Appraising LaQshya’s potential in measuring quality of care for mothers and newborns: a comprehensive review of India’s Labor Room Quality Improvement Initiative by Shalini Singh, Zabir Hasan, Deepika Sharma, Amarpreet Kaur, Deeksha Khurana, J N Shrivastava, Shivam Gupta

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Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Overactive Bladder in a Large Cohort of Older Poles—A Representative Tele-Survey by Mikolaj Przydacz, Jerzy Gasowski, Tomasz Grodzicki, Piotr Chlosta

“…In addition, greater government and healthcare system resources are needed to better manage LUTS and OAB in older patients.…”
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Clinical practice guidelines: Recommendations for CRC screening in Argentinian population with average risk based on iFOBT by Julia Ismael, María Celeste Díaz, Carolina Gabay, Luis Ernesto Caro, Cecilio Cerisoli, Ricardo Figueredo, Sandra Canseco, Pablo Rodriguez, Lucio Criado, Ignacio Raffa, Juan O'Connor, Karin Kopitowsky, José Adi, Carlos Gonzalez Del Solar

“…The development group focused on health system resources and implementation issues. Methods: Following PRISMA guidelines, we carried out a comprehensive systematic review and applied the GRADE-ADOLOPMENT tool. …”
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Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Cost-Effective Evidence-Based Childhood Cancer Treatment in a Resource-Limited Setting in Egypt: A Qualitative Interview Study by Ranin Soliman, Carl Heneghan, Anne-Marie Boylan, Jason Oke, Wael Eweida, Alaa Elhaddad

“…We identified four main themes of barriers and facilitators: awareness and orientation; knowledge, skills, and attitudes; system, resources, and context; and clinical practice. …”
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Role matters in understanding ‘quality’ in palliative care: a qualitative analysis of patient, caregiver and practitioner perspectives by Karleen Giannitrapani, Karl Lorenz, Charlotta Lindvall, Anne Walling, Laura M Holdsworth, Raziel C Gamboa, Claire O’Hanlon, Nainwant Singh

“…Among the subthemes, four were present in only one of the two group’s discussions: ‘purpose and action’ was specific to the patient–caregiver panel, whereas ‘adhering to best medical practice’, ‘mitigating unintended consequences and side effects’, and ‘health system resources and costs’ were specific to the practitioner panel.Conclusions While both panels aligned on the three key domains of quality, the particular dimensions through which they perceived quality varied in relation to their experience and role as a professional provider of care versus recipient of healthcare services. …”
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NEURAL NETWORK INTERPOLATION PARAMETERS OF A MULTI-MODE DYNAMIC MODEL OF THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE by Aleksandr Tamargazin, Liudmyla Pryimak

“…Unlike well-known approaches, the suggested approach allows achieving the management goal based on the principle of minimum entropy by redistributing system resources in conditions of their shortage, as well as adapting system characteristics when changing the management situation based on self-learning and self-organization of intelligent control systems. …”
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GBDT-IL: Incremental Learning of Gradient Boosting Decision Trees to Detect Botnets in Internet of Things by Ruidong Chen, Tianci Dai, Yanfeng Zhang, Yukun Zhu, Xin Liu, Erfan Zhao

“…Additionally, it incorporates an enhanced Fisher Score feature selection algorithm, which enables the model to achieve a high accuracy even with a smaller set of optimal features, thereby reducing the system resources required for model training. To evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, we conducted experiments on the BoT-IoT, N-BaIoT, MedBIoT, and MQTTSet datasets. …”
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Black-Box Audio Adversarial Attack Using Particle Swarm Optimization by Hyunjun Mun, Sunggwan Seo, Baehoon Son, Joobeom Yun

“…In particular, our key function is that temporary particle generation maximizes query efficiency to reduce detection risk and prevent wastage of system resources. On average, our system exhibits 96% attack success rates with 1416.17 queries, indicating that is 71.41% and 8% better in terms of query and success rates than existing GA-based attacks, respectively.…”
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Gendered gaps to tuberculosis prevention and care in Kenya: a political economy analysis study by Leila H Abdullahi, Jeremiah Chakaya, Sandra Oketch, Eliya M Zulu, Stephen Mulupi, Henry Komen, Irene Mbithi, Kerry Millington

“…The impediments to TB prevention and care efforts include poor health systems, resource limitations and other sociopolitical contexts that inform policy and implementation. …”
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Cardiovascular Disease Burden: Evolving Knowledge of Risk Factors in Myocardial Infarction and Stroke through Population-Based Research and Perspectives in Global Prevention by GUSTAVO B.F. OLIVEIRA, Alvaro eAvezum, Leonardo eRoever

“…Implementation of population-based strategies is crucial to optimizing limited health system resources while improving care and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.…”
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Clinical current features and treatment tactics of acute external hemorrhoids in outpatient and polyclinic conditions by D. A. Lomonosov, A. L. Lomonosov, S. V. Volkov, A. A. Golubev

“…The studied features of the outpatient coloproctologic service in AEH reveal the inadequate availability of system resources for patients, inappropriate informing the population with «mass-media» technologies; it makes difficulties to implement the recommendations of the RCA.…”
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Evaluating health systems’ efficiency towards universal health coverage: A data envelopment analysis by Paul Eze MPH, Chidumebi Judith Idemili MSc, Lucky Osaheni Lawani FWACS, MD

“…Approximately 78.5% (150 of 191) of the studied countries were inefficient (ϕ < 1.0) with respect to using health system resources toward achieving UHC. By improving health system efficiency, low-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income, and high-income countries can improve their UHC indices by 4.6%, 5.5%, 6.8%, and 4.1%, respectively, by using their current resource levels. …”
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Effectiveness of a gamified digital intervention based on lifestyle modification (iGAME) in secondary prevention: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas, Manuel Trinidad-Fernandez, Manuel Gonzalez-Sanchez, Adrian Escriche-Escuder, Wen Tang, María Ruiz-Muñoz, Attila Biró, Celia García-Conejo, Alfredo Salvatore, Borjanka Nikolova, Antonio Muro-Culebras, Jaime Martín-Martín, Fermin Mayoral, Cristina Roldan-Jimenez

“…International Sedentary Assessment Tool, EuroQoL-5D, MEDRISK Instruments and consumption of Health System resources will be evaluated as secondary outcomes. …”
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Health-wellness resources on Canadian immigrant service provider organizations’ websites: A content, navigability, usability, and credibility analysis towards service &amp; asset m... by Ayisha Khalid, Nashit Chowdhury, Mohammad ZI Chowdhury, Tanvir C Turin

“…Of the websites with health-wellness contents, “lifestyle and wellness resources” were present on 86.5% and “healthcare system resources” were present on 80.6% of the websites. …”
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COVID-19: economic aspects of influenza vaccine prevention by E. A. Zhidkova, E. M. Gutor, Yu. A. Tkachenko, I. V. Rogova, I. A. Popova, K. G. Gurevich

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the mobilization of all available health system resources. There are separate publications on reducing the risk of developing coronavirus infection in people vaccinated against influenza. …”
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PetaBricks: A Language and Compiler for Algorithmic Choice by Ansel, Jason Andrew, Chan, Cy, Wong, Yee Lok, Olszewski, Marek Krystyn, Zhao, Qin, Edelman, Alan, Amarasinghe, Saman P.

“…The best solution to these choices is often tightly coupled to different architectures, problem sizes, data, and available system resources. In some cases, completely different algorithms may provide the best performance. …”
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Rated window method and packet size differentiation scheme for TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLAN by Rasul, Tareq

“…The uplink flows generally dominate the downlink flows and station with more uplink flows obtains most of the system resources. With the existing of multi-rate capability in WLANs, another performance anomaly of 802.11 can be detected where the performance of a WLAN is determined by the stations with the lowest data transmission rates. …”
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Corrigendum: Before Rice and the First Rice: Archaeobotanical Study in Ha Long Bay, Northern Vietnam by Weiwei Wang, Kim Dung Nguyen, Hai Dang Le, Chunguang Zhao, Mike T. Carson, Xiaoyan Yang, Xiaoyan Yang, Xiaoyan Yang, Hsiao-chun Hung

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Dominant Modes of Tibetan Plateau Summer Surface Sensible Heating and Associated Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies by Weiwei Fan, Zeyong Hu, Weiqiang Ma, Yaoming Ma, Cunbo Han, Xiang Han, Yaoxian Yang, Haipeng Yu, Chunwei Fu, Di Wu

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A Comparison of the Different Stages of Dust Events over Beijing in March 2021: The Effects of the Vertical Structure on Near-Surface Particle Concentration by Futing Wang, Ting Yang, Zifa Wang, Jie Cao, Benli Liu, Jianbao Liu, Shengqian Chen, Shulin Liu, Binghao Jia

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