Attitudes towards transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) in Australia: a national survey of TIPS centres by Jacob George, Avik Majumdar, Golo Ahlenstiel, Stuart K Roberts, Scott Read, Eric Kalo

“…This study aimed to address this gap in knowledge and benchmark the current landscape of TIPS services in Australia against international guidelines.Methods We designed a 42-item questionnaire according to practice-based recommendations and standards of international guidelines to investigate current landscape of TIPS service across four key domains: (1) service provision, (2) patient selection and indications, (3) best procedure practice, and (4) postoperative care.Results Gastroenterologist/hepatologists from 23 major liver centres (67.6%) across Australia currently performing TIPS completed the questionnaire. …”
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Developing a new clinical governance framework for chronic diseases in primary care: an umbrella review by Walter Ricciardi, Gianfranco Damiani, Alessandra Buja, Vincenzo Baldo, Mark H Ebell, Roberto Toffanin, Mirko Claus

“…All primary care should be embedded in and founded on an active partnership with the society it serves.Conclusions A framework for clinical governance will promote an integrated effort to bring together all related activities, melding environmental, administrative, support and clinical elements to ensure a coordinated and integrated approach that sustains the provision of better care for chronic conditions in primary care setting.…”
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Changes in the legal regulation of criminal proceedings under martial law by O. V. Salmanov

“…In this context, there is a need to eliminate legislative conflicts for effective and unambiguous practical implementation of legislative provisions for the purpose of investigating criminal proceedings under martial law.…”
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A Lightweight Mitigation Technique Against a Modified Version Number Attack in IoT Networks by Ibrahim S. Alsukayti, Mohammed Alreshoodi, Mehdi Rouissat

“…It lacks adequate provisioning of network security, making an internal routing attack such as the common Version Number (VN) attack easy to initiate and effective to target performance degradation and resource exhaustion. …”
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Personnel Policy Strategy of the National Police of Ukraine in the Context of Updating Administrative and Legal Principles of Protecting Human Rights and Freedoms by A. V. Tanko

“…It involves promoting the implementation of state policy in the field of combating crime and ensuring public order, the realization of human rights and freedoms, interests of society and the state, the maintenance of public safety and the provision of services to persons in need within the limits of legislation. …”
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Fossil Diatoms Reveal Natural and Anthropogenic History of Jackson Lake (Wyoming, USA) by John Dilworth, Jeffery R. Stone, Kevin M. Yeager, J. Ryan Thigpen, Michael M. McGlue

“…Jackson Lake supplies valuable cultural and provisioning ecosystem services to the Upper Snake River watershed in Wyoming and Idaho (western USA). …”
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Microfragmented Adipose Tissue Injection (MFAT) May Be a Solution to the Rationing of Total Knee Replacement: A Prospective, Gender-Bias Mitigated, Reproducible Analysis at Two Yea... by Nima Heidari, Tiffanie-Marie Borg, Stefano Olgiati, Mark Slevin, Alessandro Danovi, Brady Fish, Adrian Wilson, Ali Noorani

“…Access to this intervention can be limited for a number of reasons including rationing of care, lack of healthcare provision in austere environments, and more recently, due to the cessation of elective orthopaedic care as a result of the COVID pandemic. …”
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Analysis and Identification of Factors Influencing the Survival of Burn Injury Patients with an Artificial Intelligence Approach by Sara Hashemi, Shahla Faramarzi, Laya Rahmani Pirouz, Azita Yazdani

“…Early detection and recognition of these risk factors are essential, and the provision of predictive models can be beneficial. This research was conducted with the aim of reviewing the effectiveness of artificial intelligence in predicting survival in burn patients. …”
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Challenges in Exercising the Right to Appeal – The Case of Slovenian Administrative Consultation by Polonca Kovač

“…Academic Contribution to the Field: The article offers a regulatory and doctrinal analysis of the relevant legal provisions (including EU law, the Slovenian Constitution, and the GAPA) focusing on the aims, locus standi, time limits, grounds, and other elements of appeals. …”
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Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experience of Biosimilar to Biosimilar Infliximab Switching in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Prospective, Single-Centre, Phase IV Interv... by Clare Harris, Richard James Harris, David Young, Martin McDonnell, Bridget Clancy, Justin Harvey, Carlos Araujo, Ines Iria, Joao Goncalves, Susan Latter, J. R. Fraser Cummings

“…Thematic analysis identified six major themes that reflected the patient experience—trust, clinical status at the point of switching, past experience, general disposition, information provision, and concerns/anxiety. Conclusions. Switching from CT-P13 to SB2 is safe and effective. …”
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The “Metropolitan City” in Italy: New Spaces for Dialogue and Interaction Between the City and the Mountain by Federica Corrado, Erwin Durbiano

“…The new Metropolitan Cities were officially born in 2014, following the approval of Law n° 56 “Disposizioni sulle città metropolitane, sulle province, sulle unioni e fusioni di comuni” (Provisions concerning metropolitan cities, provinces, and unions/fusions between townships). …”
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Variative Components of the University Course of Mathematical Analysis: The Experience of Introduction into the Practice of Teaching by S. I. Кalinin, L. V. Pankratova

“…The conducted research is based on the principles of continuity and systemacity of modern education, its current concepts (fundamentalisation, humanisation, humanitarisation, individualization and differentiation) and the provisions of competency-based, activity-based, personality-oriented and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS OF PERSONALITY by V. V. Khmil, I. S. Popovych

“…To analyse the philosophical and psychological contexts of social expectations of personality, to form general scientific provisions, to reveal the properties, patterns of formation, development and functioning of social expectations as a process, result of reflection and construction of social reality. …”
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A Survey on Quality of Services, Training, and Attitude of Dermatology Trainee Residents About Sexually Transmitted Infections in Teaching Hospitals Across India by Nikhil Mehta, Sushant Agrawal, Japnoor Kaur, Somesh Gupta

“…Only 65.8% of centers had provision of benzathine penicillin. Under-confidence in managing STIs independently was reported by 19.6%. …”
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Taenia solium Cysticercosis and Taeniosis Reporting in the Current Medical and Veterinary Diseases Reporting Systems in Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Study by Fredy Mlowe, James Mlangwa, Ernatus Mkupasi, Andrea S. Winkler, Antony D. Nyerere, Ayubu Churi, Helena Ngowi, Esron Karimuribo

“…Inadequate facilitation of the general VDRS hindered efficient PCC reporting despite its provision for PCC reporting. A One Health approach in strengthening the medical and veterinary diseases reporting systems for efficient TSCT reporting is recommended.…”
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Programming Regulation and Strategic Planning in the Health Care Sector by G. V. Muliar

“…The objective of the article is to analyze the problems of program regulation of legal relations in the health care management system in Ukraine and its legal provision. The methodological basis of the article is a set of generally scientific and special research methods. …”
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Self-testing for pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ping Teresa Yeh, Caitlin E Kennedy, Manjulaa Narasimhan, Karima Gholbzouri

“…Objectives Urine pregnancy tests are often inaccessible in low-income settings. Expanded provision of home pregnancy testing could support self-care options for sexual and reproductive health and rights. …”
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Measuring Digital Health Literacy in Older Adults: Development and Validation Study by SungMin Kim, Choonghee Park, Sunghyeon Park, Dai-Jin Kim, Ye-Seul Bae, Jae-Heon Kang, Ji-Won Chun

“…We expect this study to contribute to the future provision of tailored education and treatment based on individual literacy levels.…”
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Cultivated genome references for protein database construction and high-resolution taxonomic annotation in metaproteomics by Xiaowei Gao, Hewei Liang, Tongyuan Hu, Yuanqiang Zou, Liang Xiao

“…The selection of an appropriate database is a critical step for the identification of peptides and proteins, as well as for the provision of accurate taxonomic and functional annotations. …”
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Local self-government powers: on content and correlation with related concepts by M. A. Sambor

“…Since local self-government is the right of residents of certain settlements to associate, local governments must provide relevant services to the community and its residents. The provision of relevant services by local self-government bodies, which are public services by their nature, involves the exercise of their powers granted to them as a result of decentralisation of power to fulfil their functions and tasks. …”
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