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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38546766/-i-think-we-just-do-it-once-and-leave-it-%C3%A2-the-collection-and-utility-of-family-health-history-in-general-practice-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-a-qualitative-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
R Jefferies, P Wilcox, K Paringatai, M Stubbe, R Grainger, A Dowell, S K Filoche
Introduction The value of family health history as a means to understanding health risk has been long known. Its value in a precision medicine context is also now becoming apparent. General practitioners (GPs) are considered to play a key role in the collection, and investigation, of family health history, but it remains widely reported as being both poorly and infrequently undertaken. Little is known about this practice in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). Aim This study aimed to explore current practices in relation to the ascertainment of family health history, with a view towards precision medicine...
March 2024: Journal of Primary Health Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38544127/optilod-optimal-beacon-placement-for-high-accuracy-indoor-localization-of-drones
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Alireza Famili, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang, Jung-Min Jerry Park
For many applications, drones are required to operate entirely or partially autonomously. In order to fly completely or partially on their own, drones need to access location services for navigation commands. While using the Global Positioning System (GPS) is an obvious choice, GPS is not always available, can be spoofed or jammed, and is highly error-prone for indoor and underground environments. The ranging method using beacons is one of the most popular methods for localization, especially for indoor environments...
March 14, 2024: Sensors
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38544030/comparative-study-of-vibration-response-in-steel-and-braided-carbon-fiber-bicycle-handlebars-a-numerical-experimental-approach-with-various-sensors
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Javier Abad, Luis Castejon, Jesus Cuartero, Roberto Palacin
The comfort and safety of a cyclist are directly influenced by the vibrational behavior of the handlebar. Hence, the objective of this article is to comparatively assess the vibrational characteristics of two bicycle handlebars: one made of steel and the other made of braided composite material. The transmissibility function represents the relationship between the excitation applied to both handlebars through their stems and the corresponding response in the handle area, which was experimentally obtained by applying a random vibrating signal (constant amplitude of 0...
March 8, 2024: Sensors
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38539755/a-kalman-filtering-algorithm-for-measurement-interruption-based-on-polynomial-interpolation-and-taylor-expansion
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Jianhua Cheng, Zili Wang, Bing Qi, He Wang
Combined SINS/GPS navigation systems have been widely used. However, when the traditional combined SINS/GPS navigation system travels between tall buildings, in the shade of trees, or through tunnels, the GPS encounters frequent signal blocking, which leads to the interruption of GPS signals, and as a result, the combined SINS/GPS-based navigation method degenerates into a pure inertial guidance system, which will lead to the accumulation of navigation errors. In this paper, an adaptive Kalman filtering algorithm based on polynomial fitting and a Taylor expansion is proposed...
March 10, 2024: Entropy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38539117/methodological-insights-into-chatgpt-s-screening-performance-in-systematic-reviews
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Mahbod Issaiy, Hossein Ghanaati, Shahriar Kolahi, Madjid Shakiba, Amir Hossein Jalali, Diana Zarei, Sina Kazemian, Mahsa Alborzi Avanaki, Kavous Firouznia
BACKGROUND: The screening process for systematic reviews and meta-analyses in medical research is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task. While machine learning and deep learning have been applied to facilitate this process, these methods often require training data and user annotation. This study aims to assess the efficacy of ChatGPT, a large language model based on the Generative Pretrained Transformers (GPT) architecture, in automating the screening process for systematic reviews in radiology without the need for training data...
March 27, 2024: BMC Medical Research Methodology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38539092/accuracy-of-urgency-allocation-in-patients-with-shortness-of-breath-calling-out-of-hours-primary-care-a-cross-sectional-study
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Michelle Spek, Roderick P Venekamp, Esther de Groot, Geert-Jan Geersing, Daphne C A Erkelens, Maarten van Smeden, Anna S M Dobbe, Mathé Delissen, Frans H Rutten, Dorien L Zwart
BACKGROUND: In out-of-hours primary care (OHS-PC), semi-automatic decision support tools are often used during telephone triage. In the Netherlands, the Netherlands Triage Standard (NTS) is used. The NTS is mainly expert-based and evidence on the diagnostic accuracy of the NTS' urgency allocation against clinically relevant outcomes for patients calling with shortness of breath (SOB) is lacking. METHODS: We included data from adults (≥18 years) who contacted two large Dutch OHS-PC centres for SOB between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 and whose follow-up data about final diagnosis could be retrieved from their own general practitioner (GP)...
March 27, 2024: BMC Prim Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38539027/population-longitudinal-analysis-of-gait-profile-score-and-north-star-ambulatory-assessment-in-children-with-duchenne-muscular-dystrophy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiexin Deng, Fangli Liu, Zhifen Feng, Zhigang Liu
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare X-linked recessive disorder characterized by loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding dystrophin. These mutations lead to progressive functional deterioration including muscle weakness, respiratory insufficiency, and musculoskeletal deformities. Three-dimensional gait analysis (3DGA) has been used as a tool to analyze gait pathology through the quantification of altered joint kinematics, kinetics, and muscle activity patterns. Among 3DGA indices, the Gait Profile Score (GPS), has been used as a sensitive overall measure to detect clinically relevant changes in gait patterns in children with DMD...
March 27, 2024: CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38538063/is-it-ethically-permissible-for-gps-to-promote-non-directed-altruistic-kidney-donation-to-healthy-adults
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Richard Armitage
Doctors hold coexisting ethical duties to avoid causing deliberate harm to their patients (non-maleficence), to act in patients' best interests (beneficence), to respect patients' right to self-determination (autonomy) and to ensure that costs and benefits are fairly distributed among patients (justice). In the context of non-directed altruistic kidney donations (NDAKD), doctors' duties of autonomy and justice are in tension with those of non-maleficence and beneficence. This article examines these competing duties across three scenarios in which general practitioners (GPs) could promote NDAKD to healthy adults...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Medical Ethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38537554/prevalence-and-influencing-factors-of-kinesiophobia-in-older-patients-with-primary-osteoporosis-a-cross-sectional-survey
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Fang Fei Lyu, Hua Ying, Min Zhang, Li Rong Xia, Qian Liu, Li Cai
AIM: To explore the prevalence of kinesiophobia in older patients with primary osteoporosis and analyze its influencing factors. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 221 older patients with primary osteoporosis in a general hospital in Kunming, China. Data were collected through a sociodemographic-clinical questionnaire, Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia-11 (TSK-11), Global Pain Scale (GPS), Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire-Short Form (FFMQ-SF), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)...
March 26, 2024: Geriatric Nursing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38537141/first-record-of-diplodia-gallae-causing-branch-cankers-on-declining-scarlet-oak-quercus-coccinea-in-virginia
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Devin Bily, Tashi Gyatso, Matt Wolanski, Amanda Conrad, Connor Goolsby, Lori A Chamberlin, Katlin M DeWitt
Members of Botryosphaeria s.l. have an extensive history as cankering pathogens of stressed and declining oak trees in the eastern United States (Ferreira et al. 2021). The host range, distribution, and virulence among two closely related species, Diplodia corticola and D. gallae, remains unclear (Brazee et al. 2023). On 15 August 2023, a survey was conducted at a declining natural hardwood site in Shenandoah County, Virginia (GPS coordinates 38.922089, -78.606125). One mature Quercus coccinea tree that displayed scorched leaf margins and branch dieback was felled and a cankered branch from the crown was sampled (Fig...
March 27, 2024: Plant Disease
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38533728/the-multifaceted-roles-of-gp-trainers-in-guiding-trainee-transition-to-portfolio-general-practice
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Waseem Jerjes
The journey of transitioning from a GP trainee to a portfolio GP is a complex and transformative process. This article explores the multi-dimensional roles that GP trainers play in guiding trainees through this key transition. This article, also, aims to challenge readers to consider how GP trainers can further enhance their role in minimising barriers and maximising opportunities for trainees, inviting contributions to the educational discussion on this topic.Serving as mentors, GP trainers navigate trainees through the particulars of general practice, ensuring they are equipped with both skills and resilience...
March 27, 2024: Education for Primary Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38532468/comparing-the-clinical-practice-and-prescribing-safety-of-locum-and-permanent-doctors-observational-study-of-primary-care-consultations-in-england
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Christos Grigoroglou, Kieran Walshe, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Jane Ferguson, Gemma Stringer, Darren M Ashcroft, Thomas Allen
BACKGROUND: Temporary doctors, known as locums, are a key component of the medical workforce in the NHS but evidence on differences in quality and safety between locum and permanent doctors is limited. We aimed to examine differences in the clinical practice, and prescribing safety for locum and permanent doctors working in primary care in England. METHODS: We accessed electronic health care records (EHRs) for 3.5 million patients from the CPRD GOLD database with linkage to Hospital Episode Statistics from 1st April 2010 to 31st March 2022...
March 27, 2024: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38532356/the-impact-of-communication-training-on-the-clinical-care-of-hypertension-in-general-practice-a-cluster-randomized-controlled-trial-in-china
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Chuan Zou, Lili Deng, Jianzhao Luo, Hua Dai, Yu Zhang, Ru Guo, Xiaolu Luo, Rong Yang, Haiqi Song, John Spicer, Qian Zhao, Xiaoyang Liao
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases with a low control rate globally. The effect of communication skills training contributing to hypertension control remains uncertain. The aim of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of an educational intervention based on the Calgary-Cambridge guide in improving hypertensive management. METHODS: A cluster randomized controlled trial enrolled 27 general practitioners (GPs) and 540 uncontrolled hypertensive patients attending 6 community health centers in Chengdu, China...
March 26, 2024: BMC Prim Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38531353/where-are-czech-adolescents-active-the-patterns-of-movement-and-transport-behavior-in-different-active-living-domains
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Michal Vorlíček, Tom Stewart, Jan Dygrýn, Lukáš Rubín, Josef Mitáš, Jaroslav Burian, Scott Duncan, Jasper Schipperijn, Michael Pratt
To understand the environmental determinants of physical activity (PA), precise spatial localization is crucial. This cross-sectional study focuses on the spatiotemporal distribution of PA among Czech adolescents (n = 171) using Global Positioning System loggers and accelerometers. The results showed that adolescents spent most of their time in sedentary behavior, with 57.2% and 58.5% of monitored time at home and school, respectively. The park and playground had the lowest proportion of sedentary behavior but also the lowest amount of moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA)...
March 26, 2024: Journal of Physical Activity & Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38530736/gaussian-process-gated-hierarchical-mixtures-of-experts
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Yuhao Liu, Marzieh Ajirak, Petar M Djuric
In this paper, we propose novel Gaussian process-gated hierarchical mixtures of experts (GPHMEs). Unlike other mixtures of experts with gating models linear in the input, our model employs gating functions built with Gaussian processes (GPs). These processes are based on random features that are non-linear functions of the inputs. Furthermore, the experts in our model are also constructed with GPs. The optimization of the GPHMEs is performed by variational inference. The proposed GPHMEs have several advantages...
March 26, 2024: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38530199/estimating-generalized-propensity-scores-with-survey-and-attrition-weighted-data
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Daniel F McCaffrey, Beth Ann Griffin, Michael Robbins, Yajnaseni Chakraborti, Donna L Coffman, Brian Vegetabile
Prior work in causal inference has shown that using survey sampling weights in the propensity score estimation stage and the outcome model stage for binary treatments can result in a more robust estimator of the effect of the binary treatment being analyzed. However, to date, extending this work to continuous treatments and exposures has not been explored nor has consideration been given for how to handle attrition weights in the propensity score model. Nonetheless, generalized propensity score (GPS) analyses are being used for estimating continuous treatment effects on outcomes when researchers have observational data, and those data sets often have survey or attrition weights that need to be accounted for in the analysis...
March 26, 2024: Statistics in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38529200/impact-of-saussurea-lappa-against-foodborne-parasite-trichinella-spiralis-experimental-infections-induced-variation-in-dna-damage-oxidative-stress-and-pcna-expression-in-rat-skeletal-muscles
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Areej Jameel M Alghabban, Lamiaa Bakr, Aya A Elbatawy, Afaf El Atrash, Ehab Tousson
Trichinellosis is a parasite zoonosis that is spread through ingesting raw or undercooked meat that contains the Trichinella spiralis ( T. spiralis ) infective larvae. It has three clinical phases: intestinal, migratory, and muscular. Kuth root, also known as Costus (Saussurea lappa) roots, is used in many traditional medical systems all over the world to treat a variety of illnesses, such as dyspepsia, diarrhoea, vomiting, and inflammation. Current study assessed the therapeutic Potential of costus roots extract (CRE) treatment on experimental trichinellosis induce changes in DNA damage, oxidative stress and Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) expression in muscle fibers in male rats...
April 2024: Toxicology Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38529083/laparoscopy-assisted-restorative-proctocolectomy-with-ileal-pouch-anal-anastomosis-in-middle-colic-artery-ligation-immediately-before-specimen-removal
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Keiji Matsuda, Yojiro Hashiguchi, Tamuro Hayama, Kurara Hayashi, Toshiya Miyata, Kentaro Asako, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Ryu Shimada, Kensuke Kaneko, Keijiro Nozawa, Hiroki Ochiai, Takatsugu Yamamoto
INTRODUCTION: Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) is the surgical procedure for ulcerative colitis (UC). Intestinal ischemia may occur if the main blood vessels are ligated at an early stage of this surgery. Considering that the blood flow in the large intestine can be maintained by preserving the middle colic artery, we have used a new IPAA method: ligating the middle colic artery immediately before removal of the specimens ("M-method"). Here, we evaluated the M-method's clinical outcomes...
2024: Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38528538/gentiopicroside-ameliorates-the-lipopolysaccharide-induced-inflammatory-response-and-hypertrophy-in-chondrocytes
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Longfei Li, Qianqian Fan, Yixuan Zhao, Qian Zhang, Gaofeng Qin, Chen Li, Wei Li
PURPOSE: This study aimed to evaluate the protective effects of gentiopicroside against lipopolysaccharide-induced chondrocyte inflammation. METHODS: SW 1353 chondrosarcoma cells were stimulated with LPS (5 μg/ml) for 24 h and treated with different concentrations of gentiopicroside (GPS) for 24 h. The toxic effects of GPS on chondrocytes were determined using a CCK-8 assay and EdU staining. Western blotting, qPCR, and immunofluorescence analysis were used to examine the protective effect of GPS against the inflammatory response in chondrocytes induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS)...
March 25, 2024: Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38527537/connectivity-at-the-human-wildlife-interface-starling-movements-relate-to-carriage-of-e-coli
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Alberto Sánchez-Cano, Cosme López-Calderón, Teresa Cardona Cabrera, Andy J Green, Ursula Höfle
Synanthropic bird species in human, poultry or livestock environments can increase the spread of pathogens and antibiotic-resistant bacteria between wild and domestic animals. We present the first telemetry-based spatial networks for a small songbird. We quantified landscape connectivity exerted by spotless starling movements, and aimed to determine if connectivity patterns were related to carriage of potential pathogens. We captured 28 starlings on a partridge farm in 2020 and tested them for Avian influenza virus, West Nile virus WNV, Avian orthoavulavirus 1, Coronavirus, Salmonella spp...
March 23, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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