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Trop Anim Health Prod
January 2025
Laboratory of Small Ruminant Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China.
Growth traits are one of the focuses of sheep breeding, and growth curve is an effective method to describe growth traits. The body weight of Yiling sheep at 0, 120, 180, 360 and 540 days of age were fitted with five common nonlinear growth models: Logistic, Gompertz, Von Bertalanffy, Brody and Negative exponential, and the growth models were evaluated by goodness of fit standard. The results showed that the Von Bertalanffy model was suitable for characterizing the growth of Yiling sheep.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSouth Med J
February 2025
From the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis.
Objectives: More than one in four older adults fall yearly, but fewer than half inform their doctors. As such, medical trainees must gain experience assessing fall risk in older adults. Studies exploring how often residents initiate these assessments and which interventions effectively increase this frequency are needed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlobal Spine J
January 2025
Department of Science, Research and Education, BG Klinikum Bergmannstrost Halle, Halle, Germany.
Study Design: Multicenter, prospective observational cohort study.
Objectives: 109 patients with lumbar spine stenosis (LSS) undergoing minimally invasive decompression in 6 different centers (Germany, Italy, USA).
Methods: The demographic, surgical and clinical data was collected.
Effective documentation and coding in health care are crucial for patient care, safety, workflow improvement and accurate billing. This quality improvement study aimed to enhance History and Physical (H&P) note documentation and charge capture processes to integrate coding and billing aspects, capture authentic work, preserve the H&P's integrity and align H&P-related revenue with actual performance. A multidisciplinary team, including divisional leadership and specialists in documentation improvement, electronic health records, lean/six sigma methodology, a nocturnist and a senior-level physician coding auditor, initiated a quality improvement project.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Adolesc Med Health
January 2025
Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, 5452 University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.
Objectives: This study aimed to examine the relationship between marijuana use and aggression and victimization among Colombian adolescents. We aimed to clarify marijuana's distinct role by comparing different categories of drug use and by considering the order of drug initiation.
Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional data collected from Colombian adolescents in 2016.
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