this systematic review was to provide a comprehensive and detailed review of structural and methodological assumptions in model-based cost-effectiveness analyses of systemic metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) treatments, and discuss their potential impact on health economic outcome estimates. ME…

OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the literature relating to the impact of multiple co-occurring modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia. DESIGN: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature relating to the impact of co-occurring key risk factors for incident cognitive decline and demen…

DATA SOURCES: Elsevier's Scopus, Web of Science and Pubmed through Medline identified 431 articles, which were reduced to 206 when duplicates were removed. 8 articles were screened, and 1 excluded after reading the full-text, leaving 7 studies. 6 of these were randomised controlled trials, and 1 a non-randomised contro…

BACKGROUND: The occurrence of freezing of gait (FOG) is often observed in moderate to last-stage Parkinson's disease (PD), leading to a high risk of falls. The emergence of the wearable device has offered the possibility of FOG detection and falls of patients with PD allowing high validation in a low-cost way. OBJECTI…

We combine analytical understanding of resonant dynamics in two-planet systems with machine-learning techniques to train a model capable of robustly classifying stability in compact multiplanet systems over long timescales of [Formula: see text] orbits. Our Stability of Planetary Orbital Configurations Klassifier (SPOC…

INTRODUCTION: American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities continue to flourish and innovate in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Storytelling is an important tradition for AIAN communities that can function as an intervention modality. To support the needs of AIAN children and caregivers, we (a collaborative…