Magnitude and Characteristics of Adverse Drug Events in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review by Lina Alharbi, Duaa Almuraee, Lama AteeqAllah, Wareef Belal, Sheraz Ali

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Tracing Missing Surgical Specimens: A Quality Improvement Strategy for Adverse Events Based on Root Cause Analysis by Huang LL, Yang JH, Hong WW, Wang BL, Chen HF

“…Over two years, no surgical pathology specimens were lost post-intervention.Conclusion: The RCA-driven reforms effectively addressed systemic flaws in specimen management, demonstrating that targeted process redesign, ergonomic tools, and digital tracking can mitigate risks of medical errors. …”
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The effect of engaging unpaid informal providers on case detection and treatment initiation rates for TB and HIV in rural Malawi (Triage Plus): A cluster randomised health system i... by George Bello, Brian Faragher, Lifah Sanudi, Ireen Namakhoma, Hastings Banda, Rasmus Malmborg, Rachael Thomson, S Bertel Squire

“…Poisson regression models with robust standard errors were used to express the effectiveness of the intervention as incidence rate ratios (IRR).…”
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Timing and Indications for Liver Transplantation for Children with Chronic Liver Disease by Risheka Lakshmi Suthantirakumar, Girish L. Gupte

“…Liver transplantation (LT) has emerged as a transformative intervention, offering improved long-term survival for paediatric patients with CLD. …”
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Earlier Use of Long-Acting Injectable Paliperidone Palmitate Once-Monthly versus Oral Antipsychotics in Patients with Schizophrenia: An Integrated Patient-Level Meta Analysis of th... by Sajatovic M, Doring M, Lopena OJ, Johnston K, Turkoz I, Josiah N, Obando C

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Barriers to Regular Student Attendance in Sociology Programs at Mid-West University, Nepal by Anand Prasad Subedi, Bed Prakash Dhakal

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An Effectiveness Trial of an Exercise Physiologist Service to Improve Quality of Life in Adults with Severe Mental Illness: Protocol for the MOVEMENT Study [Corrigendum] by Chapman JJ, Siskind D, Yung AR, Lee YY, Arnautovska U, Scott JG, Burke K, Malacova E, Korman N, Wyder M, Doohan MA, Keating SE, Parker S, Walker ME, Hu D, O'Brien J, Lau G, Pratt GF, Rosenbaum S, Curtis J, Chatterton ML, Simmons L, Wheeler AJ

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Enhanced Electroacoustic Tomography with Supervised Learning for Real‐time Electroporation Monitoring by Zhuoran Jiang, Yifei Xu, Leshan Sun, Shreyas Srinivasan, Q. Jackie Wu, Liangzhong Xiang, Lei Ren

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Myopia Control Efficacy of Spectacle Lenses with Dual-Index Aspherical Lenslets: A 1-Year Randomized Clinical Trial by Yee Ling Wong, PhD, Andrew Tan, BBus, Ee Woon Lim, Hua Ren Chua, Liang Shen, PhD, Matthieu Guillot, MSc, Björn Drobe, PhD

“…Results: A total of 76 (N = 38 in each group) participants (mean [standard deviation] age, 10.8 [1.6] years) completed the 1-year visit. Mean (± standard error) 1-year AL change in the DIAL and SVL groups was 0.04 ± 0.02 and 0.22 ± 0.04 mm, respectively. …”
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A comparative evaluation of EEG Power spectrum characteristics between two methods for alleviating preoperative anxiety in breast cancer patients by Xing Jin, Yuxing Wang, Hui Jiang, Ying Wu, Yi Liu

“…Effective measures for preventing and managing preoperative anxiety include drug therapy and non-drug intervention. The main evaluation method is scale assessment, which has certain limitations and may involve human concealment or evaluation errors. …”
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Cytokine signaling defects in primary atopic diseases—an updated review by Vaishali Thakur, Rakesh Kumar Pilania, Arunima Sharma, Saniya Sharma, Alfred Thomas Mario, Taru Goyal, Madhubala Sharma, Gayathri Coimbatore Vaitheeswaran, Pandiarajan Vignesh, Surjit Singh, Manpreet Dhaliwal, Amit Rawat

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Patient safety culture through the lenses of surgical patients: a qualitative study by Magnhild Vikan, Arvid S. Haugen, Berit T. Valeberg, Ann K. Bjørnnes, Vigdis K. S. Husby, Ellen CT. Deilkås, Stein O. Danielsen

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Clinical characteristics and genetic features of 35 cases of adverse reactions to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine in children by Houyu Chen, Xiaotao Yang, Yi Huang, Feng Jiao, Houxi Bai, Ying Zhu, Penghao Cui, Haifeng Jin, Yan Guo, Yan Guo, Yanchun Wang, Yonghan Luo, Yonghan Luo

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Do community level interventions work in the same way on incidence and longitudinal prevalence of diarrhoea among under five children in rural and urban slum settings? Insights fro... by Farhad Ali, Om Prakash Singh, Abhik Dutta, Mahendra Bhushan Upadhyay, Debashmita Bhaumik

“…The data analysis was done using an Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft Inc, Seattle WA, USA) and SPSS 2015 (IBM, New York NY, USA) and reported at 5% margin of error. # Results After the intervention, community behavior and healthy practices have shown improvement in both rural areas and urban slums such as around 20 percentage points more mothers can recognize diarrohea correctly in rural areas and around 28 percentage points more mothers washed their hands after cleaning child feces. …”
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Limiting the number of open charts does not impact wrong patient order entry in the emergency department by Christina Canfield, Chiedozie Udeh, Heather Blonsky, Aaron C. Hamilton, Baruch S. Fertel

“…The rate of retract and reorder events was analyzed with no overlap in both the period pre‐ and post‐intervention period. Secondary analysis of error rate by clinician type, clinician patient load, and time of day was performed. …”
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Prevalence of adverse events in hip and knee arthroplasties following the implementation of surgical checklists by Josemar Batista, Elaine Drehmer de Almeida Cruz

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The prevalence, results, and treatments of the patients followed up with a diagnosis of metabolic disease in the pediatric intensive care unit: A single-center experience by Gültaç Evren, Ayşe Ergül Bozacı

“… Objective: Inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) are a rare, inherited, heterogeneous group of diseases that are mostly symptomatic in the pediatric age group. …”
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On scientific and non-scientific criticism: reflections on the margins of reviews by A.V. Ganin, V.I. Goldin

“…First of all, the question of assessing the chronological framework and nature of the Civil Warand foreign military intervention. Results. The array of works by V.P. Buldakov is analyzed, their characteristics are given, some historiographical errors are debunked. …”

Assessment of an intervention to optimise antenatal management of women admitted with preterm labour and intact membranes using amniocentesis-based predictive risk models: study pr... by Maria Goya, Carmen Garrido, Anna Peguero, Francesc Figueras, Eduard Gratacos, Cristina Paules, Eva Meler, Teresa Cobo, Victoria Aldecoa, Jose Luis Bartha, Fernando Bugatto, María Paz Carrillo-Badillo, Carmina Comas, Vicente Diago-Almeda, Silvia Ferrero, Ignacio Herraiz, Laia Martí-Malgosa, Anna Olivella, Àngels Vives, Montse Palacio, David Boada, Sara Ruiz-Martínez, Alberto Galindo, Laura Forcén, Patricia M Brañas, Itziar Garcia, Mirea Vargas, Alicia Martínez-Varea, Laia PratCorona, Marcos Cuerva, Tamara Illescas, Miguel Angel López-Guerrero, MºCarmen Facio, Carmen Medina, Cecilia Vilalain González

“…AEMPS approved the trial as a low-intervention trial. All participants will be required to provide written informed consent. …”
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Correction: Cheng et al. NICEFIT—A Prospective, Non-Interventional, and Multicentric Study for the Management of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis with Antifibrotic Therapy in Taiwan.... by Shih-Lung Cheng, Chau-Chyun Sheu, Chih-Feng Chian, Jeng-Yuan Hsu, Kuo-Chin Kao, Liang-Wen Hang, Ching-Hsiung Lin, Wen-Feng Fang, Hao-Chien Wang, Diahn-Warng Perng

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