Clinical patterns and predictors of trauma-related mortality over 13 years: a retrospective analysis from a Level 1 National trauma center by Ayman El-Menyar, Sandro Rizoli, Ahammed Mekkodathil, Mohammad Asim, Sajid Atique, Abdel-Aziz Hammo, Hisham Jogol, Ahad Kanbar, Khalid Ahmed, Rafael Consunji, Husham Abdelrahman, Asmaa Al-Atey, Ahmad Kloub, Fernando Spencer Netto, Gustav Strandvik, Hassan Al-Thani

“…Pre-hospital deaths followed a similar pattern to the overall mortality, while the in-hospital rates remained steady. …”
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Spatial Patterns of Land Take in a Mediterranean City: An Assessment of the SDG Indicator 11.3.1 in the Peri-Urban Area of Thessaloniki by Athena Yiannakou, George Zografos

“…Using the rapidly suburbanized southern peri-urban area of Thessaloniki, Greece, as a case study, the paper analyzes the factors influencing the land cover change in the middle-class-led peri-urbanization during the period 2000–2018 and provides an estimate of the SDG indicator 11.3.1 “ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate”, a suitable indicator for monitoring spatial changes. …”
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Using Real World Evidence to Describe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Costs Associated with PDE-5 Inhibitor Monotherapy by George Ruiz, Jason Yeaw, Cassandra A. Lickert, Ajita P. De, Rolin L. Wade, Janis Pruett, William Drake

“… # Results PDE-5i monotherapy for PAH treatment was associated with high treatment modification rates, low adherence, increased healthcare resource utilization, and high costs. …”
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Detection of chaotic patterns in dripping faucets through nonlinear dynamic system analysis based on observations using 2700 high-frequency frames by Edgar Orlando Ladino-Moreno

“…The objective of this study is the detection of chaotic patterns in the dripping of a faucet by means of nonlinear dynamical systems analysis. …”
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Treatment patterns, outcomes and long-term toxicity among patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in real world: results of a hospital based registry by E. A. Nikitin, N. N. Sharkunov, V. G. Markaryan, N. A. Lobanova, V. V. Ptushkin

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Global burden trends of tension-type headache, 1990–2021: socio-demographic patterns, age-period-cohort effects, and frontier analysis from the GBD 2021 study by Can Wang, Can Wang, Chao Liao, Yuyin Liu, Yuyin Liu, Peng Chen, Yuanlun Xie, Li Tian

“…We used absolute numbers and age-standardized rates from 1990 to 2021. Spearman correlation assessed the relationship between rates and the Socio-Demographic Index (SDI). …”
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Analysing referral patterns from a primary dermatological clinic to other medical institutions for further care: A survey on patients with certain skin diseases in Japan by Daisuke Ueo, Takashi Sakai, Erika Ochiai, Jun Sese, Yutaka Hatano

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The Silver Ion and Nanocrystalline Pattern in the Glass Substrate, the Electric Field-Induced Thermal Transfer and Ink Absorption Layer Structure and Printing Performance by Cong Dong

“…The experimental structure shows that using this method increases the success rate of the preparation of silver ions and nanocrystal patterns on the glass substrate by 30%, which improves the ink absorption layer and printing performance to different degrees.…”
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Effect of the Profit and Teaching Status of Hospitals on the Patterns and Outcomes of Abdominal Aorta and Inferior Vena Cava Injuries after Severe Abdominal Trauma by Nasser A. N. Alzerwi

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Progressively shifting patterns of co-modulation among premotor cortex neurons carry dynamically similar signals during action execution and observation by Zhonghao Zhao, Marc H Schieber

“…Neurons in macaque premotor cortex show firing rate modulation whether the subject performs an action or observes another individual performing a similar action. …”
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Bacterial Isolates and Antibacterial Resistance Patterns in a Patient with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital, Southwest Et... by Abdulhakim Mussema, Getenet Beyene, Mulatu Gashaw

“…Having two or more exacerbation experiences in the previous year were found to be important determinants of the sputum culture positivity. Conclusions. High rates of MDR, ESBL, and carbapenemase producer bacteria were isolated from patients with AECOPD. …”
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Exploration of the pattern, clinical presentation and outcome of children with renal diseases: A 14-year retrospective study at a teaching hospital in Ghana. by George Nkrumah Osei, Emmanuel Worae, Betty Effie Adoko Ghartey, Perditer Okyere, Felix Abekah Botchway, Sampson K Djonor, Richard K D Ephraim

“…Idiopathic (unknown) causes (82.98%) and intravascular hemolysis secondary to malaria (41.38%) were the major causes of nephrotic syndrome and acute kidney injury respectively. A death rate of 15.06% resulting mostly from AKI (6.33%) was observed whilst 7.83% underwent dialysis. …”
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Study on Soil Freeze–Thaw and Surface Deformation Patterns in the Qilian Mountains Alpine Permafrost Region Using SBAS-InSAR Technique by Zelong Xue, Shangmin Zhao, Bin Zhang

“…The average vertical deformation rate is 1.56 mm/a, with seasonal amplitudes reaching 35 mm. …”
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Patterns and Predictors of <i>Candida auris</i> Candidemia with Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Co-Infections: Results from the CANDI-MDR Study by Karolina Akinosoglou, Katerina Skintzi, Ioannis Chandroulis, Eleni Polyzou, Argiro Siapika, Foteini Fligkou, Fotini Paliogianni, Charalambos Gogos, George Dimopoulos

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Hospitalizations trends and co-infection patterns for respiratory virus infections in children in central China 2015 to 2023: a longitudinal surveillance study by Bowen Dai, Chong Chen, Yuanfang Shen, Shouhang Chen, Ruyu Zhang, Chenyu Wang, Jiaying Zheng, Qiujing Liang, Qingmei Wang, Yaodong Zhang, Yuefei Jin, Fang Wang, Zhi Li

“…A significantly higher detection rate was observed in males compared to females (57.22% vs. 42.78%; χ2 < 0.001). …”
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Identifying patterns of high intraoperative blood pressure variability in noncardiac surgery using explainable machine learning: a retrospective cohort study by Zheng Zhang, Jian Wu, Yi Duan, Linwei Liu, Yaru Liu, Jinghan Wang, Li Xiao, Zhifeng Gao

“…Intraoperative average heart rate (HR) and bispectral index (BIS) were the most influential variables. …”
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Standards of practice for peripheral nerve blocks at a tertiary care center in a low-middle income country– a prospective observational study by Heena Purshotamdas Bhupta, Priyanka Kini, Nisha Sara M. Jacob

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Spatial patterns and temporal trends of tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer attributed to particulate matter pollution in Asia and its 34 countries and territories, 1990–2021 by Minxia Yang, Feng Xuan, Liejiong Wang, Ying Lou, Shengjian Yu

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War’s youngest victims: a descriptive cross-sectional study on injury distributions, severity patterns, and outcomes among paediatric trauma patients in Kharkiv, Ukraine by Filippa Sennersten, Safora Frogh, Gustav Falk, Mariia Matvieienko, Olha Karafulidi, Olha Konstantynovska, Yohan Robinson, Andreas Wladis, Denise Bäckström

“…Conclusions This study offers new insights into paediatric trauma from modern warfare in a high-income setting, highlighting the occurrence of blast and shelling injuries, injury patterns overall similar to previous conflicts, and high disability rates at discharge. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Eight Week Training Program Schedule With Two Different Stretching Patterns Strengthening on Changes in the Status of Lower Cross Syndrome by Chiman Alyarnezhad, Ali Shams Majalan

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