Transitional care quality indicators to assess quality of care following hospitalisation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure: a systematic review protocol by Faith Michael, Sera Whitelaw, Harriette GC Van Spall

“…We will screen all studies published between January 1990 and October 2019 that test an intervention that aims to improve the hospital-to-home transition for patients with COPD and/or HF; and measure at least one process (eg, medication errors), clinical (eg, hospital readmissions) or patient-reported (eg, health-related quality of life) outcome which will serve as a transitional care quality indicator . …”
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Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery: the Opinion of Russian Ophthalmologists by D. F. Pokrovsky, I. B. Medvedev

“…The leading reasons for refusal to perform ISBCS by ophthalmic surgeons who do not use this technology are the possible occurrence of endophthalmitis, the risk of errors in IOL calculation, and medical and legal problems.Conclusion. …”
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Development and implementation of an etiology-based diagnostic framework for acute abdominal pain in emergency settings by Hui Guo, Xu-Rui Li, Yun-Lei Du, Yang-Juan Jia, Hong-Ling Li, Qian Zhao, Yan-Peng Li, Jian-Guo Li

“…Abstract Background Diagnostic checklists have been demonstrated to reduce errors in clinical reasoning. Building on previous validation studies, this research presents the development and clinical application of an etiology-based diagnostic framework for evaluating acute abdominal pain. …”
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Benefits of medication charts provided at transitions of care: a narrative systematic review by Fine Michèle Dietrich, Kurt E Hersberger, Isabelle Arnet

“…Studies of any study design, intervention and population which examined the effect of paper-based medication charts were included. …”
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Construction of influencing factors and nomogram prediction model for post-herpetic neuralgia based on T cell function and inflammatory factors by Lin Liu, Shunqiang Chen

“…The calibration curve showed good agreement between the predicted and actual values with mean absolute errors of 0.164 and 0.146, respectively, which was good by the Hosmer-Lemeshow test.ConclusionThe nomogram model based on T cell function and inflammatory factors can effectively predict the risk of PHN and provide the basis for early clinical intervention.…”
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Application of attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in semi-quantification of blood lipids and characterization of the metabolic syndrome. by Tz-Ping Gau, Jen-Hung Wen, I-Wei Lu, Pei-Yu Huang, Yao-Chang Lee, Wei-Po Lee, Hsiang-Chun Lee

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>The results of this study revealed that predicting MetS and determining blood lipid levels with high R2 values and limited errors are feasible for monitoring during therapy and intervention.…”
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Knee Osteoarthritis Detection and Classification Using Autoencoders and Extreme Learning Machines by Jarrar Amjad, Muhammad Zaheer Sajid, Ammar Amjad, Muhammad Fareed Hamid, Ayman Youssef, Muhammad Irfan Sharif

“…Early and accurate detection is critical for effective intervention, as treatment options become increasingly limited as the disease progresses. …”
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Psychometric assessment of scales used to evaluate sexual assault prevention programming in the United States Air Force. by Kathryn E L Grimes, Nichole M Scaglione, Marni L Kan, Leah Frerichs, Christopher M Shea, Angela M Stover

“…We used full information maximum likelihood estimation with robust standard errors in Mplus. We refined each scale based on factor analysis results and assessed internal consistency reliability by computing Cronbach's coefficient alpha for each scale in the overall sample, by sex, and by tailored SCC intervention group.…”
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Pulmonary features and stage of disease in adult patients with hyper-IgE syndrome: a single-centre clinical study and literature review by Tiange Xie, Na Xu, He Zhao, Yingdong Han, Juan Wu, Hong Di, Min Peng, Ting Zhang, Hongwei Fan, Yun Zhang, Xuejun Zeng

“…Abstract Background The hyper-IgE syndromes (HIES) are a heterogeneous group of inborn errors of immunity-sharing manifestations including increased infection susceptibility, eczema, and raised serum IgE. …”
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Spatiotemporally weighted regression (STWR) for assessing Lyme disease and landscape fragmentation dynamics in Connecticut towns by Zhe Wang, Xiang Que, Meifang Li, Zhuoming Liu, Xun Shi, Xiaogang Ma, Chao Fan, Yan Lin

“…Compared with Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), the STWR model proved more potent and reliable with higher R2 and lower estimated standard errors (SE). The STWR model is highly flexible in terms of spatiotemporal variations in data. …”
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The current situation and associated factors of the psychological capital of nurses’ second victims in China: a cross-sectional study by Zhuoqing Deng, Qianfei Li, Hongyan Zan, Xiaohong Zhang, Ya‘nan Zhang, Zhiheng Gao

“…From the level of patient safety incidents, we should focus on the nurses with high event level and drug administration errors, and provide timely intervention support after the incident, so as to improve the psychological capital level of the second victims. …”
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Spiking Neural Networks Optimized by Improved Cuckoo Search Algorithm: A Model for Financial Time Series Forecasting by Panke Qin, Yongjie Ding, Ya Li, Bo Ye, Zhenlun Gao, Yaxing Liu, Zhongqi Cai, Haoran Qi

“…Furthermore, ICS-SNN significantly outperforms mainstream models such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Backpropagation (BP) networks, reducing prediction errors by 10.8% (MAE) and 34.9% (MSE), respectively, without compromising computational efficiency. …”
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COVID-19’s disruptions to daily life and pandemic fatigue during the pandemic in Chinese people: a moderated mediation effect of perceived stress and social support by Jie Zhuang, Qunhong Wu, Hongjiao Li, Xiyue Wang, Runzi Gu, Huan Liu, Baohua Liu, Yuexia Gao, Miaomiao Zhao

“…Of the 2112 initial participants, 88 invalid questionnaires were excluded due to missing key variables or logical errors, yielding 2024 valid samples included (efficiency rate of 95.8%). …”
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Lost dwell time and cycler alarms in inpatient automated peritoneal dialysis at a tertiary care hospital by Maria C. Browne, Nasha Elavia, Adrienne Flowers, Ákos Géza Pethő, Abutaleb A. Ejaz, Sarah Khan, Ami M. Patel

“…Session disruptions were caused by slow out-flow (55%), inadequate drain volumes (32%), patient line occlusions (20%), and priming errors (23%). The slow flow alarm requiring user intervention was reported to occur in about one-third of all treatments (31%).Conclusion There was significant LDT and inadequate drain volume seen in about one-quarter and one-third of all inpatient APD treatments respectively. …”
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Comparing effectiveness of conservative policy to craniofacial surgery in children with metopic synostosis: protocol for an observational cohort study on clinical outcomes, psychos... by Suzanne Polinder, Erwin Ista, Nicole Erler, Irene Mathijssen, Jolanda Okkerse, K Joosten, Natalja Bannink, Mariët Faasse, Sarah Lisa Versnel, Pauline Tio, Merel van Staalduinen, K Dulfer, Sjoukje Loudon, Marieke Telleman, Tareq Abdel-Alim, Gennady Roshchupkin, Stella Heemskerk, Marie-Lise van Veelen, Arianne van Driel, Jochem Spoor, Elin Weissbach, Jacoba Kats, Mieke Pleumeekers

“…Introduction Traditionally, surgical intervention has been the standard treatment for children with metopic synostosis, assuming that it reduces the risk of raised intracranial pressure, thereby preventing vision and cognitive impairment, and also restores the abnormal head shape. …”
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The Laryngovibrogram as a normalized spatiotemporal representation of vocal fold dynamics by Mona Kirstin Fehling, Maria Schuster, Maximilian Linxweiler, Jörg Lohscheller

“…This complicates clinical interpretation and, thus, the comparability of vibrational dynamics in both cross-sectional and longitudinal interventional studies. To address these limitations, this work aims to extend the PVG to provide a more comprehensive representation of the vibrational behavior across the entire VF tissue. …”
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Strut and radio-morphometric analysis of mandibular trabecular structure in pre-and post-menopausal women to aid in the diagnosis of osteoporosis by Ragavendiran Anandan, Krithika C.L, Anuradha Ganesan, Yesoda Aniyan K.

“…A total of 272 panoramic radiographs, which exhibited clear visibility of the mental foramen on both sides without any blurring, motion artefacts, surgical errors, overlapping hyoid bone, or inferior mandibular cortex, were divided into two groups. …”
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A smart IoT-based hydroponics system for small-scale household in Bangladesh by Md. Abdul Awal, Aditi Saha Pio, Mushfaka Jannat Mim, Pronab Kumar Paul Partha, Md. Abdullah Al Kafi, Shareen Farha

“…Performance testing showed good precision, with percentages of errors of 0.001 % (pH), 0.306 % (temperature), 0.062 % (TDS), and 0.002 % (EC) compared to the observed and measured data. …”
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A digital dashboard for reporting mental, neurological and substance use disorders in Nairobi, Kenya: Implementing an open source data technology for improving data capture. by Daniel M Mwanga, Stella Waruingi, Gergana Manolova, Frederick M Wekesah, Damazo T Kadengye, Peter O Otieno, Mary Bitta, Ibrahim Omwom, Samuel Iddi, Paul Odero, Joan W Kinuthia, Tarun Dua, Neerja Chowdhary, Frank O Ouma, Isaac C Kipchirchir, George O Muhua, Josemir W Sander, Charles R Newton, Gershim Asiki, EPInA Study Team

“…The fast and efficient system can be scaled up and integrated with national and sub-national health information systems to reduce manual data reporting and decrease the likelihood of errors and inconsistencies.…”
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Web-Based Real-Time Alarm and Teleoperation System for Autonomous Navigation Failures Using ROS 1 and ROS 2 by Nabih Pico, Giovanny Mite, Daniel Morán, Manuel S. Alvarez-Alvarado, Eugene Auh, Hyungpil Moon

“…These issues may arise due to a combination of technical, environmental, and operational factors, including inaccurate sensor data, sensor blind spots, localization errors, infeasible path planning, and an inability to adapt to unexpected obstacles. …”
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