The Merit-based Incentive Payment System: Pearson’s Chi-Square and Categorical Dependent Variable Models Analyzed for Domains---Effective Clinical Care and Efficiency/Cost Reductio... by Amrita Shenoy

“…Finally, measure types changed minutely but significantly with less process measures (93.81% vs 93.75% \[*P*=.000]) in 2020 versus 2019. …”
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High-resolution manometry in clinical practice: analysis of esophageal motor function according to Chicago classification by O. A. Storonova, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Nowadays high-resolution manometry is the most exact hi-tech diagnostic method for esophageal motor function disorders. The changes identified during the investigation are systematized in the Chicago classification v3.0. …”
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Effect of a closed-loop medication order executive system on safe medication administration at a tertiary hospital: a quasi-experimental study by Xuwen Yin, Haiyan Song, Jieyu Lu, Jing Yang, Rong Wang, Zheng Lin, Shudi Jiang, Hui Yuan, Xumei Wang, Dongmei Xu, Chunhong Gao, Yuan Zhou, Jiayi Xu, Chen Chen, Chenyu Gu, Qingqing Diao, Fang Li, Zejuan Gu

“…Root cause analysis and descriptive statistics were used to assess changes in types, stages, and causes of ME rates. …”
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Optimization of the cholesterol gallstone model in C57BL/6 mice and evaluation of Lactobacillus intervention effects by Cong Wang, Ting Jiang, Lvwang Ye, Mengyan Du, Fang Liu

“…Abstract Gallstone disease is a common and complex condition, strongly associated with abnormal cholesterol metabolism, changes in bile composition, and impaired gallbladder motility. …”
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Lower urinary dysfunction as a long-term effect of childhood vincristine treatment, with potential influences by sex and dose by Nao Iguchi, Ali Teimouri, Duncan T. Wilcox, Anna P. Malykhina, Nicholas G. Cost

“…Significant changes in gene expression levels associated with neuroinflammation and nociception were observed in both the bladder and lumbosacral dorsal root ganglia (Ls-DRG) of the VCR group. …”
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Existential concerns among young adults with psychotic vulnerability in mental health care: a qualitative study in the Netherlands by Marlous L. D. de Vries, Pauline Janse, Christa W. Anbeek, Arjan W. Braam

“…Results The respondents clearly affirmed existential concerns about freedom (e.g., loss of or changed future), meaninglessness (e.g., questioning purpose and meaning), isolation (e.g., disconnection, importance of personal bonds), identity (e.g., loss of self, changed identity) and death (e.g., questioning life and death). …”
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Assessment of the Contribution of Local and Regional Biomass Burning on PM2.5 in New York/New Jersey Metropolitan Area by Subraham Singh, Glen Johnson, David W. DuBois, Ilias G. Kavouras

“…The contributions of secondary nitrate, primary traffic exhausts and diesel particles did not change (or slightly increased) over time except for the Queens site, where statistically significant declines were computed. …”
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Evaluation of Nausea and Vomiting Severity in Pregnancies Conceived Through Assisted Reproduction by Ozge Senem Yucel Cicek, Merve Demir

“…The Pregnancy-Unique Quantification of Emesis-24 scale was utilized to evaluate nausea vomiting of pregnancy severity in both groups. Weight change during pregnancy and hospital admission due to nausea vomiting of pregnancy were also compared to assess severe nausea vomiting of pregnancy. …”
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Effects of spinal deformities on lower limb kinematics during walking: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Fateme Khorramroo, Seyed Hamed Mousavi, Reza Rajabi

“…Regarding scoliosis, strong evidence suggested a significant increase in right leg stance% and non-significant changes in left leg cadence, right and left leg speed and ankle transverse ROM in individuals with scoliosis compared to controls. …”
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Affordability of sugar-sweetened beverages and nonessential energy-dense foods after taxation, Mexico, 2010–2022 by Néstor A. Sánchez-Ortiz, Adriana Vargas Flores, Jesús E. Morales-Ríos, J. Alai Quiroz-Reyes, M. Arantxa Colchero

“…The second was to simulate the effects of different tax increases for these foods and beverages to observe how much their affordability would change compared with the current scenario. Methods. …”
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The Effect of Sensorimotor Synchronization on Gait Spatiotemporal Parameters in Women with Multiple Sclerosis by Mozhgan Memarmoghadam, Mansoureh Shahraki, Behzad Mohammadi Orangi, Luca Correale, Leonardo A. Peyré-Tartaruga

“…Stride length, double stance, and swing time were improved in the group with rhythmic visual stimulus, but this change was not significant. Also, bilateral symmetry did not change significantly in the experimental group. …”
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Relative Importance of Mode of Administration in Treatment Preferences among Plaque Psoriasis Patients in the United States by Steven R. Feldman, Anders Holmen Moeller, Sandra T. Erntoft Idemyr, Juan Marcos González

“…**Conclusions:** Psoriasis patients had well-defined preferences for changes in the treatment attributes considered. Avoiding injections in favor of oral or topical treatment was more important to patients than some improvements in efficacy. …”
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Functional effects of operations for malignant gastric neoplasms: prevention, diagnosis and treatment of post-gastrectomy disorders by A. V. Chaika, V. M. Khomyakov, A. B. Ryabov

“…Postoperative functional disorders are prone to conservative treatment: lifestyle modification, change in diet composition along with pattern of food intake combined to antisecretory, spasmolytic and prokinetic drugs. …”
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Assessment of Reductions in Emission-driven Air Pollution during the Beijing Olympic Games, Shanghai World Expo, Guangzhou Asian Games and Wuhan COVID-19 Lockdown by Ying Li, Haoxiang Xu

“…In our previous work, we developed a wind-pollution decomposition (WPD) method that provides a robust tool to quantify meteorology-driven and emission-driven impacts on changes in air quality. In this study, we applied this method to quantify emission-driven impacts on the observed air quality changes during the three largest international socioeconomic mega-events in China, namely, Shanghai World Expo in 2010, Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, and Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010. …”
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Role of exercise on ncRNAs and exosomal ncRNAs in preventing neurodegenerative diseases: a narrative review by Shangwu Liu, Runhong Zhang, Jamal Hallajzadeh

“…It is hypothesized that exercise-induced changes in ncRNA expression may regulate key processes involved in neuroprotection, including neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, protein aggregation, and synaptic function. …”
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Cancer Mortality Attributed to Air Pollution in Türkiye in 2019 by Didem Han Yekdeş, Ali Cem Yekdeş, Ülfiye Çelikkalp, Pelin Sarı Serin, Miraç Çağlayan, Galip Ekuklu

“…Mortality rates attributed to PM2.5 were calculated with the WHO AIRQ+ program, and the monthly percent change (MPC) in air pollution level was computed by the JP regression method. …”
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Health Economic Analysis of Two-Layer Bandage System for Treatment of Chronic Venous Insufficiency by Peter J. Mallow

“…Bandages were typically changed once or twice a week (51.7%). Wound healing occurred in 128 of the 414 wounds (30.9%). …”
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Effects of twelve-week aerobic exercise on selected health-related physical fitness variables on Gonji preparatory school male students by Abdurahman Esleman, Bizuneh Yirga Geberemariam, Wondiye Aychiluhim

“…But no significant change was observed on muscular strength in experimental and control groups of independent t-test (p=0.534 and p=0.41) and paired t-test (p=0.43 and p=0.33). …”
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Prevalence of Erosive-ulcerative Lesions of the Stomach and Helicobacter Pylori Infection in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis by N. A. Ponkratova, P. V. Pavlov, O. S. Shifrin

“…In patients with ulcerative colitis, erosive changes frequently found in the stomach do not correlate with the activity of the underlying disease. …”
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Experimental study on in-situ simulation of rainfall-induced soil erosion in forest lands converted to cash crop areas in Dabie Mountains. by Gao Li, Tao Yang, Rui Chen, Haogang Dong, Feng Wu, Qinghua Zhan, Jinyan Huang, Minxuan Luo, Li Wang

“…Mathematical methods of descriptive statistics were used to analyze the monitored runoff, soil erosion and soil water content data, and to study the characteristics of their changes and response relationships. The findings underscore that rainfall prompts a swift surge in surface soil moisture, destabilizing the soil surface and culminating in slope erosion; thus, the rate of change in surface soil moisture content emerges as a pivotal indicator for predicting slope soil erosion. …”
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