Brucellar testicular abscess: The 17th case report and review of literature by Taha Abo-Almagd Abdel-Meguid Hamoda, Omar Bahassan, Abdullah Majed Almalki, Ali Hasan Alkhzaim, Ahmed Nizar Khogeer, Ehab Mahmoud Ahmed, Kamal Algarni

“…In some cases, the abscesses were mimicking tumors, and surgeries for orchiectomy were done accordingly. A summary of the previously reported cases in the literature is presented. …”
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Predicting the Annual Funding for Public Hospitals with Regression Analysis on Hospital’s Operating Costs: Evidence from the Greek Public Sector by Paraskevi N. Zaza, Pantelis G. Bagos

“…What was attempted in this study is to find an alternative way of estimating the necessary fundings for public hospitals, regardless the case mix managed by each of them, based on their characteristics (size, specialty, location, intensive care units, number of employees, etc.) and its annual output (patients, days of hospitalization, number of surgeries, laboratory tests, etc.). We used financial and operational data from 121 public hospitals in Greece for a 2-years period (2018–2019) and evaluated with regression analysis the contribution of descriptive and operational data in the total operational cost. …”
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Assessment of technical efficiency of hospitals under Hamadan University of Medical Sciences on performance indicators and data envelopment analysis model in 2010 by Reza Safi Arian, Reza Shahhoseini

“…The model used in this study analysis of multistage DEA model is used for the minimization of production factors and output variables.Results: Data inputs include the number of groups of physicians (general practitioners, specialists, doctors intern in teaching hospitals, physician residents in teaching hospitals), the number of nurses (nurses, nurse aid, nurse), the number of staff and beds and the output includes the number of surgeries, number of ambulatory patients, the percentage of occupied beds, average bed day stay patient is hospitalized. …”
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Ozone disc nucleolysis in the management of herniated lumbar intervertebral disc: A retrospective analysis by Sharad Balasaheb Ghatge, Rohit Pannalal Shah, Nirmal Surya, Suresh Sankhala, Chetan Jagjivandas Unadkat, Gulam M Khan, Dhaval B Modi

“…Background: Various minimally invasive surgeries were proposed for the management of herniated lumbar intervertebral disc. …”
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Magnetic Tools for Neural Interfacing by Koehler, Florian

“…Current methods carry significant drawbacks such as the requirements for highly invasive surgeries, only shallow penetration depth, and low spatial resolution. …”
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Degradation studies on mesostructured bioceramic/polymer hybrid by Ho, Wei Jie.

“…This procedure reduces the need for additional surgeries and permanent implants. Bioceramics and polymers have been used to generate porous tissue engineering scaffolds due to their biocompatibility and other useful properties. …”
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Decellularization of porcine carotid artery : differential effect of pH, osmolality and temperature on cell removal and extracellular matrix retention by Foo, Chuan Ping

“…Decellularized porcine carotid artery is a promising alternative for small diameter vessel graft in vascular surgeries. The goal was to investigate the differential effect of pH, osmolality and temperature on cell removal and extracellular matrix retention, namely collagen and elastin. …”
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Patient experience of home and waiting room blood pressure measurement: a qualitative study of patients with recently diagnosed hypertension by Tompson, A, Schwartz, C, Fleming, S, Ward, A, Greenfield, S, Grant, S, Hobbs, F, Heneghan, C, McManus, R

“…</p><p> Design: and setting A cross-sectional, qualitative study with patients from two UK GP surgeries participating in a feasibility study of waiting room BP measurement.…”

Imported malaria among people who travel to visit friends and relatives: is current UK policy effective or does it need a strategic change? by Behrens, R, Neave, P, Jones, C

“…These data suggest that alternative strategies that move beyond a knowledge-deficit approach are required to address the burden of malaria in VFRs.Potential alternative strategies include the use of standby emergency-treatment (SBET) for the management of fevers with an anti-malarial provided pre-travel, the provision of rapid diagnostic testing and treatment regimen based in general-practitioner surgeries, and urgent and walk-in care centres and local accident and emergency (A&amp;E;) departments to provide immediate diagnosis and accessible ambulatory treatment for malaria patients. …”

Machine learning and statistical models to address cluster-level confounding for the study of medical devices and surgical epidemiology using observational data by Du, M

“…The identified methods were also applied to a real-world surgical safety study of pancreatic surgeries for cancer patients to illustrate the results of my simulations.…”

Oxaliplatin/capecitabine vs oxaliplatin/infusional 5-FU in advanced colorectal cancer: the MRC COIN trial. by Madi, A, Fisher, D, Wilson, R, Adams, R, Meade, A, Kenny, S, Nichols, L, Seymour, M, Wasan, H, Kaplan, R, Maughan, T

“…Overall survival, progression free survival and overall response rate were similar between OxCap and OxFU but rate of radical surgeries was higher for OxFU. Progression free survival was longer for OxFU+cetuximab compared with OxCap+cetuximab but other efficacy measures were similar. …”

Preferences for portable ultrasound devices: a discrete choice experiment among abdominal aortic aneurysm surveillance patients and general ultrasound patients in England by Parsons, C, Khan, K, Pink, J, Verran, A, Griffiths, F, Hutchinson, C, Petrou, S

“…</br> <br><strong>Results: </strong>The AAA group preferred to have their US performed in hospital while the general group had a preference for portable US at general practice surgeries. All patients had a strong preference for scanning by specialists, devices with a lower risk of underdiagnosis and receiving their results at the appointment where the scan takes place. …”

When and how do GPs record vital signs in children with acute infections? A cross-sectional study. by Blacklock, C, Haj-Hassan, T, Thompson, M

“…DESIGN AND SETTING: Observational study in 15 general practice surgeries in Oxfordshire and Somerset, UK. METHOD: A standardised proforma was used to extract consultation details including documentation of numerical vital signs, and words or phrases used by the GP in assessing vital signs, for 850 children aged 1 month to 16 years presenting with acute infection. …”

Oxaliplatin/capecitabine vs oxaliplatin/infusional 5-FU in advanced colorectal cancer: The MRC COIN trial by Madi, A, Fisher, D, Wilson, R, Adams, R, Meade, A, Kenny, S, Nichols, L, Seymour, M, Wasan, H, Kaplan, R, Maughan, T

“…Overall survival, progression free survival and overall response rate were similar between OxCap and OxFU but rate of radical surgeries was higher for OxFU. Progression free survival was longer for OxFU±cetuximab compared with OxCapcetuximab but other efficacy measures were similar. …”

Novel method to estimate the length of palmaris longus tendon by Arumugam, Manohar, Gyanchand Rampal, Lekhraj Rampal

“…Palmaris longus is tendon of choice in reconstructive, plastic and cosmetic surgeries. Thus, a suitable length is required and it would be more convenient if the length of the tendon of the palmaris longus could be estimated before harvesting. …”
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Design Of Thermal Cautery Device by Fathi, Farhana Mohamad

“…The first order lever system would help to increase the precision and reduce the exchange of instruments during surgeries. The improvement of the design of thermal cautery device in term of safety could help reduce accidents and injuries due to electrical devices.…”
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Comparing the efficacy between desflurane and sevoflurane in maintenance of spontaneous general anaesthesia using ambuòauragainô in paediatric patients: a randomised controlle... by Hamzah, Tengku Nordiana Tengku

“…A total of 80 American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I children patients underwent short (1 to 2 hours) elective surgeries were randomised into two groups; sevoflurane (Group S, n = 40): and desflurane (Group D, n = 40) for maintenance of spontaneous breathing general anaesthesia. …”
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Book review- Physics of the future: The inventions that will transform our lives by Nair, Hari A. P.

“…Through his recently published book, Physics of the future: The inventions that will transform our lives, Michio Kaku unfolds an amazing virtual world in front of us through the imaginary journey into the technology dominated century.The book transpires through 300 interviews Kaku did with world renowned scientists in the field of physics and related areas including nanotechnology, medicine, computers and space.Being a quantum physicist himself, Kaku had first-hand information of some of the emerging technology inventions from the most sophisticated research labs around the world.In addition to writing, researching and teaching, Kaku is one of the most sought after hosts in the Sci-Fi Science channel.Through a researcher’s keen eyes Kaku narrates some of the limitless possibilities of technology.Few of such predicted inventions are X-ray visions, space elevators and atom sized chips.He talks about micro machines which can perform complex surgeries.Those who are not keen on technology may fi nd the book a bit dry to sustain until the last chapter.One of the negatives of the book for a layman reader is that the language used is not tuned for a science fiction.Most of the places Kaku depends on mathematics and complex algorithms to explain a phenomenon.While explaining on advance medical technology, Kaku brings about many an invention like pocket size MRI scanners, self-screening toilet sets, clothes which can act as embryonic etc. …”
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Glaucoma &quot;landscape&quot; in Russia, CIS and Eastern European countries: what has changed over 15 years? by A.Yu. Brezhnev, E.A. Egorov, V.P. Erichev, A.V. Kuroyedov, P.Ch. Zavadskiy, M. Bozic, N.N. Voronova, M.F. Dzhumova, N.V. Ivanova, T.A. Imshenetskaya, T.G. Kamenskikh, L.N. Marchenko, N.A. Sobyanin, V.F. Ekgardt

“…The share of glaucoma surgeries as a starting strategy of POAG management was running down steadily from 2005 to 2010. …”
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Blood loss prevention in total knee arthroplasty (TKA): a systematic review by Mohammad Reza Safdari

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