Exploring risk, antecedents and human costs of living with a retained surgical item: A narrative synthesis of Australian case law 1981–2018 by Sonya Osborne, Tina Cockburn, Juliet Davis

“…Five case reports indicated possible deviations from standard protocols regarding counting procedures and record-keeping. In the four cases that reported on count status, the count was deemed correct at the end of surgery. …”
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Empirical Verification of the Existence and Functioning of Internal Controls in the Preparation of a Consolidated Property Balance Sheet for the State and Municipalities in Sloveni... by Jasna Ida Zafred

“…The results in the component of following showed that in several places audits of the procedure of preparation of property balance sheets were not performed.…”
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Unterricht in der hebräischen Sprache in Siebenbürgen im 17. Jahrhundert: Das Collegium Academicum und János Apáczai Csere by János MOLNÁR

“…The study relates about the economic and intellectual procedures and steps to follow in the foundation of the institution, closer about the teaching staff. …”
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Resident and faculty expectations for resident PGY performance for laparoscopic cholecystectomy by J.S. Broecker, S. Lund, M. Rivera, S. McLaughlin, E. Littleton

“…While Entrusted Professional Activities (EPAs) were recently developed and nationally implemented to measure progressive levels of competency for surgery residents, little guidance exists regarding when residents should be given autonomy during specific steps of commonly performed procedures, such as laparoscopic cholecystectomy. We aimed to define faculty and resident expectations for the progression of resident autonomy while performing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. …”
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A Retrospective Descriptive Study on Caesarean Isthmocele: A Delayed and Under-recognised Complication of Caesarean Section by Maneesha Shrivastava, Varuna Pathak, Sushruta Shrivastava

“…The recorded variables included demographic details, clinical presentations, prior treatments, diagnostic interventions, types of surgical procedures performed and patient outcomes. Descriptive statistics, such as means, standard deviations and frequencies, were used to summarise patient characteristics and outcomes. …”
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Metabolic syndrome prevalence and cardiovascular disease risk among school teachers by Mona Abdallah Ramadan, Aisha Safwat Saif Eldeen, Basma Hussein Mourad

“…Socio-demographic, occupational, and medical data were collected. Standard procedures were employed to assess fasting blood glucose (FBG), and lipid profile. …”
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Evaluation of the efficacy of Er,Cr:YSGG laser in Treating oral benign soft tissue lesions by Zainab Fadhil Odah, Hanan Jafer Taher, Ammar Saleh AlAlawi

“…Managing benign oral soft tissue lesions presents a clinical challenge, often requiring invasive procedures with associated drawbacks. The Er,Cr:YSGG laser has emerged as a potential solution, given its precision and minimal tissue disruption in other medical contexts. …”
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Sensitivity and Specificity of Pulse Oximetry for Congenital Heart Disease Screening in Newborn: A Meta-Analysis by Ilma Syifannisa, Raden Ayu Libert Gatho Reza Valentine, Dodo Islamuddin Khomara Rangkuti

“… Background: Early detection for Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) using pulse oximetry is a routine procedure for newborn. Pulse Oximetry Screening (POS) has been shown to be effective in detecting CHD. …”
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Repair of gastro-tracheobronchial fistula after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer using intercostal muscle and latissimus dorsi muscle flaps: a case report by Kazushi Miyata, Masahide Fukaya, Masato Nagino

“…We concluded that the fistula would not resolve without further surgical procedure. However, such an operation was expected to be difficult and to need much time due to severe adhesion among the gastric conduit and/or trachea, bronchus, lung, and chest wall. …”
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Diagnosis of endometrial hyperplasia in routine gynecological practice by Ye. M. Poliakova, N. S. Lutsenko, N. V. Haidai

“…All the patients were divided into 2 groups based on the TVS results before the procedure. Group 1 included 71 women with preoperative diagnosis of endometrial hyperplasia. …”
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A Novel Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme Capable of Protecting and Authenticating Images With Tamper Detection and Localisation Abilities by Sunpreet Sharma, Ju Jia Zou, Gu Fang

“…The robust watermark’s embedding is achieved in the frequency domain, wherein the frequency coefficients are selected using a novel mean-based coefficient selection procedure. Subsequently, the selected coefficients are manipulated in equal proportion to embed the robust watermark. …”
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Adapting new norms: A mixed-method study exploring mental well-being challenges in dental technology education. by Galvin Sim Siang Lin, Wen Wu Tan, Kah Hoay Chua, Jong-Eun Kim, Jin Gan, Mohd Haikal Muhamad Halil

“…The second theme had four sub-themes: "Fear of being infected", "Fear of being stigmatized", "Increased vigilance in personal safety measures", and "Confusion about standard operating procedure". The third theme included sub-themes: "Fear of another lockdown" and "Concerns about timely completion of academic requirements".…”
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Sensitivity analysis and calibration of a semi-distributed HBV model in the data-limited and regulated Nile River Basin by Mohammed Refaat Elgendy, Sonia Hassini, Paulin Coulibaly

“…We then investigated five different calibration approaches, which are based on subbasin types (natural or regulated), calibration procedure, and dam operation rules’ simulation method, at fifteen subbasin outlets. …”
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Immersive solutions: South African community service nurses' perspectives on virtual reality potential in hypertension management by Jayd Brittany Vitorino Clara, Charlene Downing, Patrick Ndayizigamiye, Pieter Herman Myburgh

“…In the second phase, participants were exposed to the VR environment, where they were prompted by the programmed patient avatar to perform several nursing diagnostic procedures and interpret the clinical data provided in order to formulate a nursing diagnosis. …”
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a scale Moral integrity the teacher kindergarten of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq) Constructing and applying) by Kurdistan Azeez Selman, Salwa Ahmad Ameen

“…Where it was chosen by stratified random method, and after conducting the scale building procedures, the researcher built a scale to measure mental toughness consisting of (69) self-reporting items, distributed over (5) components, which included each of: Moral Discernment: (13, items), Consistent Behavior (14, items), Public Justification: (13, items), Empathy Respect (15, items), Social Compatibility (14, items), and it consists of (5) five answer alternatives, which extracted the appropriate psychometric properties of the scale items, which included: (discriminatory power, validity item, and reliability item), and the psychometric properties of the scale were extracted, which included: (face validity and constrict validity), and reliability: (The method of re-testing and the alpha-Cronbach equation), and to apply the scale in its final form, the researcher chose the applied sample from the original Population at a rate of (10%), as its number was (274) teacher, which were chosen by the stratified random method, by depending on Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) to analyze the data, the current research reached the most important results according to The objectives of the research included the following: Constructing a scale Moral integrity the teacher kindergarten  of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq which consists of (69) self-reporting items and is characterized by proper psychometric properties, And the teacher kindergarten  of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are characterized by mental toughness in general and at a high level, and in conclusion and in light of the results of the research, the researcher reached some recommendations and suggestions. …”
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Optimized Purification Processes for Isolation and Modification of Oligosaccharides from Rathi Cow’s Milk by Desh Deepak A. P. Singh Chauhan, Sana Akhtar Usmani, Sarita Chauhan, Ashutosh Singh, Desh Deepak

“…Purification and characterization of milk oligosaccharides is a challenging process due to the complexity of the constituent oligosaccharides, which behave differently under various chemical treatment procedures and often lose their structural properties in the process. …”
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Effect of Plant Biomass Adsorbents on the Disposition of Cyanide in Wistar Rats Exposed to Sublethal Dose of Cyanide by Casimir C. Ofor, Godwin C Akuodor, Uchenna D Mbah, Mansur A Ramalan, Donatus O Anele, Eugene O Ohanme, Anthony U Megwas, Benjamin N Nwakelu, Uzochukwu Ofonakara, Daniel O Aja

“…Blood samples were collected serially from the albino rats in each group for cyanide assays following standard procedures. Data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), followed by Bonferroni post hoc test using SPSS software, version 24.0. …”
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Barriers impeding research data sharing on chronic disease prevention among the older adults in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review by Neema Florence Vincent Mosha, Patrick Ngulube

“…A PRISMA flow chart was used to map out the number of studies that were identified, included, and excluded.ResultsFive main barriers were consistently highlighted, including a lack of necessary resources (9, 69%), dealing with complex and sensitive research data (2,15%), lack of policies, procedures, guidelines (5,38%), medical big data processing and integration (2,15%), and inadequate ethical considerations, legal compliance, and privacy protection (6,46%). …”
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HAPLOIDENTICAL TRANSPLANT WITH POST-TRANSPLANT CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA AND MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES PATIENTS: THE ROLE OF PREVIOUS LINES OF THERAPY. by Daniele Avenoso, Fabio Serpenti, Liron Barnea Slonim, Styliani Bouziana, Francesco Dazzi, Guy Hannah, Michelle Kenyon, Varun Mehra, Austin Kulasekararaj, Pramila Krishnamurthy, Mili Naresh Shah, Sharon Lionel, Antonio Pagliuca, Victoria Potter

“…Post-transplant cyclophosphamide administration allows for selection of haploidentical donors in patients who are eligible for the procedure, but do not have a fully matched donor, since it can overcome the HLA barrier. …”
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Solid-state calculations for iterative refinement in quantum crystallography using the multipole model by Michael Patzer, Christian W. Lehmann

“…This refinement method is comparable to other transferable form factor approaches, such as the Invariom model, but in contrast to the Hirshfeld atom refinement, it uses theoretical multipole parameters to describe the electron density from a solid-state calculation performed with CRYSTAL17 in an iterative refinement procedure. For this purpose, a Python3 code named ReCrystal has been developed. …”
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