Associations between hospital deaths (HSMR), readmission and length of stay (LOS): a longitudinal assessment of performance results and facility characteristics of teaching and lar... by Omid Fekri, Edgar Manukyan, Niek Klazinga

“…Readmission was largely not statistically significantly correlated and showed no clear pattern of correlation (direction) with hospital characteristics.Conclusions Examining publicly reported hospital performance results can reveal meaningful insights into the association among outcome indicators and hospital characteristics. …”
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Incidence of primary care chest pain consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series analysis with routine care data by Simone van den Bulk, Jasper W. A. van Egeraat, Annelieke H. J. Petrus, Mattijs E. Numans, Tobias N. Bonten

“…Cardiology departments reported declines in chest pain evaluations and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) diagnoses. However, the pattern of chest pain in primary care is not clear yet. …”
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E-cigarettes: An Emerging Threat to the Respiratory Health of Our Next Generation by Caitlin Hon Ning Yeung

“…Introduction: Given dramatic rises in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use among adolescents and ongoing dilemmas regarding their harms versus potential for harm reduction, this study examined the current pattern of e-cigarette use, the perceived health effects of e-cigarettes and the association of e-cigarette with the use of other tobacco products among Hong Kong secondary school students. …”
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Impact of neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio on mortality in iron-deficiency anemia patients: a retrospective study using MIMIC-IV database by Weide Lin, Junfan Chen, Xufa Peng, Yaohua Yu, Shiqing Huang, Shurong Li, Bixia Lin

“…The relationship between natural logarithmic transformation (ln) NPAR levels and 30-day and 365-day mortality risks exhibited an inverse “L” shaped pattern. Patient mortality risk increased significantly when ln-transformed NPAR levels exceeded 1.2 (HR range 3.366–4.304, p < 0.001 for all). …”
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Clinical characteristics and factors associated with recurrence and long-term prognosis in patients with MOGAD by Wenlin Sun, Yinyin Xie, Aoya Han, Xinru Zhou, Shijie Zhang, Yi Xie, Nanchang Xie

“…A higher EDSS score at discharge (OR: 5.05, 95% CI: 1.27–20.07, p = 0.021)and more previous episodes (OR: 9.24, 95% CI: 1.35–63.10, p = 0.023), were associated with a poor long-term prognosis; whereas steroid therapy for &gt;5 weeks at first diagnosis (OR: 0.001, 95% CI: 0.00–0.33, p = 0.019) and type I isoelectric focusing pattern (OR: 0.004, 95% CI: 0.00–0.402, p = 0.043) were associated with favorable long-term prognosis.ConclusionAfter the first episode, steroid maintenance for an appropriate period following discharge is important for achieving a favorable long-term prognosis, particularly in patients with a high EDSS score at discharge and those at a heightened risk of recurrence.…”
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Study on the Application and Deformation Characteristics of Construction Waste Recycled Materials in Highway Subgrade Engineering by Yuan Mei, Hongping Lu, Xueyan Wang, Bingyu Zhou, Ziyang Liu, Lu Wang

“…Using construction waste as a filling material for proposed roads has become a research hotspot in recent years. This paper starts with basic performance tests of recycled construction waste materials, and then moves on to laboratory experiments conducted to obtain the road performance of the recycled materials, the testing of key indicators of post-construction filling quality of the roadbed, and analyses of the deformation pattern of roadbed filled with construction waste. …”
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Reduced threat-safety discrimination and generally enhanced generalization responses in adversity exposed youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms by Zhiling Qiao, Celine Samaey, Lise Jennen, Victor Mazereel, Davy Vancampfort, Bart Boets, Ruud van Winkel

“…This suggests that the observed pattern may reflect an adversity-related vulnerability for further progression to psychopathology in this population.…”
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Change in Fractional Vegetation Cover and Its Prediction during the Growing Season Based on Machine Learning in Southwest China by Xiehui Li, Yuting Liu, Lei Wang

“…The results indicated that the overall FVC in SWC predominantly increased from 2000 to 2020. Over the 21 years, the FVC spatial distribution in SWC generally showed a high east and low west pattern, with extremely low FVC in the western plateau of Tibet and higher FVC in parts of eastern Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, and Yunnan. …”
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Electromyographic Characteristics of a Single Motion Shoulder Exercise: A Pilot Study Investigating a Novel Shoulder Exercise by Michael J Henehan, Tamar Brand-Perez, Jeffrey C Peng, Masaaki Tsuruike

“…(p= 0.0109 and 0.0002 respectively) # Conclusion In this pilot study, muscle activation during the single motion, Figure of 8 pattern exercise was not significantly different from the standard shoulder exercises in six of eight key muscles that are usually included in shoulder rehabilitation protocols. …”
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Accelerometer-measured physical activity, frailty, and all-cause mortality and life expectancy among middle-aged and older adults: a UK Biobank longitudinal study by Yang Yang, Liangkai Chen, Filippos T. Filippidis

“…Notably, across the frailty spectrum, individuals in the low tertile of TVPA, MVPA, and LPA, or the top tertile of ST, were associated with reduced life expectancy, with this pattern being more pronounced among frail men compared to frail women. …”
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High-grade astrocytoma with piloid features: a single-institution case series and literature review by Eric A. Goethe, Subhiksha Srinivasan, Swaminathan Kumar, Sujit S. Prabhu, Maria A. Gubbiotti, Sherise D. Ferguson

“…Abstract High-grade astrocytoma with piloid features (HGAP) is a recently described primary brain tumor and the first requiring a specific methylation pattern for diagnosis, as its histologic features are often compatible with other tumors such as glioblastoma (GBM). …”
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Clinical analysis of pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma coexisting with lung cancer by Heng Yang, Man-Hui Li, Qiu-Hong Li, Ke-Bin Cheng, Wei-Jun Cao

“…Nodule was the most frequent CT feature and existing pattern of pulmonary lesions (n = 8). The lung cancer was with a median diameter of 10.7 [IQR:6,20] mm, with nodules as the predominant CT feature (n = 12). …”
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A survey on the Epidemiology of Acute Poisoning in Adults Referring to Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ardabil during 2017-2020 by Roksana Farabi, Aylin Javan-Molaei, Esmaeil Farzaneh, Saeid Sadeghieh Ahari, Sara Mostafalou

“…Background: Poisoning is one of the common causes of hospital emergency department referrals, especially in adolescents and young people; therefore, knowing the pattern of poisoning will be helpful in identifying risk factors and early detection of poisoning. …”
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Hypersomnia in Whipple disease: case report Hipersónia na doença de Whipple: relato de caso by Luís F. Maia, Mónica Marta, Vitor Lopes, Nelson Rocha, Carlos Lopes, Antônio Martins-da-Silva, Luís Monteiro

“…Longitudinal neurophysiological studies revealed persistent sleep pattern abnormalities with sleep fragmentation, paucity of slow wave and of REM sleep. …”
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YOUTH VANDALISM IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF MEGALOPOLIS: BORDERS OF STANDARD AND DEVIATION by D. V. Rudenkin, I. V. Vorobyeva, O. V. Kruzhkova, M. S. Krivoshchekova

“…The study was conducted among the representatives of Yekaterinburg (n=304, 18–30 years). It was found that more than 30 % of respondents have a real experience in the implementation of vandalism in the urban environment, but only 2 % of respondents recognize and openly declare this experience. …”
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infections after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A retrospective cohort study by Zahia Esber, Hamza Salam, Shefali Godara, Ayman Soubani

“…The most common radiologic pattern was nodular infiltrates in 15 (29.4%) patients. …”
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Subtypes detection of papillary thyroid cancer from methylation assay via Deep Neural Network by Andrea Colacino, Andrea Soricelli, Michele Ceccarelli, Ornella Affinito, Monica Franzese

“…In cancer, the methylation pattern likely reflects both the cell of origin and somatically acquired DNA methylation changes, making this epigenetic modification an ideal tool for tumor classification. …”
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Emotion dysregulation in adolescents is normalized by ADHD pharmacological treatment by Krisztina Kondi, Mária Takács, Evelyn Kovács-Posta, Claudia Szajli, Tünde Sebők-Welker, János M. Réthelyi, Nóra Bunford

“…Across parent- and self-reported findings, observed pattern of results held when analyses focused on adolescents who did not change medication status between baseline and follow-up. …”
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Retrospective trend analysis of biocides in suspended particulate matter of major German rivers by Georg Dierkes, Susanne Schmidt, Christiane Meier, Korinna Ziegler, Jan Koschorreck, Arne Wick

“…In general, for most compounds, concentrations were higher for locations with higher wastewater proportion, but overall no clear differences in biocide concentration pattern between the different sampling locations were observed. …”
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Comparison of intramedullary nailing and minimal invasive plate osteosynthesis in the treatment of simple intra-articular fractures of the distal tibia (AO-OTA type 43 C1-C2) by Ozan Beytemür, Alican Barış, Cem Albay, Serdar Yüksel, Sever Çağlar, Ender Alagöz

“…The average age of the patients was 40.3 years. Thirty-seven patients were treated with IMN and 36 patients were treated with MIPO. …”
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