Role of medico-administrative database in the selection of the target population in colorectal cancer screening program by Akoï Koïvogui, Robert Benamouzig, Christian Balamou, Gemma Binefa, Sarah Hoeck, Dominika Novak-Mlakar, Catherine Duclos

“…However, these criteria were not uniformly defined in MADBs (i.e., CRC phenotype includes ICD-10 codes C18–C21 in Catalonia, while the C21 code was excluded elsewhere). …”
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Intensive Care Unit Rotations and Predictors of Career Choice in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine: A Survey of Internal Medicine Residency Directors by Daniel J. Minter, Sean D. Levy, Sowmya R. Rao, Paul F. Currier

“…Residents from university-sponsored programs were more likely to pursue specialty fellowship training (p<0.001) overall but equally likely to pursue careers in PCCM as those from community-sponsored programs. …”
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Comparison of long COVID, recovered COVID, and non-COVID Post-Acute Infection Syndromes over three years. by Caleb R Carr, Nicole L Gentile, Jeanne Bertolli, Warren Szewczyk, Jin-Mann S Lin, Elizabeth R Unger, Quan M Vu, Nona Sotoodehnia, Annette L Fitzpatrick

“…Compared to the recovered COVID control group, the long COVID group had more health problems prior to the infection, including respiratory and metabolic as well as more severe infections and comorbidities based on the ICD codes found in the acute phase records. In the post-acute timeframe, many symptoms were more likely to be associated with long COVID than recovered patients with COVID-19 including abnormalities of heart beat [OR (95% CI), 5.31 (3.96-7.13)], cognition, perception, or emotional state symptoms [OR (95% CI), 5.14 (3.81-6.92)], malaise and fatigue [OR (95% CI), 4.20 (3.13-5.63)], and sleep disorders [OR (95% CI), 2.47, (1.79-3.43)], all p < 0.05. …”
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Needle in a haystack: Harnessing AI in drug patent searches and prediction. by Leonardo Costa Ribeiro, Valbona Muzaka

“…The classification codes granted by patent offices are useful instruments for simplifying the bewildering variety of patents in existence. …”
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Comparing Social Media Platforms for Recruiting Special Education Teachers in a High-Need Area by Eric Landers, Caitlin Criss, Kathryn Haughney, Cynthia Massey, Stephanie Devine, Karin Fisher

“…Three groups were targeted (a) likely to have a bachelor’s degree, (b) likely to be associated with a targeted postal code, or (c) teacher candidates with a high likelihood of staying in a target area. …”
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Association of patient, physician and visit characteristics with inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in Japanese primary care: a cross-sectional study by Kao-Ping Chua, Michael A Fischer, Jeffrey A Linder, Atsushi Miyawaki, Yusuke Tsugawa, Kei Kitajima, Daichi Sato, Joseph B Ladines-Lim

“…We classified antibiotic prescriptions into one of four mutually exclusive categories: ‘appropriate’ (associated with ≥1 ‘always’ code), ‘potentially appropriate’ (associated with ≥1 ‘sometimes’ code but no ‘always’ codes), ‘inappropriate’ (associated only with ‘never’ codes) and ‘not associated with a recent diagnosis’. …”
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Risky behavior during stair descent for young adults: Differences in men versus women. by HyeYoung Cho, Amanda J Arnold, Chuyi Cui, Zihan Yang, Tim Becker, Ashwini Kulkarni, Anvesh Naik, Shirley Rietdyk

“…Risky behaviors observed more in women included: less likely to use the handrail (long staircase), more likely to carry an item in their hands (both staircases), more likely to engage in conversation (both staircases), and more likely to wear sandals or heels (both staircases) (p≤0.05). …”
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Sitting and caregiver speech input in typically developing infants and infants with cerebral palsy. by Kari S Kretch, Emily C Marcinowski, Natalie A Koziol, Regina T Harbourne, Lin-Ya Hsu, Michele A Lobo, Sandra L Willett, Stacey C Dusing

“…We hypothesized that object labels would be more likely to co-occur with moments of optimal attention to the labeled object while sitting than while in other positions. …”
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Hybrid kinetic-MHD modeling of alpha-driven TAEs in the SPARC tokamak by R.A. Tinguely, J. Gonzalez-Martin, Y. Todo

“…A scan in toroidal mode number is performed in the vicinity of the estimated ‘most unstable’ modes, n  ≈ 5–20, with the linear eigenvalue code NOVA-K and nonlinear initial-value code MEGA. …”
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Assessing demographic vulnerability and weather impacts on utility disconnections in California by Trevor Memmott, David M. Konisky, Sanya Carley

“…While the survey-based literature on utility disconnections has yielded important findings about which households are most likely to experience a utility shutoff, only a few existing studies have used data from utility companies themselves. …”
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An investigation on the effect of humidity on the zero signal of a strain gauge measuring system by K. M. Khaled, G. M. Mahmoud

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Multi-Classification Refactoring Framework Using Hopfield Neural Network for Sustainable Software Development by Abdullah Almogahed, Hairulnizam Mahdin, Yeong Hyeon Gu, Mohammed A. Al-Masni, Shehab Abdulhabib Alzaeemi, Mazni Omar, Abdulwadood Alawadhi, Samera Obaid Barraood, Abdul Rehman Gilal, Adnan Ameen Bakather

“…By providing clear classifications and descriptions of each strategy, the proposed framework helps developers make informed decisions about how to improve the design and structure of their code. It helps developers mitigate risks associated with code changes by providing guidance on which strategies are likely to yield positive results for specific quality attributes. …”
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DerivaPredict: A User-Friendly Tool for Predicting and Evaluating Active Derivatives of Natural Products by Yu Song, Meng Zhang, Sihao Chang, Ganghui Chu, Hongchao Ji

“…It predicts binding affinities using pretrained deep learning models and assesses drug-likeness via ADMET profiling. DerivaPredict is freely accessible with a source code on GitHub.…”
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From Academia to Algorithms: Digital Cultural Capital of Public Intellectuals in the Age of Platformization by Lucas L. H. Wong

“…Public intellectuals, thus, must engage in “code-switching” to navigate platform-mediated knowledge mobilization. …”
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Oscillating Djebarian Novel: Autobiography and Autofiction in Assia Djebar’s An Algerian Cavalcade by Fatma Akbulut Üçyıldız

“…The conscious and unconscious changes that are likely to occur in an author’s work is currently leading toward the new genre of autofiction. …”
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Novel loci and biomedical consequences of iron homoeostasis variation by Elias Allara, Steven Bell, Rebecca Smith, Spencer J. Keene, Dipender Gill, Liam Gaziano, Deisy Morselli Gysi, Feiyi Wang, Vinicius Tragante, Amy Mason, Savita Karthikeyan, R. Thomas Lumbers, Emmanuela Bonglack, Willem Ouwehand, David J. Roberts, Joseph Dowsett, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Margit Hørup Larsen, Henrik Ullum, Ole Birger Pedersen, Søren Brunak, Karina Banasik, Christian Erikstrup, DBDS Genomic Consortium, Jonathan Mitchell, Christian Fuchsberger, Cristian Pattaro, Peter P. Pramstaller, Domenico Girelli, Mikko Arvas, Jarkko Toivonen, Sophie Molnos, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, Igor Rudan, Caroline Hayward, Ciara McDonnell, Nicola Pirastu, James F. Wilson, Katja van den Hurk, Franke Quee, Luigi Ferrucci, Stefania Bandinelli, Toshiko Tanaka, Giorgia Girotto, Maria Pina Concas, Alessandro Pecori, Niek Verweij, Pim van der Harst, Yordi J. van de Vegte, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Fred C. Sweep, Tessel E. Galesloot, Patrick Sulem, Daniel Gudbjartsson, Egil Ferkingstad, FinnGen Consortium, Luc Djousse, Kelly Cho, Michael Inouye, Stephen Burgess, Beben Benyamin, Konrad Oexle, Dorine Swinkels, Kari Stefansson, Magnus Magnusson, Andrea Ganna, Michael Gaziano, Kerry Ivey, John Danesh, Alexandre Pereira, Angela M. Wood, Adam S. Butterworth, Emanuele Di Angelantonio

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Telemedicine Use Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in People with Alzheimer’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, or Parkinson’s Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study Using US Commercial... by Anisha M. Patel, Robert Schuldt, Denise M. Boudreau, Bryan R. Cobb, Nikki Win, Marisa P. McGinley

“…TM use (≥1 Current Procedural Terminology code) was assessed in each study year (2019, 2020, and 2021) among people with ≥1 inpatient or ≥2 outpatient diagnosis codes ≥30 days apart for AD, MS, or PD. …”
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Methods used to construct disability indicators in linked administrative datasets: a systematic scoping review by Zoe Aitken, Sarah Walmsley, Glenda M Bishop, Samia Badji, Nicola Fortune

“…Disability and education sector data sources were also commonly used. Diagnostic codes were used for disability identification in 34 of the 36 studies; 16 used diagnostic codes alone and 18 used diagnostic codes along with other information. …”
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Perceptions and Barriers to Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Cervical Cancer Screenings: A Survey Study of Underserved Populations in North Texas by Sofia Eva Olsson, Sameep Shah, Erin Haase, Kelly Pagidas

“…With the availability of HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screenings, it is more likely for cervical cancers to be prevented or caught early in their course. …”
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Pharmacist-Physician Communications in a Highly Computerised Hospital: Sign-Off and Action of Electronic Review Messages. by Sarah K Pontefract, James Hodson, John F Marriott, Sabi Redwood, Jamie J Coleman

“…An established pharmacist-physician collaborative working relationship is likely to influence the prioritisation and response to messages, since a more desirable outcome was observed in settings and with grades of pharmacists where this was more likely. …”
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