Enhancing patient outcomes through nursing care in laparoscopic common bile duct exploration; a randomized control trail.

Background: When compared to open surgery, laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LCBDE) is known to cause less discomfort and a faster recovery. This study examines the effect of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) strategy on LCBDE outcomes.

Methods: In March 2021 to May 2024, 400 patients with LCBDE participated in randomized research.

Patient safety value, safety attitude and safety competency among emergency nurses in China: A structural equation model analysis.

Aims: We aim to determine the levels of patient safety value, safety attitude and safety competency and to explore the associations among these variables in emergency nurses in China.

Background: Studies have focused on the individual characteristics of nurses as influencing factors of patient safety but not on the factors that may affect patient safety competency in the context of Chinese culture, such as safety value and safety attitude.

Method: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among emergency nurses in 22 hospitals.

Multi-class deep learning segmentation and automated measurements in periodontal sonograms of a porcine model.

Objectives: Ultrasound emerges as a complement to cone-beam computed tomography in dentistry, but struggles with artifacts like reverberation and shadowing. This study seeks to help novice users recognize soft tissue, bone, and crown of a dental sonogram, and automate soft tissue height (STH) measurement using deep learning.

Methods: In this retrospective study, 627 frames from 111 independent cine loops of mandibular and maxillary premolar and incisors collected from our porcine model ( = 8) were labeled by a reader.

Comprehensive peri-implant tissue evaluation with ultrasonography and cone-beam computed tomography: A pilot study.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to explore the feasibility of ultrasonography (US) for clinical imaging of peri-implant tissues.

Material And Methods: Patients with ≥1 implant, a cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scan, an US scan, and clinical photographs taken during the surgery were included. The crestal bone thickness (CBT) and facial bone level (FBL) were measured on both US and CBCT modalities, and direct FBL measurements were also made on clinical images.

Accelerometer Measurements Indicate That Arm Movements of Children With Cerebral Palsy Do Not Increase After Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT).

Importance: Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is a common treatment for children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). Although clinic-based assessments have demonstrated improvements in arm function after CIMT, whether these changes are translated and sustained outside of a clinic setting remains unclear.

Objective: Accelerometers were used to quantify arm movement for children with CP 1 wk before, during, and 4 wk or more after CIMT; measurements were compared with those from typically developing (TD) peers.

Feasibility of using acceleration-derived jerk to quantify bimanual arm use.

Background: Accelerometers have become common for evaluating the efficacy of rehabilitation for patients with neurologic disorders. For example, metrics like use ratio (UR) and magnitude ratio (MR) have been shown to differentiate movement patterns of children with cerebral palsy (CP) compared to typically-developing (TD) peers. However, these metrics are calculated from "activity counts" - a measure based on proprietary algorithms that approximate movement duration and intensity from raw accelerometer data.

Prevalence and Association of Pain Experiences, Medication Literacy, and Use of Medication among Children and Adolescents in Taiwan.

Objective: This study assessed the prevalence of children's and adolescents' pain experiences and use of medicine and examined the relationships between pain experiences, medication knowledge, literacy, and use of medicine.

Method: A probability-proportionate-to-size sampling method was used to systematically draw a random sample of schools. In 2014, a national representative sample of 2309 students from 35 primary schools (5th-6th grade), 2700 students from 30 middle schools, and 2013 students from 20 high schools completed the online survey.

Relationship Between Parental and Adolescent eHealth Literacy and Online Health Information Seeking in Taiwan.

This study examined the relationship between parental and adolescent eHealth literacy and its impact on online health information seeking. Data were obtained from 1,869 junior high school students and 1,365 parents in Taiwan in 2013. Multivariate analysis results showed that higher levels of parental Internet skill and eHealth literacy were associated with an increase in parental online health information seeking.

The relationship between parental mediation and Internet addiction among adolescents, and the association with cyberbullying and depression.

Objective: This study examined the relationships between parental mediation and Internet addiction, and the connections to cyberbullying, substance use, and depression among adolescents.

Method: The study involved 1808 junior high school students who completed a questionnaire in Taiwan in 2013.

Results: Multiple logistic regression analysis results showed that adolescents who perceived lower levels of parental attachment were more likely to experience Internet addiction, cyberbullying, smoking, and depression, while adolescents who reported higher levels of parental restrictive mediation were less likely to experience Internet addiction or to engage in cyberbullying.