Resuming elective surgery amid shortages of rapid severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests and personal protective equipment, while protecting patient and staff safety, posed a challenge at the study institution. Many hospital systems implemented testing of all presurgical patients, using results from tests performed 3 or…[Read more]

Statistical analyses were then performed on these metrics using linear regression, and one- and two-way ANOVA testing to examine group differences and interactions between aging and AD propagation. No significant interactions were found between aging and AD propagation in the global topological metrics (network efficiency, characteristic path…[Read more]

A leave-p-out cross-validation scheme was used to train and evaluate seven machine learning classifiers logistic regression (LR), k-nearest neighbour (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), multilayer perceptron (MLP), convolutional neural network (CNN), long short-term memory (LSTM) and a residual-based neural network architecture (Resnet50). Our…[Read more]

Further research to test the longer-term effect in a large-sized population is recommended.

Our findings support the feasibility and acceptability of the patient-family carer partnership intervention and indicate benefits in improving patients’ blood pressure control, dyadic relationship and psychological well-being of family dyads in rural…[Read more]

Systems leadership is widely acknowledged to be needed to address the many ‘wicked issues’ challenging public health systems. However, there is a lack of evidence on how to develop public health professionals into effective systems leaders. This study scoped the possibilities for developing the systems leadership capacity of public health…[Read more]

Neuromuscular disorders (NMD), many of which are hereditary, affect muscular function. Due to advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies, the diagnosis of hereditary NMDs has dramatically improved in recent years.

In this study, we report an family with two siblings exhibiting two different NMD, Miyoshi muscular dystrophy (MMD)…[Read more]