Trends in Research about COVID-19 Vaccine Documented through Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis.

Due to COVID-19, people's lives have changed greatly. In accordance with former experience, an efficacious vaccine is the most effective way to curb the pandemic; thus, many researchers have published related publications in the short term. Hence, this study aims at using bibliometric analysis and visualization to document research trends regarding COVID-19 vaccines, and offer some directions and suggestions for future research.

Chitosan promotes aquaporin formation and inhibits mucociliary differentiation of nasal epithelial cells through increased TGF-β1 production.

Although endoscopic sinus surgery is the mainstay surgical treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis, over 15% of patients require a repeat operation wherein postoperative adhesion formation is one of the main causes of failure. Several recently proposed chitosan-based biomaterials promote mucosal healing, reduce postoperative adhesion formation and restore mucociliary function of sinonasal mucosa. However, the effects of chitosan on cellular morphology, re-epithelization, and mucociliary differentiation of nasal epithelial cells (NECs) during the wound healing process have not been thoroughly investigated.

A study of patient satisfaction after cataract surgery with implantation of different types of intraocular lenses.

Background: The implementation of capitated payment has driven medical institutions through developing balance billing for medical services. By exploring the patients' decision-making factors on different self-pay items, a reference for the pricing and sales strategy for the related products can be formed. The major purposes of this study were to analyze the determinants of preoperative selection and postoperative satisfaction with implantation of different types of intraocular lenses in cataract surgery.

Application of data mining on the development of a disease distribution map of screened community residents of Taipei county in Taiwan.

This study used data mining techniques to investigate disease forms in various administrative areas and to analyze the differences among various administrative areas in order to further draw up a disease distribution map. It is hoped that may help formulate future public health strategies and to allocate medical resources more appropriately. The major disease forms for residents under the age of 60 were hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia.

The age correlation of the carotid intima-media thickness according to sex and side in asymptomatic subjects.

Purpose: Reports concerning carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and linear correlation to age in healthy subjects did not distinguish the side and sex of the subjects. The purpose of this investigation attempts to clarify these issues.

Methods: 2402 asymptomatic persons, age 35-64, are separated into men's left (Lt) and right (Rt) and women's Lt and Rt carotid arteries for difference of CIMT between them and analysis of CIMT vs.

Doctor pharmaceutical utilization behaviour changed by the global budget programme strategies on hypertensive outpatient prescription.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: This study was to examine changes in doctor pharmaceutical utilization behaviour in response to Taiwan's newly implemented National Health Insurance individual hospital global budget (GB) programme and the changes in health care costs and prescription trends for hypertensive (HT) patients.

Method: We analysed hospital outpatient prescription utilization with a pre-post individual hospital GB group and comparison group (the hospitals who did not join the programme) to evaluate the impact of GB strategies on hypertensive expenditure. Descriptive analyses were performed based on the average daily medication expenditure for each prescription, and average number of items per prescription.