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AJOG Glob Rep
February 2025
Department of Nutrition and Food Engineering, Daffodil International University, Savar, Bangladesh (Sarwer, Jahan, and Chowdhury).
Background: Women empowerment is a crucial issue that is less studied as a factor of contraceptive use among married women that helps to achieve sustainable development goals.
Objective: This study aimed to assess the relationship between women empowerment and contraceptive use.
Study Design: This cross-sectional study used 2017-2018 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data, which included 12,006 women (weighted) aged 15 to 49 years.
Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
Nantong Third People's Hospital, Affiliated Nantong Hospital 3 of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
Objective: To develop a nomogram model based on the albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) score for predicting the 90-day prognosis of patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) and to evaluate its predictive efficacy.
Methods: Clinical data of 290 ACLF patients at the Third People's Hospital of Nantong City, collected from December 2020 to December 2023, were analyzed. The data were divided into a training set ( = 200) and a validation set ( = 90), with August 2022 as the cut-off date.
Cureus
December 2024
Orthopaedics, The Royal Wolverhampton National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Wolverhampton, GBR.
Background: Tranexamic acid (TXA) is a pharmacological agent used in reducing blood loss during orthopaedic surgeries, including total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Despite its proven efficacy and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommending combined topical and intravenous administration, compliance in clinical practice often lags.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate and improve adherence to NICE guidelines for TXA use during TKA through a quality improvement initiative.
Front Pediatr
January 2025
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Introduction: This study focused on understanding the experiences of forced migrant families and the health care professionals who care for them within palliative care. Palliative care for children requires an active, holistic approach to care, with a focus upon improving quality of life. Forced migrant families encounter a range of additional challenges including the loss of family, belongings, and all sources of familiarity and support.
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January 2025
Assistant Attending Behavioral Scientist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Background: The recent wave of clinical trials of psychedelic substances among patients with life-limiting illness has largely focused on individual healing. This most often translates to a single patient receiving an intervention with researchers guiding them. As social isolation and lack of connection are major drivers of current mental health crises and group work is expected to be an important aspect of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, it is essential that we understand the role of community in psychedelic healing.
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