Psychometric properties of the Danish SDM-Q-9 questionnaire for shared decision-making in patients with pelvic floor disorders and low back pain: item response theory modelling by Mette Hulbaek, Sofie Ronja Petersen, Charlotte Ibsen

“…A ceiling effect was observed as most patients selected the highest score, while a low information load was identified in the SDM’s upper load for each item and the overall instrument. …”
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Discordance Among Patients and Ophthalmologists Regarding the Burden of Intravitreal Injections by Robinson K, Cooper SJ, Persaud S, Frederick JL, Singh RP

“…Eighty-two percent required a caregiver and/or public transportation to get to their appointments. The most significant symptoms for patients with DME were vision loss over time (2.89 out of 4.0) and blurred or double vision (2.76), and for those with nAMD were poor night vision (3.43), seeing in low-light conditions (3.27), and blurred vision (2.96). …”
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Pilot Study of Cannabidiol for Treatment of Aromatase Inhibitor‐Associated Musculoskeletal Symptoms in Breast Cancer by Nicole M. G. Fleege, Elise A. Miller, Kelley M. Kidwell, Zeb R. Zacharias, Jon Houtman, Kelly Scheu, Kathleen Kemmer, Kevin F. Boehnke, N. Lynn Henry

“…Additional studies are needed to further understand the impact of CBD on AIMSS and which patients are most likely to benefit from CBD treatment. Trial Registration www.clinicaltrials.gov: NCT04754399…”
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<i>Quorum-Quenching</i> Activity of <i>Myrtus communis</i> Corsican Essential Oil Against the Marine Bacterium <i>Aliivibrio fischeri</i> by Elisa Hardy, Jean-Pierre Poli, Ange Bighelli, Mathieu Paoli, Thomas Maroselli, Liliane Berti, Elodie Guinoiseau

“…The fractionation of <i>M. communis</i> EO revealed that its most polar fractions exhibited comparable levels of QS-disrupting activity. …”
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Anatomical variations of the popliteal artery as a risk factor for its laceration during total knee arthroplasty: Controversies with illustrative case report by Boljanović Jelena, Glišić Miodrag, Ilijevski Nenad, Bećirović Matija, Stojanović Smiljana, Pavković Ivana, Đurđević Katarina, Blagojević Valentina

“…Popliteal artery (PA) injury during knee re-placement surgery is a rare but extremely serious complication. Most vascular complications during knee surgery can be prevented by a careful preoperative assessment of the patient. …”
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Clinical and genetic characteristics of Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 4D (type Lom) in Russia by A. F. Murtazina, O. A. Shchagina, T. B. Milovidova, E. L. Dadali, G. E. Rudenskaya, S. A. Kurbatov, T. V. Fedotova, S. S. Nikitin, P. A. Sparber, M. D. Orlova, A. V. Polyakov

“…Due to the detection of only one pathogenic variant in most Russian patients of Roma origin with Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, the knowledge of the ethnicity of a proband with early myelinopathy can significantly simplify the confirmation of the diagnosis on the molecular level.…”
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Demographic Capital and the Conditional Validity of SERVPERF: Rethinking Tourist Satisfaction Models in an Emerging Market Destination by Reyner Pérez-Campdesuñer, Alexander Sánchez-Rodríguez, Gelmar García-Vidal, Rodobaldo Martínez-Vivar, Marcos Eduardo Valdés-Alarcón, Margarita De Miguel-Guzmán

“…Gen-Z travelers penalize transport reliability and safety; female visitors reward cleanliness and empathy; and Latin American guests are the most critical of basic organization. These patterns expose a boundary condition for universalistic satisfaction models and elevate demographic capital from a descriptive tag to a structuring construct. …”
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ANALYTICAL ISSUES OF RISK COMMUNICATION. RATIONALE FOR APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING RESEARCH DATABASES ON RADIATION SAFETY AND SOCIAL RISKS by L. S. Rekhtina, N. V. Sokolov, A. M. Biblin, L. V. Repin, R. R. Akhmatdinov

“…The article discusses the features associated with them, the limitations of the primary data, such as text, discursive nature of most of the materials, information noise, high dependence on context, variability, different structure, format and appearance of materials. …”
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The impact of life tables on age standardized net survival of real-life example databases by András Wéber, Zoltán Vokó, Zoltán Kiss, István Szatmári, Mária Dobozi, Petra Parrag, Ibolya Fábián, György Rokszin, Péter Nagy, Csaba Polgár, István Kenessey

“…However, the net survival of breast cancer, which had the most favorable prognosis of the studied malignancies, showed significant discrepancies. …”
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Late Pleistocene synchronous caldera-forming eruptions in north and south of Japan: paleomagnetic and tephrochronological evidence from the Kutcharo II/III and Aso-4 tephras by Shohei Shibata, Takeshi Hasegawa, Akihiro Tanimoto, Nobutatsu Mochizuki, Makoto Okada

“…Abstract We conducted paleomagnetic analysis of two late Pleistocene caldera-forming eruption deposits, the Aso-4 tephra from the Aso caldera in Kyushu and Kp II/III deposits from the Kutcharo caldera in Hokkaido Japan, to constrain the time scales of the successive tephra layers and evaluate their chronological relationships. Aso-4 tephra covers most of the Japanese archipelago and is known as a representative, late Pleistocene time marker. …”
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Microbiologic analysis of 140 patients undergoing revision total knee arthroplasty due to periprosthetic joint infection and aseptic loosening: droplet digital PCR analysis by Xiao-Kai Liu, Heng-Xin Zhao, Lan-Feng Ding, Yuan-He Wang, Shao-Qi Tian

“…Conclusion This study innovatively employed ddPCR for DNA detection and microbiologic analysis in 140 patients undergoing revision total knee arthroplasty due to periprosthetic joint infection and aseptic loosening, showed that most patients with PJI mainly affected by infections caused by high-virulence Gram-positive microbe, especially Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA. …”
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An integrated approach to assessing the ecological state of urban park soils, Kirov, Russia by S. G. Skugoreva, L. I. Domracheva, A. I. Fokina, T. I. Kutyavina, O. M. Abdukhalilov, V. N. Kulakov, T.  Ya. Ashikhmina

“…Determination of the PAH content in soils can be recommended for inclusion in the environmental monitoring programme in cities because of the persistence of PAHs in the environment, their mutagenic and carcinogenic properties, and the lack of standards for the content of most PAHs in natural environments.…”
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Evaluation of leukocyte depletion of packed red blood cells for the prevention of clinically observed transfusion reactions at a medical center in Eastern Taiwan by Kai-Yun Su, Jing-Chun Huang, Jing-Yi Lin, Chun-Chun Chang

“…Objectives: The incidence of febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reactions (FNHTRs) is correlated with the level of cytokines released by donor leukocytes in blood bags during storage, which is the most common transfusion reaction. The study aimed to reveal whether the use of leukocyte-poor red blood cells (LPRBCs) can reduce the incidence of transfusion reactions to promote patient safety. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale: a systematic review by B. P. R. Perera, A. R. Wickremasinghe, T. A. P. De Za

“…Many studies that have translated the instrument have focused on forward and backward translation without paying much attention to the appraisal of the translation. Most reports of internal consistency were within acceptable limits. …”
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Learning Regionalization Using Accurate Spatial Cost Gradients Within a Differentiable High‐Resolution Hydrological Model: Application to the French Mediterranean Region by Ngo Nghi Truyen Huynh, Pierre‐André Garambois, François Colleoni, Benjamin Renard, Hélène Roux, Julie Demargne, Maxime Jay‐Allemand, Pierre Javelle

“…The results highlight a strong regionalization performance of HDA‐PR especially in the most challenging upstream‐to‐downstream extrapolation scenario with ANN, achieving median Nash‐Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) scores from 0.6 to 0.71 for spatial, temporal, spatio‐temporal validations, and improving NSE by up to 30% on average compared to the baseline model calibrated with lumped parameters. …”
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A Review of Postoperative Complications in Colon Cancer Surgery: The Need for Patient-Centered Therapy by Adrian Silaghi, Dragos Serban, Corneliu Tudor, Bogdan Mihai Cristea, Laura Carina Tribus, Irina Shevchenko, Alexandru Florin Motofei, Crenguta Sorina Serboiu, Vlad Denis Constantin

“…Therefore, the purpose of this review is to update and highlight the main risk factors for unfavorable outcomes in patients diagnosed and treated surgically for colon cancer, determine what are the most common postoperative complications, and how the course towards severe forms of evolution is influenced by various clinical and biological parameters. …”
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Tommy’s National Rainbow Clinic Study: a protocol for a multi-site cohort study to evaluate a specialist antenatal service for women and families following a stillbirth or neonatal... by Alexander EP Heazell, Rebecca L Barron, Emma Tomlinson, Emilie Bailey

“…The death of a baby before or shortly after birth is a profoundly distressing experience for women and their families and is invariably followed by a period of grief. Most women who have experienced the loss of a baby will embark on another pregnancy, usually within a year. …”
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Development of prototyped molds for cranioplasty using desktop 3D printers: A single-center experience by Eduardo Burkot Hungria, Lorena Maria Dering, Maria Eduarda Rizzardi de Lima, Matheus Kahakura Franco Pedro, André Giacomelli Leal

“…Introduction: Cranioplasty is one of the most commonly performed neurosurgical procedures worldwide. …”
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Psychological capital mediates the relationship between medication adherence and cancer-related fatigue in breast cancer patients undergoing long-term treatment by Chunli Yan, Chunli Yan, Yane Chu

“…BackgroundBreast cancer is one of the most prevalent malignant tumors among women worldwide. …”
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Population‐Based Survival Analysis of Solitary Plasmacytoma of Spine in the United States From 2000 to 2020 by Kevin E. Agner, Luke G. Comisford, Alec G. Kotler, Jacob A. Wells, Michael C. Larkins

“…Aims While demographic and treatment factors influencing survival have been investigated in previous studies, analysis using the most recent population data and assessing more granular data such as the extent of surgical resection in conjunction with radiotherapy has yet to be performed. …”
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