Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the timing of the steroid switch on both visual and anatomical outcomes in diabetic macular edema (DME) eyes that have shown an inadequate...
Different factors influence alterations in facial bone thickness and esthetic outcomes after implant placement. Whether the timing of implant placement influences alterations in the bone dimensional a...
The purpose of this retrospective clinical study was to assess the influence of the timing of implant placement on alveolar bone alterations and esthetic outcome....
Data were collected from 40 patients who had received guided bone regeneration (GBR) performed simultaneously with immediate, early, or delayed single-tooth implant placement in the anterior maxilla. ...
The reduction in the FHBT...
Similar bone changes and esthetic outcomes were found around implants of the immediate, early, and delayed implant placement groups....
The removal of impacted lower third molars (ILTMs) is associated with bone defects in the distal area of second molars. Different methods have been described to minimize these defects....
The primary objective was to assess changes in probing depth (PD) over time (up to 36 months) between test (grafted) and control (ungrafted) groups; the graft was obtained from the extracted ILTM....
This split-mouth randomized clinical trial was conducted at the Postgraduate Course in Oral Surgery of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Complutense University of Madrid. Adult patients requiring bilate...
The predictor variable was the graft technique. The bone defect after ILTM removal was treated with autogenous tooth graft (ATG) in the test group, leaving the control group ungrafted....
PD on the distobuccal, distomedial, and distolingual surfaces was recorded in both groups and averaged at baseline (T0), 3 (T1), 6 (T2), and 36 months (T3) postoperatively....
Sex, age, surgical time, ILTM situation and position between groups were assessed....
ANOVA repeated measures for comparisons between groups and the Friedman test for comparisons within the groups over time were applied. Statistical significance was established with a confidence interv...
The sample comprised 22 patients (6 males, 16 females) with a mean age of 21.68 ± 2.19 years; 44 ILTM extractions were performed. Statistically significant differences in PD average were found between...
ATG placed on the distal surface of lower second molars and almost completely filling the extraction socket improved PD 3, 6 and 36 months after ILTM. Furthermore, no significant changes in PD were ob...
Although ambient temperature has been linked with injury incidence, there have been few nationwide studies to quantify the temperature-related risk and burden of cause-specific injury hospitalizations...
Our objectives are to examine the associations between ambient temperature and injury hospitalizations from various causes and to quantify the contribution of human-induced warming to the heat-related...
We collected injury hospitalization data from a nationwide hospital-based registry in China during 2000-2019. Using a time-stratified case-crossover design, we investigated the associations between da...
Our study included a total of 988,087 patients with hospitalization records for injuries. Overall, compared to the temperature at minimum risk of hospitalization (...
This nationwide study presents new evidence of significant associations between temperature and cause-specific injury hospitalizations in China and highlights the increasing contribution of human-indu...
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in the world, causing major public health problems in developing countries. The rate of TB incidence in Iran was estimated to be 13 p...
The present national historical cohort study was conducted from March 2018 to March 2022 based on data from the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Registration Center of Iran's Ministry of Health and M...
The mean age at diagnosis of patients was 52.3 ± 21.2 years, and most patients were in the 35-63 age group (37.1%). Among the data, 9121 (56.4%) cases were males, and 7044 (43.6%) were females. Among ...
In this study, the incidence and the time-varying reproduction number of pulmonary tuberculosis showed the same pattern. The mean of the time-varying reproduction number indicated that each infected p...
To prospectively investigate the associations of longitudinal changes in sleep score and LTPA and their combination with all-cause mortality....
Among 12,543 participants (mean age: 66.1 years) from the Dongfeng-Tongji cohort, we calculated sleep score (range, 0-4, integrating bedtime, sleep duration, sleep quality, and midday napping, higher ...
During a mean 5.5-year follow-up, 792 deaths occurred. The 5-year changes in sleep score and LTPA were inversely associated with all-cause mortality risk, regardless of their initial values. When asse...
Promoting sleep hygiene and LTPA together may benefit efforts in reducing mortality risk, with particular attention to monitoring long-term sleep health....
This study evaluated the effect of Momentum-an integrated family planning, maternal and newborn health, and nutrition intervention-on postpartum family planning norms and behaviors among ever married ...
Bone staples have been shown previously to be a viable modality for cortical tendon graft fixation in ligament knee surgery. However, soft tissue reactions have been reported, making implant removal n...
To compare the primary stability of a biodegradable bone staple prototype made from magnesium to bone staples made from metal in the cortical fixation of tendon grafts during knee surgery....
Controlled laboratory study....
Primary stability of peripheral tendon graft fixation was assessed in a porcine model of medial collateral ligament reconstruction. Two commercially available metal bone staples (Richards fixation sta...
After 500 cycles at 50 N, elongation was 1.5 ± 0.5 mm in the Me1 group, 1.9 ± 0.5 mm in the Me2 group, and 1.8 ± 0.4 mm in the magnesium group. After 1000 cycles of loading (500 cycles at 50 N and 500...
In this study, the magnesium bone staples provided appropriate time-zero biomechanical primary stability in comparison with metal bone staples and may therefore be a feasible alternative for cortical ...
The biodegradability of magnesium bone staples would eliminate the need for later implant removal....
Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) embedded in electronic medical records (EMRs), also called electronic health records, have the potential to improve the adoption of clinical guidelines. The U...
This study aims to evaluate the impact of the IBD CDSS on the adherence of health care providers (ie, physicians and nurses) to institutionally agreed clinical management protocols....
A 2-period interrupted time series (ITS) design, comparing adherence to a clinical flare management protocol during outpatient visits before and after the CDSS implementation, was used. Each interrupt...
Following manual screening, 623 flare encounters were confirmed and designated for ITS analysis. The CDSS was activated in 198 of 623 encounters, most commonly in cases where the primary visit reason ...
This is one of the first studies to investigate the implementation of a CDSS for IBD, designed with a leading EMR software (Epic Systems), providing initial evidence of an improvement over routine car...
Opioids have traditionally been used to manage acute or terminal pain. However, their prolonged use has the potential for abuse, misuse, and addiction. South Korea introduced a new health care IT syst...
This study aimed to assess the impact of NIMS on opioid use....
We conducted an analysis using national claims data from 45,582 patients diagnosed with musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders between 2016 and 2020. Our approach included using an interrupte...
During the study period, there was a general trend of increasing opioid use. After the implementation of NIMS, significant increases were observed in the trend of the proportion of patients on high-do...
This study suggests that, in its current form, the NIMS may not have brought significant improvements to the identified indicators of opioid overuse and misuse. Additionally, the COVID-19 outbreak exh...
