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BACKGROUND: De-identification and anonymization are strategies that are used to remove patient identifiers in electronic health record data. The use of these strategies in multicenter research studies is paramount in importance, given the need to share electronic health record data across multiple environments and inst…

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the scientific literature on distance education programs for parents/caregivers in the development of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). RESEARCH METHOD: the PICO strategy was used to identify the research problem. The databases Medline, ERIC, LILACs, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, an…

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is a full-text article database that extends the functionality of the original PubMed Central (PMC) repository. The UKPMC project was launched as the first 'mirror' site to PMC, which in analogy to the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, aims to provide international pres…

INTRODUCTION: Limited awareness exists regarding real-world data (RWD) for palbociclib in patients with hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced/metastatic breast cancer in populations from certain countries outside of Western regions. METHODS: A systematic scoping review w…

Case finding for epidemiologic registries still relies mainly on a manual process. In this paper, we show that retrieval information tools could be a complementary way to identify cases for a pediatric malformation registry. We developed a full-text and metadata search engine plugged to a clinical documents repository…

OBJECTIVE: Gallbladder perforation is a rare but life threatening complication of acute cholecystitis. Aim of this study is to present our clinical experience with gallbladder perforation. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Thirty-seven of retrospectively reviewed 1042 acute cholecystitis patients were found to have gallbladder (G…

Aseptic technique forms a component of standard precautions and is a foundational concept in nursing practice. The application of that standard appears to vary between context and nurse. The variation of principles and application between facilities and individuals may reflect the current disparity in evidence-based li…

AIM: review the literature for studies that describe the language development of children after they receive cochlear implants. RESEARCH STRATEGIES: Literature review on the PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Science Direct databases, tracing the selection and critical analysis stages in the journals found and select…

We calculated the impact factor (IF) of the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) for the 1994-2003 period, ie, including the years before its inclusion into the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) database in 1999. There was a latency period of several years from the inclusion of the Journal in indexing databases to th…

Both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and sudden cardiac death (SCD) are major health burdens. A number of studies have addressed their interrelationship, but currently no systematic review has been published. Our objective is to give an overview of the literature of the association between COPD and SCD. A…

The surface properties of titanium dental implants, such as wettability and surface free energy, influence the adhesion of microorganisms responsible for inflammation and infection of peri-implant tissues. This systematic review aimed to investigate the relationship of titanium surface treatments, surface free energy/w…

OBJECTIVE: Gender-harassment is well-described in academic medicine, including pediatrics. We explored academic pediatricians' qualitative descriptions of: 1) workplace gender-harassment; 2) its professional and emotional tolls; 3) barriers to and outcomes of reporting gender-harassment; and 4) tools to intervene. MET…

BACKGROUND: Computerized decision support systems have raised a lot of hopes and expectations in the field of order entry. Although there are numerous studies reporting positive impacts, concerns are increasingly high about alert fatigue and effective impacts of these systems. One of the root causes of fatigue alert re…

BACKGROUND: Postmarketing teratogen surveillance is essential and requires a data source that can reliably capture a wide range of congenital malformations. The UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD) may have the potential to be used for this kind of surveillance. OBJECTIVE: To assess the extent to which this da…

INTRODUCTION: Little evidence exists regarding the benefits and disadvantages of adult-sized instruments for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in pediatric patients. This systematic review aims to clarify the safety and efficacy of this approach. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a systematic literature review usi…

(Table is included in full-text article). The suitability of oats as part of a gluten-free diet is controversial. Contamination of many oats products with wheat, rye and particularly barley, together with inadequacy of available gluten-testing systems may account, at least in part, for the confusion. Some clear evidenc…

BACKGROUND:  In 1986, Marko Godina published his seminal work regarding the timing of free-flap reconstruction for traumatic extremity defects. Early reconstruction, compared with delayed and late reconstruction resulted in significant decreases in free-flap failure rate, post-operative infections, hospitalizati…

Interventional strategies for dealing with microvascular free flap failure are varied among institutions and even individual surgeons. This systematic review aims to identify the published methods for salvaging a failing free flap and provide surgeons with a comprehensive toolset for successful intervention. A title an…

OBJECTIVES: This review examined how to best communicate and disseminate evidence, including uncertain evidence, to inform health care decisions. The review focused on three primary objectives--comparing the effectiveness of: (1) communicating evidence in various contents and formats that increase the likelihood that t…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the role of cancer stem cell biomarkers in diagnosis and prognosis of OSCC patients. METHODS: The search strategy was entered into PubMed NLM, EBSCO CINAHL, EBSCO Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source, Wiley Cochrane Library, and Scopus. The full text eligible studies (n=7) were assessed for their q…