4321 papers
This phenomenological study reveals that chemsex is silently growing in Vietnam, driven by complex social and individual factors, yet remains inadequately addressed by a passive, HIV-centric healthcare system and a lack of legal prioritization, necessitating integrated policy and clinical reforms.
This Danish focus group study identifies that implementing early palliative care tools in hospitals requires overcoming cultural hesitations and structural inconsistencies through standardized workflows, integrated electronic records, and visionary leadership to foster a shared interprofessional responsibility.
This cross-sectional study conducted in Aleppo, Syria, reveals that misconceptions regarding postoperative complications are prevalent among surgical patients and are significantly influenced by sociodemographic factors such as age, rural residence, lower education levels, and cultural beliefs, underscoring the need for targeted patient education to improve surgical outcomes.
A two-year cohort study of the Swedish Women's Ice Hockey League reveals that the majority of elite female players supported the 2022 policy allowing body checking and maintained stable, positive attitudes without perceiving increased injury risk, despite evidence suggesting higher injury rates following the rule change.
This qualitative study of 14 homecare nurses in Norway reveals that ensuring safe medication use for older adults is hindered by the complex interplay of balancing patient autonomy, managing clinical complexity, navigating conflicting expectations, and overcoming organizational constraints, highlighting the urgent need for improved structural support and interprofessional collaboration.
This study of 106 Chinese medical residents reveals that multidimensional financial well-being, particularly daily financial control, is a core predictor of burnout operating through the mediating mechanism of hope, suggesting that targeted interventions to improve financial stability are essential to preventing resident distress and tragedy.
This hypothesis-generating study of 66 stage III-IV NSCLC patients suggests that pre-treatment gut microbiome composition, specifically higher *Ruminococcus* and lower *Bifidobacterium* abundance, along with specific serum metabolites and lipids, are associated with clinical benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.
In a prospective registry of 66 heart failure patients, the study found that while programmed ventricular stimulation (PVS) positivity identifies significant arrhythmic risk, the specific induction threshold (ease of inducing ventricular tachycardia) does not predict the subsequent arrhythmic burden over 12 months.
This retrospective study of Moroccan Familial Mediterranean Fever patients reveals that biallelic exon 10 *MEFV* variants are associated with more severe inflammatory activity and longer diagnostic delays, while highlighting the high prevalence of low-penetrance and VUS variants that underscores the need for broader genetic testing strategies in North Africa.
This retrospective study of 140 prostate cancer patients identifies nadir PSA (nPSA) and monthly PSA decline velocity (PSAVd) as independent risk factors for PSA doubling within 24 months after androgen deprivation therapy, with nPSA demonstrating the strongest predictive performance for early biochemical progression.