A battle of surgical strategies: Clinically enlarged lateral lymph nodes in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer; extended mesorectal excision (e-TME) versus traditional surgery (TME-alone) a meta-analysis.

Background: The infiltration of lateral lymph nodes (LLN) plays a crucial role in the staging and treatment of individuals with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). This meta-analysis aimed to compare the efficacy of extended mesorectal excision (eTME) versus traditional mesorectal excision (TME-alone) in patients with clinically enlarged (LLN) concomitant neoadjuvant chemoradiation.

Methods: This study is registered with PROSPERO (CRD42023457805).

The brain drain: why medical students and young physicians want to leave Egypt.

Background: Egypt has a shortage of physicians despite thousands of medical students graduating annually.

Aims: This study aimed to explore the reasons for Egyptian medical students and young physicians wanting to emigrate.

Methods: This cross-sectional study, conducted from February to April 2019, included 711 fifth- and sixth-year medical students and 174 residents from two medical faculties in Egypt, Tanta and Kafrelshiekh.

Effect of infection control training course on knowledge and practices of medical interns in a large academic hospital in Egypt: an intervention study.

Health care-associated infections are reported among the top causes of hospital deaths worldwide. Their prevention is a first priority for patient safety in acute care hospitals. Education and training is recommended as a core component for effective infection prevention and control programs.

Work environment characteristics as determinants of work to family conflict among working females, Egypt.

Background: Positive work environment is the corner stone for control and relief of work to family conflict (WFC).

Objectives: To determine the prevalence work-family spillovers and to study the relations between them and work environment characteristics among full-time female employees at Tanta University Medical Campus.

Participants And Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried among female employees working in the five faculties that are present at Tanta University Medical Campus.

Digital eye strain: prevalence and associated factors among information technology professionals, Egypt.

Digital eye strain (DES) is a growing occupational and public health problem and one of the most frequent reasons for seeking medical care. The objectives of this study are to identify the prevalence and to study some associated personal, ergonomic, and environmental factors of DES among information technology (IT) professionals at Tanta University, Egypt. An interview questionnaire was used to collect data related to socio-demographic, job, ergonomic and environmental characteristics.

Assessment of respiratory health and environmental safety measures in phosphate fertilizer industry in the middle region of the Nile Delta, Egypt.

Phosphate fertilizer industry is one of the most environmental polluting industries in Egypt. To identity the prevalence of abnormal ventilatory functions and to assess environmental safety measures in phosphate fertilizer industry in the middle region of the Nile Delta, Egypt. The study included 180 exposed male workers in phosphate fertilizer factory at Kafr El-Zayat City.

Sexual harassment against nursing staff in Tanta University Hospitals, Egypt.

Background: Sexual harassment against nurses is a major workplace problem causing adverse psychological effects and may affect the occupational performance of the nurses. This study aimed to assess the magnitude of this problem, and its characteristics and consequences among the nursing staff in Tanta University Hospitals, Gharbeia Governorate, Egypt.

Participants And Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on 430 nurses at Tanta University Hospitals using a semistructured, self-administered questionnaire to collect the data concerning the exposure and characteristics of harassment situations.