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Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
January 2025
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Beirut, LEBANON.
Study Design: Meta-Analysis.
Objective: The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to pool the available data comparing MIS to open surgery for thoracolumbar fractures and provide a more comprehensive assessment on this topic.
Background: There remains a debate over whether minimally invasive surgery (MIS) or open fixation provides superior outcomes for patients with thoracolumbar fractures.
Sex Med
December 2024
Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, Anhui, China.
Background: While premature ejaculation (PE) can be divided into lifelong PE (LPE), acquired PE, natural variable PE (NPE), and subjective PE (SPE), there is no objective method to classify PE.
Aim: To determine the value of serum serotonin (5-HT), leptin, and norepinephrine (NE) levels in the classification of PE.
Methods: From July 2023 to July 2024, we recruited 150 participants and divided them into 4 groups: LPE (43 cases), NPE (32 cases), SPE (35 cases), and non-PE (40 cases) groups.
Am J Clin Pathol
January 2025
Department of Hematology and Immunohematology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine and Health Science, University of Gondar, P. O. Box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Objectives: External quality assessment (EQA) helps evaluate and improve the quality of laboratory testing by providing unbiased reviews. The study aimed to synthesize pooled EQA performance of clinical laboratories across the African region.
Methods: The review was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42024562987) and reported based on the 2020 Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist.
Objectives: Chronic pain treatment engagement is dominated by pharmaceutical methods, while previous research has assessed barriers to uptake of non-pharmaceutical treatments, there has not been research one step earlier in the treatment development pipeline; assessing barriers to take part in research that develops non-pharmaceutical chronic pain treatment methods.
Design: A two-phase approach was used to assess barriers and facilitators to research participation for people living with chronic pain. Online focus groups were run in phase 1, generating qualitative data, while phase 2 used the themes identified within phase 1 to assess agreement and disagreement.
BMJ Open
December 2024
Department Dermatology, Center of Pediatric Dermatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Objective: To assess the effectiveness of a potent topical corticosteroid (TCS) as an initial treatment in primary care for children with moderate flare-ups of atopic dermatitis (AD), compared to starting on a mild TCS.
Design: An observational prospective cohort study with an embedded pragmatic multicentre open-label randomised controlled trial.
Setting: A total of 53 general practices in the southwest of the Netherlands took part in the study.
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