Protocol for development of an assessment tool for competency of ECG interpretation: expert consensus by the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method and cross-sectional testing using multidimensional item response theory by Shinji Inaba, Toshi A Furukawa, Osamu Yamaguchi, Masatsugu Sakata, Kazumichi Yamamoto, Tomohiro Kaga, Muhammad Wannous

“…The current study seeks to (1) develop a set of items (ECG questions) for estimating competency of ECG interpretation by medical personnel by consensus among expert panels following a process based on the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method (RAM) and (2) analyse item parameters and multidimensional latent factors of the test set to develop an assessment tool.Methods and analysis This study will be conducted in two steps: (1) selection of question items for ECG interpretation assessment by expert panels via a consensus process following RAM and (2) cross-sectional, web-based testing using a set of ECG questions. …”
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Sex-related functional outcome after periacetabular osteotomy in mild to severe hip dysplasia by Maximilian Fischer, Lars Nonnenmacher, Andre Hofer, Alexander Zimmerer, Andreas Nitsch, Rico Großjohann, Sabrina Erdmann, Georgi I. Wassilew

Subjects: “…university of california, los angeles (ucla) activity score…”
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Preoperative Cardiac Variables of Diastolic Dysfunction and Clinical Outcomes in Lung Transplant Recipients by Ajay Yadlapati, Joseph P. Lynch, Rajan Saggar, David Ross, John A. Belperio, Stephen Weigt, Abbas Ardehali, Tristan Grogan, Eric H. Yang, Jamil Aboulhosn

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Pubertal Status Moderates the Association between Mother and Child Laboratory Pain Tolerance by Jennie CI Tsao, Ning Li, Delana Parker, Laura C Seidman, Lonnie K Zeltzer

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Optimization of a micro-scale air–liquid-interface model of human proximal airway epithelium for moderate throughput drug screening for SARS-CoV-2 by Chandani Sen, Tammy M. Rickabaugh, Arjit Vijey Jeyachandran, Constance Yuen, Maisam Ghannam, Abdo Durra, Adam Aziz, Kristen Castillo, Gustavo Garcia, Arunima Purkayastha, Brandon Han, Felix W. Boulton, Eugene Chekler, Robert Garces, Karen C. Wolff, Laura Riva, Melanie G. Kirkpatrick, Amal Gebara-Lamb, Case W. McNamara, Ulrich A. K. Betz, Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami, Robert Damoiseaux, Brigitte N. Gomperts

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The Role of E-Cadherin in Maintaining the Barrier Function of Corneal Epithelium after Treatment with Cultured Autologous Oral Mucosa Epithelial Cell Sheet Grafts for Limbal Stem D... by Fawzia Bardag-Gorce, Richard H. Hoft, Andrew Wood, Joan Oliva, Hope Niihara, Andrew Makalinao, Jacquelyn Thropay, Derek Pan, Imara Meepe, Kumar Tiger, Julio Garcia, Amanda Laporte, Samuel W. French, Yutaka Niihara

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dotears: Scalable and consistent directed acyclic graph estimation using observational and interventional data by Albert Xue, Jingyou Rao, Sriram Sankararaman, Harold Pimentel

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Focal therapy of prostate cancer: Use of artificial intelligence to define tumour volume and predict treatment outcomes by Wayne G. Brisbane, Alan M. Priester, Anissa V. Nguyen, Mark Topoozian, Sakina Mota, Merdie K. Delfin, Samantha Gonzalez, Kyla P. Grunden, Shannon Richardson, Shyam Natarajan, Leonard S. Marks

“…Subjects/patients and methods Subjects were 204 men with prostate cancer (PCa) of grade groups 2–4 (GG ≥ 2), who were enrolled in a trial of partial gland cryoablation (PGA) at UCLA from 2017 to 2022. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)‐guided biopsy (MRGB) was performed at diagnosis and at 6 and 18 months following PGA. …”
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Cerebrovascular Accidents After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Patients with Hepatopulmonary Syndrome: A Case Series by Steffi K. Chan, Manuel M. Buitrago Blanco, Nicholas J. Feduska, Vatche G. Agopian, Samer S. Ebaid, Tisha Wang, Ami Tamhaney, Igor Barjaktarevic

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Cisplatin-Induced Renal Salt Wasting Requiring over 12 Liters of 3% Saline Replacement by Phuong-Chi Pham, Pavani Reddy, Shaker Qaqish, Ashvin Kamath, Johana Rodriguez, David Bolos, Martina Zalom, Phuong-Thu Pham

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Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) as an Uncommon Extraintestinal Complication of Crohn’s Disease: Case Vignette and Systematic Literature Review by Raisa Epistola, Tiffanie Do, Ritika Vankina, Daniel Wu, James Yeh, Michael W. Fleischman, Jennifer M. Lee

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Successful Tricuspid Valve Replacement in a Patient with Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Preserved Right Ventricular Systolic Function by Jamil A. Aboulhosn, Ronald J. Oudiz, Amish S. Dave, Abbas Ardehali, David J. Ross

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Generalizability of Randomized Clinical Trial Outcomes for Diabetes Control Resulting From Bariatric Surgery by Edward H. Livingston, MD, FACS, AGAF, Hila Zelicha, RD, PhD, Erik P. Dutson, MD, Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD, Matthew L. Maciejewski, PhD, Yijun Chen, MD

“…Weight loss and diabetes control were compared between UCLA patients who did and did not fit the entry criteria for these RCTs. …”
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A Rare Case of Digital Ischemia and Gangrene in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis with Review of the Literature by Richard A. Lau, Ramandeep Bains, Duminda Suraweera, Jane Ma, Emil R. Heinze, Andrew L. Wong, Philip J. Clements

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease with Mixed Transcortical Aphasia: Insights into Echolalia by S. E. McPherson, J. D. Kuratani, J. L. Cummings, J. Shih, P. S. Mischel, H. V. Vinters

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Severe Hyperphosphatemia in a Patient with Mild Acute Kidney Injury by Phuong Chi Pham, Raghu Konanur Ventakaram, Jimmy Pham, Harpreet Sidhu, Nada Bader, Phuong Mai Pham, Phuong Thu Pham

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Trajectory of peripheral inflammation during index ECT in association with clinical outcomes in treatment-resistant depression by Christina M. Hough, Jennifer L. Kruse, Randall T. Espinoza, John O. Brooks, III, Eliza J. Congdon, Viviane Norris, Michelle G. Craske, Katherine L. Narr

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Experimental Pain Responses in Children with Chronic Pain and in Healthy Children: How Do They Differ? by Jennie CI Tsao, Subhadra Evans, Laura C Seidman, Lonnie K Zeltzer

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Modeling the potential impact of rectal microbicides to reduce HIV transmission in bathhouses by Romulus Breban, Ian McGowan, Chad Topaz, Elissa J. Schwartz, Peter Anton, Sally Blower

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Low Grade Islet but Marked Exocrine Pancreas Inflammation in an Adult with Autoimmune Pre-Diabetes by Hiroshi Nomoto, Tatyana Gurlo, Madeline Rosenberger, Mark D. Girgis, Sarah Dry, Peter C. Butler

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