13699 papers
This exploratory audit of the LoopLens 10.1 implementation reveals that many ECG/VCG markers exhibit significant repeatability issues and high sensitivity to reconstruction matrices and boundary definitions, challenging the reliability of physiological names as sole determinants of measurement consistency.
This cross-sectional analysis of the 2016 National Health Interview Survey reveals that lower socioeconomic status is independently associated with significantly higher odds of high-impact chronic pain among U.S. adults, highlighting the need for interventions that address educational, employment, and poverty-related inequalities alongside clinical management.
This study demonstrates that a local bio-composite of silver hydroxyapatite nanoparticles and platelet-rich fibrin significantly promotes osteogenesis, angiogenesis, and structural repair in a rat model of early-stage femoral head avascular necrosis, effectively preventing joint collapse and degeneration compared to control treatments.
This five-year ecological study of Bobonaro Municipality, Timor-Leste, reveals that while tuberculosis incidence exhibited significant spatial clustering in 2023 and 2024, the lack of consistent global autocorrelation across all years highlights the temporal heterogeneity of disease patterns and underscores the value of local spatial analysis for identifying priority areas for targeted surveillance.
This rapid systematic review of 156 studies reveals that machine learning models predicting 30-day hospital readmission overwhelmingly rely on AUROC as the sole performance metric while critically neglecting essential evaluations of external validity, calibration, and explainability, prompting a call for a more rigorous "beyond AUROC" assessment framework.
This randomized controlled trial demonstrates that brief, daily simulation drills of MR SOPA ventilation corrective steps significantly reduce mask leak during positive pressure ventilation in delivery room resuscitations of preterm infants compared to self-directed review of the NRP algorithm.
This retrospective cohort study found that administering prophylactic antibiotics at the time of history- or ultrasound-indicated transvaginal cerclage placement does not improve gestational age at delivery or enhance maternal and neonatal outcomes compared to no antibiotic use.
From a Chinese healthcare perspective, a cost-effectiveness analysis based on the HARMONi-6 trial indicates that first-line treatment with ivonescimab plus chemotherapy is likely to be cost-effective compared to tislelizumab plus chemotherapy for advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer, with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $23,366.05 per quality-adjusted life-year gained.
This study elucidates that high-level ceftazidime-avibactam resistance in carbapenem-resistant *Pseudomonas aeruginosa* is primarily driven by metallo-β-lactamase production (specifically AFM-1 and IMP-45), novel GES variants, and synergistic efflux pump overexpression, contributing to a high mortality rate of 68.1% among critically ill patients.
This case report describes a rare instance of an oral foregut duplication cyst in a 6-year-old boy that mimicked ankyloglossia, highlighting the importance of considering this congenital anomaly in the differential diagnosis of midline tongue masses and confirming that complete surgical excision is curative.