Experience or perception: What healthcare providers need when using the Utrecht Symptom Diary—4 Dimensional, a mixed-methods study by Tom Lormans, Everlien de Graaf, Carlo Leget, Saskia Teunissen

“…For the USD-4D to be optimally implemented in clinical palliative care, it is essential to know and understand the needs of HCPs when using it. …”
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Applicability of the “5S Management Method” for Quality Improvement at Health Care Facilities in India by Aesh Katiyar, Jay Patwa, Nikhil Chavda

“…Results: Following 5S implementation, the mean scores increased in all twelve departments, with statistically significant improvements in most cases. …”
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Eligible patients with heart failure prescribed vs. not prescribed vericiguat in the United States by Stephen J. Greene, Stephen J. Greene, Catelyn R. Coyle, Lucy N. Hancock, Kathryn W. Tebbs, Sophie G. Barlow, Andra S. Stevenson, Engels N. Obi

“…Patients eligible but not prescribed vericiguat had more comorbid hypertension (62.3% vs. 45.9%), hyperlipidemia (52.3% vs. 34.7%), and lower EF (mean [SD]: 34.7% [5.8%] vs. 41.7% [9.6%]), all p < 0.05. …”
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Improving medication adherence and viral load suppression in pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients living with HIV using a specialty pharmacy by Timothy J. Howze, Tiffany M. Nason, Susan D. Carr, Steve M. Pate, Anderson L. Roe, Nehali D. Patel

“…Viral loads were obtained from laboratory samples as part of routine care. Results The mean PDC appeared to increase after specialty pharmacy implementation (82.3% vs. 80.3%), but the change in mean did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.07). …”
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Comparison of Linear Regression and Polynomial Regression for Predicting Rice Prices in Lhokseumawe City by Muhammad Iqbal, Rozzi Kesuma Dinata, Rizki Suwanda

“…Conversely, the implementation of linear regression resulted in substantially elevated error metrics, with a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 5.16%, a mean absolute error (MAE) of 553.91, and a root mean square error (RMSE) of 614.14. …”
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Reducing outpatient wait times through telemedicine: a systematic review and quantitative analysis by Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Claudio Passino, Michele Emdin, Sabina Nuti, Alberto Giannoni, Angelo Capodici, Francesca Noci, Stefano Dalmiani

“…Focusing on clinical specialties (n=114 042), the weighted mean reduction amounted to 34.7 days, while in surgical patients (n=156 346), telemedicine was associated with a weighted mean of 17.3 days saved.Conclusions The implementation of telemedicine solutions may significantly improve waiting times, potentially leading to more efficient and equitable healthcare systems.PROSPERO registration number CRD42023490822.…”
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School-Based Virtual Reality Programming for Obtaining Moderate-Intensity Exercise Among Children With Disabilities: Pre-Post Feasibility Study by Byron Lai, Ashley Wright, Bailey Hutchinson, Larsen Bright, Raven Young, Drew Davis, Sultan Ali Malik, James H Rimmer

“…The mean exercise minutes per week was 35.5 (SD 22) minutes. …”
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Improving the Assessment and Classification of Sick Children according to the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Protocol at Sanja Primary Hospital, Northwest Ethiop... by Mohammed Abayneh, Tsegaye Gebremedhin, Endalkachew Dellie, Chalie Tadie Tsehay, Asmamaw Atnafu

“…The findings revealed that the overall completeness of the assessment was improved from 37.8 to 79.8% (mean difference: 0.17; 95% CI: 0.10-0.22), consistency of assessment with classification from 47.5 to 76.9% (mean difference: 0.34; 95% CI: 0.27-0.39), classification with treatment from 42.3 to 75.4% (mean difference: 0.35; 95% CI: 0.28-0.47), and classification with follow-up from 32.8 to 73.0% (mean difference: 0.36; 95% CI: 0.29-0.42). …”
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Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Other Industry 4.0 Technologies in Spare Parts Warehousing in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Systematic Literature Review by Natalia Khan, Wei Deng Solvang, Hao Yu

“…However, the list of challenges is particularly pertinent to the oil and gas industry and indicates a strong inclination towards limited and controlled implementation of some technologies. The safety demands of the industry mean there are many limitations to implementation currently. …”
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Ten years of resident Canada goose damage management in a New Jersey tidal freshwater wetland by Theodore C. Nichols

“…Because the study area was a key nesting site for ospreys (Pandion haliaetus), which are state‐threatened species, there was concern that disturbance from IDMP activities could have a negative impact on osprey nesting or recruitment. The mean annual number of nesting ospreys doubled and the mean number of young fledged/nest was similar between years prior to and during implementation of the IDMP, suggesting that the IDMP did not have a negative impact on ospreys. …”
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PENINGKATAN HASIL DAN AKTIVITAS BELAJAR MATA PELAJARAN AKUNTANSI DENGAN METODE RESITASI PRA-PEMBELAJARAN by Djoko Santoso

“…Based on the first condition of pre-cycle with the KKM (minimum score) 75, it was 51.73% of 29 students for the completeness and the mean was 74.70.  After implementing the method, it was 78.57% of 28 students who completed and the mean was 83.23 in the 1^st cycle. …”
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Enhancing Power Allocation in DAS: A Hybrid Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning Model by S. Gnanasekar, K. C. Sriharipriya

“…The hybrid approach achieves a mean Spectral Efficiency (SE) of 0.855 bits/s/Hz and a mean Energy Efficiency (EE) of 1.210 bits/Joule, significantly outperforming traditional optimization (mean SE: 0.700, mean EE: 1.00) and the k-NN algorithm (mean SE: 0.725, mean EE: 1.105). …”
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Delivering an Electronic Health Record Based Educational Intervention Promoting Peri-Operative Non-Pharmacological Pain Care as Part of a Randomized Controlled Trial: Mixed Method... by Sarah A Minteer, Cindy Tofthagen, Kathy Sheffield, Susanne Cutshall, Susan Launder, Jane Hein, Mary McGough, Christy M Audeh, Jon C Tilburt, Andrea L Cheville

“…Interviews revealed mixed effectiveness of implementation strategies. We received survey responses from 47 nursing leaders who indicated that their staff knew about the Healing After Surgery initiative (mean=7.53, SD=1.77) and what they were expected to do (mean=7, SD=1.88). …”
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Effect of a closed-loop medication order executive system on safe medication administration at a tertiary hospital: a quasi-experimental study by Xuwen Yin, Haiyan Song, Jieyu Lu, Jing Yang, Rong Wang, Zheng Lin, Shudi Jiang, Hui Yuan, Xumei Wang, Dongmei Xu, Chunhong Gao, Yuan Zhou, Jiayi Xu, Chen Chen, Chenyu Gu, Qingqing Diao, Fang Li, Zejuan Gu

“…Results: Overall, 295 MEs were reported with a mean of 0.26 ± 0.26 ME rates per month during 2017–2023. …”
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Age nine is possible: Improving age 9 HPV initiation through a national quality improvement initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic by Jennifer Isher-Witt, Shaylen Foley, Anna Hassan, Amelia Sloan, Jennifer Nkonga, Marcie Fisher-Borne

“…Partners submitted HPV initiation rates at the beginning and end of the 12-month project year along with project activities, including evidence-based interventions (EBIs) implemented. Mean initiation rates for ages 9–10 significantly increased 4.1% during 2020 compared to non-significant rate increases of 2.6% and 2.0% for ages 11–12 and age 13, respectively. …”
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Using the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Tool to Improve the Automatic Stop Order Process by Ghada Hussain Al Mardawi, Rajkumar Rajendram, Arwa Balharith, Abdulaziz Alomaim

“…Assuming successful implementation of all recommendations, the RPNs of the proposed workflow (mean 117.6; median 112) were significantly lower (p < 0.05). …”
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Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Time Token untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Berbicara Siswa by Asnita Asnita, Ummul Khair

“…The results of the present study demonstrated that students’ speaking skill on Indonesian language lesson in VA class at SDI Karang Anyar experienced improvement after “Time Token†learning model was implemented. The forgoing could be viewed from the mean of 63.7 and the classical learning mastery of 47.6%. …”
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‘Assessment as learning’ in science instruction: a case study of Indonesian science teachers and notion for optimising in teaching and learning process by Didik Setyawarno, Dadan Rosana, Heru Kuswanto

“…In addition, the implementation of AaL in science instruction has also not been achieved maximally, as indicated by a mean total score of 51.18 or 63.98% with a medium category. …”
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Evaluation of the angular coordinates in survey radar stations with subsystems for spatial noise compensation by S. V. Kozlov, Vu. Thanh Ha

“…Algorithms are based on intraperiod interference cancellation operations with «whitening» of their results in the time domain by dividing the sum of weighted internal noise by estimating the root-mean-square voltage value and uncompensated residuals of external interference, calculating the expected signal for all possible target positions within the uncertainty domain, constructing and maximizing the likelihood function in the form of the mutual correlation function of isolated implementation and the reference signal. …”
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Steganography Image in Image using Modified method in Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution by Suhad A. H. Al-Ani

“…The imperceptibility of the stego image is assessed by using the mean square error (MSE)  Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) (closeness measure), and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) measures used, the stego image, under different methods, have excellent quality (PSNR above 60 dB). …”
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