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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Laura Emery, Ben Jackson, Tim Herrick
Summary: GP trainees commonly explore themes of 'difficulty' and 'challenge' in their reflective e-portfolio entries, with a reluctance to submit significant event analyses (SEAs) following the Bawa-Garba case. International medical graduates are disproportionately affected by the challenges reflection poses. More guidance is needed for trainees to navigate their reflective e-portfolios and retain the value of reflection for professional development.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Asta Medisauskaite, Henry Potts, Faye Gishen, Kirsty Alexander, Shah-Jalal Sarker, Ann Griffin
Summary: This study found that doctors' attitudes towards the GMC became more negative following the Dr Bawa-Garba case, but gradually recovered close to baseline afterwards. Confidence in how the GMC regulates doctors and their disciplinary procedures improved but remained below baseline. This suggests that attitudes are more fluid than previously thought, and the impact of the case on doctors' overall attitudes towards the GMC was relatively short-lived and had no measurable impact on professionalism.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Lauren C. Houghton, Alejandra Paniagua-Avila
Summary: The field of epidemiology currently focuses on causal inference through quantitative approaches, which limits research questions to those that can be easily quantified. However, the mixed-methods approach provides a solution by incorporating qualitative sociocultural factors and the perspective of the population under study into quantitative research. This article serves as a guide for epidemiologists interested in implementing mixed methods in their observational studies to identify and explain causal relationships. The authors review paradigms guiding quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies, and provide examples of how mixed methods can be applied to complex bio-socio-cultural health outcomes.
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Business
Jilong Zhang, Jin Zhang, Kanliang Wang, Wei Yan
Summary: This study combines technical and empirical analyses to investigate the impact of doctors' use of medical terms on the service quality of E-health. A text-mining method is proposed and validated to accurately identify medical terms, and the results demonstrate that the use of medical terms can improve service quality for patients with high health literacy but decrease it for patients with low health literacy.
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH
(2023)
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Infectious Diseases
Douglas H. Crispim, Ivaldo Olimpio da Silva, Ricardo Tavares de Carvalho, Anna S. Levin
Summary: This survey evaluated how doctors use antibiotics in palliative care. Most doctors decided to initiate and maintain/extend antibiotics in end-of-life situations, and the duration of antibiotics was often inadequate. Longer time since graduation and lack of formal specialization in palliative care were associated with inadequate maintenance/extention of antibiotics.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2022)
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Substance Abuse
Wayne Hall, Janni Leung, Beatriz H. H. Carlini
Summary: The increased use of high-potency cannabis products after cannabis legalization may lead to higher cannabis-related harm. Policymakers should regulate more potent cannabis by adopting strategies similar to those used for alcohol, such as banning the sale of high-potency cannabis, setting a THC content limit, and imposing higher taxes on potent cannabis products. Governments planning to legalize cannabis should include policies on extracts in their legislation and evaluate the impact of these policies on cannabis use and related harms.
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Environmental Studies
Maj Grasten, Leonard Seabrooke, Duncan Wigan
Summary: This article examines how platform companies use legal and spatial scaling to increase control and capacity to exploit assets, and presents a model of how they employ legal and spatial scaling.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
(2023)
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Oncology
Niharika Dixit, Ysabella Van Sebille, Gregory B. Crawford, Pamela K. Ginex, Paz Fernandez Ortega, Raymond J. Chan
Summary: There are disparities and multilevel barriers in telehealth use that need coordinated efforts to address, including designing more suitable tools and workflows, providing training, education, and technical support, and continuously monitoring and making responsive modifications to telehealth services.
SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER
(2022)
Review
Hematology
Erica M. Wood, Lise J. Estcourt, Zoe K. McQuilten
Summary: Convalescent plasma from blood donors with antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 may benefit COVID-19 patients by providing immediate passive immunity via transfusion or by being used to manufacture hyperimmune immunoglobulin preparations. Optimal characteristics, transfusion volume, and administration timing remain to be determined, requiring international collaborative efforts to establish clinical efficacy. Preliminary safety data for COVID-19 CP is encouraging, with ongoing large, high-quality randomized trials starting to report preliminary results.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, Dawn Liu Holford
Summary: How health workers communicate about vaccines' side effects plays a crucial role in people's vaccination intentions. Trustworthy physicians who frame the risks positively can increase vaccination intentions, while untrustworthy physicians' framing has little or opposite effects.
MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
(2023)
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Psychology, Experimental
Kathy Pezdek, Daniel Reisberg
Summary: This study discusses six common misconceptions about psychological processes in shaping legal evidence and debunks these myths through research. It also examines the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to the maintenance of these myths and suggests various approaches to address and overcome them.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2022)
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Orthopedics
John C. Hagedorn, Jie Chen, William M. Weiss, Saul W. Fredrickson, John J. Faillace
Summary: The Coalition for Physician Accountability released official recommendations on how programs and medical students can stay safe during the upcoming match cycle amid the challenges posed by COVID-19, discouraging away rotations and requiring all programs to commit to virtual interviews.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS
(2021)
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Engineering, Civil
Dominique Meroux, Andrea Broaddus, Cassandra Telenko, Hui Wen Chan
Summary: This study examines the mode shift of scooter sharing by surveying scooter riders and finds that the conventional metrics of trip share and average trip distance overestimate walk-mode shift and underestimate car vehicle miles traveled (VMT) displacement by e-scooter use.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD
(2022)
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Surgery
Jorge G. Zarate Rodriguez, Katharine E. Caldwell, Christa M. Donald, Paul E. Wise, Michael M. Awad
Summary: According to the survey results, applicants using preference signaling showed improved perceptions of fit for both signaled and nonsignaled programs. However, applicants using other strategies did not experience the same improvement. This research suggests that signaling is an important tool for applicants as it increases their chances of being interviewed.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Review
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Angela Pirillo, Alberico Luigi Catapano
Summary: In this review, the efficacy and safety of inclisiran, a siRNA targeting PCSK9, in reducing LDL-C levels is discussed. Randomized clinical trials have shown that inclisiran provides durable reductions of PCSK9 and LDL-C levels, with a dosing schedule of once every 6 months. These effects are consistent in different categories of patients, and the drug's safety profile is favorable.
CURRENT ATHEROSCLEROSIS REPORTS
(2022)