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Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, Arunima Chaudhuri, Dip Gaine • Current Medical Issues
(2025)
Self-directed learning (SDL), which emphasizes the need for students to take ownership of their learning, has become a crucial part of medical education. With the increasing complexity of health care, SDL is seen as a crucial skill for fost...
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DOI: 10.4103/cmi.cmi_96_24
Ashenafi Zemed, Kalkidan Nigussie Chala, Getachew Azeze Eriku, Andualem Yalew Aschalew • PLoS ONE
(2021)
IntroductionEvidence on a patient-centered assessment of outcome among patients with stroke is limited in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the level of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and associated factors in Ethiopia...
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248481
Tamar Kakhniashvili, Nino Okribelashvili, Ivane Kiladze • Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research
(2025)
Background: Depression commonly occurs in patients with breast cancer (BC), affecting their quality of life. Objectives: The relationships between depression and different sociodemographic characteristics in patients with BC are under-resea...
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DOI: 10.1177/11782234251323775
Joel Shor, Yusuke Miyatani, Etsuko Arita, Pohung Chen et al. • JMIR Formative Research
(2023)
BackgroundHealth anxiety has many damaging effects on patients with chronic illness. Physicians are often unable to alleviate concerns related to living with a disease that has an impact on daily life, and unregulated websites can overrepre...
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DOI: 10.2196/39945
Giuseppe Marano, Oksana Di Giacomi, Senad Hasaj, Gianandrea Traversi et al. • Children
(2026)
Background/Objectives: The digital transition in school settings is reshaping children’s learning, writing practices, and mental health trajectories. This narrative review examines whether handwriting still matters in contemporary hybrid ed...
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DOI: 10.3390/children13070940
Salman Y. Guraya, Leena R. David, Shermin Hashir, Noha A. Mousa et al. • BMC Medical Education
(2021)
Abstract Background Interprofessional education (IPE) encompasses integration, communication, mutual trust and shared decision-making with a common goal of improved patient care and safety. Despite its crucial role, IPE has not gained its a...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12909-021-02900-8
J. Felipe Montano-Campos, Julie Zissimopoulos, Mireille Jacobson, Bryan Tysinger et al. • MDM Policy & Practice
(2026)
Objectives: Decisions about emerging disease-modifying dementia therapies involve both treatment uptake and willingness to pay (WTP), reflecting the monetary valuation of treatment benefits. Existing studies often do not distinguish between...
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DOI: 10.1177/23814683261487187
Mary Lynch, Carolyn Wallace, Teresa Filipponi • BMJ Open
(2024)
Introduction Improvement in the National Health Service (NHS) employees’ mental well-being and staff retention are current key issues. Evidence indicates that dance movement therapy (DMT) has been effective in improving mental health and we...
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083287
Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales, Pierre De Paepe, Michel Roland • BMC Health Services Research
(2020)
Abstract Background Strong relations between medicine and public health have long been advocated. Today, professional medical practice assumes joint clinical/public health objectives: GPs are expected to practice community medicine; Hospita...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05886-z
Matteo Fraschini, Simone Maurizio La Cava, Luca Didaci, Luigi Barberini • Entropy
(2020)
The idea of estimating the statistical interdependence among (interacting) brain regions has motivated numerous researchers to investigate how the resulting connectivity patterns and networks may organize themselves under any conceivable sc...
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DOI: 10.3390/e23010005
Manik Awale, Shrirang Pund, Hassan S. Bakouch, Aishwarya Ghodake et al. • Entropy
(2026)
In this article, we propose a first-order integer-valued autoregressive (INAR(1)) model based on binomial thinning, in which the innovation sequence follows a zero–one–two-modified Poisson (ZOTMPo) distribution. The proposed model accommoda...
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DOI: 10.3390/e28080889
Ronald Stevens, Trysha Galloway, Donald Halpin, Ann Willemsen-Dunlap • Entropy
(2016)
Research on the microscale neural dynamics of social interactions has yet to be translated into improvements in the assembly, training and evaluation of teams. This is partially due to the scale of neural involvements in team activities, sp...
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DOI: 10.3390/e18120427
Michalina Gruszczyńska, Adam Jarzemski, Agnieszka Kolossa, Rafał Porzych • Journal of Education, Health and Sport
(2023)
Introduction and objective: Treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is frequently used all around the world. Just like in the course of all the drugs administration, side effects may appear, including characteristic side effects presentin...
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DOI: 10.12775/JEHS.2023.21.01.002
Dr Patrick T Wilson, MD, Frank Baiden, PhD, Joshua C Brooks, MPH, Marilyn C Morris, MD et al. • The Lancet Global Health
(2017)
Background: In low-income and middle-income countries, invasive mechanical ventilation is often not available for children at risk of death from respiratory failure. We aimed to determine if continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a for...
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DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30145-6
María Morales-Suárez-Varela, Isabel Peraita-Costa, Alfredo Perales-Marín, Beatriz Marcos Puig et al. • Life
(2023)
Gestation is a crucial life stage for both women and offspring, and outcomes are affected by many environmental factors, including diet. The Mediterranean dietary pattern (MD) is considered a healthy eating pattern that can provide the nutr...
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DOI: 10.3390/life13051138
Tan Zhang, Tan Zhang, Sina Zhang, Sina Zhang et al. • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
(2021)
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a malignant hepatic tumor with a poor prognosis, which needs early diagnosis urgently. The gut microbiota has been shown to play a crucial role in the progression of liver cancer. Here, we explored a gut microbio...
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DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.751795
Terence W O'Neill, Robert Horne, Clare Jinks, Christian D Mallen et al. • NIHR Open Research
(2026)
Background High quality shared decision-making (SDM) conversations involve people with or at risk of osteoporosis and clinicians working together to decide, where appropriate, which evidence-based medicines best fit the person’s life, belie...
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DOI: 10.3310/nihropenres.13751.3
Justine Daudi Maganira, Noel Mark Makwinya, Beda John Mwang'onde • Parasite Epidemiology and Control
(2025)
Porcine cysticercosis, caused by the larval stage of Taenia species, poses significant health and economic challenges in low and lower-middle-income regions. This study assessed the seroprevalence and risk factors associated with the transm...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.parepi.2025.e00445
David Collister, Mark Farrar, Lesha Farrar, Paul Brown et al. • Kidney Medicine
(2023)
Rationale & Objective: We sought to elicit patient preferences regarding the use of plasma exchange in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) and its tradeoffs of risk of kidney failure and risk of serious infec...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100595
Rafael Perera, Marjan Van Den Akker, Kym I E Snell, Joerg J Meerpohl et al. • BMJ Open
(2021)
Objective To explore factors that potentially impact external validation performance while developing and validating a prognostic model for hospital admissions (HAs) in complex older general practice patients.Study design and setting Using ...
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045572