Introduction: We sought to assess the variations in practice metrics and billing practices among US Medical Graduates (USMGs) and International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in surgical oncology who serve a fee-for-service population.
Methods: Medicaid Services Medicare fee-for-service provider utilization and payment files were used to obtain publicly available data between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021. Comparisons were conducted using the t-test for parametric variables and Wilcoxon rank-sum for nonparametric variables.
J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad
November 2024
Background: Palate, a midface bone, shapes the face and supports buttresses. Palatine process of maxilla and horizontal plate of palatine bone constitute it. Palatal bone is thicker anteriorly and laterally than posteriorly and centrally.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExtracting knowledge from hybrid data, comprising both categorical and numerical data, poses significant challenges due to the inherent difficulty in preserving information and practical meanings during the conversion process. To address this challenge, hybrid data processing methods, combining complementary rough sets, have emerged as a promising approach for handling uncertainty. However, selecting an appropriate model and effectively utilizing it in data mining requires a thorough qualitative and quantitative comparison of existing hybrid data processing models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a surgical procedure that restores blood flow to heart muscle by bypassing the blocked or narrowed coronary arteries. On the other hand, subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) is characterized by an elevated serum concentration of thyroid stimulating hormone with normal levels of serum free thyroxine. With limited research into the impact of SCH on postoperative CABG outcomes, this systematic review and meta-analysis was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Cardiol
October 2023
A document's keywords provide high-level descriptions of the content that summarize the document's central themes, concepts, ideas, or arguments. These descriptive phrases make it easier for algorithms to find relevant information quickly and efficiently. It plays a vital role in document processing, such as indexing, classification, clustering, and summarization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReadability is an active field of research in the late nineteenth century and vigorously persuaded to date. The recent boom in data-driven machine learning has created a viable path forward for readability classification and ranking. The evaluation of text readability is a time-honoured issue with even more relevance in today's information-rich world.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvery year, around 28,100 journals publish 2.5 million research publications. Search engines, digital libraries, and citation indexes are used extensively to search these publications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
September 2021
: In patients with heart failure (HF), anxiety and depression are commonly observed and confer an adverse outcome. The first-in-class member of angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor (ARNI), sacubitril/valsartan has been demonstrated to improve functional class and decrease mortality in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and reduce the readmission of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). However, its effects on anxiety and depression levels remain unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Widespread acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine will be the next important step in fighting the novel coronavirus disease. Though the Pakistani government has successfully implemented robust policies to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic; however, studies assessing public intention to get COVID-19 vaccination (IGCV) are limited. The aim of this study is to deal with this literature gap and has also expanded the conceptual framework of planned behaviour theory.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The disruption of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) causes more adverse events after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, incidence and predictors of DAPT non-compliance are unknown in chronic coronary syndrome patients when compared between planned and ad hoc PCI.
Methods: This investigation was aimed to assess the incidence, predictors, outcomes, and primary mode of non-compliance of DAPT in patients with chronic coronary syndrome undergoing their first PCI.
From the past half of a century, identification of the relevant documents is deemed an active area of research due to the rapid increase of data on the web. The traditional models to retrieve relevant documents are based on bibliographic information such as Bibliographic coupling, Co-citations, and Direct citations. However, in the recent past, the scientific community has started to employ textual features to improve existing models' accuracy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrequently used items mining is a significant subject of data mining studies. In the last ten years, due to innovative development, the quantity of data has grown exponentially. For frequent Itemset (FIs) mining applications, it imposes new challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Cancer
December 2020
Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in India among women. This study was conducted to describe the demographic, clinical, histopathological, endocrinological and survival pattern of breast cancer patients in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Methods: The study was done in Medical Oncology department of GB pant hospital.
In this note, we give fixed point results in fractal generation (Julia sets and Mandelbrot sets) by using Noor iteration scheme with s-convexity. Researchers have already presented fixed point results in Mann and Ishikawa orbits that are examples of one-step and two-step feedback processes respectively. In this paper we present fixed point results in Noor orbit, which is a three-step iterative procedure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrimary renal lymphoma is a rare entity representing less than 1% of lesions in the kidney. We present the case of a 42-year-old male who was evaluated for pain and a mass in the abdomen. The computed tomogram of the abdomen showed a large lobulated homogeneously enhancing mass lesion of about 14×12×18 cm, involving the whole of the left kidney and encasing the left renal vessels and ureter.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Clinical studies have shown that neuromodulation therapies, such as spinal cord stimulation (SCS) and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), reduce symptoms of chronic neuropathic and visceral pain. The neural mechanisms underlying SCS and TENS therapy are poorly understood. The present study was designed to compare the effects of SCS and TENS on spinal neuronal responses to noxious stimuli applied to the heart and esophagus.
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