4376 papers
This systematic literature review establishes that physician competence—specifically communication skills, professionalism, clinical ability, and patient-centered care—significantly drives patient satisfaction through the mediating role of perceived service quality, while highlighting critical gaps in research regarding Islamic hospitals, longitudinal designs, and integrative frameworks.
This study demonstrates that high-density, full-depth trans-cortical microperforation using a 0.5 mm needle effectively triggers endogenous BMP and VEGF gradients to drive significant self-sufficient bone regeneration in critical-sized defects without the need for exogenous grafts.
The BEAT-BX study demonstrates that long-term combination therapy with erdosteine and azithromycin significantly reduces the severity and duration of exacerbations, prolongs exacerbation-free intervals, and improves sputum rheology in bronchiectasis patients compared to standard care, while maintaining a favorable safety profile.
This study reveals that generative AI systems frequently conflate two distinct pregnancy-dating algorithms, leading to significant calculation errors and mislabeling that underscore the critical need for medical AI to transparently disclose their computational pathways.
This paper proposes a novel multimodal deep learning framework that integrates visual and kinematic data to automatically assess surgical performance, achieving superior correlation with expert scores on JIGSAWS and Biotissue benchmarks compared to existing unimodal or subjective methods.
This systematic review highlights the scarcity of robust evidence regarding dietary interventions for Neurofibromatosis Type 1, noting that while limited studies suggest potential benefits from specific nutrients like vitamin D and L-carnitine for bone health and muscle function, further research is essential to establish definitive clinical guidelines.
This CARE-guideline case report details a nurse's holistic yet systemically constrained care for a malnourished Ethiopian farmer with early-stage esophageal cancer, illustrating how compassionate nursing can alleviate immediate suffering and restore hope while highlighting critical gaps in psychological support and timely surgical access within resource-limited healthcare settings.
This retrospective study demonstrates that establishing standardized chest pain units in rural areas significantly reduces treatment delays and major adverse cardiac events while improving the 12-month prognosis for patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.
This paper presents a stochastic, physiology-based digital twin model of hemostasis and oxygenation that simulates trauma resuscitation to demonstrate the superior efficacy of cold-stored low titer group O whole blood (LTOWB) over conventional component therapy in reducing critical hemostatic deficits and improving survival for severe hemorrhagic shock, while also offering a platform for precision transfusion strategies and blood bank demand forecasting.
In a prospective cohort study of nearly 7,000 US adults, both a lower FT3/FT4 ratio and higher depressive symptom scores were found to be independent predictors of increased all-cause mortality, suggesting that endocrine and psychological factors provide complementary prognostic information.