Patient perceptions of outcomes used to evaluate in-hospital handover interventions: a rapid review of qualitative data by Walter Eppich, Deborah A McNamara, Declan Devane, Dara O Kavanagh, Linda Biesty, Petek Eylul Taneri, Jessica M Ryan, Anastasija Simiceva

“…The aim of this study was to identify outcomes of importance to patients, families and carers regarding interventions to improve in-hospital handover between healthcare practitioners.Design A rapid systematic review of qualitative literature was carried out after prospective registration with PROSPERO and was reported in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses and Enhancing Transparency in Reporting the Synthesis of Qualitative Research guidelines.Data sources The Ovid MEDLINE database was searched.Eligibility criteria Qualitative or mixed-methods studies reporting patient, family or caregiver perspectives on in-hospital handovers were eligible for inclusion.Data extraction and synthesis Synthesis was informed by the best-fit framework approach using a published taxonomy of handover-related outcomes and the Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials taxonomy. …”
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Evaluating the Efficacy of Training and Education on Lowering Blood Culture Contamination Rates in a Tertiary Care Hospital by Wanshisha Wanswett1, Sheetal Goenka1, Manisha Jain1*, Poonam Loomba1, Abha Sharma1, Shivani Tyagi1

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Outcome Indicators for Evaluating Interventions by Advanced Practice Nurses Specialising in Acute Pain: A Scoping Review by Patricia Barroso‐Castaño, Sandra Cabrera‐Jaime, Maria Feijoo‐Cid, Ariadna Huertas‐Zurriaga, Llúcia Benito Aracil

“…Review Methods Search results were managed through the Rayyan platform. …”
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Exploring Antimycobacterial Potential: Safety Evaluation and Active Compound Isolation from <i>Gymnopilus junonius</i> by Jenske Didloff, Gerhardt J. Boukes, Mutenta N. Nyambe, Denzil R. Beukes, Mookho S. Lerata, Velile Vilane, Michael Lee, Sharlene Govender, Maryna van de Venter

“…Natural products, including medicinal macrofungi, have been used as sources for the discovery of pharmaceuticals; however, research on their antimycobacterial activity remains limited. …”
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Sperm swarm optimization for many objective power flow problems with enhanced performance evaluation in power systems by Wulfran Fendzi Mbasso, Ambe Harrison, Pradeep Jangir, Idriss Dagal, Hossam Kotb, Njimboh Henry Alombah, Raman Kumar, Aseel Smerat, Emmanuel Fendzi Donfack, Saad F. Al-Gahtani, Z. M. S. Elbarbary

“…MaOSSO is shown to consistently outperform competing methods with up to 15–20% faster convergence and 25% less computation time. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of detailed anomaly ultrasound screening in the first trimester: a mixed-methods study by Jehan N Karim, Helen Campbell, Pranav Pandya, Edward C F Wilson, Zarko Alfirevic, Trish Chudleigh, Elizabeth Duff, Jane Fisher, Hilary Goodman, Lisa Hinton, Christos Ioannou, Edmund Juszczak, Louise Linsell, Heather L Longworth, Kypros H Nicolaides, Anne Rhodes, Gordon Smith, Basky Thilaganathan, Jim Thornton, Gillian Yaz, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Aris T Papageorghiou

“…To draw together the findings and recommendations from the project, and, if appropriate, outline the design of plausible studies or clinical trials. Methods The systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies were designed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of two-dimensional ultrasound for the detection of a pre-selected group of major anomalies at 11–14 weeks’ gestation, based on Fetal Anomaly Screening Program (FASP) priorities and the consensus group: anencephaly, holoprosencephaly, encephalocele, body stalk anomaly, ectopia cordis, exomphalos, gastroschisis, lower urinary tract obstruction (LUTO) and major cardiac anomalies. …”
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Are we properly evaluating genetic and genomic testing? A systematic review of health technology assessment reports by Antonio Sciurti, Giuseppe Migliara, Valentina Baccolini, Maria Roberta De Blasiis, Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Ilaria Mussetto, Arianna Anniballo, Jessica Iera, Claudia Isonne, Anna Ewa Kaminska, Francesco Pierri, Andrea Pistollato, Marianna Riccio, Annalisa Rosso, Leonardo Maria Siena, Valentina Soccodato, Carolina Marzuillo, Corrado De Vito, Giuseppe La Torre, Paolo Villari

“…Information on reports general characteristics, assessment domains and their components, consulted sources of evidence and reported gaps was extracted. …”
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Outcome Mapping as a Monitoring and Evaluation Tool for Livestock Value Chain Interventions: The Case of imGoats by Hailemichael Taye Beyene, Kees Swaans, Birgit Boogaard, Ramkumar Bendapudi, Saskia Hendrickx

“…Three workshops were conducted at the beginning, midterm and end of the project to evaluate the progress and challenges of OM application. …”
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The impact of public lighting improvement on crimes and incivilities reduction in Chile by Pablo Cadena-Urzúa, Javier Guardiola, Francisco Montes

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Sealing mechanisms and enrichment patterns of deep coalbed methane: insights from the Jiaxian block, Ordos Basin by Qifan Zhang, Peijie Li, Dameng Liu, Yanbin Yao, Yidong Cai, Yilin Guo, Zefan Wang

“…And it addresses these gaps by integrating experimental methods, advanced 3D seismic attribute analysis, and multi-source data fusion to construct a comprehensive model for evaluating roof and floor sealing capacity. …”
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ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY PRODUCTION WITH THE FEATURES OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN by M. А. Mehdizadeh, A. S. Kalinichenko, S. A. Laptyonok

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The Role of Landscape Metrics and Spatial Processes in Performance Evaluation of GEOMOD (Case Study: Neka River Basin) by Shrif Joorabian Shooshtari, Kamran Shayesteh, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Mahmood Azari, Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

“…The main objectives of this study are (1) simulation of Hyrcanian Forest changes in Neka River Basin using GEOMOD; (2) performance evaluation of the GEOMOD model using landscape metrics and spatial processes in landscape transformation. 2-Materials and Methods Neka River Basin is located in the east of Mazandaran province, north of Iran. …”
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Assessment of Erosion Wear on a Reducing Pipe in a Propulsion System Using the Eulerian-Lagrangian Method by A. Chen, Y. Yu, S. Xiao

“…In this study, an effective evaluation model is developed to tackle this challenge, where the initial interior ballistic model is integrated into a computational fluid dynamics and discrete element method (CFD-DEM) coupling framework to reproduce the propellant gas source. …”
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Feature fusion and selection using handcrafted vs. deep learning methods for multimodal hand biometric recognition by Saliha Artabaz, Layth Sliman

“…While combining multiple biometric sources can improve recognition accuracy, practical performance depends heavily on feature dependencies, redundancies, and selection methods. …”
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Modeling and Validation of Acoustic Comfort for Electric Vehicle Using Hybrid Approach Based on Soundscape and Psychoacoustic Methods by Keysha Wellviestu Zakri, Raden Sugeng Joko Sarwono, Sigit Puji Santosa, F. X. Nugroho Soelami

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Performance of Household Water Treatment Methods for Microbial Removal under Household Conditions in Kabale District, Uganda by Alex, Saturday, George Lukoye Makokha, Anthony Macharia

“…The purpose the study was to assess the performance of household water treatment methods (HWT) and evaluate their ability to improve the microbial quality of drinking water under household conditions in Kabale District. …”
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Systematic Evaluation of Chromatographic Parameters for Isoquinoline Alkaloids on XB-C18 Core-Shell Column Using Different Mobile Phase Compositions by Ireneusz Sowa, Sylwia Zielińska, Jan Sawicki, Anna Bogucka-Kocka, Michał Staniak, Ewa Bartusiak-Szcześniak, Maja Podolska-Fajks, Ryszard Kocjan, Magdalena Wójciak-Kosior

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A Narrative Review on Manufacturing Methods Employed in the Production of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for Knee Osteoarthritis Therapy by Rasmus Roost Aabling, Maria Rusan, Anaïs Marie Julie Møller, Naija Munk-Pedersen, Carsten Holm, Brian Elmengaard, Michael Pedersen, Bjarne Kuno Møller

“…MSCs, which can be derived from sources such as bone marrow, umbilical cord, or adipose tissue, and can be allogeneic or autologous, have demonstrated promising results in both animal models and several human studies. …”
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Simulation of the African ITCZ during austral summer seasons and ENSO phases: application of an RCM derived from stretched grid ESM by Teke S. Ramotubei, Teke S. Ramotubei, Willem A. Landman, Mohau J. Mateyisi, Shingirai S. Nangombe, Asmerom F. Beraki, Asmerom F. Beraki

“…The model is also evaluated on the ITCZ process’ characteristics that include the Hadley cell (HC), stream function and the subtropical jet stream (STJ) using quantitative methods.ResultsThe RCM and the driving ESM demonstrate skillful performance in identifying the seasonal trajectory of both the spatial and zonal migration of the ITCZ during El-Niño and La-Niña. …”
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The RBF-FD and RBF-FDTD Methods for Solving Time-Domain Electrical Transient Problems in Power Systems by Duc-Quang Vu, Nhat-Nam Nguyen, Phan-Tu Vu

“…The algorithm of selecting “optimal” shape parameters for our basis functions is also applied, specifically to increase the accuracy of the suggested methods with regard to high accuracy needs. Finally, the accuracy, effectiveness, and applicability of our new approaches are evaluated through simulations of the switching transient voltages on a typical electrical circuit and a 220 kV single-phase transmission line, lightning-induced voltages on a 110 kV single-phase overhead distribution line, and transient voltages along two horizontal grounding electrodes excited by lightning impulse sources. …”
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