Utility of Emergent Spine MRI in the Emergency Department by Farid Hajibonabi, Dan Cohen-Addad, Francisco Delgado, Po-Han Chen, Bing Fang Wang, Shamie Das, Tarek N. Hanna

“…Of the positive cases, 17.7% underwent hospitalization, with 13.1% requiring emergent surgery. Considering high costs in both time and resource utilization, further research is needed to optimize the triage process for patients requiring emergent spine MRI.…”
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Exotic tree plantations and avian conservation in northern Iberia: a view from a nest-box monitoring study by I. De la Hera, J. Arizaga, A. Galarza

“…No obstante, no se hallaron diferencias entre los hábitats por lo que concierne a la fecha y el tamaño de puesta para el carbonero común, lo que sugiere que los posibles costes de criar en plantaciones de árboles exóticos se producirían en etapas posteriores del periodo reproductivo (p.ej. el número de pollos emplumados), una circunstancia que habrá que seguir investigando.…”
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The perception of facilitators and barriers to the use of e-health solutions in Poland: a qualitative study by Paulina Smoła, Iwona Młoźniak, Monika Wojcieszko, Urszula Zwierczyk, Mateusz Kobryn, Elżbieta Rzepecka, Mariusz Duplaga

“…The main facilitators identified based on the interviews include saving time and reducing costs, as well as the ability to access medical records in one repository, as in the case of the Internet Patient Account. …”
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Application of rapid genotyping of Warfarin individualized pharmacogenetic variants in Warfarin therapy by Defa Huang, Fangfang Xie, Shengpeng Xiao, Minyang Cai, Die Hu, Baodian Ling, Fangsheng Wang, Xuan Lin, Fangli Song, Qi Wang, Tianyu Zhong

“…This method requires only 1 µL of whole blood, no DNA extraction, takes less than 2 h, costs less than $1, and is able to accurately distinguish between different SNP sites. …”
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Study on a cable jumper method for offshore floating photovoltaic systems with multiple floating bodies by Xiangyu KONG, Yangping SHAO, Qiang FU, Lujie YU, Hongbin LIU

“…This approach achieves the desired effect while reducing both time and economic costs compared with the use of protection devices such as bending limiters. (2) Cosserat theory was used to accurately model flexible cables, fully considering the influence of cable structural parameters on linear lines. …”
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Anaesthesiologists’ guideline adherence in pre-operative evaluation: a retrospective observational study by Simone Maria Kagerbauer, Jennifer Wißler, Manfred Blobner, Ferdinand Biegert, Dimislav Ivanov Andonov, Gerhard Schneider, Armin Horst Podtschaske, Bernhard Ulm, Bettina Jungwirth

“…Many performed pre-operative examinations, especially laboratory tests, are not recommended by the guidelines and may cause unnecessary costs. The reasons for guidelines not being followed may be the complexity of guidelines and organisational issues. …”
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Results of the clinical evaluation of the low-dose protocols of the digital linear tomography of the chest by I. G. Kamyshanskaya, V. M. Cheremisin, A. V. Vodovatov, A. N. Boriskina

“…These methods are associated with significant drawbacks: low specificity for radiography, high costs per examination, significant patient doses, and limited availability for computed tomography. …”
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Lost and found: trends in litigation and compensation related to retained surgical foreign bodies by Simone Grassi, Martina Focardi, Francesco Santori, Marta Guerini, Elisa Ferri, Giulia Ferretti, Ilenia Bianchi, Filomena Autieri, Vilma Pinchi

“…The study aimed to deduce their incidence and mean costs, as well as the risk of medical malpractice claims leading to criminal complaints.ResultsWe identified 27 eligible cases, with a mean compensation of €20,695.49. …”
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Efficacy of Preoperative Autologous Blood Donation for Surgical Treatment of Thoracic Spinal Stenosis: A Propensity‐Matched Cohort Study by Junbo Qi, Yuanyu Hu, Xiaoyan Niu, Yanlei Dong, Xin Zhang, Nanfang Xu, Zhongqiang Chen, Weishi Li, Yun Tian, Chuiguo Sun

“…Regarding outcome measures, the incidence and amount of allogeneic blood transfusion, changes in postoperative hemoglobin and hematocrit levels, occurrence of postoperative complications, medical costs, drainage time, length of hospital stay, and postoperative neurological function were analyzed. …”
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Cross-sectional survey on cancer patients’ concerns and consultation needs with pharmacists at the time of initial diagnosis by Tomofumi Watanabe, Atsunobu Sagara, Tomoya Abe, Masato Komuro, Koharu Yubune, Satoshi Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki Terakado

“…The most frequently reported concerns were treatment-related, including side effects (49.2%), treatment costs (48.0%), psychological distress (41.6%), and mechanisms of anticancer drugs (38.8%). …”
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CARIES EXPERIENCE AND ORAL HEALTH BEHAVIOURS IN ROMANIAN YOUNG ADULTS by Ruxandra Sava-Rosianu, Antonia Ilin, Octavia Balean, Simona Olariu Posiar, Alexandru Simerea, Daniela Jumanca, Atena Galuscan, Ramona Dumitrescu

“…The primary reasons for the lack of dental check-ups were no complaints. high costs. and dental fear. The mean number of caries lesions on molars (2.67 ± 0.52) was higher than the restaurations (2.40 ± 0.19). with a mean difference of 0.3. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF A COMPREHENSIVE PROGNOSTIC MODEL OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERVENTIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF CARIOUS PATHOLOGY by S.B. Kostenko, O.Ya. Bilynskyi, G.N. Nakashydze, M.O. Stetsyk, M.Yu. Goncharuk-Khomyn, I.V. Penzelyk

“…Comprehensive prognostic model of comparative efficiency of minimally invasive implementation of treatment protocols of carious pathology included consideration of relative risk indicators of biological complications (secondary caries and affected tissue pulp), decreased biomechanical forecast of the tooth (based on the performance index IROPZ and IHRKCHZ) and the financial feasibility of these methods, taking into account the ratio of material costs and unit labor intensity of the biological level and biomechanical forecast of the functioning of the dentition unit. …”
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Immunogenicity and Efficacy of Combined mRNA Vaccine Against Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in Mice Animal Models by Elena P. Mazunina, Vladimir A. Gushchin, Evgeniia N. Bykonia, Denis A. Kleymenov, Andrei E. Siniavin, Sofia R. Kozlova, Evgenya A. Mukasheva, Elena V. Shidlovskaya, Nadezhda A. Kuznetsova, Evgeny V. Usachev, Vladimir I. Zlobin, Elena I. Burtseva, Roman A. Ivanov, Denis Y. Logunov, Alexander L. Gintsburg

“…</b> The combined or multivalent vaccines are actively used in pediatric practice and offer a series of advantages, including a reduced number of injections and visits to the doctor, simplicity of the vaccination schedule and minimization of side effects, easier vaccine monitoring and storage, and lower vaccination costs. The practice of widespread use of the combined vaccines has shown the potential to increase vaccination coverage against single infections. …”
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Assessing nutritional composition and ingredients of packaged foods in Brazil: an in-store census method for creating a comprehensive food label database by Mariana Vieira dos Santos Kraemer, Ana Carolina Fernandes, Maria Cecília Cury Chaddad, Tailane Scapin, Tailane Scapin, Beatriz Vasconcellos de Barros, Elisa Milano, Marina Padovan, Paula Lazzarin Uggioni, Greyce Luci Bernardo, Neha Khandpur, Gastón Ares, Rossana Pacheco da Costa Proença

“…However, there are important challenges regarding the costs and efforts needed to maintain and update the data, especially in continental countries such as Brazil. …”
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Reconstructing prevalence dynamics of wildlife pathogens from pooled and individual samples by Borremans, Benny, Falvo, Caylee A, Crowley, Daniel E, Hoegh, Andrew, Lloyd-Smith, James O, Peel, Alison J, Restif, Olivier, Ruiz-Aravena, Manuel, Plowright, Raina K

“…Pathogen transmission studies require sample collection over extended periods, which can be challenging and costly, especially in the case of wildlife. A useful strategy can be to collect pooled samples, but this presents challenges when the goal is to estimate prevalence. …”
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Optimizing the single-step model for predicting fumonisins resistance in maize hybrids accounting for the genotype-by-environment interaction by Jeniffer Santana Pinto Coelho Evangelista, Jeniffer Santana Pinto Coelho Evangelista, Kaio Olimpo das Graças Dias, Maria Marta Pastina, Saulo Chaves, Lauro José Moreira Guimarães, Jorge Hidalgo, Julian Garcia-Abadillo, Julian Garcia-Abadillo, Reyna Persa, Valéria Aparecida Vieira Queiroz, Dagma Dionísia da Silva, Leonardo Lopes Bhering, Diego Jarquin

“…These insights can be applied to plant breeding programs where the GCA, SCA, and G × E interactions are of interest and pedigree information is accessible, but constraints related to genotyping costs for the entire population exist.…”
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Effectiveness of a specialist palliative home care nurse–patient consultation followed by an interprofessional telephone case conference compared with usual care among patients wit... by Judith Dams, Hans-Helmut König, Tim Friede, Nils Schneider, Stephanie Stiel, Martin Scherer, Silke Böttcher, Gabriella Marx, Ingmar Schäfer, Nadine Janis Pohontsch, Hendrik van den Bussche, Friedemann Nauck, Michael Freitag, Eva Hummers, Tina Mallon, Franziska Schade, Manuel Zimansky, Thomas Asendorf, Christiane A Mueller

“…Primary outcome is a reduced hospital admission within 48 weeks after baseline, secondary outcomes include symptom burden, quality of life and health costs. The primary analysis will follow the intention-to-treat principle. …”
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Virological evidence of the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in Ecuador, a resource-limited setting by Andres Moreira-Soto, Alfredo Bruno, Doménica de Mora, Michelle Paez, Jimmy Garces, Ben Wulf, Anna-Lena Sander, Maritza Olmedo, Maria José Basantes Mantilla, Manuel Gonzalez Gonzalez, Solon Alberto Orlando, Silvia Salgado Cisneros, Juan Carlos Zevallos, Jan Felix Drexler

“…Virological evidence supports that NPIs had an effect on virus spread and distribution in Ecuador, providing a template for future epidemics in resource-limited settings and contributing to a balanced assessment of societal costs entailed by strict NPIs.…”
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An automatic identification method of common species based on ensemble learning by Hao-Xuan Li, Mei Zhang, De-Yao Meng, Bo Geng, Zu-Kui Li, Chuan-Feng Huang, Wen-Kang Li, Han-Lin Jiang, Rong-Hai Wu, Xiao-Wei Li, Ben-Hui Chen, Deng-Qi Yang, Guo-Peng Ren

“…Deep learning offers a promising solution by accurately identifying species from large datasets, enhancing processing efficiency, and reducing costs. While existing deep learning methods have achieved significant success in species identification, they often struggle with accurately recognizing all species due to the class imbalance prevalent in camera trap datasets, which limits the application of deep learning models in biodiversity monitoring. …”
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Growth and nitrogen productivity of drip-irrigated winter wheat under different nitrogen fertigation strategies in the North China Plain by Sunusi Amin ABUBAKAR, Abdoul Kader Mounkaila HAMANI, Guang-shuai WANG, Hao LIU, Faisal MEHMOOD, Abubakar Sadiq ABDULLAHI, Yang GAO, Ai-wang DUAN

“…Although the single-dose SRF could reduce labor costs involved with the traditional method of manual spreading, the drip fertigation system used in this study with the N50–50 treatment provides an option for farmers to maintain wheat production in the NCP.…”
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