Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019-2023. by David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Tom Williams, Peter Fleming, Karen Luyt

“…Limitations include that the population at risk was estimated at a mid-point of the study, and changes may have biased our estimates. In particular, absolute rates should be interpreted with caution. …”
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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Maria Lenk, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing (2017, Edward Elgar), a recent study which suggests three steps for countries to accomplish staying below a 1.5°C rise above pre-industrial temperatures: eco-efficient production, changing patterns of consumption, and a reduction of absolute consumption. According to Braam, the book’s interdisciplinary approach – drawing on economic, ecological, political and social aspects of climate change – is convincing, and the book’s argument is credible, especially regarding the rich countries. …”
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Efficacy and safety of perioperative sintilimab plus platinum-based chemotherapy for potentially resectable stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (periSCOPE): an open-label, single... by Xiangyang Yu, Chujian Huang, Longde Du, Chunguang Wang, Yikun Yang, Xin Yu, Shengcheng Lin, Chenglin Yang, Hongbo Zhao, Songhua Cai, Zhe Wang, Lixu Wang, Xiaotong Guo, Baihua Zhang, Zhentao Yu, Jie He, Kai Ma

“…Summary: Background: The absolute overall survival (OS) improvement with preoperative chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is controversial and unsatisfactory. …”
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Effect of Sucrose Spray on some Phytochemical Characteristics of Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) under Field Conditions by Vahid Akbarpour, Hossein Aruei, Kambiz Mashayekhi, Majid Azizi Arani, Mohammad Ali Bahmanyar

“…Finally, it can be concluded that the application of sucrose with its appropriate solvent (methanol) could decrease or replace the absolute requirement for carbon source in the environment.…”
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The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) Guidelines and Consensus on the Definition, Current Evidence, Clinical Use and Future Applications for Physiologic Closed-Loop... by Pope JE, Deer TR, Sayed D, Antony AB, Bhandal HS, Calodney AK, Chakravarthy K, Costandi S, Diep J, Durbhakula S, Fishman MA, Gilligan C, Goree JH, Guirguis M, Hagedorn JM, Hunter CW, Kallewaard JW, Kapural L, Lam CM, Li S, Mayrsohn B, Nijhuis H, Nikolic S, Petersen EA, Poree LR, Puri SK, Reece DE, Rosen SM, Russo MA, Shah JM, Staats PS, Verrills P, Vu CM, Levy RM, Mekhail N

“…Jason E Pope,1 Timothy Ray Deer,2 Dawood Sayed,3 Ajay B Antony,4 Harjot Singh Bhandal,1 Aaron K Calodney,5 Krishnan Chakravarthy,6 Shrif Costandi,7 Jack Diep,8 Shravani Durbhakula,9 Michael A Fishman,10 Christopher Gilligan,11 Johnathan Heck Goree,12 Maged Guirguis,13 Jonathan Michael Hagedorn,14 Corey William Hunter,15,16 Jan Willem Kallewaard,17,18 Leonardo Kapural,19– 21 Christopher M Lam,3 Sean Li,22 Brian Mayrsohn,23,24 Harold Nijhuis,25 Serge Nikolic,26 Erika A Petersen,27 Lawrence Raymond Poree,28 Shawn K Puri,29 David E Reece,30 Steven Mark Rosen,31 Marc A Russo,32 Jay M Shah,33 Peter Sean Staats,34 Paul Verrills,35 Chau M Vu,1 Robert M Levy,36 Nagy Mekhail37 1Evolve Restorative Center, Santa Rosa, CA, USA; 2Pain Services, The Spine & Nerve Center of the Virginias, Charleston, WV, USA; 3Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA; 4The Orthopaedic Institute, Gainesville, FL, USA; 5Clinical Research, Precision Spine Care, Tyler, TX, USA; 6Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Solaris Research Institute, Wilmington, DE, USA; 7Pain Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA; 8Nevada Pain Management, Las Vegas, NV, USA; 9Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA; 10Michael Fishman MD PLLC, Lebanon, PA, USA; 11Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; 12Department of Anesthesiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA; 13Interventional Pain Management Department, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA, USA; 14Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; 15Ainsworth Institute of Pain Management, New York City, NY, USA; 16Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, NY, USA; 17Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 18Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, The Netherlands; 19Carolinas Pain Institute, Winston Salem, NC, USA; 20Centers for Clinical Research, Winston Salem, NC, USA; 21Chronic Pain Research Institute, Winston Salem, NC, USA; 22National Spine and Pain Centers, Shrewsbury, NJ, USA; 23Interventional Pain Management, Maywell Health, Plainview, NY, USA; 24Interventional Pain Management, Maywell Health, New York City, NY, USA; 25Anesthesiology, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 26Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK; 27Department of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA; 28Anesthesia- Division of Pain Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; 29Integrated Pain Associates, Killeen, TX, USA; 30Absolute Pain Management, Rockville, MD, USA; 31Delaware Valley Pain and Spine Institute, Trevose, PA, USA; 32School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia; 33Samwell Institute of Pain Management, Colonia, Livingston, and Englewood, NJ, USA; 34National Spine and Pain Centers, Atlantic Beach, FL, USA; 35Metropain, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 36Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, International Neuromodulation Society, Boca Raton, FL, USA; 37Evidence-Based Pain Management Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USACorrespondence: Timothy Ray Deer, The Spine and Nerve Center of the Virginias, 400 Court Street, Charleston, WV, 25304, USA, Tel +1 304 347 6141, Email doctdeer@aol.comIntroduction: Neuromodulation has been a staple of treatment for moderate-to-severe chronic refractory pain since the introduction of the first spinal cord stimulator by Norman Shealy in 1967. …”
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Value-creating factors in the professional relationship between the auditor and the employer in the auditing profession by Alireza Vaziri, keihan Azadi, Mojtaba Maleki choubari

“…However, the quality of the audit is not different from the criteria of the absolute value of the accrual items for the large owners and the government auditor, compared to the small owners and the government auditor. …”
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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…But futility is not absolute. For example, suppose it is defined too broadly and includes cases where survival rates are low, but survival is possible. …”
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Should the Food and Drug Administration Limit Placebo-Controlled Trials? by Max Goodman, Connor Pedersen

“…However, what constitutes temporary is arbitrary, as there is no absolute reference of time prescribed, nor is there a defined proportion relative to total life expectancy available. …”
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Comparative Ethics of Modern Payment Models by Jacob Riegler

“…The objective measures include ideally controllable disease factors, such as hospital admissions or disease exacerbations in patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[26] Such measures align payment incentives with quality and results, an important aspect of patient care but not an absolute placeholder for ethical measures. One of the largest critiques of value-based payments has always been that value cannot simply be measured with empirical data but must account for patient values.[27] The solution to such a critique is patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), which factor patient values and lifestyle into the empirical payment calculation.[28] A study by Groeneveld et al. showed that PROMs were useful in evaluating the progression of stroke patients at several different time intervals.[29] Bernstein showed that PROMs give insight into the sociodemographic factors a patient may be experiencing, which can guide targeted interventions.[30] To providers, these may not sound like innovative clinical tools, but they resemble the everyday scoring systems and social work consultations seen in patient care. …”
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