Standardization and quality control of the introduction of a noninvasive cardiac output monitor for pregnancy measurements in a low‐ and middle‐income country by Helen Perry, Evalyne Tusiimirwe, Allen Nakayenga, Wessel Ganzevoort, Josephine Tumuhamye, Winfred Nakato, Josaphat Byamugisha, Kelvin Mbote, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Sam Ali, the iTECH Consortium Members

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality control of the use of the ultrasonic cardiac output monitor (USCOM) 1A® in a LMIC (low an middle income country). …”
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An empowerment programme to improve diet quality during pregnancy – the Power 4 a Healthy Pregnancy cluster randomised controlled trial by Renske M. van Lonkhuijzen, Jeanne H. M. de Vries, Elske Brouwer-Brolsma, Susanne Cremers, Janine P. M. Faessen, Edith J. M. Feskens, Annemarie Wagemakers

“…Results The P4HP programme was conducted from approximately week 11 to week 34 of pregnancy. The total diet quality score significantly improved during pregnancy in the intervention group compared to the control group (4.28; 95% CI: 1.00 to 7.56; p = 0.011), particularly driven by improvements in the scores for vitamin D, iodine, and fish. …”
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Effects of different doses of remimazolam on the quality of sedation and cardiac function in elderly patients: a double-blind randomised controlled study by Liu Minghong, Qizhu Feng, Huichun Chen, Ju Li, Jun Shi

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Impact of different perioperative dexmedetomidine administration regimens on postoperative sleep quality in gastrointestinal tumor resection: a randomized controlled trial by Chengying Ji, Xiaodong Su, Chaohui Gao, Qijing Liu, Ying Liu, Qian Fu, Boxiong Gao, Jiayi Xie, Bokang Yang, Jinxiang Xie, Huping Song, Yatao Liu

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Effects of lavender essential oil inhalation aromatherapy on postoperative sleep quality in patients with intracranial tumors: a randomized controlled trial by Yang Liu, Yanmei Dong, Yanmei Dong, Xin Wang, Yeqin Huang, Yeqin Huang, Fan Wu, Fei Xia, Fei Xia, Hongtong Bai, Hongtong Bai, Hui Li, Hui Li, Lei Shi, Lei Shi, Baoguo Wang

“…PurposeTo investigate the effects of lavender essential oil (LEO) on postoperative sleep quality and perioperative neurocognitive disorders (PNDs) in patients with intracranial tumors.Patients and methodsThis study was a randomized controlled trial in which all patients were randomly assigned to either the control group, which received no intervention, or the experimental group, which received LEO. …”
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Pancreatoduodenectomy versus total pancreatectomy and simultaneous intraportal islet autotransplantation for periampullary cancer at high-risk of postoperative pancreatic fistula (... by Sebastian Hempel, Fiona R Kolbinger, Florian Oehme, Olga Radulova-Mauersberger, Janine Schmid, Undine Schubert, Florian Schepp, Stefan Bornstein, Sandra Korn, Evelyn Trips, Jürgen Weitz, Marius Distler, Barbara Ludwig

“…After screening for eligibility and obtaining informed consent, a total of 32 adult patients will be intraoperatively randomized in a 1:1 ratio. …”
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Better before–better after: efficacy of prehabilitation for older patients with osteoarthritis awaiting total hip replacement—a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial in... by May Arna Risberg, Are Hugo Pripp, Astrid Bergland, Odd-Einar Svinøy, Gunvor Hilde

“…Introduction Health professions need to prepare for the increase of older patients with osteoarthritis requiring health services including those requiring total joint arthroplasty (TJA). The primary objective of this study is to assess the effect of a tailored prehabilitation programme of older patients awaiting primary surgery for total hip replacement on physical function measured by walking speed within 1 week after intervention as well as 6 weeks and 3 months after TJA surgery.Methods and analysis This is a single-blinded randomised controlled trial. …”
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Effect of a smart ring-assisted physiotherapeutic intervention on the postoperative outcomes 12 months after a total knee replacement (SmarTKRing): protocol for a randomised contro... by Ville Mattila, Antti Eskelinen, Aleksi Reito, Joni Hautala, Laura Koriseva

“…The primary aim of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a smart ring-assisted physiotherapeutic intervention in improving outcomes, as measured by the Oxford Knee Score (OKS), 12 months after a TKR.Methods and analysis We are conducting this randomised controlled trial at Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement in Finland, where participants are randomly assigned to either an intervention with smart ring-supported physiotherapeutic intervention or a usual care control group in a 1:1 ratio in patients undergoing TKR surgery. …”
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Adaptation of RainGaugeQC algorithms for quality control of rain gauge data from professional and non-professional measurement networks by K. Ośródka, J. Szturc, A. Jurczyk, A. Kurcz

“…<p>Rain gauge measurements are one of the primary techniques used to estimate a precipitation field, but they require careful quality control. This paper describes a modified RainGaugeQC system, which is applied to real-time quality control of rain gauge measurements made every 10 min. …”
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The ATLAS/NOA-29 study protocol: a phase III randomized controlled trial of anterior temporal lobectomy versus gross-total resection in newly-diagnosed temporal lobe glioblastoma by Matthias Schneider, Anna-Laura Potthoff, Yahya Ahmadipour, Valeri Borger, Hans Clusmann, Stephanie E. Combs, Marcus Czabanka, Lasse Dührsen, Nima Etminan, Thomas M. Freiman, Ruediger Gerlach, Florian Gessler, Frank A. Giordano, Eleni Gkika, Roland Goldbrunner, Erdem Güresir, Hussam Hamou, Peter Hau, Sebastian Ille, Max Jägersberg, Naureen Keric, Maryam Khaleghi-Ghadiri, Ralph König, Jürgen Konczalla, Harald Krenzlin, Sandro Krieg, Aaron Lawson McLean, Julian P. Layer, Jens Lehmberg, Vesna Malinova, Bernhard Meyer, Hanno S. Meyer, Dorothea Miller, Oliver Müller, Christian Musahl, Barbara E. F. Pregler, Ali Rashidi, Florian Ringel, Constantin Roder, Karl Rössler, Veit Rohde, I. Erol Sandalcioglu, Niklas Schäfer, Christina Schaub, Nils Ole Schmidt, Gerrit A. Schubert, Clemens Seidel, Corinna Seliger, Christian Senft, Julia Shawarba, Joachim Steinbach, Veit Stöcklein, Walter Stummer, Ulrich Sure, Ghazaleh Tabatabai, Marcos Tatagiba, Niklas Thon, Marco Timmer, Johannes Wach, Arthur Wagner, Christian Rainer Wirtz, Katharina Zeiler, Thomas Zeyen, Patrick Schuss, Rainer Surges, Christine Fuhrmann, Daniel Paech, Matthias Schmid, Yvonne Borck, Torsten Pietsch, Rafael Struck, Alexander Radbruch, Christoph Helmstaedter, Robert Németh, Ulrich Herrlinger, Hartmut Vatter

“…Methods The ATLAS/NOA-29 trial is a prospective, multicenter, multinational, phase III randomized controlled trial designed to compare ATL with standard gross-total resection (GTR) in patients with newly-diagnosed anterior temporal lobe glioblastoma. …”
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Fine Estimation of Water Quality in the Yangtze River Basin Based on a Geographically Weighted Random Forest Regression Model by Fuliang Deng, Wenhui Liu, Mei Sun, Yanxue Xu, Bo Wang, Wei Liu, Ying Yuan, Lei Cui

“…Water quality evaluation usually relies on limited state-controlled monitoring data, making it challenging to fully capture variations across an entire basin over time and space. …”
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Standardization of a High‐Quality Methodological Framework for Long‐Term Genetic Monitoring of the French Wolf Population by Agathe Pirog, Christophe Duchamp, Cécile Kaerle, Caroline Dufaure de Citres, Sabine Rousselot, Juliette Lavarec, Guillaume Queney

“…We delineated each step and implemented a laboratory control procedure to analyze 8733 samples harvested within the French distribution range of the species between 2006 and 2022, and provided key quality and diversity indicators. …”
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Aflatoxin Contamination of Various Staple Foods from Angola and Mozambique by Cláudio Matusse, Zelda Lucamba, João Bila, Custódia Macuamule, Ana Sampaio, Sandra Afonso, Armando Venâncio, Paula Rodrigues

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A Simple Carrier-Based Neutral Point Voltage Control Strategy for NPC Three-Level Inverters by S. Foti, C. Nevoloso, H. H. Khan, A. O. Di Tommaso, A. Testa, R. Miceli

“…Finally, to prove its merits with respect to other carrier-based PWM strategies proposed in the literature, a comparison in terms of current and voltage transducers, control algorithm complexity, computational cost and total harmonic distortion is provided.…”
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Application of the PDCA cycle in companion diagnostic PD-L1 SP263 immunohistochemical testing by Xiaoying Liu, Feicheng Yang, Kun Wang, Zhe Zhang, Penghui Dai, Jie Zhao, Zhihong Chen

“…The PDCA cycle method was applied, and quality control data before and after its implementation were analyzed and compared. …”
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The association between non- and pro-healthy diet indices and the risk of colorectal cancer: a case-control study by Maryam Ranjbar Zahedani, Iman Kazemi, Ali Kohanmoo, Zainab Shateri, Mohammad Mahdi Rajabpour, Mehran Nouri, Bahram Rashidkhani

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Effect of Theme-Based Nursing Education on Disease Awareness, Serum Uric Acid Control, Quality of Life, and Acute Attacks in Patients with Gout: A Randomized Controlled Study at a... by Gao Z, Meng J

“…The innovative introduction of theme-based nursing education aims to enhance patients’ disease awareness, reduce acute attacks, and improve quality of life.Methods: This study is a randomized controlled trial, A total of 72 patients with gout admitted to Beijing Chaoyang Hospital between 1 January 2023 and 31 November 2023 were randomly divided into the intervention group and the traditional nursing health education group. …”
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Dose–Response Effects of Oral Melatonin on Reproductive Parameters in Intact Male Pomeranian Dogs With Alopecia X: A Controlled Study by Arman Abdous, Mohammad Jokar, Mehran Farhoodi, Darioush Shirani, Fariborz Moayer

“…A total of 16 intact male Pomeranian dogs were randomly assigned to four groups: a control group receiving a placebo and three treatment groups receiving melatonin at low (0.1 mg/kg), medium (0.3 mg/kg) and high (0.5 mg/kg) doses, administered twice daily for 45 days. …”
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Obstructive sleep apnea in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease (non-idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis): what should be offered? by Catarina Gouveia Cardoso, Carolina Valente, Mariana Serino, Inês Rodrigues, André Carvalho, David Barros Coelho, Hélder Novais Bastos, Patrícia Caetano Mota, António Morais, Marta Drummond

“…At 3 months after initiation of PAP therapy, we evaluated the participating patients for respiratory events, nocturnal hypoxemia, and changes in quality of life. Results: Of a total of 50 patients, 50% were male, and 76% were diagnosed with OSA. …”
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The effects of different follow-up management on asthma control: a prospective cohort study by Zhi Lu, Hongzhong Yang, Muyun Yan, Jun Liu, Lu Yang, Caixia Zhang, Da Liu

“…Conclusion Our results demonstrate that all three follow-up methods improved asthma control, alleviate depression, and improve patient medication compliance, satisfaction, treatment effectiveness, and quality of life. …”
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