Effects of multidisciplinary collaborative treatment in patients with chronic heart failure.

Objective: To evaluate the impact and prognosis of a multidisciplinary discharge preparation service model for patients with chronic heart failure.

Methods: A total of 100 patients with chronic heart failure who visited the Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital from January 2022 to September 2023 were included. The patients were divided into an experimental group, receiving a multidisciplinary discharge preparation service, and a control group, receiving conventional treatment.

Multifocality increases the risk of central compartment lymph node metastasis but is not related to the risk of recurrence and death in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Background: Multifocality is a distinctive feature of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC); however, the biological behavior of PTC and its optimal management strategy remain unclear. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical features and prognostic differences of multifocal papillary carcinoma and to guide the precise treatment of multifocal papillary carcinoma.

Methods: The medical records of 1,139 patients with PTC who had undergone total or hemi-thyroidectomy between April and October 2013 at the Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital were reviewed.

Explainable machine learning framework for cataracts recognition using visual features.

Cataract is the leading ocular disease of blindness and visual impairment globally. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved promising cataracts recognition performance based on anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) images; however, they have poor explanations, limiting their clinical applications. In contrast, visual features extracted from original AS-OCT images and their transform forms (e.

Time-resolved spectroscopy uncovers deprotonation-induced reconstruction in oxygen-evolution NiFe-based (oxy)hydroxides.

Transition-metal layered double hydroxides are widely utilized as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), undergoing dynamic transformation into active oxyhydroxides during electrochemical operation. Nonetheless, our understanding of the non-equilibrium structural changes that occur during this process remains limited. In this study, utilizing in situ energy-dispersive X-ray absorption spectroscopy and machine learning analysis, we reveal the occurrence of deprotonation and elucidate the role of incorporated iron in facilitating the transition from nickel-iron layered double hydroxide (NiFe LDH) into its active oxyhydroxide.

Factors Associated With Fear of Cancer Recurrence in Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Meta-analysis in Health Ecological Perspective.

Background: Fear of cancer recurrence is a major source of stress and unmet need for colorectal cancer patients.

Objective: This review aimed to identify factors influencing fear of cancer recurrence in colorectal cancer patients.

Methods: Multiple electronic databases were systematically searched for studies from inception to January 2024 using concepts "colorectal neoplasm," "fear," and "recurrence.