Aiming to translate, culturally adapt, and psychometrically evaluate the Person-centred Practice Inventory - Staff (PCPI-S) for Portuguese healthcare professionals, this methodological study was condu...
Time-management skills are essential in handling daily life, and adults with neurodevelopmental disorders often have difficulty with these skills. Therefore, interventions targeting such skills are co...
This study aims to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the Swedish version of the ATMS (ATMS-S)....
A total of 33 participants with neurodevelopmental disorders and difficulty with time management completed the test twice, approximately 1 week apart. The test-retest reliability for the three subscal...
The results showed overall moderate to good stability for the measures. The intraclass correlation coefficients were 0.79 (time management), 0.82 (organization and planning), and 0.50 (regulation of e...
Dopamine transporter (DAT) PET provides higher resolution than DAT SPECT and opportunity for integrated imaging with MRI. The radioligand [...
To validate [...
Thirty-seven subjects with Parkinson's disease (Hoehn and Yahr stage < 3) were included in a longitudinal PET study with [...
Baseline and follow-up PET data (interval: 2.3 ± 0.5 years) were available for 25 patients (9 females, 16 males). Median age was 64.7 years (range 46-76); symptom duration: 3 years (0.25-14); Hoehn an...
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To enhance biosafety and reliability in SARS-CoV-2 molecular diagnosis, virus lysis/transport buffers should inactivate the virus and preserve viral RNA under various conditions. Herein, we evaluated ...
The objective is to assess the impact of the quality of tissue fixation in surgical pathology on immunohistochemical (IHC) staining and DNA degradation....
Twenty-five non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) resection specimens were analyzed. After resection, all tumors were processed according to the protocols in our center. In haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) s...
H-scores were significantly higher in H&E adequately fixed tumor areas in IHC stains KER-MNF116 (H-score 256 vs 15, p=0.001) and p40 (H-score 293 vs 248, p=0.028). All other stains showed a trend towa...
Impaired tissue fixation of resected lung tumors results in decreased IHC staining intensity in some parts of the tumor. This may impact the reliability of IHC analysis....
The WHO's standardized measuring unit, "binding antibody units per milliliter (BAU/mL)," should allow the harmonization of quantitative results by different commercial Anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunoassays. Ho...
We analyzed results reported by the EQA participant laboratories from single and sequential samples from SARS-CoV-2 convalescent, acutely infected, and vaccinated individuals, including samples obtain...
The three immunoassays most commonly used by the participants displayed a low intra-assay and inter-laboratory variation with excellent reproducibility using identical samples sent to the participants...
Measured BAU/mL levels are only inter-changeable among different laboratories when the same assay was used for their assessment. Highly variable ratios of BAU/mL quantifications among different immuno...
To evaluate the quality and reliability of videos on YouTube about robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy....
YouTube's search function was used to find videos associated with robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy. On June 1, 2022, systematic research was performed using the term "robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy". ...
A total of 50 videos associated with robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy were analyzed. The most frequently discussed topics in the videos were the duration of the surgery (72%), the anatomical success ra...
Our study shows that the level of quality in YouTube videos associated with robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy is at an acceptable and high level, but its reliability is low. Therefore, short and concise...
Malnutrition can play an important prognostic role in terms of survival in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In this clinical context, applying criteria defining malnutrition requires...
The research aimed at further improvement of the technology of measuring swimmers' active drag by the small perturbation method (SPM) at the average maximal swimming velocity (v...
Organizational safety decisions rely heavily on safety information in today's data-driven era, but there is a significant danger of information distortion that can compromise system safety. To address...