Avoiding ‘second victims’ in healthcare: what support do staff want for coping with patient safety incidents, what do they get and is it effective? A systematic review by Reema Harrison, Rebecca Lawton, Ruth Simms-Ellis, Raabia Sattar, Elizabeth Sweeting, Hannah Hartley, Matthew Morys-Edge

“…Study quality was appraised using the Quality Assessment for Diverse Studies tool.Results Ninety-nine studies were identified. …”
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User Experience of a Semi-Immersive Musical Serious Game to Stimulate Cognitive Functions in Hospitalized Older Patients: Questionnaire Study by Laurent Samson, Lena Carcreff, Frédéric Noublanche, Sophie Noublanche, Hélène Vermersch-Leiber, Cédric Annweiler

“…The game aspires to become a playful, easy-to-use, and complete tool for the assessment, rehabilitation, and prevention of neurocognitive decline associated with aging. …”
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Technological Adjuncts to Streamline Patient Recruitment, Informed Consent, and Data Management Processes in Clinical Research: Observational Study by Jodie Koh, Stacey Caron, Amber N Watters, Mahesh Vaidyanathan, David Melnick, Alyssa Santi, Kenneth Hudson, Catherine Arguelles, Priyanka Mathur, Mozziyar Etemadi

“…MethodsUsing one clinical research study as an example, we highlighted the use of technological adjuncts to automate and streamline research processes across various digital platforms, including a centralized database of electronic medical records (enterprise data warehouse [EDW]); a clinical research data management tool (REDCap [Research Electronic Data Capture]); and a locally managed, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act–compliant server. …”
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Generalizing the Brady-Yong Algorithm: Efficient Fast Hough Transform for Arbitrary Image Sizes by Danil D. Kazimirov, Ekaterina O. Rybakova, Vitalii V. Gulevskii, Arseniy P. Terekhin, Elena E. Limonova, Dmitry P. Nikolaev

“…The Hough (discrete Radon) transform (HT/DRT) is a digital image processing tool that has become indispensable in many application areas, ranging from general image processing to neural networks and X-ray computed tomography. …”
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Implementasi Sistem Peramalan Pengadaan Kebutuhan Bahan Baku Pangan Dengan Metode Weighted Moving Average by Reza Ena Erlinda, Uky Yudatama, Endah Ratna Arumi

“…Forecasting is a method as a tool in carrying out an efficient and effective planning. …”
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The relationship of teachers’ ideas about children’s participation with their support of children’s opinions and involvement in decision-making by Liudmila M. Ursulenko

“…The examination of the level of support for children’s opinions and participation in decision-making was carried out by a specially trained external expert based on the educational environment quality assessment tool “Support for children’s opinions and participation in decision-making”, developed by the Research Institute of Urbanism and Global Education MСU as a possible addition to the ECERS-3 scales. …”
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Factors Associated with Maternal Near Miss among Women Admitted in West Arsi Zone Public Hospitals, Ethiopia: Unmatched Case-Control Study by Fikadu Nugusu Dessalegn, Feleke Hailemichael Astawesegn, Nana Chea Hankalo

“…The interviewer-administered structured questionnaire and data abstraction tool was used to collect data. Data were entered Epi data 3.1 and then transferred into SPSS 20 for analysis. …”
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Antenatal depression among pregnant women in Ethiopia: An umbrella review. by Mesfin Abebe, Yordanos Sisay Asgedom, Amanuel Yosef Gebrekidan, Tsion Mulat Tebeje

“…Study quality was assessed with the AMSTAR tool, and data extraction and analysis were performed using Microsoft Excel 2016 and STATA 14.0. …”
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Development and validation of a prognostic model for critically ill type 2 diabetes patients in ICU based on composite inflammatory indicators by Lin Liu, Yan-Bo Zhao, Zhuo-Ting Cheng, Ya-Hui Li, Yang Liu

“…The prediction model showed promising performance in both internal and external validation cohorts, highlighting its potential as a valuable tool for early risk stratification and prediction of the outcomes of personalized treatment strategies in ICU settings.…”
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Epigenome-wide association study of Chinese monozygotic twins identifies DNA methylation loci associated with estimated glomerular filtration rate by Xueting Qi, Jingjing Wang, Tong Wang, Weijing Wang, Dongfeng Zhang

“…The Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool enriched biological functions and pathways. …”
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Risk Estimation of Severe Primary Graft Dysfunction in Heart Transplant Recipients Using a Smartphone by Souhila Ait-Tigrine, Roger Hullin, Elsa Hoti, Matthias Kirsch, Piergiorgio Tozzi

“…This complexity highlights the need for an effective risk analysis tool for primary graft dysfunction (PGD), a severe complication in HTx. …”
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Social media discourse and internet search queries on cannabis as a medicine: A systematic scoping review. by Christine Mary Hallinan, Sedigheh Khademi Habibabadi, Mike Conway, Yvonne Ann Bonomo

“…As such, it provides another potential 'tool' with which to engage in pharmacovigilance of, not only cannabis as a medicine, but also other novel therapeutics as they enter the market.…”
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Current methodologies of creating material passports: A systematic literature review by Ioannis Markou, Derek Sinnott, Ken Thomas

“…Material Passports (MPs) have emerged as a crucial tool for promoting circularity and resource efficiency within the built environment, especially in light of the sector’s substantial environmental impact. …”
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Colostrum feeding practice and associated factors among mothers who come for postnatal care to Asella referral and teaching hospital, Arsi Zone, South-East Ethiopia by Gisha Haji, Gebi Agero, Amde Eshete, Abdurahman Hasan, Ahmed Hiko

“…A pretest was performed to check the reliability and clarity of the study questionnaires. The tool to examine the practice of colostrum feeding and related aspects was modified from earlier studies. …”
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Ultrasonic color Doppler imaging to assess the efficacy of orbital decompression in Graves’ ophthalmopathy by A.A. Kalandari, A.G. Nosova, N.Yu. Kutrovskaya, O.V. Levchenko

“…Being safe and non-invasive tool, ultrasonic colour Doppler imaging can be applied postoperatively. …”
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Prognostic Factors for COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients with Preexisting Type 2 Diabetes by Yuanyuan Fu, Ling Hu, Hong-Wei Ren, Yi Zuo, Shaoqiu Chen, Qiu-Shi Zhang, Chen Shao, Yao Ma, Lin Wu, Jun-Jie Hao, Chuan-Zhen Wang, Zhanwei Wang, Richard Yanagihara, Youping Deng

“…By incorporating specific prognostic factors, this study provided a user-friendly graphical risk prediction tool for clinicians to quickly identify high-risk T2D patients hospitalized for COVID-19.…”
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Clinical diagnostic performance of droplet digital PCR for pathogen detection in patients with Escherichia coli bloodstream infection: a prospective observational study by Hiroki Kitagawa, Masato Kojima, Kayoko Tadera, Shuta Kogasaki, Keitaro Omori, Toshihito Nomura, Norifumi Shigemoto, Eiso Hiyama, Hiroki Ohge

“…Abstract Background Droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) is a highly sensitive tool for detecting bacterial DNA in bacterial bloodstream infections (BSI). …”
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Parental Technoference and Child Problematic Media Use: Meta-Analysis by Jinghui Zhang, Qing Zhang, Bowen Xiao, Yuxuan Cao, Yu Chen, Yan Li

“…The risk of bias was assessed using the Quality Assessment Tool for Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies. …”
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Relative Fat Mass and Physical Indices as Predictors of Gallstone Formation: Insights From Machine Learning and Logistic Regression by Deng L, Wang S, Wan D, Zhang Q, Shen W, Liu X, Zhang Y

“…The model developed in this study offers clinicians a valuable tool for identifying critical prognostic factors, facilitating personalized patient monitoring and tailored management.Keywords: gallstones, atherogenic index of plasma, national health and nutrition examination survey, cross-sectional studies, risk factor, machine learning…”
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Simulated low-dose dark-field radiography for detection of COVID-19 pneumonia. by Rafael C Schick, Henriette Bast, Manuela Frank, Theresa Urban, Thomas Koehler, Florian T Gassert, Andreas P Sauter, Bernhard Renger, Alexander A Fingerle, Alexandra Karrer, Marcus R Makowski, Daniela Pfeiffer, Franz Pfeiffer

“…<h4>Background</h4>Dark-field radiography has been proven to be a promising tool for the assessment of various lung diseases.…”
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