Integrating Palliative Care and Heart Failure: the PalliatHeartSynthesis realist synthesis by Tracey McConnell, Carolyn Blair, Geoff Wong, Claire Duddy, Clare Howie, Loreena Hill, Joanne Reid

“…These included shared education and experiential learning within and between disciplines across all care settings (CMOc 2.1), communication skills training (CMOc 2.8), public health approach/messaging (CMOc 2.9), evidence-based examples of good practice (CMOc 3) and guidelines embedded in undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate education (CMOc 6). …”
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Co-Designing a User-Centered Digital Health Tool for Supportive Care Needs of Patients With Brain Tumors and Their Caregivers: Interview Analysis by Mahima Kalla, Ashleigh Bradford, Verena Schadewaldt, Kara Burns, Sarah C E Bray, Sarah Cain, Heidi McAlpine, Rana S Dhillon, Wendy Chapman, James R Whittle, Katharine J Drummond, Meinir Krishnasamy

“…Our findings are consistent with previous research on this subject and were integrated into the development of a web-based platform. ConclusionsParticipants’ perspectives informed the development of content for a web-based digital health platform called “Brain Tumours Online.” …”
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Virtual Reality for the Prevention and Cessation of Nicotine Vaping in Youths: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Belinda Borrelli, Daniel Weinstein, Romano Endrighi, Nikki Ling, Kathleen Koval, Lisa M Quintiliani, Kaitlyn Konieczny

“…A mobile app connects to the VR game, providing a home-based experience to reinforce skills learned. VR and control classes complete baseline and postintervention surveys on the same schedule. …”
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Re-use of Building Products in the Netherlands by Loriane Icibaci

“…Although in the real world different factors combined influence changes in the housing stock, in this research, the method to analyze trends in the housing stock behavior explored the evolution of different characteristics in the stock through binary “increase” or “decrease” trends based on historical data. …”
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Exploring voluntary sector specialist services for victim-survivors of sexual violence in England: the PROSPER co-production study by Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Sarah Damery, Kirsten Fruin, Clare Gunby, Jenny Harlock, Lucy Hebberts, Louise Isham, Anne-Marie Jones, Fay Maxted, Amelia Mighty, Priti Parmar, Laura Patterson, Jason Schaub, Fee Scott, Harriet Smailes, Debs Smith, Julie Taylor

“…Limitations The COVID-19 pandemic meant that we were unable to use the proposed methods of data collection for the qualitative components. …”
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Searching synergy between esport and academy: the role of sport faculties and departments in CEE countries by Petra Hospodková, Jan Šíma, Vladimír Rogalewicz, Zdeněk Ledvina, Jakub Čubík, Daniel Opelík

“…The research also aims to clarify the perceived roles of universities, including their research domains, within the context of esports.MethodsThe research is based on a qualitative approach. …”
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Best Practices in Organizing Digital Transformation: Qualitative Case Study in Dutch Hospital Care by Tanja Schiffelers, Kaya Kapteijns, Laura Hochstenbach, Bas Kietselaer, Esther Talboom-Kamp, Marieke Spreeuwenberg

“…MethodsA qualitative multicase study was conducted using purposive sampling. …”
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Personality alchemy: The influence of personality traits on the circular entrepreneurial intentions of higher education students by Sofia Gomes, Micaela Pinho, João M. Lopes

“…We performed the quantitative analysis through the partial least square method. Findings: We found that the propensity to assume risk, creativity, internal locus of control, and proactivity were (by these order) personality traits with a positive influence on either respondents’ circular behavioural control and, using this, their circular entrepreneurs’ intention. …”
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Insights from Team Clinic: A Person-Centered Virtual Peer Group Care Model Adapted for Marginalized and Historically Excluded Youth with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) by Jaquelin Flores Garcia, Mark W. Reid, Alejandra Torres Sanchez, Valerie Ruelas, Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Alex Thomas, Gary Ashwal, D. Steven Fox, Jennifer K. Raymond

“…Youth (ages 10–17) and their families were assigned to study arms based on their clinician’s group (standard care or person-centered care, PCC) and then randomized to VPGs or no groups. …”
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Community perspectives on cancer and cancer research: findings from listening sessions with diverse groups in Philadelphia by Karen Glanz, Emma Adelia Soliva, Krista Scheffey, Yawei Song, Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, Evelyn T. González, Thierry Fortune, Nilsa Graciani, Amy E. Leader

“…The Philadelphia Communities Conquering Cancer (PC3) coalition conducted listening sessions to identify community priorities for cancer prevention and control research among diverse communities in Philadelphia. Methods Guided by a Stakeholder Advisory Committee, PC3 partnered with community-based organizations to conduct 8 listening sessions with diverse communities (including Black, Hispanic, Asian, Russian, LGBTQ + , and veterans) to learn about perceptions of cancer, research priorities, and training and communication preferences. …”
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Low mother-to-child HIV transmission rate but high loss-to-follow-up among mothers and babies in Mandalay, Myanmar; a cohort study. by Khine Wut Yee Kyaw, Myo Minn Oo, Nang Thu Thu Kyaw, Khaing Hnin Phyo, Thet Ko Aung, Theingi Mya, Nilar Aung, Htun Nyunt Oo, Petros Isaakidis

“…In this study, we aimed to determine the mother-to-child transmission rate in a programmatic setting and to determine factors associated with LTFU among enrolled mothers and unfavorable outcomes among HIV-exposed babies which includes being HIV positive, death and LTFU.<h4>Methods</h4>A retrospective cohort study reviewing routinely collected data in an Integrated HIV care program, Mandalay, Myanmar in June 2016.LTFU means mother/infant missing appointed visit for more than three months.…”
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Extracting Knowledge From Scientific Texts on Patient-Derived Cancer Models Using Large Language Models: Algorithm Development and Validation Study by Jiarui Yao, Zinaida Perova, Tushar Mandloi, Elizabeth Lewis, Helen Parkinson, Guergana Savova

“…Evaluation includes the standard metrics of precision or positive predictive value, recall or sensitivity, and F1F1F1 ConclusionsWe investigated LLM-prompting techniques for the automatic extraction of PDCM-relevant entities from scientific texts, comparing the traditional direct prompting approach with the emerging soft prompting method. …”
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A novel network with enhanced edge information for left atrium segmentation from LGE-MRI by Ze Zhang, Zhen Wang, Xiqian Wang, Kuanquan Wang, Yongfeng Yuan, Qince Li

“…The design of EIEM is grounded in exploring edge details within target region features learned from images. Additionally, it incorporates a Spatially Weighted Cross-Entropy loss function tailored for EIEM, introducing constraints on different regions based on the importance of pixels to edge segmentation, while also mitigating class imbalance through weighted treatment of positive and negative samples.ResultsThe proposed method is validated on the 2018 Atrial Segmentation Challenge dataset. …”
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Optimal Mobile IRS Deployment for Empowered 6G Networks by Adel Mounir Said, Michel Marot, Hossam Afifi, Hassine Moungla

“…Thus, we propose a neural-network to learn the result of the MILP. As an alternative solution, another approach is proposed using a Markov decision problem (MDP) relying on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) to predict the positions of the surrounding moving vehicles. …”
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Enhancing communication skills in diabetes care: an observational study regarding the impact of role-playing training for medical staff by Miyako Kishimoto, Yuri Kaneko, Akiko Wakui-Kimura, Yuko Tachibana, Fumihiko Sato, Takako Kikuchi, Yumi Matsushita, Mika Hashiguchi, Yuka Imai, Erika Sakanaya, Ikuko Senga, Eri Kaido, Hiromi Naito, Aya Yatsuzuka, Akikazu Hashimoto, Keisuke Ueno, Kenjiro Imai, Takehiro Sugiyama, Ken Ohashi, Hiroji Kitazato

“…We evaluated role-playing seminars as a method to improve communication skills among medical staff. …”
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Pediatric providers’ views on participating in an HPV Vaccine Quality Improvement Intervention: a qualitative analysis by Edan Leshem, Sara Malone, Andrew Solsrud, Sherry Dodd, Shannon Rook, Sharon Graham, Lauren Ericson, Ruoyun Wang, Katie Plax, Jason Newland

“…Conclusion PCPs viewed the facilitation HPV intervention positively. Areas that would improve the intervention include addressing the timing and duration of facilitation sessions, communication strategies, and logistical support (e.g., evidence-based resources for patient education, technological support for data analysis).…”
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The complexity of addressing equity in COVID-19-related global health governance and population health research priorities in Canada: a multilevel qualitative study by Muriel Mac-Seing, Erica Di Ruggiero

“…Third, contrary to common beliefs about COVID-19, the consequences were not all negative, but they were also positive and unintended, and lessons can be learned. …”
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What matters most? Identifying key resource gain and loss factors affecting nurses’ work engagement and job burnout in digital healthcare contexts by Jianing Guo, Zhenduo Zhang, Huan Xiao, Xiaoqian Zu, Kun Zhou, Ruoyi Qu

“…Descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA were employed to identify control variables based on demographic and work-related information. …”
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Virtual global health: the perceptions of students and practitioners of healthcare professions in Sudan on the project ECHO telementorship program– a US academic institution collab... by Insaf Omar, Hadeel Abdelseid, Abrar Abdelrahim, Ana Carolina Barbosa de Lima, Lana Ismail, Marah AbdelMotalab, Reem Ahmed, Nada Fadul

“…The study highlights varying impacts across professions and positive outcomes linked to attendance, underscoring the value of tailored educational interventions in global health crises.…”
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Engaging with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities to Promote Palliative Care That Exceeds Expectation by Ann Dadich, Gregory Crawford, Peter Laintoll, Issac Zangre, Kamal Dahal, Dalia Albrezi, Cathie Jeffs, Aileen Collier

“…Methods This study involved the methodology of POSH‐VRE, which combines positive organisational scholarship in healthcare (POSH) with video‐reflexive ethnography (VRE). …”
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