Temporal trends and racial disparities in atrial fibrillation ablation: A 5‐year study by Daniel Antwi‐Amoabeng, Bryce D. Beutler, Vijay Neelam, T. David Gbadebo

“…Black patients with higher comorbid disease burden, severe obesity, and protein‐calorie malnutrition were less likely to have AF ablation and experienced significant wait times (additional 1.3 days) before receiving ablation in time‐to‐procedure analysis. …”
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Predicting Parkinson's disease trajectory using clinical and functional MRI features: A reproduction and replication study. by Elodie Germani, Nikhil Bhagwat, Mathieu Dugré, Rémi Gau, Albert A Montillo, Kevin P Nguyen, Andrzej Sokolowski, Madeleine Sharp, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Tristan Glatard

“…The challenges encountered while attempting to reproduce (fully and partially) and replicating the original work are likely explained by the complexity of neuroimaging studies, in particular in clinical settings. …”
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Effect of social disparities on 10 year survival in pediatric patients with Wilms' tumor by Victor Chalfant, Carlos Riveros, Andrew A. Stec

“…Patients in more socially deprived counties were significantly (p = 0.035) more likely to have worse overall survival compared with those living in less deprived areas at 10‐year (87.3% vs 89.3%) follow‐up. …”
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Radiological Safety Analysis for a Hypothetical Accident of a Generic VVER-1000 Nuclear Power Plant by K. Gyamfi, S. A. Birikorang, E. Ampomah-Amoako, J. J. Fletcher

“…The TEDE values at distances of 5.0 km and beyond where public occupation is likely to be found are far below the annual regulatory limits of 1 mSv from public exposure in a year even in the event of worse accident scenario as set in IAEA Safety Standard No. …”
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Differences in COVID-19 testing perceptions among caregivers of children with medical complexity by rurality. by Kristina Devi Singh-Verdeflor, Michelle M Kelly, Gregory P DeMuri, Gemma Warner, Sabrina M Butteris, Mary L Ehlenbach, Barbara Katz, Joseph A McBride, Shawn Koval, Ryan J Coller

“…Notably, rural caregivers were significantly more likely to indicate "It will be difficult to get needed healthcare if my child has it" (2.49 [1.19, 5.18]).…”
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Prognosis of Patients With Ischemic Stroke With Prior Anticoagulant Therapy: Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin by Kyeong‐Hyeon Chun, Hancheol Lee, Jung Hwa Hong, Kwon‐Duk Seo

“…We hypothesized that even if ischemic stroke occurred during anticoagulation therapy with DOACs, the prognosis was likely to be better than that with warfarin. Methods and Results Data from 2002 to 2019, sourced from a nationwide claims database, were used to identify atrial fibrillation patients using International Classification of Diseases codes. …”
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Blues as a Symbolic Resistance and Representation of Countercultural Groups in the United States in the late 19 – early 20 centuries by M. P. Zamotin

“…Forms of hidden transcripts are coded demonstrations by oppressed groups to resist and oppose themselves, their way of life, and the difficulties of inequality to dominant groups.Results and discussion. …”
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Risks, signs, and intervention implications for depression of Chinese cancer patients in a cultural context by Amy Y. Zhang, Lili Tang

“…Methods: We used purposive sampling to enroll depressed and nondepressed Chinese cancer patients, phenomenology methods to conduct in-depth interview with each participant, and qualitative data analysis to identify thematic codes that were later converted quantitatively and analyzed statistically. …”
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Stellar Dynamics in Open Clusters Increases the Binary Fraction and Mass Ratios: Evidence from Photometric Binaries in 35 Open Clusters by Anna C. Childs, Aaron M. Geller

“…Using the Bayesian Analysis of Stellar Evolution-9 code and Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS, and 2MASS data, we identify photometric binaries in 35 open clusters (OCs) and constrain their masses. …”
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A genome-wide association study identifies 5 loci associated with frozen shoulder and implicates diabetes as a causal risk factor. by Harry D Green, Alistair Jones, Jonathan P Evans, Andrew R Wood, Robin N Beaumont, Jessica Tyrrell, Timothy M Frayling, Christopher Smith, Michael N Weedon

“…There is a large overlap with Dupuytren's disease associated loci. Diabetes is a likely causal risk factor. Our results provide evidence of biological mechanisms involved in this common painful condition.…”
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CraftFuzz: Generating Precise Requests for PHP Web Vulnerability Validation by Jiazhen Zhao, Kailong Zhu, Guozheng Yang, Yifan Zhang, Yuliang Lu

“…Nevertheless, existing fuzzers are often constrained in their methodologies, making it challenging to effectively explore deeper code regions where vulnerabilities are more likely to reside. …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization Among Patients With Agitation in Alzheimer Dementia by Christie Teigland, Zulkarnain Pulungan, David Bruhn, Steve Hwang

“…Patients with agitation in Alzheimer dementia were more likely than those without agitation in Alzheimer dementia to have lower socioeconomic status (dual eligibility for Medicaid, 45.0% vs 41.7%, respectively) or be disabled (10.5% vs 9.4%). …”
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Through the fog of disease: the challenges faced by and vision of medical staff and patients with regard to intermittent symptom management during colorectal cancer chemotherapy by Xinchu Luo, Xi Zhang, Xi Ke, Xinyuan Yu, Yuxuan Wu, Huimin Du, Danan Lv, Dun Liu

“…In the process of symptom management, patients are more dependent on medical staff, and medical staff are more likely to advocate common decision-making with regard to patients. …”
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Comparison of Rehabilitation Outcomes for Long Term Neurological Conditions: A Cohort Analysis of the Australian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre Dataset for Adults of Working Age. by Lynne Turner-Stokes, Roxana Vanderstay, Tara Stevermuer, Frances Simmonds, Fary Khan, Kathy Eagar

“…All six groups showed significant change (p<0.001) between admission and discharge that was likely to be clinically important across a range of items. …”
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Association of social vulnerability with access to treatment in ovarian cancer patients by Nikita Bastin, Marc Robinson, Amir Javid, Lauren S. Prescott, Alaina J. Brown

“…Social Vulnerability index quartiles generated by patients’ zip codes were used as measures of social vulnerability. …”
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Isotopic mass effects of tritium-fueled high-performance TFTR supershots by R.V. Budny, E. Fredrickson, C.H. Skinner

“…Thus the increase in stored energy $W_{\mathrm{tot}}$ observed in TFTR supershots does not appear likely to be significantly helpful for producing useful fusion energy.…”
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Utilisation of antibiotics in a community pharmacy: A case from north-west, South Africa by Zanele Nsingo, Varsha Bangalee, Deanne Johnston

“…Notably, 82% (n= 8584) of prescriptions were linked to non-specific International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes. Generic medicines constituted 92.6% (n = 9694) of prescriptions. …”
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The Effect of Osteoporosis on Postoperative Outcomes Following Total Ankle Arthroplasty by Ronit Kulkarni BS, Joshua L. Morningstar BS, Richard J. Friedman MD, FRCSC, Christopher E. Gross MD, Daniel J. Scott MBA, MD

“…Patients were divided into two cohorts based on the presence of preoperative osteoporosis (as defined by ICD-10 CM codes M81, M80, M80.07XX), with 943 (3.3%) having this diagnosis. …”
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The Effect of Parkinson’s Disease on Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery by Jeremy Steinberger, Jeffrey Gilligan, Branko Skovrlj, Christopher A. Sarkiss, Javier Z. Guzman, Samuel K. Cho, John M. Caridi

“…Patients were included for study based on ICD-9-CM procedural codes for lumbar spine surgery and substratified to degenerative diagnoses. …”
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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

“…A medication chart that contains all essential information on current therapy is likely to be a helpful tool for patients and healthcare providers. …”
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