The barriers to medication error reporting by nurses and factors associated with it: a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital of south-west China by Dongmei Wu, Lu Yang, Hui Su, Cui Wang, Xueping Peng, Weizheng Song, Simin Yang

“…Objectives To explore the reporting barriers and related factors of medication errors among nurses in hospitals in China and provide a reference for safe medication management in hospitals.Design Cross-sectional, online survey.Setting Responses were collected online from September 2022 to November 2022 across a specific tertiary hospital in Chengdu, China.Participants Clinical registered nurse.Primary outcome measure Measure the Barriers to Medication Administration Error (MAE) Reporting Questionnaire, Face-Saving Scale, the Index of Hierarchy of Authority and the Working Environment Questionnaire. Independent sample t-test, correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were performed to identify factors associated with the barriers to MAE reporting.Results 432 (97.30%) nurses responded. …”
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Characterization and environmental performance evaluation of locally manufactured P-32 and commercial activated carbons on the Ghanaian market by Isaac K. Tetteh, Solomon Nandomah, Janet A. Boadu, Amos Nortey, Esther B. Dwemoh, Antonia Y. Tetteh

“…Intercorrelation matrices, descriptive statistics, and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used for properties intercomparison. Multiple linear regression analysis (MLRA) was performed with candidate predictors from the intercorrelation matrices to predict MB and I2 adsorption. …”
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Association between housing status and mental health and substance use severity among individuals with opioid use disorder and co-occurring depression and/or PTSD by Lauren Kelly, Grace M. Hindmarch, Katherine E. Watkins, Colleen M. McCullough, Beth Ann Griffin, Lisa S. Meredith, Sapna Mendon-Plasek, Miriam Komaromy, Sarah B. Hunter

“…Results Among the 797 patients randomized, 13% of the sample was currently unhoused, 24% was unstably housed, and 63% was stably housed. …”
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Investigating the effect of relationship satisfaction on postpartum women’s health-related quality of life in Burkina Faso: a cross-sectional analysis by Simon Cousens, Veronique Filippi, Clara Calvert, Marina Daniele, Rasmané Ganaba, Paul Lokubal

“…We calculated the median HrQOL scores for the study sample, overall and for each domain of HrQOL (physical, psychological, social and environmental). …”
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The relationships between depression, inflammation and self-reported disease activity in IBD and their impact on healthcare usage by Natasha Seaton, Vari Wileman, Christine Norton, Joanna Hudson, Valeria Mondelli, Rona Moss-Morris

“…Previous studies investigating the relationship between contemporaneous IBD disease activity and depression are often poorly controlled, use small samples and/or rely on self-reported measures of disease activity. …”
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An Electrochemical Sensing Platform Based on a Carbon Paste Electrode Modified with a Graphene Oxide/TiO₂ Nanocomposite for Atenolol Determination by Ergi Hoxha, Nevila Broli, Majlinda Vasjari, Sadik Cenolli

“…Under optimal conditions, linear calibration curves were obtained, ranging from 1.7 to 23.2 µmol L⁻¹ for ATN with detection limits of 0.05 μmol L⁻¹. …”
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The prognostic value of immunoscore in the early-onset colorectal cancer by Xinchun Wu, Sen Hou, Yingjiang Ye, Zhidong Gao

“…Conclusion Immunoscore can serve as a possible indicator in predicting prognosis of patients with early-onset colorectal cancer, but still need large sample research validation.…”
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Linkage between Neighborhood Social Cohesion and BMI of South Asians in the Masala Study by Gagandeep Gill, Nicola Lancki, Manjit Randhawa, Semran K. Mann, Adam Arechiga, Robin D. Smith, Samuel Soret, Alka M. Kanaya, Namratha Kandula

“…We utilized cross-sectional data from the MASALA study, a prospective community-based cohort of 906 South Asian men and women from the San Francisco Bay area and the greater Chicago area. Multivariable linear regression models, stratified by sex, were used to examine the association between perceived level of neighborhood social cohesion and individual BMI after adjusting for sociodemographics. …”
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A Confidence Scoring Procedure for eDNA Metabarcoding Records and Its Application to a Global Marine Fish Dataset by Andrea Polanco F., Romane Rozanski, Virginie Marques, Martin Helmkampf, David Mouillot, Stéphanie Manel, Camille Albouy, Oscar Puebla, Loïc Pellissier

“…We tested the procedure on a large‐scale marine fish eDNA dataset (572 samples) covering 15 ecoregions worldwide, from the poles to the tropics, using the teleo marker on the mitochondrial 12S ribosomal gene. …”
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Experimental paradigm to test the effects of providing social support: study protocol of the PROSPECT trial (Study 2) by Vivien Hajak, Simone Grimm, Ewa Gruszczyńska, Aleksandra Kroemeke, Natalia Józefacka, Lisa Marie Warner

“…Primary outcomes are immediate physiological (saliva cortisol, heart rate, heart rate variability, blood pressure), affective (positive and negative affect, anxiety), self-evaluative (e.g., self-esteem) and relationship outcomes. Generalized linear models will be used to compare the four conditions. …”
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Identifying Substance Use and High-Risk Sexual Behavior Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth by Using Mobile Phone Data: Development and Validation Study by Mehrab Beikzadeh, Ian W Holloway, Kimmo Kärkkäinen, Chenglin Hong, Cory Cascalheira, Elizabeth S C Wu, Callisto Boka, Alexandra C Avendaño, Elizabeth A Yonko, Majid Sarrafzadeh

“…We used Scikit-learn to train logistic regression and gradient boosting classification models with simple linear model specification to predict participants' substance use and sexual behaviors (ie, condomless anal sex, number of sexual partners, and methamphetamine use), which were validated using self-report questionnaires. …”
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Analysis of risk factors for subjective stress among nurses caring for patients with delirium: a cross-sectional, multicentre survey by Tianxiang Jiang, Yangling Ge, Wei Zhang, Xiaoqiong Wang, Weili Zhao, Xiaotong Yuan, Haochong He, Xiuzhi Zhang

“…The significant variables from the univariate analysis were included in multiple linear regression analysis for further analysis, with the SCDI total score as the dependent variable. …”
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Relationship between dietary intake, eating attitudes, and premenstrual syndrome severity among Iranian women: insights from a cross-sectional study by Sara Mighani, Fatemeh Taghizadeh Shivyari, Alireza Razzaghi, Mohammad Amerzadeh, Maryam Javadi

“…Statistical analysis utilized ANOVA and chi-square tests. The adequacy of the sample was evaluated using the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test. …”
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Markers of microbial translocation during pregnancy: differences among HIV+ women of African and European provenance by Silvia Baroncelli, Clementina Maria Galluzzo, Atim Molinari, Maria Franca Pirillo, Albertina Cavalli, Elisa Negri, Marco Floridia, Anna Degli Antoni

“…Soluble CD14, lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) and intestinal-fatty acid binding protein (I-FABP) were measured in plasma samples collected between the first and second trimester of pregnancy. …”
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Cross-validation for training and testing co-occurrence network inference algorithms by Daniel Agyapong, Jeffrey Ryan Propster, Jane Marks, Toby Dylan Hocking

“…Existing network inference algorithms employ techniques such as correlation, regularized linear regression, and conditional dependence, which have different hyper-parameters that determine the sparsity of the network. …”
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The Evaluation of Psychosexual Profiles in Dominant and Submissive BDSM Practitioners: A Bayesian Approach by Daniele Mollaioli, Tommaso B. Jannini, Diana Piga Malaianu, Andrea Sansone, Elena Colonnello, Erika Limoncin, Giacomo Ciocca, Emmanuele A. Jannini

“…A sample of 99 BDSM practitioners from online forums participated, providing responses across several psychometric instruments. …”
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Shale lithofacies mechanical differences from tectonic-diagenetic coupling and their response to hydraulic fracture network propagation by Liyan Yang, Xiangdong Peng, Ying Hu, Anan Liu

“…Under uniaxial compression, samples from different lithofacies predominantly fail through tensile splitting, exhibiting linear elastic energy accumulation and vertical splitting fractures. …”
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Role of depressive symptoms on the development of pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy: A prospective inception cohort study by Teresa Algård, Paul Kalliokoski, Kerstin Ahlqvist, Angela Schlager, Per Kristiansson

“…Covariates for statistical adjustment were identified in a directed acyclic graph. Linear robust and logistic regression were used in the statistical analyses. …”
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Are more muscle-strengthening exercise participations associated with weight status in children and adolescents? Results from 67,281 participants by Huadong Su, Xinli Chi, Hui Li, Songjian Du, Jin Yan

“…A series of multilevel generalized linear models were used to analyse associations between days of MSE and weight status. …”
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Excess costs of type 2 diabetes and their sociodemographic and clinical determinants: a cross-sectional study using data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for... by Hans-Helmut König, Christian Schmidt, Jens Baumert, Christian Brettschneider, Alexander Konnopka, Hannah König, A Rommel

“…We adjusted for group differences using entropy balancing and estimated excess costs for total, direct, indirect costs and additional cost categories using generalised linear models. We performed subgroup analyses to investigate the association of sociodemographic (age, sex and education) and clinical determinants (diabetes duration, glycaemic index and complications) with excess costs.Participants The final study sample included n=325 individuals with T2D and n=4490 individuals without diabetes in the age between 18 and 79 years.Results Total excess costs amounted to €927, of which €719 were attributable to direct and €209 to indirect excess costs. …”
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