Outcomes in very elderly ICU patients surgically treated for proximal femur fractures by Annika Heuer, Jakob Müller, André Strahl, Florian Fensky, Rikus Daniels, Pauline Theile, Karl-Heinz Frosch, Stefan Kluge, Jan Hubert, Darius Thiesen, Kevin Roedl

“…Overall, 53% of patients who resided in private dwellings prior to admission were able to return home. …”
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Determinants of Digital Health Information Search (DHIS) Behaviour: Extending UTAUT with healthcare behaviour constructs by Surya Neeragatti, Ranjit Kumar Dehury, Nishchala Sripathi

“…This study shows the importance and need for genuine DHI from valid healthcare providers, in which the creators of healthcare information, like Government and private healthcare providers, have to be more conscious. …”
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Working Under the Gun: A Theoretical Analysis of Stressors Associated With the Re-negotiation of Norms and Control of Work Tasks During COVID-19 by Leo Kant, Leo Kant, Elisabeth Norman

“…From these theories we derive three suggestions that the discussion centers around: (1) The COVID-19 situation leads to a massive re-negotiation of norms related to work, (2) The COVID-19 situation diffuses the demarcation between the various professional arenas and the private sphere, and this diffusion enhances the stress associated with norm conflict, and (3) Norm conflicts are enhanced by digitalization. …”
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Urbanization processes drive divergence at the major histocompatibility complex in a common waterbird by Ewa Pikus, Radosław Włodarczyk, Jan Jedlikowski, Piotr Minias

“…The total number of MHC alleles and the number of private (population-specific) MHC alleles was lower in old urban populations, as compared to the rural ones. …”
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Factors Influencing Discharge Destination After Total Hip Arthroplasty by Ran Schwarzkopf MD, MSc, Jenny Ho BSc, Nimrod Snir MD, Dana D. Mukamel PhD

“…Medicare relative to private payer was a strong predictor of ECF discharge. …”
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ArcNLET-Py: An ArcGIS-based nitrogen load estimation toolbox developed using python for ArcGIS pro by Wei Mao, Michael Core, Ming Ye

“…Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems (OSTDS) are privately owned infrastructures that are critical for treating domestic wastewater in the USA. …”
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Vaccines as alternatives to antibiotics for food producing animals. Part 1: challenges and needs by Karin Hoelzer, Lisa Bielke, Damer P. Blake, Eric Cox, Simon M. Cutting, Bert Devriendt, Elisabeth Erlacher-Vindel, Evy Goossens, Kemal Karaca, Stephane Lemiere, Martin Metzner, Margot Raicek, Miquel Collell Suriñach, Nora M. Wong, Cyril Gay, Filip Van Immerseel

“…Research will have to be prioritized to ensure scarce public resources are dedicated to areas of potentially greatest impact first, and private investments into vaccine development constantly compete with other investment opportunities. …”
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ECMO utilization in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the USA by Meena Garg, Artemiy Kokhanov, Claudia Lau, Howard Jen, Alison Chu

“…ECMO patients were more likely to be treated in their birth hospital (p<0.001), at an urban location (p<0.001) and more likely to have private insurance (p=0.011). After adjusting for confounders, odds of ECMO treatment remained lower in Hispanics (p=0.001) and self-payers (p=0.004).Conclusion There was a decrease in the proportion of CDH infants needing ECMO use in the USA from 2006 to 2016. …”
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USING THE POLICY ANALYSIS MATRIX TO EVALUATE THE ECONOMIC POLICY OF TOMATO AND POTATO CROPS IN EGYPT by Omar Ali, Seham Marwan, Salwa Abdelmonem, Mona Reyad

“…Tomato and potato crops have an advantage that can be used to increase their exports in the global markets, which require integration between the state and the private sector to activate the ability of crop producers to export. …”
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Healthcare providers’ perception of the referral system in maternal care facilities in Aceh, Indonesia: a cross-sectional study by Sebastian Vollmer, Ida Monfared, Farah Diba, Ichsan Ichsan, Muhsin Muhsin, Marthoenis Marthoenis, Hizir Sofyan, Mohammad Andalas, Katharina Richert, Lennart Kaplan, Lisa Rogge, Siobhan Doria, Samadi Samadi

“…We also collected referral data in the form of the frequency of ingoing and outgoing referral cases per facility.Setting In three districts, Aceh Besar, Banda Aceh and Bireuen, a total of 32 facilities including hospitals, community health centres, and private midwife clinics that met the criteria of providing at least basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care (BEonC) were covered.Participants Across the 32 healthcare centres, 149 members of staff (mainly midwives) agreed to participate in our surveys.Primary and secondary outcome measures The first survey consisted of 65 items focusing on organisational measures as well as case numbers for example, patient counts, mortality rate and complications. …”
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Comprehensive Study of Residential Environment Preferences and Characteristics among Older Adults: Empirical Evidence from China by Shipeng Xu, Tao Zhang, Hiroatsu Fukuda, Jiahao He, Xin Bao

“…There was a positive correlation between the community environment and the indoor environment (e.g., community safety and indoor sound insulation, r = 0.209, <i>p</i> < 0.01), and both were, to some extent, negatively correlated with building features (e.g., public toilets and private courtyards, r = −0.278, <i>p</i> < 0.01; indoor thermal comfort and green building design, r = −0.165, <i>p</i> < 0.01). …”
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Sustainability reporting assessment for quality and compliance: the case of Ukrainian banks’ management reports by Inna Makarenko, Victor Sukhonos, Iryna V. Zhuravlyova, Sergiy Legenchuk, Olga Szołno

“…According to the results of a continuous assessment of these management reports of 75 state, private and foreign-owned banks in Ukraine for the 2018 fiscal year, the average Q&amp;C BMR Index is 61.2%. …”
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Impact of equipment and handling on systolic blood pressure measurements in conscious dogs in an animal hospital environment by Maria Lyberg, Ingrid Ljungvall, Jens Häggström, Ellinor Ahlund, Lena Pelander

“…Animals Sixty‐seven privately owned dogs with or without chronic kidney disease, divided into 2 study samples (A and B). …”
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Deep Multiple Instance Learning Model to Predict Outcome of Pancreatic Cancer Following Surgery by Caroline Truntzer, Dina Ouahbi, Titouan Huppé, David Rageot, Alis Ilie, Chloe Molimard, Françoise Beltjens, Anthony Bergeron, Angelique Vienot, Christophe Borg, Franck Monnien, Frédéric Bibeau, Valentin Derangère, François Ghiringhelli

“…We sought to generate a deep learning approach based on hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) or hematoxylin, eosin and saffron (HES) whole slides to predict patients’ outcome, compare these new entities with known molecular subtypes and question their biological significance; <b>Methods</b>: We used as a training set a retrospective private cohort of 206 patients treated by surgery for PDAC cancer and a validation cohort of 166 non-metastatic patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) PDAC project. …”
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Directions of Perfection of State Regulation of Industrial Development by N. M. Abdikeev, Yu. S. Bogachev, E. L. Moreva

“…In order to achieve this goal, both general scientific and private economic methods were used, including analysis and synthesis, systematic approach, statistical material and other research tools were widely used. …”
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Genetic structure and diversity of Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. in Cerrado fragments of the São Paulo State, Brazil by Lia Maris Orth Ritter Antiqueira, Renata Gabriela Villegas de Castro e Souza, Miklos Maximiliano Bajay, Paulo Yoshio Kageyama

“…The study was carried out in two Experimental Stations operated by the Forest Institute (Assis and Itirapina), in one fully protected conservation unit (Pedregulho) and in one private property (Brotas). Analyses were conducted using leaf samples from 353 adult specimens and eight pairs of microsatellite loci. …”
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Content of YouTube Videos on Cassava Production and Processing in Nigeria by Tajudeen Oyekunle Banmeke, Olumayowa Cornelius Eniola, Bolanle Idowu Akeredolu-Ale, Rofiat Folashade Kareem, Luqman Adedeji Hussain

“…Many (53.5%) of the videos were on processing of cassava, while most (80.0%) of the videos were relatively recent (2014 - 2019). Private individuals (38.7%) and media houses (34.2%) were the main sources of videos on cassava production and processing on YouTube. …”
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The effects of psychosocial and economic factors on the quality of life of patients with end-stage renal disease and their caregivers in Klang Valley, Malaysia: protocol for a mixe... by Norhayati Ibrahim, Sin Yee Chu, Ching Sin Siau, Noh Amit, Rozmi Ismail, Abdul Halim Abdul Gafor

“…Despite the current circumstances, there are very few studies in Malaysia that have explored the psychosocial factors, specifically on the economic impact of the management of ESRD.Methods and analysis This two-phase sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, incorporating a quantitative design (phase I) and a qualitative study (phase II), is to be conducted in 4 government hospitals and 10 other non-governmental organisations or private dialysis centres within Klang Valley, Malaysia. …”
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Italian population-based cancer screening activities and test coverage: Results from national cross-sectional repeated surveys in 2020 by Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Giuliano Carrozzi, Patrizia Falini, Letizia Sampaolo, Giuseppe Gorini, Manuel Zorzi, Paola Armaroli, Carlo Senore, Priscilla Sassoli de Bianchi, Maria Masocco, Marco Zappa, Francesca Battisti, Paola Mantellini

“…PASSI surveillance system, through telephone interviews, collects information about screening test uptake by test provider (public screening and private opportunistic). Test coverage and test uptake in the last year were computed by educational attainment, perceived economic difficulties, and citizenship. …”
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Sun exposure and health safety practices of high school students in an urban population of Iran by Hosna Janjani, Saharnaz Nedjat, MasoudYunesian, Simin Nasseri, Fatemeh Haghighat Doost, Ramin Nabizadeh

“…Method This cross-sectional study was done in 31 government and private high schools of Saveh, a central city of Iran. …”
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