Prikazi by Drahomira Gavranović, Vesna Radičević

“…Važnost ovoga rada jest uključivanje obrade stare i rijetke građe u nove standarde i smjernice koje se tek počinju primjenjivati. …”
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Integration, effectiveness and costs of different models of primary health care provision for people who are homeless: an evaluation study by Crane Maureen, Joly Louise, Daly Blánaid JM, Gage Heather, Manthorpe Jill, Cetrano Gaia, Ford Chris, Williams Peter

“…Primary Outcome Scores ranged from 0 to 6 (6 being the most favourable), with an overall mean of 3.30 (standard deviation 1.24). There were no significant differences in scores between Dedicated Centres, Specialist GPs and Usual Care GPs, but Mobile Teams had a highly statistically significant lower score. …”
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Biobanks and Informed Consent by Gabriella Foe

“…Because the typical type of informed consent document has been critiqued as not meeting the standard, arguments have shifted to justify obtaining broader consent. …”
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Implementing early rehabilitation and mobilisation for children in UK paediatric intensive care units: the PERMIT feasibility study by Barnaby R Scholefield, Julie C Menzies, Jennifer McAnuff, Jacqueline Y Thompson, Joseph C Manning, Richard G Feltbower, Michelle Geary, Sophie Lockley, Kevin P Morris, David Moore, Nazima Pathan, Fenella Kirkham, Robert Forsyth, Tim Rapley

“…Synthesise data and report findings to combine population, intervention and standard care and outcome definitions for future trial evaluation proposal; to build consensus on intervention for feasible/acceptable ERM trial and explore methodological approaches and future trial design. …”
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Roadmap on energy harvesting materials by Vincenzo Pecunia, S Ravi P Silva, Jamie D Phillips, Elisa Artegiani, Alessandro Romeo, Hongjae Shim, Jongsung Park, Jin Hyeok Kim, Jae Sung Yun, Gregory C Welch, Bryon W Larson, Myles Creran, Audrey Laventure, Kezia Sasitharan, Natalie Flores-Diaz, Marina Freitag, Jie Xu, Thomas M Brown, Benxuan Li, Yiwen Wang, Zhe Li, Bo Hou, Behrang H Hamadani, Emmanuel Defay, Veronika Kovacova, Sebastjan Glinsek, Sohini Kar-Narayan, Yang Bai, Da Bin Kim, Yong Soo Cho, Agnė Žukauskaitė, Stephan Barth, Feng Ru Fan, Wenzhuo Wu, Pedro Costa, Javier del Campo, Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez, Hamideh Khanbareh, Zhong Lin Wang, Xiong Pu, Caofeng Pan, Renyun Zhang, Jing Xu, Xun Zhao, Yihao Zhou, Guorui Chen, Trinny Tat, Il Woo Ock, Jun Chen, Sontyana Adonijah Graham, Jae Su Yu, Ling-Zhi Huang, Dan-Dan Li, Ming-Guo Ma, Jikui Luo, Feng Jiang, Pooi See Lee, Bhaskar Dudem, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Mercouri G Kanatzidis, Hongyao Xie, Xiao-Lei Shi, Zhi-Gang Chen, Alexander Riss, Michael Parzer, Fabian Garmroudi, Ernst Bauer, Duncan Zavanelli, Madison K Brod, Muath Al Malki, G Jeffrey Snyder, Kirill Kovnir, Susan M Kauzlarich, Ctirad Uher, Jinle Lan, Yuan-Hua Lin, Luis Fonseca, Alex Morata, Marisol Martin-Gonzalez, Giovanni Pennelli, David Berthebaud, Takao Mori, Robert J Quinn, Jan-Willem G Bos, Christophe Candolfi, Patrick Gougeon, Philippe Gall, Bertrand Lenoir, Deepak Venkateshvaran, Bernd Kaestner, Yunshan Zhao, Gang Zhang, Yoshiyuki Nonoguchi, Bob C Schroeder, Emiliano Bilotti, Akanksha K Menon, Jeffrey J Urban, Oliver Fenwick, Ceyla Asker, A Alec Talin, Thomas D Anthopoulos, Tommaso Losi, Fabrizio Viola, Mario Caironi, Dimitra G Georgiadou, Li Ding, Lian-Mao Peng, Zhenxing Wang, Muh-Dey Wei, Renato Negra, Max C Lemme, Mahmoud Wagih, Steve Beeby, Taofeeq Ibn-Mohammed, K B Mustapha, A P Joshi

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Energietransitie: omarm de complexiteit by Eefje Stutvoet

“…In the licensing process, the following actions can contribute to the use of renovation concepts: ensure uniform handling of permit applications, enable private quality assurance so that the renovation concept can be tested instead of a project, give a large scale exemption for (a part of) the environmental permit when standard extra measures are taken and provide room for experiments in the environmental permit. …”
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Comparison of lotions, creams, gels and ointments for the treatment of childhood eczema: the BEE RCT by Matthew J Ridd, Sian Wells, Stephanie J MacNeill, Emily Sanderson, Douglas Webb, Jonathan Banks, Eileen Sutton, Alison RG Shaw, Zoe Wilkins, Julie Clayton, Amanda Roberts, Kirsty Garfield, Lyn Liddiard, Tiffany J Barrett, J Athene Lane, Helen Baxter, Laura Howells, Jodi Taylor, Alastair D Hay, Hywel C Williams, Kim S Thomas, Miriam Santer

“…Most children were white (86.0%), with a median age of 4 years (interquartile range 2–8 years) and moderate severity eczema (mean POEM score 9.32 points; standard deviation 5.46 points). Creams (94.5%) were most likely to have been used before, followed by ointments (66%), lotions (63.0%) and gels (25.0%). …”
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Mental health crisis care for children and young people aged 5 to 25 years: the CAMH-Crisis evidence synthesis by Evans Nicola, Edwards Deborah, Carrier Judith, Elliott Mair, Gillen Elizabeth, Hannigan Ben, Lane Rhiannon, Williams Liz

“…We used a clear process to decide whether or not to include each research paper found, reflecting the aim of our study, and whether or not the research had been completed to a good-enough standard. We included 48 primary research articles, 36 descriptive accounts of different crisis services and 54 other types of documents. …”
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Impact of interventions to improve recovery of older adults following planned hospital admission on quality-of-life following discharge: linked-evidence synthesis by Debbie Kinsey, Samantha Febrey, Simon Briscoe, Dylan Kneale, Jo Thompson Coon, Daniele Carrieri, Christopher Lovegrove, John McGrath, Anthony Hemsley, GJ Melendez-Torres, Liz Shaw, Michael Nunns

“…A recent systematic review of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these interventions showed they were associated with improved clinical outcomes in terms of, for example, length of stay (LOS), readmissions, complications and mortality, or at least performed as well as standard care. However, the subsequent impact on patient outcomes, such as experience, quality of life and participation in meaningful occupations, is largely unknown. …”
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Early evaluation of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme: a rapid mixed-methods study by Ellins Jo, Hocking Lucy, Al-Haboubi Mustafa, Newbould Jenny, Fenton Sarah-Jane, Daniel Kelly, Stockwell Stephanie, Leach Brandi, Sidhu Manbinder, Bousfield Jenny, McKenna Gemma, Saunders Katie, O’Neill Stephen, Mays Nicholas

“…Implications of the study findings for longer-term evaluation Key implications include: •There is considerable value in the longer-term evaluation focusing on understanding for which groups of children and young people, and which mental health problems, the standard MHST intervention is less suitable or beneficial. …”
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A multicomponent intervention to reduce daily sitting time in office workers: the SMART Work & Life three-arm cluster RCT by Edwardson Charlotte L, Maylor Benjamin D, Biddle Stuart JH, Clemes Stacy A, Cox Edward, Davies Melanie J, Dunstan David W, Eborall Helen, Granat Malcolm H, Gray Laura J, Hadjiconstantinou Michelle, Healy Genevieve N, Jaicim Nishal Bhupendra, Lawton Sarah, Mandalia Panna, Munir Fehmidah, Richardson Gerry, Walker Simon, Yates Thomas, Clarke-Cornwell Alexandra M

“…Sample size To detect a 60-minute difference in average daily sitting time between the intervention groups and the control group [assuming a sitting time standard deviation (SD) of 90 minutes, 90% power, a two-tailed significance level of 5%, an average cluster size of 10 (range 4–38), an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.05, the number of clusters being inflated by a factor of 1.23, allowing for one cluster drop out per arm and a 40% loss to follow-up/non-compliance with the activPAL (PAL Technologies Ltd, Glasgow, UK)], the required sample size was 690 participants from 72 clusters. …”
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Ulipristal acetate versus levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system for heavy menstrual bleeding: the UCON randomised controlled trial and mechanism of action study by Lucy HR Whitaker, Lee J Middleton, Lee Priest, Smita Odedra, Versha Cheed, Elaine P Nicholls, Alistair RW Williams, Neil Roberts, Clive E Stubbs, Konstantios Tryposkiadis, Hannah Bensoussane, Rohan Chodankar, Alison A Murray, Moira Nicol, Aleksandra O Tsolova, Kaiming Yin, Marcos Cruz, Hui Wei Leow, Lucy E Kershaw, Suzanne L McLenachan, Graham McKillop, Jane Walker, Scott I Semple, T Justin Clark, Mary Ann Lumsden, Dharani K Hapangama, Lucky Saraswat, Siladitya Bhattacharya, Paul Smith, Jane Daniels, Hilary OD Critchley

“…To detect a difference of this size [0.5 standard deviations (SDs)] with 90% power (p = 0.05) would require 86 women in each group (172 in total). …”
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Alternative cascade-testing protocols for identifying and managing patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia: systematic reviews, qualitative study and cost-effectiveness analys... by Nadeem Qureshi, Bethan Woods, Rita Neves de Faria, Pedro Saramago Goncalves, Edward Cox, Jo Leonardi-Bee, Laura Condon, Stephen Weng, Ralph K Akyea, Barbara Iyen, Paul Roderick, Steve E Humphries, William Rowlands, Melanie Watson, Kate Haralambos, Ryan Kenny, Dev Datta, Zosia Miedzybrodzka, Christopher Byrne, Joe Kai

“…Treatment patterns and short- and long-term outcomes of familial hypercholesterolaemia cases The search of relevant systematic reviews looking at the effectiveness of LLTs to prevent CVD in adults identified 14 systematic reviews; none of these met the methodological quality standards to be included in the review of reviews. …”
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Impact of a social prescribing intervention in North East England on adults with type 2 diabetes: the SPRING_NE multimethod study by Moffatt Suzanne, Wildman John, Pollard Tessa M, Gibson Kate, Wildman Josephine M, O’Brien Nicola, Griffith Bethan, Morris Stephanie L, Moloney Eoin, Jeffries Jayne, Pearce Mark, Mohammed Wael

“…Strengths and limitations of the methods The study was rigorously, ethically and legally conducted to internationally acceptable standards, it adhered to accepted reporting protocols and was overseen by an independent Study Steering Committee. …”
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THERAPEUTIC OF SKIN AGING WITH CARBON DIOXIDE LASER SKIN RESURFACING AND COMBINATION WITH AIR COOLING by NKA Maya Damayanti, IGA Dewi Ratnayanti

“…CO2 LSR technique is still a gold standard was used. Pain during surgery can be reduced when this technique was combined with air cooling. …”
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Allopurinol and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with ischaemic heart disease: the ALL-HEART RCT and economic evaluation by Isla S Mackenzie, Christopher J Hawkey, Ian Ford, Nicola Greenlaw, Filippo Pigazzani, Amy Rogers, Allan D Struthers, Alan G Begg, Li Wei, Anthony J Avery, Jaspal S Taggar, Andrew Walker, Suzanne L Duce, Rebecca J Barr, Jennifer S Dumbleton, Evelien D Rooke, Jonathan N Townend, Lewis D Ritchie, Thomas M MacDonald

“…Baseline characteristics are presented by treatment group as means [standard deviation (SD)] and medians [interquartile range (IQR)] for continuous variables and as numbers (%) for categorical variables. …”
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Expanding the Duty to Rescue to Climate Migration by David N. Hoffman, Anne Zimmerman, Camille Castelyn, Srajana Kaikini

“…Researchers from the Global North working across the Global South are increasingly observing the phenomenon of ethics dumping, where the research ethics of some countries are imposed on research subjects in other countries.[10] In that vein, rescuers should be careful not to impose unwelcome cultural standards or exploit people who are in the process of migrating. …”
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Acute effects of smoking on QT dispersion in healthy males by Mohammad Ali Akbarzadeh, Shahrooz Yazdani, Mohamad Esmail Ghaidari, Mohammad Asadpour-Piranfar, Negar Bahrololoumi-Bafruee, Allahyar Golabchi, Amirhossein Azhari

“…The aim of this study was to assess the acute effect of smoking a single standard cigarette containing 1.7 mg nicotine on QT interval and QTD in healthy smokers and nonsmokers.…”
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A tailored psychological intervention for anxiety and depression management in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: TANDEM RCT and process evaluation by Ratna Sohanpal, Hilary Pinnock, Liz Steed, Karen Heslop-Marshall, Moira J Kelly, Claire Chan, Vari Wileman, Amy Barradell, Clarisse Dibao-Dina, Paulino Font Gilabert, Andy Healey, Richard Hooper, Kristie-Marie Mammoliti, Stefan Priebe, Mike Roberts, Vickie Rowland, Sarah Waseem, Sally Singh, Melanie Smuk, Martin Underwood, Patrick White, Nahel Yaziji, Stephanie JC Taylor

“…Adverse events Adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events were recorded and reported in accordance with the Data Monitoring Ethics Committee’s and sponsors’ requirements, and following the standard operating procedures of the Joint Research Management Office for Barts Health NHS Trust (London, UK) and Queen Mary University of London (London, UK). …”
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European Court of Justice Secures Fundamental Rights from UN Security Council Resolutions by Sebastian Recker

“…</span></p> <p class="ArticleText"><span lang="EN-GB">Without question this judgment has decimated the basis of tribute in international law and increased the standard of the European Communities as guardians of their general principles in international law.…”
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