Identifying threshold concepts in postgraduate general practice training: a focus group, qualitative study by Katherine Hall, Anna Chae

“…Actively incorporating and teaching these identified TCs in PGME in general practice may enable trainees to grasp these important learning thresholds earlier and more easily and aid in identity and role formation.…”
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Implementation outcomes of HIV self-testing in low- and middle- income countries: A scoping review. by Adovich S Rivera, Ralph Hernandez, Regiel Mag-Usara, Karen Nicole Sy, Allan R Ulitin, Linda C O'Dwyer, Megan C McHugh, Neil Jordan, Lisa R Hirschhorn

“…Low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are taking steps to include HIV-ST into their national HIV/AIDS programs but very few reviews have focused on implementation in LMIC. …”
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The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios by Gabriela Silveira Neves, Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Roberta Maia de Castro Romanelli, Jannine dos Santos Nascimento, André Dias Sanglard, James Batchelor

“…While seven reports (30%) indicated that CXR is irreplaceable by other diagnostic tools for NRDS diagnosis, 10 studies (43%) found that alternative methods surpassed CXR in several respects, such as severity assessment, monitoring progress, predicting the need for surfactant therapy, foreseeing Continuous Positive Airway Pressure failure, anticipating intubation requirements, and aiding in differential diagnosis. Conclusion CXR remains an important diagnostic tool for NRDS. …”
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Performance of Large Language Models on the Korean Dental Licensing Examination: A Comparative Study by Woojun Kim, Bong Chul Kim, Han-Gyeol Yeom

“…Clinical Relevance: Our findings will aid in evaluating the feasibility of integrating LLMs into dentistry to improve the quality and availability of dental services by offering patient information that meets the basic competency standards of a dentist.…”
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Comparing Fluconazole and Nystatin as Antifungal Prophylactics in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Leila Asgarzadeh, Majid Mahallei, Manizheh Mostafa Gharehbaghi

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Cost-effectiveness and economic analysis of antibiotics: a comprehensive study utilizing ICER and ACER metrics by Prajnashree Acharya, Someshwar S. Karabasanawar, Anurag R. Sattigeri, Vasudev P. Pai, Laxmi B. Totar, Sanatkumar Bharamu Nyamagoud

“…Background: Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is a valuable tool in healthcare used to evaluate the economic efficiency of antibiotic treatments by comparing their costs with clinical outcomes, such as cost per life saved or quality-adjusted life days (QALDs) gained. This approach aids in informed decision-making, highlights price variations, and identifies patient groups likely to benefit most from specific treatments. …”
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Forensic Dermatology Expert Analytical Report: A New Frontier of Forensic Medicine by Philip R. Cohen, Lerah Sutton

“…In conclusion, an excellent forensic dermatology expert report will aid both other investigators and the members of the legal system—such as the attorneys, judge, and jury—who are involved in the case. …”
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Family Support and Its Association with Glycemic Control in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Adwa M. AlHaidar, Norah A. AlShehri, Munira A. AlHussaini

“…However, the involvement of the family can aid in decreasing possible complications of the disease by intervening in critical situations.…”
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Attentive Self-supervised Contrastive Learning (ASCL) for plant disease classification by Getinet Yilma, Mesfin Dagne, Mohammed Kemal Ahmed, Ravindra Babu Bellam

“…The ASCL framework enhances interpretability by incorporating attention mechanisms, such as squeeze-excitation and convolutional block attention module, which highlight key regions in plant images, aiding in transparent decision-making. In the present work, a pre-trained squeeze-excitation ResNet50 Siamese backbone network on the unlabeled PlantVillage dataset was used to validate the generalizability of the learned representations. …”
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The Emerging Role of Implementing Machine Learning in Food Recommendation for Chronic Kidney Diseases Using Correlation Analysis by Sachin Gupta, Neeraj Garg, Divyanshu Sinha, Babita Yadav, Bhoomi Gupta, Shahajan Miah

“…Using an artificial intelligence system that can effectively aid in CKD detection in time and suggest the required food nutrition for its treatment and recovery would reap immense benefits for healthcare professionals as well as the patient. …”
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Optimizing Breast Cancer Mammogram Classification Through a Dual Approach: A Deep Learning Framework Combining ResNet50, SMOTE, and Fully Connected Layers for Balanced and Imbalanc... by Abdullah Fahad A. Alshamrani, Faisal Saleh Zuhair Alshomrani

“…This work contributes to medical image analysis and computer-aided diagnosis. The proposed techniques for handling imbalanced data and providing interpretable results can be extended to improve diagnostic accuracy across various medical conditions.…”
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The Square Curve Paradigm for Research in Alternative, Complementary, and Holistic Medicine: A Cost-Effective, Easy, and Scientifically Valid Design for Evidence-Based Medicine and... by Soren Ventegodt, Niels JØrgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…Our aim is to find the simplest, cheapest, and most practical way to collect data of sufficient quality and validity to determine: (1) which kinds of treatment give a clinically relevant improvement to quality of life, health, and/or functionality; (2) which groups of patients can be aided by alternative, complementary, or holistic medicine; and (3) which therapists have the competence to achieve the clinically relevant improvements. …”
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Effects of Tocotrienol on Cardiovascular Risk Markers in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Liana Trugilho, Lívia Alvarenga, Ludmila Cardozo, Bruna Paiva, Jessyca Brito, Isis Barboza, Jonatas Almeida, Juliana dos Anjos, Pramod Khosla, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves, Denise Mafra

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Livelihood training, food production, and food security among vulnerable communities in Bangladesh by Andy Tran, Theresa Fang, Beryl Oranga, Ryan Kopper, Yunhee Kang

“…Those who received food aid had higher odds of low HDDS (AOR = 3.16; 95% CI 1.69–5.89). …”
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Perspectives for Reforming Criminal Procedural Legislation Regarding the Regulation of Investigative (Search) Actions Restricting the Inviolability of Housing or Other Personal Pos... by O. V. Salmanov

“…It is emphasized that perspective areas for the development of criminal procedural legislation to regulate investigative (search) actions that restrict the inviolability of housing or other personal possession is to solve the problem of attracting free legal aid for a person who has no procedural status, but investigators continue investigative (search) actions against that person; determination of the procedural status of witnesses who are involved into investigative (search) actions; determination of the mechanism of addressing of the property’s owner with the petition to return the seized property during carrying out investigative (search) actions restricting inviolability of housing or other personal possession. …”
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Abnormal neurobehaviour and impaired memory function as a consequence of Toxocara canis- as well as Toxocara cati-induced neurotoxocarosis. by Elisabeth Janecek, Patrick Waindok, Marion Bankstahl, Christina Strube

“…Findings provide valuable hints towards differences in key regulatory mechanisms during T. canis- and T. cati-induced NT, contributing to a comprehensive picture and consequently a broader understanding of NT, which will aid in developing strategies towards prevention in addition to novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.…”
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Research Progress on the Potential Pathogenesis of Persistent Postural–Perceptual Dizziness by Chen Qin, Ruyi Zhang, Zhihui Yan

“…Methods To better understand the pathogenesis of PPPD and to aid in the development of novel diagnostic strategies and therapies, we conducted a comprehensive narrative review of the relevant literature. …”
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What covariates drive medical students to the brink of suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt? A double-centric cross-sectional study in a resource-constrained rural setting in North... by Sunny Garg, Aakanksha Kharb, Kirti Bansal

“…The identified covariates poor sleep, family history of psychiatric illness, never seeking psychiatric aid, regret for choosing the field of medicine, bullying, depressive symptoms, high stress, emotion-focused coping, and avoidant coping, were significantly associated with a higher likelihood of lifetime suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt. …”
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Prevalence of Thyroid Dysfunction and Antithyroid Antibodies in North India by Cherry Bansal, Amanpreet Singh, Pragya Pandey

“…Females in reproductive age group of 18–35 years are commonly affected. Study aids in early recognition of vulnerable populations for timely treatment of thyroid disorders. …”
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Evaluation of Radiomorphometric Indices of Panoramic Images of Mandible to Estimate Gender and Approximate Age by Seyed Hosein Razavi, Ali Drafshi, Fatemeh Ezoddini, Khalil Sarikhani, Mohammad Khodabakhsh

“…Background: The evaluation of radiomorphometric indices of the mandible can aid dentists not only in forensic investigations but also in diagnosing developmental abnormalities, age-related changes, and gender-specific characteristics that are crucial for treatment planning. …”
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