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The Application of Computer Technology to Clinical Practice Guideline Implementation: A Sco** Review
Implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPG) is a complex and challenging task. Computer technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), has been explored to promote the CPG implementation. This st...
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Open AccessResearch on the development methodology for clinical practice guidelines for organic integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine
Integrated traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine (WM) is a new medical science grounded in the knowledge bases of both TCM and WM, which then forms a unique modern medical system in China. In...
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Open AccessTreatment and surveillance for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a clinical practice guideline (2021 edition)
Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is a major type of bladder cancer with a high incidence worldwide, resulting in a great disease burden. Treatment and surveillance are the most important part of NIMB...
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The Effect of Cognitive Intervention on Cognitive Function in Older Adults With Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Cognitive intervention includes cognitive stimulation, cognitive training, and cognitive rehabilitation. This systematic review was performed to re-assess the efficacy of cognitive intervention for the patient...
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Open AccessChemoprophylaxis, diagnosis, treatments, and discharge management of COVID-19: An evidence-based clinical practice guideline (updated version)
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of a rapidly spreading illness, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), affecting more than seventeen million people around the ...
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Open AccessAn exploration of how developers use qualitative evidence: content analysis and critical appraisal of guidelines
Clinical practice guidelines have become increasingly widely used to guide quality improvement of clinical practice. Qualitative research may be a useful way to improve the quality and implementation of guidel...
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Open AccessPerceived infection transmission routes, infection control practices, psychosocial changes, and management of COVID-19 infected healthcare workers in a tertiary acute care hospital in Wuhan: a cross-sectional survey
Many healthcare workers were infected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) early in the epidemic posing a big challenge for epidemic control. Hence, this study aims to explore perceived infection routes, inf...
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Open AccessUpdating the diagnostic criteria of COVID-19 “suspected case” and “confirmed case” is necessary
On 6 February 2020, our team had published a rapid advice guideline for diagnosis and treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection, and this guideline provided our experience and make well referen...
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Discrimination-Aware Domain Adversarial Neural Network
The domain adversarial neural network (DANN) methods have been successfully proposed and attracted much attention recently. In DANNs, a discriminator is trained to discriminate the domain labels of features ge...
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Open AccessMethodological quality (risk of bias) assessment tools for primary and secondary medical studies: what are they and which is better?
Methodological quality (risk of bias) assessment is an important step before study initiation usage. Therefore, accurately judging study type is the first priority, and the choosing proper tool is also importa...
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Open AccessA rapid advice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infected pneumonia (standard version)
In December 2019, a new type viral pneumonia cases occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province; and then named “2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)” by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 12 January 2020. For it is a ...
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Open AccessPeriodontal disease and risk of benign prostate hyperplasia: a cross-sectional study
Both periodontal disease and benign prostatic hyperplasia are age-related diseases that affect millions of people worldwide. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the association between periodontal disease a...
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Comparison of pain relief between patient-controlled epidural analgesia and patient-controlled intravenous analgesia for patients undergoing spinal fusion surgeries
This meta-analysis aimed to compare the postoperative analgesic effects of patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) and patient-controlled intravenous analgesia (PCIA) for patients undergoing spinal fusion...
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Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Interaction with BSA and Antibacterial Activity of La(III) and Sm(III) Complexes with Enrofloxacin
Two new La(III) and Sm(III) complexes with enrofloxacin (HER, 1-cyclopropyl-7-(4-ethyl-1-piperazinyl)-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-3-quinoline carboxylic acid, C19H21FN3O3), [La2(ER)6(H2O)2]·14H2O(1) and [Sm2(ER)6(...
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Synthesis, Characterization, DNA-Binding and Antiproliferative Activity of Nd(III) Complexes With N-(Nitrogen Heterocyclic) Norcantharidin Acylamide Acid
Three novel complexes [Nd(L)(NO3)(H2O)2]·NO3·2H2O (HL1 = N-pyrimidine norcantharidin acylamide acid, C12H13N3O4; HL2 = N-pyridine norcantharidin acylamide acid, C13H14N2O4; HL3 = N-phenyl norcantharidin acylamide...
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Application of caustic method to determining stress intensity factor of compressive shear crack
The caustic method is applied to compressive shear experiment and used to detect the stress intensity factors of cracks prefabricated on plexiglass sample. Loading, friction of crack planes and influence among...
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A study on relation between acoustic emission and characteristic displacement field on the sample with multi en echelon structures — The theoretic and experimental explorations of strain gap
Based on the phenomena that the deformation gap was observed before the great Tangshang earthquake, this paper discusses the strain gap according to test and theory. The (strain) patterns were recorded photogr...
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An experimental study of the dynamic features of shadow areas of caustics in response to loading/unloading fracture
Using a plexiglass sample and by means of real-time holographic interferometry and shadow optical method of caustics, the different features of dynamic variation in stress (strain) field, plastic area and nucl...
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Physical meaning and prediction efficiency of the load/unload response ratio of rocks in strain-weakening phase before failure
Rock experiment results indicate that the load/unload response ratio (LURR) of rocks expressed via strain energy may have singular or negative value after the stress in the rock reaches its maximum before rock...
