Role of vitamin D supplementation in modifying outcomes after surgery: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.

Background: There is increasing evidence to suggest vitamin D plays a role in immune and vascular function; hence, it may be of biological and clinical relevance for patients undergoing major surgery. With a greater number of randomised studies being conducted evaluating the impact of vitamin D supplementation on surgical patients, it is an opportune time to conduct further analysis of the impact of vitamin D on surgical outcomes.

Methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Trials Register were interrogated up to December 2023 to identify randomised controlled trials of vitamin D supplementation in surgery.

PRISMA: A novel approach for deriving probabilistic surrogate safety measures for risk evaluation.

Surrogate Safety Measures (SSMs) are used to express road safety in terms of the safety risk in traffic conflicts. Typically, SSMs rely on assumptions regarding the future evolution of traffic participant trajectories to generate a measure of risk, restricting their applicability to scenarios where these assumptions are valid. In response to this limitation, we present the novel Probabilistic RISk Measure derivAtion (PRISMA) method.

Clinical characteristics and an evaluation of predictors for a favourable outcome of Mycobacterium abscessus otomastoiditis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data.

Background: Otomastoiditis caused by Mycobacterium abscessus is rare, but its incidence has increased over the past decades and its optimal treatment remains unknown. This study aims to summarise the clinical and therapeutic features and find characteristics of patients with M. abscessus otomastoiditis associated with favourable treatment outcomes.

Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Real-time Symptom Assessment in Women With Endometriosis: Focus Group Study.

Background: Symptoms related to endometriosis have a significant impact on the quality of life, and symptoms often recur. The experience sampling method (ESM), a digital questioning method characterized by randomly repeated momentary assessments, has several advantages over traditionally used measurements, including the ability to assess the temporal relationship between variables such as physical, mental, and social factors.

Objective: The aim of this study is to develop an ESM tool for patients with endometriosis to accurately measure symptoms and their course over time, allowing for personalized treatment and adequate monitoring of treatment efficacy in individual patients.

Depression, Anxiety, and Correlating Factors in Endometriosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Endometriosis stage is not directly related to the burden of symptoms, and recurrence of symptoms occurs frequently. It is suggested that symptoms are associated with psychological distress, as in depression and anxiety disorders. Our aim was to explore the strength of the associations between endometriosis and depression or anxiety and to review correlating factors.