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Prevalence and associated factors of optimal dietary practices during pregnancy in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objectives Maternal dietary practices are vital for improving maternal and neonatal outcomes. However, comprehensive information about optimal dietary practices among pregnant women is limited in ...
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Discharge outcomes and associated patient-level factors in Ontario’s remote care monitoring programme: a population-based survival analysis

Objectives This study examined discharge outcomes and their predictors among patients enrolled in remote patient monitoring (RPM) support in Ontario, Canada. Design A 6-month competing risk survival ...
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Comprehensive Cancer Networks in the Netherlands: how do they affect quality and costs of care for colon or pancreatic cancer? A retrospective cohort study

Objective Concentration of care and collaborations between hospitals increasingly reorganise oncological care into Comprehensive Cancer Networks (CCNs), aiming to improve care outcomes and reduce ...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of low bone mass prevention in Chinese older men with excessive alcohol consumption: a modelling study

Objective China has a high disease burden of low bone mass, and elderly men with excessive alcohol consumption may be underdiagnosed and undertreated given the adverse effects on skeletal health. This ...
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Association of novel dietary and lifestyle inflammation scores with the incidence of diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease among adults: results from a large US ...

Objectives To examine the associations between the inflammatory potentials of diet and lifestyle, as measured by the Dietary Inflammation Score (DIS) and Lifestyle Inflammation Score (LIS), with the ...
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Prognostic factors for mortality in patients infected with New World hantaviruses: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction One of the challenges in managing patients with hantavirus infection is accurately identifying individuals who are at risk of developing severe disease. Prompt identification of these ...
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Effects of small airtime rewards linked to unsolicited text messages on uptake of a tuberculosis self-screening app in South Africa: a randomised trial

Objectives The objective of this study was to test whether an airtime reward increased tuberculosis (TB) Check screening uptake. This served as a feasibility study for the planned Phase 2, which aimed ...
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Rates of self-harm presenting to general hospitals: a comparison of data from the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England and Hospital Episode Statistics

1 Centre for Mental Health and Safety, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Objective Rates of hospital presentation for self-harm in England were compared using different national and local ...
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The increased risks of death and extra lengths of hospital and ICU stay from hospital-acquired bloodstream infections: a case–control study

Objectives Hospital-acquired bloodstream infections are known to increase the risk of death and prolong hospital stay, but precise estimates of these two important outcomes from well-designed studies ...
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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide not meeting due care criteria in the Netherlands: a qualitative review of review committee judgements

Objectives To assess how Dutch regional euthanasia review committees (RTE) apply the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) due care criteria in cases where the criteria are judged not to ...
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Dietary sodium-to-potassium ratio as a risk factor for stroke, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in Japan: the NIPPON DATA80 cohort study

4 Center for Epidemiologic Research in Asia, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Otsu, Japan Objectives To evaluate the impact of dietary sodium and potassium (Na–K) ratio on mortality from ...