3171 papers
This study developed and validated a CatBoost-based machine learning model using nine clinical features to accurately predict preoperative anxiety in elderly hip fracture patients, with SHAP analysis identifying pain levels, age, and comorbidities as key risk factors.
This qualitative study utilizing the Social Ecological Model reveals that malaria persists in Cameroon due to a complex interplay of individual misconceptions, community-level socio-cultural and economic barriers, health system weaknesses, and policy implementation gaps, necessitating multi-sectoral and culturally sensitive interventions for effective control.
This retrospective study of 257 patients found that preoperative tamsulosin administration significantly reduces ureteroscopy failure rates, while flexible ureteroscopy is associated with a higher risk of failure compared to the semi-rigid approach.
This study clarifies that the endopelvic fascia is not an isolated membrane but a continuous connective tissue system linking the obturator fascia to the rectal wall and hiatal ligament, providing a crucial anatomical basis for defining surgical dissection planes in rectal cancer surgery.
This comparative neuropsychological study of Indian patients reveals that Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) exhibits significantly greater global and domain-specific cognitive impairment than Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), with PSP cognition closely linked to motor and mood severity while MSA cognition appears more driven by cognitive reserve.
This prospective study utilized microwave digestion and ICP-MS to analyze trace element and heavy metal profiles in gastrointestinal tumor versus healthy tissues, revealing significant associations between specific elemental alterations (particularly Cd, Pb, Fe, and Zn) and clinicopathological factors such as neoadjuvant therapy and lymphovascular invasion, thereby suggesting their potential as onco-biomarkers for personalized oncology.
This study demonstrates that moderate-to-late preterm birth independently increases the risk of severe lower respiratory tract infections across childhood and exhibits a significant synergistic interaction with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that amplifies disease severity, despite not altering susceptibility to pathogen acquisition.
This study demonstrates that inhaled pemetrexed-modified pulmonary surfactant nanoparticles loaded with paclitaxel (PEM-PSNP@PTX) effectively treat lung cancer by leveraging folate receptor-mediated dual targeting of tumor cells and macrophages to suppress tumor growth and reprogram the immunosuppressive microenvironment while minimizing systemic toxicity.
This study demonstrates that [68Ga]Ga-PentixaFor PET/CT frequently exhibits procedure-related uptake at surgical or interventional sites regardless of the time elapsed since the intervention or the anatomical location, highlighting a significant pitfall that correlates with [18F]FDG accumulation and may lead to false-positive interpretations.
This meta-research study demonstrates that systematic reviews of exercise interventions suffer from significant information loss compared to their source randomized controlled trials, primarily due to incomplete original reporting and further attrition during the synthesis process, particularly regarding equipment, adherence, provider characteristics, and tailoring methods.