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Adane Nigusie, Telake Azale, Mezgebu Yitayal, Lemma Derseh • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
(2022)
Abstract Background Ethiopia has been striving to promote institutional delivery through community wide programs. However, home is still the preferred place of delivery for most women encouraged by the community`s perception that delivery i...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-05140-w
Wei Liao, PhD, Meredith Ray, PhD, Carrie Fehnel, BBA, Jordan Goss, MA et al. • JTO Clinical and Research Reports
(2024)
Introduction: Low-dose computed tomography screening (LDCT) and lung nodule programs (LNP) promote early lung cancer detection, improve survival; Multidisciplinary Care Programs (MDC) promote guideline-concordant care. The impact of such pr...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtocrr.2023.100629
Jamil Ahmed, Angeleena Esther, Hussein AlHafnawi, Mohamed Hany Shehata et al. • BMJ Open
(2026)
Background and objectives Clinical trials are essential for advancing scientific knowledge and improving patient outcomes. In the last decade, Bahrain has made notable progress in healthcare. However, clinical trial participation from the r...
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-117241
Kaidi Lu, Ming Xie, Wanping Sun, Yiming Liu • Frontiers in Public Health
(2025)
IntroductionThe economic expansion of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) industry has prompted the Chinese government to introduce a series of policies focused on the registration review and approval of TCM. These policies aim to provid...
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DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1655636
Elisabeth A. Stelson, Mallory Bolenbaugh, Briana Woods-Jaeger, Cassidy Branch et al. • SSM: Qualitative Research in Health
(2021)
Research participation effects (RPEs)—effects due to study design rather than study intervention—have long been acknowledged as a research phenomenon. Identifying RPEs is crucial to understanding the true effects of an intervention and outc...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2021.100023
Taddese Alemu Zerfu, Amare Abera Tareke, Sibhatu Biadgilign • BMC Health Services Research
(2023)
Abstract Background Despite remarkable gains over the past decade, mounting evidence suggests that Ethiopia’s rural health extension program (HEP) is facing serious implementation challenges. We investigated the current and potential future...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-10253-9
Robert D Brook, Pia-Allison Roa, Phillip D Levy, Samantha J Bauer et al. • American Journal of Preventive Cardiology
(2025)
Background: Fine particulate matter 100 for PM2.5) for 3 groups (healthy adults, ASCVD and pulmonary disease patients) in the US during 2022. The theoretical number of adverse events potentially prevented per county was estimated each day a...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpc.2025.101266
Maud Balestrat, Stéphane Dupuy, Eric Barbe • Remote Sensing
(2012)
In France, in the peri-urban context, urban sprawl dynamics are particularly strong with huge population growth as well as a land crisis. The increase and spreading of built-up areas from the city centre towards the periphery takes place to...
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DOI: 10.3390/rs4020404
K. L. Kudryashova • Управленческое консультирование
(2018)
Member States of the United Nations in the autumn of 2015 approved the Agenda for Sustainable Development for the period until 2030. The Agenda also establishes goals for the contribution and methods of fishing and aquaculture production to...
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DOI: 10.22394/1726-1139-2018-1-126-131
Annabelle M. Belcher, Kristen R. Hamilton-Moseley, Ebonie Massey, Mark Yoon et al. • Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
(2026)
Abstract Background Empirical evidence supports the use of methadone as the standard of care for opioid use disorder. However, low retention in methadone treatment is one of the largest impediments to treatment success. Although several psy...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13722-026-00699-7
John Danesh, Stephen Kaptoge, Andrea G Mann, Nadeem Sarwar et al. • PLoS Medicine
(2008)
BackgroundThe relevance to coronary heart disease (CHD) of cytokines that govern inflammatory cascades, such as interleukin-6 (IL-6), may be underestimated because such mediators are short acting and prone to fluctuations. We evaluated asso...
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050078
Flávia Figueira, Matheus de Sá Freitas Tavares, Carla Betina Andreucci, Bernardino Geraldo Alves Souto et al. • Systematic Reviews
(2026)
Abstract Background People living with HIV (PLWH) have a markedly increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), including cardiomyopathy, due to a complex interplay of chronic inflammation, viral persistence, and antiretroviral therapy (A...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13643-026-03091-3
Samiul A Mostafa, Sandra Campos Mena, Christina Antza, George Balanos et al. • Diabetes & Vascular Disease Research
(2022)
Introduction Certain sleep behaviours increase risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the general population, but whether they contribute to the progression from pre-diabetes to T2DM is uncertain. We conducted a systematic review to ass...
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DOI: 10.1177/14791641221088824
Yusof Mohamed Omar, Nour Edin Darwish, Mohamed Ashraf Elsaadany, Yousuf Darwish et al. • BMC Medical Education
(2026)
Abstract Background Test anxiety is a situation-specific construct that can markedly impair cognitive functioning and academic performance in high-stakes educational environments. Medical students are frequently exposed to evaluative situat...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12909-026-10270-2
Cosano Carlos, Molina Jose, Castillo Juan, García Juan et al. • BMC Endocrine Disorders
(2008)
Abstract Background and objectives In Andalusia there were no studies including a representative sample of children and adolescent population assessing growth and weight increase. Our objectives were to develop reference standards for weigh...
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DOI: 10.1186/1472-6823-8-S1-S1
Eun Kyoung Kim, Hong-Mi Choi, Jong-Hwan Lee, Dong Woo Han et al. • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
(2023)
BackgroundDue to increased needs to reduce non-fatal as well as fatal cardiac events, preoperative echocardiography remains part of routine clinical practice in many hospitals. Data on the role of preoperative echocardiography in low-risk n...
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DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1088496
Orlando Ricaurte, Karina Neita, Danyela Valero, Jenny Ortega-Rojas et al. • Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud
(2018)
Introduction: Gliomas are the most common primary tumors of the central nervous system and, according to their malignancy, they are graded from I to IV. Recent studies have found that there is an association between gliomas and mutations in...
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DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.v38i0.3708
Christian Brettschneider, Florian Bleibler, Thomas S. Hiller, Alexander Konnopka et al. • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
(2019)
Abstract Background Panic disorder is a mental disorder of high prevalence, which frequently co-occurs with agoraphobia. There is a lack of studies measuring excess costs of panic disorder patients with and without agoraphobia. We compared ...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12962-019-0177-4
Walla Malkawi, Areeb Lutfi, Maaz Khan Afghan, Lamisha Mashiyat Shah et al. • Frontiers in Oncology
(2023)
ObjectiveMost of the work in terms of liquid biopsies in patients with solid tumors is focused on circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). Our aim was to evaluate the feasibility of using circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood samples fro...
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DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1305181
Benjamin Allin, Nicholas Aveyard, Timothy Campion-Smith, Eleanor Floyd et al. • PLoS ONE
(2016)
ObjectiveIdentify every paediatric surgical article published in 1998 and every paediatric surgical article published in 2013, and determine which study designs were used and whether they were appropriate for robustly assessing intervention...
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150864