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OBJECTIVES: In recent years, the management of dental caries has evolved significantly. Caries prevention, early detection, and a diagnosis based on risk indicators and risk factor assessments are the most current practical approaches. Furthermore, as proposed in minimally invasive dentistry, the new management approac…

BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews (SRs) are hindered by the initial rigorous article screen, which delays access to reliable information synthesis. OBJECTIVE: To develop generic prompt templates for large language model (LLM)-driven abstract and full-text screening that can be adapted to different reviews. DESIGN: Diagn…

PURPOSE: To assess the survival outcomes and reported complications of screw- and cement-retained fixed reconstructions supported on dental implants. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A Medline (PubMed), Embase, and Cochrane electronic database search from 2000 to September 2012 using MeSH and free-text terms was conducted. Sele…

BACKGROUND: Access to full-text articles is an essential element of evidence-based practice. OBJECTIVE: Estimate the percentage of articles in the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) that have free full-text access and compare free access between PEDro and PubMed. Secondary objectives for access via PEDro: determi…

Low-dose naltrexone (LDN) has been suggested as a novel treatment option for several conditions and is of increasing interest due to its potential ability to address certain medical conditions that lack effective treatments or frequently rely on the use of opioids as treatment. This article will synthesize evidenc…

References form the backbone of any medical literature. Presently, because of high inflation, it is very difficult for any library/organization/college to purchase all journals. The condition is even worse for an individual person, such as private practitioners. The solution lies in the free availability of full-text a…

INTRODUCTION: Using data in research often requires that the data first be de-identified, particularly in the case of health data, which often include Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and/or Personal Health Identifying Information (PHII). There are established procedures for de-identifying structured data, but d…

As of April 8, 2016, articles in Neurology® Genetics can be searched using PubMed. Launched in 1996, PubMed is a search engine that accesses citations and abstracts of more than 26 million articles. Its primary sources include the MEDLINE database, which was started in the 1960s, and biomedical and life sciences j…

ScienceCentral, a free or open access, full-text archive of scientific journal literature at the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, was under test in September 2013. Since it is a Journal Article Tag Suite-based full text database, extensible markup language files of all languages can be presented,…

Gait apraxia is most commonly a part of the Hakimov triad (gait apraxia, urinary incontinence, dementia) in normotensive hydrocephalus (NPH), although it may be a symptom of some other conditions. In our case the patient was a long term Parkinson's disease sufferer who developed normotensive hydrocephalus and consequen…

BACKGROUND: Temporal relations between clinical events play an important role in clinical assessment and decision making. Extracting such relations from free text data is a challenging task because it lies on between medical natural language processing, temporal representation and temporal reasoning. OBJECTIVES: To su…

In this retrospective clinical study, 6 cases of osteosarcoma of the bone have been analyzed. Five patients were with parosteal osteosarcoma and one with periosteal osteosarcoma. The study was performed at the Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery in Skopje, Macedonia, from 1995 to 2005. This tumor represents 1.5% of all prim…

Spondylodiscitis is the most common complication of sepsis or local infection, usually of an abscess. Very often it develops in patients immunocompromised by a malignant disease, infection, or during immunosupression for organ transplantations etc. Presently, the basic diagnostic examinations to establish spondylodisci…

BACKGROUND: Interoperability and secondary use of data is a challenge in health care. Specifically, the reuse of clinical free text remains an unresolved problem. The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) has become the universal language of health care and presents characteristics of a natur…

It is not so much the diagnosis that offers the surgeon a wide range of opportunities in the technical solutions of rectal prolapse. Currently there are at least 130 different techniques used in the surgical treatment of rectal prolapse and in fact none of these procedures has been shown most effective for any one pati…

BACKGROUND: Current digital medical databases record systematically coded diagnoses, but many legacy databases are full of hand-written, free text diagnoses, which can only be meaningfully analysed after mapping them to a coding system. While diagnoses can be extracted from full medical notes with good accuracy, no alg…

BACKGROUND: PubMed Central (PMC) is a freely accessible digital repository offering full-text biomedical literature with structured metadata. Despite its scale, its suitability as a resource for systematic reviews, particularly in medical research and education, remains underexplored. METHODS: We studied the proportio…