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Frailty Recovery Following Minimally Invasive Surgery: An Emerging Perspective on Surgical Benefits in Elderly Colorectal Cancer Patients

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This prospective study investigated the impact of MIS on frailty and outcomes in elderly CRC patients. While frail patients showed lower OS, MIS was safely performed. Among recurrence‐free patients, frailty status improved at 1 year, suggesting that curative surgery may offer not only oncologic benefits but also potential for frailty improvement ...
Hajime Ushigome   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in Jefferson Hospital Ambulatory Practice Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
AIM: To improve the pneumococcal vaccination initiation rates in patients 65 years and older in Jefferson Hospital Ambulatory Practice (JHAP) to the institutional quality measure goal of 80% over a 4 month period from January to May of 2017.https://jdc ...
Enriquez, MD, Matthew   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Advances in Invertebrate Biohybrid Robotics: Leveraging Nature for Locomotion and Sensing in Engineered Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This review explores invertebrate biohybrid robots that integrate living organisms—such as insects, jellyfish, spiders, and sea slugs—into robotic systems for locomotion, sensing, and actuation. The advantages in efficiency and cost, discuss control, and power challenges are highlighted, and future considerations to guide the development of sustainable,
Charles J. Fraga   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Organized Multitarget Pursuit in Multi‐Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems via Hierarchical Probabilistic Graphical Models

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Multi‐UAV systems face challenges in adversarial environments due to limited adaptability and interpretability. This study proposes a self‐organized approach using hierarchical probabilistic graphical models with density‐driven parameter estimation.
Yixin Huang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

2008 Disability Status Reports: United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Annual Disability Status Reports provide policy makers, disability advocates, reporters, and the public with a summary of the most recent demographic and economic statistics on the working-age (ages 21-64) population with disabilities.
Erickson, William   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Characterizing the Healthcare Utilization and Costs of Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is the second‐most common inherited bleeding disorder worldwide, afflicting one in 4000–5000 people, and is the most morbid inherited bleeding disorder of women. HHT causes recurrent severe epistaxis, chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, heavy menstrual bleeding, and arteriovenous malformations in the ...
Hanny Al‐Samkari   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

European multicentre study on outcome of surgery for sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism

open access: yesBJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Some 5861 patients undergoing first‐time surgery for sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism were registered in the Eurocrine® database between 2015 and 2018. The use of intraoperative parathyroid hormone measurement decreased the risk of conversion and persistent hypercalcaemia.
A. Bergenfelz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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