Publications by authors named "M Nikolaidou"

Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) disorder is one of the leading causes of peripartum maternal morbidity and mortality; its early identification during pregnancy is of utmost importance to ensure the optimal clinical outcome. The aim of the present study is to investigate the possible association of the presence and type/location of placenta previa on MRI with PAS and maternal peripartum outcome. One hundred eighty-nine pregnant women (mean age: 35 years; mean gestational age: 32 weeks) at high risk for PAS underwent a dedicated placental MRI.

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In this guide we provide instructions and recommendations about creating and running escape rooms for healthcare education. In recent years there has been a growing interest in adopting escape rooms as an educational tool to be included in healthcare curricula, and we attempt to explain why and how these tools are fit for the particularities of this type of education. We first describe the steps that a design team will have to follow to create an educational escape room from scratch, from core characteristics like target audience and learning goals to actual puzzle design and testing.

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Lifetime participation in sports is associated with improved components of physical conditioning. The main purpose was to cross-sectionally investigate postural balance and vertical jumping performance in athletes with different histories of sports participation and secondarily to examine the restriction of vision on balance ability. A final aim was to investigate possible associations between balance and jumping performance.

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The delivery of quality healthcare by medical doctors involves not only the clinical treatment of patients but also the ability to communicate effectively with them in order to establish a caring relationship. FOR21 project applies collaborative learning pedagogies and advanced learning technology to implement a patient-centered communication skills programme within the existing medical curricula of 6 medical institutions in Kazakhstan, Russian Federation and Uzbekistan.

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Considerable attention nowadays has been given to collaborative learning as a powerful way of learning, however, the ability to provide student-centered learning, meet student needs and provide them with the opportunity to learn, is a challenging task and has received significant research attention. CLUEDUP proposes an innovative educational protocol that integrates game-based learning with pedagogical approaches that matches students' needs and skills and promotes collaborative interactive and decision-based learning.

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