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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38537156/female-specific-health-care-of-military-female-designated-service-members-and-veterans-a-systematic-overview-of-reviews
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Megan C McDermott, Megan G Musilli, Jill E Brown, John L Melton, Michael J Miller, Rhonda J Allard, Monica A Lutgendorf
INTRODUCTION: Since the War in Afghanistan began in 2001, service members have faced significant health effects related to service during war, with female-designated service members facing unique challenges. Numerous high-quality review articles have been published on the health and care of female-designated service members and veterans. Given the increasing volume of literature, we completed an overview of reviews on the health and health care of female-designated military populations...
March 27, 2024: Military Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38537056/perioperative-outcomes-and-long-term-survival-of-cryosurgery-on-unresectable-pancreatic-cancer-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kang Xue, Xiaofeng Liu, Xiaolin Xu, Li Wang, Bole Tian
BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer (PC) continues to rank as one of the deadliest forms of cancer, with the majority of patients being diagnosed with unresectable disease. The implementation of cryoablation-based comprehensive treatment is expected to lead to a reduction in tumor size and potentially achieve complete resection. However, the availability of systematic and evidence-based treatment guidelines for cryoablation in pancreatic cancer is currently limited. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A computerized search was conducted in the Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library databases, and Clinicaltrials to retrieve studies published from August 1987 to June 2023...
April 3, 2024: International Journal of Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536998/isoniazid-use-effectiveness-and-safety-for-treatment-of-latent-tuberculosis-infection-a-systematic-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bárbara Manuella Cardoso Sodré-Alves, Melina Mafra Toledo, Ivan Ricardo Zimmermann, Wildo Navegantes de Araújo, Noemia Urruth Leão Tavares
BACKGROUND: The treatment strategy for latent tuberculosis infection is to reduce the number of tuberculosis cases and consequently reduce the transmission of pathogenic bacteria. This study aimed to determine the safety, effectiveness, and adherence of isoniazid use for latent tuberculosis infection treatment. METHODS: To identify studies on isoniazid use for latent tuberculosis infection, five electronic databases were searched. The methods and results are presented in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines...
2024: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536982/lung-cancer-screening-in-brazil-recommendations-from-the-brazilian-society-of-thoracic-surgery-brazilian-thoracic-association-and-brazilian-college-of-radiology-and-diagnostic-imaging
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Luiz Fernando Ferreira Pereira, Ricardo Sales Dos Santos, Daniel Oliveira Bonomi, Juliana Franceschini, Ilka Lopes Santoro, André Miotto, Thiago Lins Fagundes de Sousa, Rodrigo Caruso Chate, Bruno Hochhegger, Artur Gomes Neto, Airton Schneider, César Augusto de Araújo Neto, Dante Luiz Escuissato, Gustavo Faibischew Prado, Luciana Costa-Silva, Mauro Musa Zamboni, Mario Claudio Ghefter, Paulo César Rodrigues Pinto Corrêa, Pedro Paulo Teixeira E Silva Torres, Ricardo Kalaf Mussi, Valdair Francisco Muglia, Irma de Godoy, Wanderley Marques Bernardo
Although lung cancer (LC) is one of the most common and lethal tumors, only 15% of patients are diagnosed at an early stage. Smoking is still responsible for more than 85% of cases. Lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose CT (LDCT) reduces LC-related mortality by 20%, and that reduction reaches 38% when LCS by LDCT is combined with smoking cessation. In the last decade, a number of countries have adopted population-based LCS as a public health recommendation. Albeit still incipient, discussion on this topic in Brazil is becoming increasingly broad and necessary...
2024: Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia: Publicaça̋o Oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536829/the-effects-of-gases-from-food-waste-on-human-health-a-systematic-review
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Paulina Rudziak, Evans Batung, Isaac Luginaah
Food waste is a routine and increasingly growing global concern that has drawn significant attention from policymakers, climate change activists and health practitioners. Amid the plurality of discourses on food waste-health linkages, however, the health risks from food waste induced emissions have remained under explored. This lack of evidence is partly because of the lack of complete understanding of the effects of food waste emissions from household food waste on human health either directly through physiological mechanisms or indirectly through environmental exposure effects...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536828/health-professionals-experience-on-district-health-information-system-dhis2-and-its-utilization-at-local-levels-in-gandaki-province-nepal-a-qualitative-study
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Prakash Raj Bhatt, Rabindra Bhandari, Shiksha Adhikari, Nand Ram Gahatraj
DHIS2 is a web-based platform primarily used in developing countries, ensuring reliable data and aiding decentralized decision-making. The Ministry of Health and Population has greatly emphasized using DHIS2 for data entry and reporting. However, studies regarding health workers' experiences on DHIS2 and the utilization of data at the local level remain limited. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the usage and practical experience of DHIS2 at the local levels of Gandaki province, Nepal. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted in the Gandaki province from February to August 2023...
2024: PLOS Glob Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536775/inflammatory-biomarker-based-clinical-practice-in-patients-with-pneumonia-a-systematic-review-of-randomized-controlled-trials
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Dimitrios Dimitropoulos, Michalis Karmpadakis, Themistoklis Paraskevas, Christos Michailides, Maria Lagadinou, Christina Platanaki, Charalampos Pierrakos, Dimitrios Velissaris
UNLABELLED: Objectives: Biomarker-based clinical practice is currently gaining ground and increasingly affects decision making. A variety of biomarkers have been studied through the years and some of them have already an established role in modern medicine, such as procalcitonin (PCT) which has been proposed to reduce antibiotic exposure. We purposed to systematically review all biomarkers examined for guiding the clinical practice in patients with pneumonia. METHODS: A systematic review on PubMed was performed on April 2023 by two independent researchers using the PRISMA guidelines...
March 27, 2024: Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536707/yoga-based-interventions-in-low-income-populations-a-scoping-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Megha V Nagaswami, Robert B Saper, Chris C Streeter, Lisa Uebelacker, Grace Ding, Anika Dalvie, Richard Norton, David Mischoulon, Maren B Nyer
Introduction: The popularity of yoga has surged in recent years; however, yoga practitioners have remained a largely homogenous population. Research reflects that most practitioners are of a higher socioeconomic status. There are access barriers to yoga for lower income individuals, likely due to factors such as financial constraints and logistical challenges. The primary goal of this review was to synthesize literature on yoga research among low-income populations and better understand the feasibility and acceptability of such interventions...
March 27, 2024: J Integr Complement Med
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536589/inattentional-blindness-in-medicine
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REVIEW
Connor M Hults, Yifan Ding, Geneva G Xie, Rishi Raja, William Johnson, Alexis Lee, Daniel J Simons
People often fail to notice unexpected stimuli when their attention is directed elsewhere. Most studies of this "inattentional blindness" have been conducted using laboratory tasks with little connection to real-world performance. Medical case reports document examples of missed findings in radiographs and CT images, unintentionally retained guidewires following surgery, and additional conditions being overlooked after making initial diagnoses. These cases suggest that inattentional blindness might contribute to medical errors, but relatively few studies have directly examined inattentional blindness in realistic medical contexts...
March 27, 2024: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536530/the-paradox-of-mri-for-breast-cancer-screening-high-risk-and-dense-breasts-available-evidence-and-current-practice
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Francesco Sardanelli, Veronica Magni, Gabriele Rossini, Fleur Kilburn-Toppin, Nuala A Healy, Fiona J Gilbert
In the mid-1990s, the identification of BRCA1/2 genes for breast cancer susceptibility led to testing breast MRI accuracy in screening women at increased risk. From 2000 onwards, ten intraindividual comparative studies showed the marked superiority of MRI: the sensitivity ranged 25-58% for mammography, 33-52% for ultrasound, 48-67% for mammography plus ultrasound, and 71-100% for MRI; specificity 93-100%, 91-98%, 89-98%, and 81-98%, respectively. Based on the available evidence, in 2006-2007, the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence and the American Cancer Society recommended MRI screening of high-risk women, followed by other international guidelines...
March 27, 2024: Insights Into Imaging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536523/suitability-of-reduced-dose-glucocorticoids-therapy-regimen-for-antibody-associated-vasculitis-patients-with-tb-a-retrospective-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rui Wen, Jingni Xiao, Ning Ding, Yong Zhong, Qiong Yuan, Jiali Li, Qi Wang, Hebin Xie, Jiao Qin
INTENTION: Immunosuppressive therapy is the major treatment approach for patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV). Due to impaired cellular immunological function and the use of glucocorticoids and immunosuppressants, AAV patients are predisposed to opportunistic infections, including tuberculosis (TB). This retrospective study aims to analyze the clinical characteristics of patients with AAV and TB and explore suitable glucocorticoid regimens for them...
March 27, 2024: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536499/incidence-of-heterotopic-ossification-following-total-hip-arthroplasty-by-approach-a-systematic-review
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Rex Herzberg, Olivia C Tracey, Shahriar Tahvilian, Nayeem Baksh, Bashir Zikria, Qais Naziri
BACKGROUND: Heterotopic ossification (HO) formation has been increasingly recognized as a complication of major orthopedic surgeries, particularly total hip arthroplasty (THA). Though, the overall incidence of HO following THA has been well-documented, it is often not reported by severity or by surgical approach. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES: (1) What are the demographics of patients with HO? (2) What is the severity of HO following THA using the Brooker classification? (3) What is the incidence and class of HO following different THA approaches (anterior, posterior, posterolateral, anterolateral, superior, lateral, trans-gluteal)? (4) What are the number and training level of surgeons who performed each procedure? METHODS: The PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases were queried, and PRISMA guidelines were followed...
March 27, 2024: European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology: Orthopédie Traumatologie
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536450/surgical-management-of-chiari-ii-malformation-a-systematic-review-of-literature
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Rafael C C Vencio, Adriano M Lino-Filho, Renata C F Bonfim, Nayara M Pereira, Cilmária L Franco, Paulo Ronaldo J Ribeiro, Bárbara A Morais
PURPOSE: Chiari II malformation (CM-II) is a congenital malformation of the posterior fossa associated with myelomeningocele. Of the symptomatic patients, 10-33% require surgical treatment. To this date, there is not a consensus about the best surgical technique, and whether to do duroplasty. METHODS: A literature search of the PubMed database and crossed references was performed, per PRISMA guidelines. Data regarding demographic features, extent of cervicomedullary deformity, clinical presentation, surgical techniques, and clinical outcomes were extracted...
March 27, 2024: Child's Nervous System: ChNS: Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536448/arterial-spin-labelling-magnetic-resonance-imaging-and-perfusion-patterns-in-neurocognitive-and-other-mental-disorders-a-systematic-review
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Rita Ferreira, António J Bastos-Leite
We reviewed 33 original research studies assessing brain perfusion, using consensus guidelines from a "white paper" issued by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Perfusion Study Group and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action BM1103 ("Arterial Spin Labelling Initiative in Dementia"; https://www.cost.eu/actions/BM1103/ ). The studies were published between 2011 and 2023 and included participants with subjective cognitive decline plus; neurocognitive disorders, including mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and vascular cognitive impairment (VCI); as well as schizophrenia spectrum disorders, bipolar and major depressive disorders, autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, panic disorder and alcohol use disorder...
March 27, 2024: Neuroradiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536400/guidelines-in-practice-manual-high-level-disinfection
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jennifer Speth
There are several steps involved when performing high-level disinfection (HLD) of semicritical devices. The recently updated AORN "Guideline for manual high-level disinfection" provides perioperative nurses with evidence-based best practices for performing safe and effective HLD of reusable semicritical items. The guideline also addresses preventing injury to patients and health care workers associated with the handling of high-level disinfectants. This article provides an overview of the guideline and discusses recommendations for selection of a processing method, sterile processing areas, preparation of items for HLD, preparation of high-level disinfectants, manual HLD, drying and storage of items after HLD, and processing records...
April 2024: AORN Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536223/assessment-of-patient-safety-in-a-low-resource-health-care-system-proposal-for-a-multimethod-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ghazal Haque, Fozia Asif, Fasih Ali Ahmed, Farwa Ayub, Sabih Ul Hassan Syed, Nousheen Akber Pradhan, Malika Hameed, Muhammad Muneeb Ullah Siddiqui, Shafaq Mahmood, Tahani Zaidi, Sameen Siddiqi, Asad Latif
BACKGROUND: The high prevalence of adverse events (AEs) globally in health care delivery has led to the establishment of many guidelines to enhance patient safety. However, patient safety is a relatively nascent concept in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where health systems are already overburdened and underresourced. This is why it is imperative to study the nuances of patient safety from a local perspective to advocate for the judicious use of scarce public health resources...
March 27, 2024: JMIR Research Protocols
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536202/venous-disorders-as-an-occupational-disease-a-systematic-review-on-epidemiology-pathophysiology-and-modification-strategies
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REVIEW
Tobias Hirsch, Uwe Wahl, Eberhard Rabe
<b/> Background: Forced postures are common in the workplace. Work in the primary economic sector is characterised by a high degree of physical activity and movement; however, activities in the secondary and tertiary sectors commonly require workers to stand or sit. An expansion of the tertiary sector in recent decades has meant that people in industrialised and emerging economies primarily sit or stand at work. The aim of the systematic review was to identify occupational factors relating to the presence of chronic venous disease (CVD), to place these in the context of developments in the workplace, and to determine whether measures are in place to prevent CVD...
March 27, 2024: VASA. Zeitschrift Für Gefässkrankheiten
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536167/risk-assessment-and-prevention-of-falls-in-older-community-dwelling-adults-a-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cathleen S Colón-Emeric, Cara L McDermott, Deborah S Lee, Sarah D Berry
IMPORTANCE: Falls are reported by more than 14 million US adults aged 65 years or older annually and can result in substantial morbidity, mortality, and health care expenditures. OBSERVATIONS: Falls result from age-related physiologic changes compounded by multiple intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors. Major modifiable risk factors among community-dwelling older adults include gait and balance disorders, orthostatic hypotension, sensory impairment, medications, and environmental hazards...
March 27, 2024: JAMA
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535712/breastfeeding-practices-for-covid-19-infected-mothers-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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REVIEW
Maria Eleni Boukoura, Maria Dagla, Kleanthi Gourounti, Alexandra Stavroula Nieri, Chrysoula Taskou, Eleni Tsoukala, Antigoni Sarantaki
(1) Background: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increasing number of women giving birth while also grappling with SARS-CoV-2. The objective of this review is to examine the possibility of transmission of the virus from mother to infant through breastfeeding, skin-to-skin contact, and rooming-in and to explore methods for managing COVID-19-positive mother-infant dyads. (2) Methods: A comprehensive search strategy was employed that covered pertinent studies from the Cochrane Library, PubMed Central, and Scopus databases...
February 27, 2024: Nursing Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535261/surface-treatment-of-dental-mini-sized-implants-and-screws-a-systematic-review-with-meta-analysis
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REVIEW
Ana Luísa Figueiredo, Raquel Travassos, Catarina Nunes, Madalena Prata Ribeiro, Mariana Santos, Flavia Iaculli, Anabela Baptista Paula, Carlos Miguel Marto, Francisco Caramelo, Inês Francisco, Francisco Vale
Miniscrews are devices that allow for absolute skeletal anchorage. However, their use has a higher failure rate (10-30%) than dental implants (10%). To overcome these flaws, chemical and/or mechanical treatment of the surface of miniscrews has been suggested. There is no consensus in the current literature about which of these methods is the gold standard; thus, our objective was to carry out a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature on surface treatments of miniscrews. The review protocol was registered (PROSPERO CRD42023408011) and is in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines...
March 10, 2024: Journal of Functional Biomaterials
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