Effect of Active Workstations on Neurocognitive Performance and Typing Skills: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Jose R. Medina‐Inojosa, Miguel A. Gomez Ibarra, Betsy J. Medina‐Inojosa, Marta Supervia, Sarah Jenkins, Lynne Johnson, Nathalie P. Suarez, Amanda Bonikowske, Virend K. Somers, Francisco Lopez‐Jimenez

“…Average scores were compared among stations using linear regression with generalized estimating equations to adjust standard errors. Bonferroni method adjusted for multiple comparisons. …”
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Closing the clinical gap: an audit of clinical compliance for early-onset neonatal sepsis management by Sanika Dalvi, Zuzanna Gawlowski

“…IAP was administered to 18 mothers because of maternal risk factors, but an additional four should have received IAP but delivered too quickly, making the compliance rate 81.81% (18/22). Interventions for EONS were timely, with 89.29% (50/56) receiving antibiotics in less than 1 h, although some delays did occur because of ward acuity, prescription and documentation errors. …”
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DeepSeek-R1 outperforms Gemini 2.0 Pro, OpenAI o1, and o3-mini in bilingual complex ophthalmology reasoning by Pusheng Xu, Yue Wu, Kai Jin, Xiaolan Chen, Mingguang He, Danli Shi

“…Ignoring key positive history, ignoring key positive signs, misinterpretation of medical data, and overuse of non–first-line interventions were the most common causes of reasoning errors. …”
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<tt>TrialSieve</tt>: A Comprehensive Biomedical Information Extraction Framework for PICO, Meta-Analysis, and Drug Repurposing by David Kartchner, Haydn Turner, Christophe Ye, Irfan Al-Hussaini, Batuhan Nursal, Albert J. B. Lee, Jennifer Deng, Courtney Curtis, Hannah Cho, Eva L. Duvaris, Coral Jackson, Catherine E. Shanks, Sarah Y. Tan, Selvi Ramalingam, Cassie S. Mitchell

“…By extending traditional PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) methodologies, TrialSieve incorporates hierarchical, treatment group-based graphs, enabling more comprehensive and quantitative comparisons of clinical outcomes. …”
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Empowering orthopedic nurses’ and nurse’s aides through a multimodal geriatric mobile team: a mixed methods study by Bastien Genet, Judith Cohen-Bittan, Rebecca Bonnetain, Alicia Amal, Luca Royer, Marie-Eva Rollet, Pauline Glasman, Angélique Bergeot, Michaël Nicolas, Jean-Sébastien Cadwallader, Jacques Boddaert, Lorène Zerah

“…Training included “aging simulation” workshops, error-awareness exercises (“room of errors” workshops), and courses on hospital-associated disability. …”
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Postoperative outcomes in earthquake victims with orthopedic trauma: a focus on mortality and dialysis needs by Erdi Huseyin Erdem, Bahar Aydinli, Serkan Dogru, Harun Ozmen, Mevlut Atilla, Inci Yildirim

“…Early diagnosis and timely therapeutic intervention in these patients are critical to improving clinical outcomes. …”
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Factors influencing burnout, stress levels, and coping strategies among nursing staff in intensive care units by Beata Wudarczyk, Sabina Krupa-Nurcek, Michał Czapla, Michał Czapla, Izabella Uchmanowicz, Izabella Uchmanowicz

“…It contributes to increased medical errors and diminished care standards. The objective of this study was to evaluate factors influencing professional burnout in nursing staff working in intensive care units.MethodologyThis quantitative study was conducted between March and November 2019 among nurses undergoing qualification and specialization training at the European Centre for Postgraduate Education in Wrocław. …”
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Development and Implementation of a Clinical Decision Support System to Enhance Efficiency and Accuracy in Medication Prescription Review in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospecti... by Lin M, He Y, He P, Jiang H, Luo H, Dai H, Yu L

“…The chi-square test was also used to assess the significance of differences in medication alert deviations and pharmacist interventions between the two groups.Results: During the pre- and postimplementation periods, 5,170,765 and 5,804,595 medication orders were prescribed, respectively. …”
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Exploring safety aspects of maternity care through the lens of midwifery students’ clinical experiences in Belgium, Czech republic, Estonia, Norway, Slovakia: A qualitative study by Daniela Javornická, Synnøve Mari Eidsvik Folkvord, Annelies Jaeken, Terézia Krčméryová, Helena Kisvetrová, Mary Steen

“…Collaborative teams prevent errors/hazards through interdisciplinary simulations, debriefings and students’ continuous mentoring. …”
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Stigma-directed services (Stig2Health) to improve ‘linkage to care’ for people living with HIV in rural Tanzania: study protocol for a nested pre-post implementation study within t... by Raphael Magnolini, Aneth Vedastus Kalinjuma, Elizabeth Senkoro, Bernard Kivuma, Olivia Kitau, Anna Eichenberger, Leila Samson, Eileen Krinke, Getrud Joseph Mollel, Robert Ndege, James Okuma, Herry Mapesi, Tracy Glass, Manuel Battegay, Fiona Vanobberghen, Maja Weisser

“…The sample size calculation was based on cohort data from 2018. Assuming a pre-intervention cohort of 511 newly diagnosed adults of whom 346 (68%) were in care and on antiretroviral treatment (ART) at 2 months, a 10% increase in linkage (from 70 to 80%), a two-sided type I error rate of 5%, and 90% power, 321 adults are required for the post-implementation group. …”
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Characteristics and trends of unintentional injuries among children and adolescents in Kunshan, China: a hospital-based retrospective study, 2018–2023 by Li Shen, Li Shen, Yafang Hua, Chunfang Gu, Rong Tao, Yuwei Zhang, Bin Huang, Mingqing Yuan, Weibing Wang, Jian Huang, Zhiping Li, Zhiping Li

“…The ARIMA model can capture the seasonal patterns of unintentional injuries to a certain extent, facilitating public health planning and intervention strategies.…”
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FIRST-line support for assistance in breathing in children (FIRST-ABC): a master protocol of two randomised trials to evaluate the non-inferiority of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC)... by Mark J Peters, Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Lyvonne N Tume, Kathryn M Rowan, David A Harrison, Alvin Richards-Belle, Peter Davis, Kevin P Morris, Zia Sadique, Laura Drikite, Richard Grieve, Julie Lester, Paul R Mouncey

“…A total sample size of 600 patients in each RCT will provide 90% power with a type I error rate of 2.5% (one sided) to exclude the prespecified non-inferiority margin of HR of 0.75. …”
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The hyperopia reserve in 3- to 6- years-old preschool children in North China: the Beijing hyperopia reserve research by Jianing Pu, Yuxin Fang, Zhen Zhou, Wei Chen, Jianping Hu, Shanshan Jin, Xinli Liu, Lihua Wang, Jingjing Feng, Huan Tong, Shanshan Xing, Ya Xing Wang, Yonghong Jiao

“…Background To report the distribution of refractive errors and ocular biometry in a large scale of preschool children in Beijing, in North China. …”
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Revision and validation of the Chinese version of the interpersonal reactivity index for couples for expectant couples by Juju Huang, Tengfei Liang, Jinzhi Li, Qiankun Liu, Jiaxue Pang, Yang Xu, Hui Xie

“…The translated scale also facilitates the early detection of couple empathy, providing a scientific foundation for the development of early personalized intervention strategies. Overall, this scale possesses clinical relevance and practical importance in enhancing marital satisfaction. …”
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Diabetes distress among immigrants of south Asian descent living in New York City: baseline results from the DREAM randomized control trial by Farhan Mohsin, Laura Wyatt, Hayley Belli, Shahmir Ali, Deborah Onakomaiya, Supriya Misra, Yousra Yusuf, Shinu Mammen, Jennifer Zanowiak, Sarah Hussain, Haroon Zafar, Sahnah Lim, Nadia Islam, Naheed Ahmed

“…Trial registration This study uses baseline data from “Diabetes Management Intervention for South Asians” (NCT03333044), which was registered with clinicaltrials.gov on 6/11/2017.…”
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Effects of Physical Exercise Breaks on Executive Function in a Simulated Classroom Setting: Uncovering a Window into the Brain by Qian Yu, Zhihao Zhang, Sebastian Ludyga, Kirk I. Erickson, Boris Cheval, Meijun Hou, Dominika M. Pindus, Charles H. Hillman, Arthur F. Kramer, Ryan S. Falck, Teresa Liu‐Ambrose, Jin Kuang, Sean P. Mullen, Keita Kamijo, Toru Ishihara, David A. Raichlen, Matthew Heath, David Moreau, André O. Werneck, Fabian Herold, Liye Zou

“…Linear mixed models identified significant positive effects of exercise conditions on behavioral reaction time (RT), error rate, and inverse efficiency score (β = −2.62, −0.19, −3.04: ps < 0.05). …”
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Improving Medication Safety Through Medication Reconciliation in Pediatric Neurology: Clinical Pharmacist Recommendations and Physician Uptake in a 13-Week Study by Margherita Zennaro, Anna Trotter, Daniele Mengato, Laura Camuffo, Claudio Ancona, Irene Toldo, Maria Cecilia Giron, Maria Federica Pelizza, Margherita Nosadini, Giorgio Perilongo, Stefano Sartori, Francesca Venturini

“…A total of 138 recommendations were shared, with an overall acceptance rate of 42%. Medication errors accounted for the largest cluster of suggestions (45%), though only 32% were accepted. …”
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Exploring the changes in functional connectivity of the limbic system in Patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment treated by acupuncture based on fMRI by Han Yingmei, Li Yijie, Zhang Heng, Feng Ze, Li Weiqing, Zhang Hanxi, Yang Ming, Chu Bingyuan, Wang Feng

“…There were differences in the FC of Seed4, Seed29, and Seed30 in the sham-acupoint group, indicating that there were baseline differences among aMCI patient groups. (2) After acupuncture in the true-acupoint group, the FC between multiple seed points and brain regions decreased, while the differences before and after the intervention in the sham-acupoint group mostly did not pass the Family-Wise Error (FEW) correction. (3) Compared with the HC group, the FC of seed points in both the true-acupoint group and the sham-acupoint group mainly decreased after acupuncture. …”
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Exploring the ElectroRetinoGraphy as a biomarker for predicting and monitoring therapeutic response to antidepressants in major depressive disorder: study protocol for the MESANTID... by Marie de Deus, Charlotte Petit, Marie Moulard, Eve Cosker, Naoual Mellouki Bendimred, Éliane Albuisson, Julia Maruani, Julia Maruani, Julia Maruani, Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy, Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy, Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy, Thomas Schwitzer

“…In addition, their implementation requires one or more trial-and-error processes, which involves months of untreated illness. …”
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Evaluating methods to explore antibiotic use on smallholding pig farms in peri-urban Kenya by Claire Scott, Nicholas Bor, Kristen Klara Reyher, Alex J. Tasker, Henry Buller, Max Korir, Dishon M. Muloi, Dishon M. Muloi, Irene Bueno, Lian Francesca Thomas, Lian Francesca Thomas, Lian Francesca Thomas

“…The “Drug Bag” collected the highest number of instances but risked over-reporting due to misrecognition, duplication, and recall errors. Contextual factors, such as ABU practices specific to the study context, affected methodological success. …”
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