Physician adherence to published colonoscopy surveillance guidelines varies. We aimed to develop and validate an automated clinical decision support algorithm that can extract procedure and pathology data from the electronic medical record (EMR) and generate surveillance intervals congruent with guidelines, which might increase physician adherence....
Published in Indian Pediatrics
We compared our previous hospital-based antibiotic protocol and an optimum modified one by reviewing hospital records of children younger than 18 years with complicated appendicitis between 2010–2016. The modified protocol showed no infectious morbidity, which is significantly different from that of our previous protocol (mortality rate, 21.4%). An...
Published in Indian Pediatrics
ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of canakinumab on growth parameters of patients with autoinflammatory diseases.MethodsThis retrospective study included Colchicine resistant familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD), Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic fever syndrome (TRAPS), Deficiency of adenosine deamin...
The purpose of this study is determination of ways in which music festival organizers can target their social media communication with greater certainty toward younger generations, i.e. Generation Z (also called “digital natives”). This research has two core purposes: the first is to investigate how music festivals’ use of social media can affect t...
Published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
AbstractThe social network structure of a group arises from the patterns of association of its constituent members, which in turn originates from behaviors and preferences of those individuals. Consequently, an individual’s position in their social environment is commonly related to their own attributes. However, most studies that report such relat...
Published in Archives of Osteoporosis
SummaryA consensus platform is provided by the experts of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries’ respective osteoporosis societies, on which specific guidelines can be developed further for regional use on the assessment and treatment of postmenopausal women at risk from fractures due to osteoporosis.IntroductionGuidance is provided in a Gul...
Published in World Journal of Surgical Oncology
BackgroundPrevious randomized controlled trials have compared the efficacy and safety of single chest drain (SCD) and double chest drains (DCD) in the patients undergone pulmonary lobectomy, yet the results remain inconsistent. Therefore, we aimed to conduct this present systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the role of SCD and DCD in the...
While increasing academic attention has been paid to the precariousness of contemporary work, less research has examined how workers organise in response. This article examines how a group of precarious workers—commercial photographers—use an online forum to resist changes to their working conditions. Our findings illustrate how the forum enables p...
Published in European Journal of Wildlife Research
The European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) is an important game species throughout Europe. In Italy, for preventing the introduction of allochthonous strains, the management of brown hare populations has focused on the establishment of small protected areas (ZRCs), appositely managed for disposing of wild-born hares for restocking hunting territorie...
Published in HOLISTICA – Journal of Business and Public Administration
The digitization of the administration and the governance process implies a number of advantages that we cannot ignore, but these advantages are supported by a series of disadvantages and unforeseen situations, but by far the biggest threat is Cyberterrorism. Romania aims both to encourage the indigenous information environment and the services spe...
