4814 papers
A 2020 cross-sectional study at Intermediate Hospital Oshakati in Namibia reveals that healthcare workers, particularly doctors, exhibit significant knowledge gaps and suboptimal attitudes regarding medical sharps handling and injury reporting, highlighting an urgent need for targeted educational interventions and improved post-exposure protocols.
This mini literature review synthesizes evidence from 2020 to 2025 demonstrating that active smoking, second-hand smoke exposure, and electronic cigarette use all significantly contribute to respiratory morbidity through overlapping inflammatory and oxidative stress mechanisms, underscoring the urgent need for comprehensive tobacco control and regulation of emerging nicotine delivery systems.
This MRI study demonstrates that the anterior-to-psoas corridor for oblique lumbar interbody fusion narrows progressively from L1 to L5 and is modestly widened by right-lateral positioning, indicating that preoperative imaging in the surgical position is essential to determine safe cage dimensions and the potential need for psoas retraction.
This paper proposes and evaluates a conceptual MEMS-enabled framework that utilizes a subset of EEG-derived features from a large dataset to develop the Smart MEMS Sedation Monitoring and Risk Index (SMORI), a unified metric for real-time anesthesia monitoring and overdose risk assessment.
This review explores the applications of artificial intelligence in optimizing analgesic drug therapy and pain management, highlighting its potential to improve patient outcomes, predict treatment responses, and reduce costs while addressing the extensive use of analgesics in hospital settings.
This updated systematic review and meta-analysis of 12 studies involving over 20,000 patients suggests that IVUS-guided PCI for unprotected left main coronary artery disease is associated with significantly lower rates of all-cause mortality, cardiac mortality, myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization compared to angiography-guided PCI, although these benefits were primarily driven by observational data while randomized controlled trials showed neutral results.
This study models that shifting Nigeria's sugar tax from an ad valorem system to a tiered, gram-based specific tax with a 4 g/100 ml threshold would simultaneously drive a significant reduction in national sugar consumption through industry reformulation and generate substantial, predictable fiscal revenue to support healthcare infrastructure.
This reflexive thematic analysis of 19 culturally and linguistically diverse parents reveals that while online parent-led therapy is broadly acceptable, its effectiveness and engagement depend critically on adapting programs to address specific linguistic proficiencies, sociocultural contexts, and material access barriers rather than relying on monolingual, Western-centric designs.
This study evaluates six cornflake brands available in Nigeria against the WHO African Region nutrient profile model and finds that five of them exceed sodium or sugar thresholds, rendering them ineligible for marketing to children and necessitating reformulation.
This study proposes and validates a novel, theory-grounded biomarker based on the aggregate conditional entropy of EEG microstate transition sequences derived from Markov modelling, demonstrating its ability to differentiate Alzheimer's disease from healthy controls and frontotemporal dementia with high interpretability and without reliance on MRI or deep learning.