Household coverage, quality and costs of care provided by community health worker teams and the determining factors: findings from a mixed methods study in South Africa by Frances Griffiths, Margaret Thorogood, Yu-hwei Tseng, Julia de Kadt, Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, Teurai Rwafa, Hlologelo Malatji, Olukemi Babalola, Michel Muteba, Jonathan Levin, Emmanuelle Daviaud, Jocelyn Watkins

“…In this paper, we assess coverage (proportion of households visited by a CHW in the past year and month), quality of care and costs of the service provided by CHW teams with differing configurations of supervisors, some based in formal clinics and some in community health posts.Participants CHW, their supervisors, clinic staff, CHW clients.Methods We used mixed methods (a random household survey, focus group discussions, interviews and observations of the CHW at work) to examine the performance of six CHW teams in vulnerable communities in Sedibeng, South Africa.Results A CHW had visited 17% of households in the last year, and we estimated they were conducting one to two visits per day. …”
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Exploring data quality and use of the routine health information system in Ethiopia: a mixed-methods study by Joanna Schellenberg, Della Berhanu, Lars Åke Persson, Misrak Getnet, Joanna Busza, Tsion Tsegaye, Kalkidan Mekete, Magdelawit Mengesha, Abyot Adane, Tewabe M Adege, Mesoud M Ahmed, Habtamu A Anteneh, Emiamrew S Ayalew, Netsanet Berhanu, Tesfahun Bishaw, Eshetu Cherinet, Mamo Dereje, Tsega H Desta, Abera Dibabe, Heven S Firew, Freweini Gebrehiwot, Etenesh Gebreyohannes, Zenebech Gella, Addis Girma, Zuriash Halefom, Sorsa F Jama, Annika Janson, Binyam Kemal, Abiy Kiflom, Yidnekachew D Mazengiya, Meresha W Nega, Israel A Otoro, Tefera Taddele, Gulilat Tefera, Admasu Teketel, Miraf Tesfaye, Kidist Woldesenbet, Yakob Wondarad, Zemzem M Yusuf, Kidist Zealiyas, Mebratom H Zeweli, Seblewengel Lemma

“…The study was nested within a 2-year programme of the Operational Research and Coaching for government Analysts.Participants We visited 45 health posts, 1 district hospital, 16 health centres and 8 district offices for analysis of routine RHIS data and interviewed 117 staff members for the qualitative assessment.Outcome measures We assessed availability of source documents, completeness, timeliness and accuracy of reporting of routine data, and explored data quality and use perceptions.Results There was variable quality of both indicator and data element. …”
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Postsurgical rehabilitation for adults with low back pain with or without radiculopathy who were treated surgically: protocol for a mixed studies systematic review by Ginny Brunton, Silvano Mior, Carol Cancelliere, Jessica J. Wong, Hainan Yu, Margareta Nordin, Paulo Pereira, Heather Shearer, Gaelan Connell, Leslie Verville, Anne Taylor-Vaisey

“…Findings will be disseminated through knowledge translation activities including: (1) presentations at national and international conferences and scientific meetings; (2) presentations to local and international stakeholders; (3) publications in peer-reviewed journals and (4) posts on organisational websites.PROSPERO registration number CRD42019134607.…”
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Factors modulating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on posttraumatic stress symptomatology of the Spanish healthcare workers: A cohort study. by Beatriz Arregui-Gallego, María Isabel Orts-Cortés, María Teresa Moreno-Casbas, Eva Abad-Corpa, Rafaela Camacho-Bejarano, Mª Ángeles Cidoncha-Moreno, Isabel Feria-Raposo, Javier Iruzubieta-Barragán, Montserrat Carmona, Estíbaliz Cristóbal-Domínguez, Leticia Bernués-Caudillo, Elvira Casado-Ramírez, Alda Recas-Martin, Dolores Sánchez-López, M Consuelo Company-Sancho, Noelia López Rascón, Silvia Esteban-Sepúlveda, María Clara Vidal-Thomàs, Isabel Alonso, Daniel Muñoz-Jiménez, José Vicente Segura-Heras, Joaquín Moncho, Manuel Rich-Ruiz

“…At baseline, changes in work posts, negative family-work relations, avoidant coping, burnout symptoms, and emotional intelligence were associated with PTSS levels. …”
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Rapid, high-throughput isolation of tumor specific small extracellular vesicles using radial flow microfluidic chip with IEDDA chemistry (ExoOnco ChipEpCAM−TCO) by Nnaemeka Onukwugha, Henry McEacheron, Scott Smith, Harrison Ball, Nithya Ramnath, Sunitha Nagrath

“…To address these challenges, we developed the ExoOnco chip, a microfluidic device featuring a radial flow design with bean-shaped micro-posts that create a varying shear rate profile for efficient sEV capture. …”
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Phase I-IIa clinical trial to evaluate the safety, feasibility and efficacy of the use of a palate mucosa generated by tissue engineering for the treatment of children with cleft p... by Ingrid Garzón, Antonio Campos, Miguel Alaminos, Gloria Carmona, Antonio España-López, Ricardo Fernández-Valadés, Elisa Cubiles, Miguel Angel Martin-Piedra, Víctor Carriel, Fernando Campos, Adoración Martínez-Plaza, Daniel Vallejo, Esther Liceras-Liceras, Jesús Chato-Astrain, Oscar Dario García-García, David Sánchez-Porras, Paula Ávila-Fernández, Miguel Etayo-Escanilla, Blanca Quijano, Elisabet Aguilar

“…The research will be published in journals and posted in the relevant repositories when available.Ethics and dissemination This study has been approved by the Committee of Ethics in Research with Medicinal Products (CEIm) and authorised by the Spanish Medicines Agency (AEMPS). …”
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Cross-Cultural Gender-Based Investigation of Filipino and Chinese Facebook Users’ Disagreement Strategies by Joan C. Ravago, John Arvin V. De Roxas, Joel M. Torres, Daisy O. Casipit, Mercedita M. Reyes

“…The corpus consisting 50 discourses derived from the participants’ Facebook posts were analyzed using Leech’s (2016) Taxonomies of Directness and Levinson's (2017) Categories of Indirectness. …”
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Social media warfare: investigating human-bot engagement in English, Japanese and German during the Russo-Ukrainian war on Twitter and Reddit by Wentao Xu, Kazutoshi Sasahara, Jianxun Chu, Bin Wang, Wenlu Fan, Zhiwen Hu

“…Moreover, we found that English content demonstrated Granger causality with cascade size and depth in minor languages like Japanese and German (p < 0.05), with temporal correlations between human and bot posting frequencies significantly heightening toxicity in English compared to the other languages. …”
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Experimental and Simulative Investigation of Deterministic Lateral Displacement and Dielectrophoresis Methods for Continuous Multi-Property Particle Sorting by Jonathan Kottmeier, Maike Sophie Wullenweber, Zhen Liu, Ingo Kampen, Arno Kwade, Andreas Dietzel

“…However, the separation is not reliably repeatable due to partial clogging of ellipsoidal particles along the posts. In addition, higher concentrations of polydisperse silica suspensions were experimentally investigated by using polydisperse silica particles at concentrations up to 0.4% (m/V) up to <i>Re</i> = 80 (20 mL/min). …”
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Older Adults’ Use of Cannabis and Attitudes Around Disclosing Medical Cannabis Use to Their Healthcare Providers in California: A Mixed Methods Study by Dania Abu Baker, Paola N. Cruz Rivera, Rekha Narasimhan, Nhi Nguyen, Lize Tibiriçá, Wayne E. Kepner, Pearse O’Malley, Annie L. Nguyen, Alison A. Moore

“…Methods Nineteen older adults (ages 65+ years) with self-reported medical cannabis use were recruited from flyers posted in ambulatory clinics in San Diego, CA. Surveys and semi-structured interviews on cannabis use were completed. …”
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Skill decay following Basic Life Support training: a systematic review protocol by Andrew Owen, Joseph Alderman, Emily Beesley, Jonathan Hulme, Benjamin Stanley, Thomas Burton, Harriet Percival, Nicholas Coffin

“…To maximise the public’s access to this review’s findings, any scientific report will be accompanied by a lay summary posted via social media channels, and a press release disseminated to national and international news agencies.PROSPERO registration number CRD42021237233.…”
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Malaria control among Myanmar migrants in Thailand: a qualitative study of healthcare providers by Nichakan Inthitanon, Piyarat Sripoorote, Yupaporn Wattanagoon, Pattamaporn Petchvijit, Ammarind Anantjitsupha, Kyawt Mon Win, Nattawan Rachaphaew, Khaing Zin Zin Htwe, Kritsana Suk-aum, Peeriya Watakulsin, Liwang Cui, Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Daniel M. Parker, Wang Nguitragool, Pyae Linn Aung

“…Suggested solutions included deploying mobile malaria posts near informal border crossings, mandating malaria testing before worksite entry, and engaging local employers and community leaders to register new arrivals and support treatment adherence among migrants. …”
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Impact of digital interdisciplinary consultation on secondary care referrals by general practitioners: a protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial by Maarten Postma, Danielle Jansen, Henk van der Worp, Marco H Blanker, Henk Schers, Sanne Sanavro, Joke Stoffelen, Paul Koning, Michiel de Boer, Guus Janus

“…Secondary outcome are costs, primary and secondary care workload, posted cases and user satisfaction. Alongside this quantitative analysis, we will evaluate patient experience, facilitators and barriers for use of the platform.Ethics and dissemination The medical ethics review board of University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands (METc-number: 2021/288) has confirmed that the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO) does not apply to the process evaluation because the study does not involve randomisation of patients or different medical treatments (letter number: M21.275351).Trial registration number NL9704.…”
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Using social media for environmental insight: a multi-model deep learning framework approach by Minglu Che, Chengyao Wang, Yanyun Nian, Pinqi Rao

“…Using this framework, we built a lexicon of 1,019 environmental topic keywords and collected 47,737 posts from Weibo between June 2023 and June 2024, each of which was analyzed for topic classification, geographic location, and sentiment polarity. …”
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Investigating the role of neuroinflammation and brain clearance in frontotemporal lobar degeneration using 7T MRI and fluid biomarkers: protocol for a cross-sectional study in a te... by Harro Seelaar, John C Van Swieten, Elise G P Dopper, Itamar Ronen, Chloé Najac, Fieke A M Prinse, Louise van der Weerd, Lydiane Hirschler

“…The results will be disseminated through presentations at national and international conferences, open-access peer-reviewed publications, ClinicalTrials.gov and to the public through social media posts and annual newsletters.Study registration number NCT06870838; Pre-results.…”
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Valoración económica de una granja de traspatio para comercialización de huevo en Tuxpan, Veracruz by Roberto Alejandro Mateos-Rocha, Karla Rosenda Cuevas Mendoza, Vianeth Méndez Cortés, Miguel Ángel González-Salas, Alfredo González-Castro

“…Para establecer la granja de traspatio se consideró la siguiente medida: 12 m2, se utilizaron postes de concreto para dar soporte y firmeza; se estableció una línea para tener energía eléctrica y poder brindar mayor comodidad a las aves en temperaturas elevadas con ventiladores y en temperaturas bajas con focos como fuente de calor. …”
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Strategi Komunikasi Pemerintah Provinsi di Indonesia Dalam Program Vaksinasi Booster Melalui X by Yohanes Thianika Budiarsa, Wildan Namora Ichsan Setiawan, S. Rouli Manalu, Naura Iftika Ramadhanti

“…Compared to other provinces in Indonesia, the X account of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government (@DKIJakarta) posted the most tweets related to the booster vaccination program. …”
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Performance of automated machine learning in detecting fundus diseases based on ophthalmologic B-scan ultrasound images by Chen Zhao, Rui Jiang, Qian Chen, Qiaoling Wei

“…The multi-label model, designed to detect both single and multiple pathologies, posted an AUPRC of 0.9650. Pathology classification AUPRCs for the multi-class single-label model ranged from 0.9277 to 1.0000 and from 0.8780 to 0.9980 for the multi-label model. …”
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Corrigendum to “Robust and compact light-induced thermoelastic sensor for atmospheric methane detection based on a vacuum-sealed subminiature tuning fork” [Photoacoustics 42 (2025)... by Zhijin Shang, Hongpeng Wu, Gang Wang, Ruyue Cui, Biao Li, Ting Gong, Guqing Guo, Xuanbing Qiu, Chuanliang Li, Lei Dong

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A Novel YOLO Algorithm Integrating Attention Mechanisms and Fuzzy Information for Pavement Crack Detection by Qingqing Li, Tianshu Wu, Tingfa Xu, Jianmei Lei, Jiu Liu

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