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Heliyon
January 2025
Psychiatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University, Bilecik, Turkiye.
Background: This study aimed to determine the therapeutic communication skills of nursing students, examine their experiences of communication during care, and evaluate the views of patients and their relatives.
Methods: This study was designed using the convergent parallel mixed method and was conducted in Türkiye. The therapeutic communication skills of 112 nursing students were examined using the Therapeutic Communication Skills Scale.
Seizure
January 2025
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4027, Australia. Electronic address:
Aim: To assess whether lamotrigine (Lamictal), when used in antiseizure medication (ASM) monotherapy, is a teratogen.
Materials/methods: Analysis of data from 490 LTG monotherapy treated pregnancies and 214 pregnancies in women with epilepsy not exposed to any antiseizure medications during at least the first half of pregnancy.
Results: The LTG-treated and the untreated pregnancies were well matched in nearly all regards apart from ASM exposure.
Amniocentesis is a widely used invasive prenatal diagnostic procedure, recognized for its high sensitivity and low risk of complications. This study aims to evaluate the association between amniocentesis and pregnancy outcomes, such as miscarriage, preterm rupture of membranes (PROM), and preterm birth, as well as perinatal outcomes. A case-control study was conducted at the Regional Hospital in Kielce, Poland, from 2016 to 2022, involving 1834 patients, 225 of whom underwent amniocentesis, while 1609 did not receive any invasive diagnostics.
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January 2025
Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address:
Objective: People with osteoarthritis (OA) commonly experience flares. Whether COVID-19 vaccination triggers OA flares is unknown.
Design: Adults with OA enrolled in a COVID-19 Rheumatology Registry were invited to participate in a case-crossover study.
J Surg Res
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Background: Radioactive iodine (RAI) is a common treatment for various thyroid diseases. Previous studies have suggested susceptibility of parathyroid glands to the mutagenic effect of RAI and the development of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). We tested the possible link between prior RAI treatment, disease presentation, and treatment outcomes.
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