Ausgabe 3/2023
Inhalt (81 Artikel)
The price of private dental services: results from a national representative survey of Ireland
Samantha Smith, Jing Jing Jiang, Charles Normand, Ciaran O’Neill
Fluid and electrolyte management: increasing the knowledge of House Officers using an interactive eLearning tool
Freya Bakko, Annabel Brown, Micol Lupi, Robert M. Maweni
Household medicine disposal and waste management in Ireland, the need for a systems-based approach
Maryam AlMutairi, Patrick Redmond, Sam Cromie, Tamasine Grimes
The effects of different procedures on pain levels in preterm and term infants in neonatal intensive care unit: a cross‐sectional survey of pain assessment in newborns
Hatice Adiguzel, Mehmet Egilmez, Nevin Ergun, Yusuf Unal Sarikabadayi, Bulent Elbasan
Implementation of an on-site simulation programme during COVID-19 and the assessment of its impact on medical students’ competence
Niall James McInerney, Mohammad Faraz Khan, Laoise Coady, Jeffrey Dalli, Maurice Stokes, Suzzane Donnelly, Helen Heneghan, Ronan Cahill
Assessing medical students’ perception and educational experience during COVID-19 pandemic
Ernest Z. Low, Niall J. O’Sullivan, Vidushi Sharma, Isabella Sebastian, Roisin Meagher, Dalal Alomairi, Ebraheem H. Alhouti, Claire L. Donohoe, Michael E. Kelly
A cross-sectional survey of doctors’ views on flexible postgraduate physician training in Ireland
Elaine A. Loughlin, Rachel E. McNamara, Alisa Antonenko, Ahmed Gabr, Rose Galvin, Natasha Slattery, Anthony O’Regan, Michael B. O’Neill, Margaret O’Connor
The impact of having a relative or a friend with cancer on person’s modifiable cancer-related risk factors
Hikmat Abdel-Razeq, Rayan Bater, Khawlah Ammar, Rana Al-Damsees, Saif Aldeen AlRyalat
Apatinib plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone as neoadjuvant therapy in locally advanced gastric carcinoma patients: a prospective, cohort study
Yun Sun, Yanan Fan, Zhibin Ye, Jiantao Dong, Lifei Zhang, Yanhui Peng
Efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant pyrotinib plus docetaxel/liposomal doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide for HER2-positive breast cancer
Chunyu Tian, Minghui Wang, Hancheng Liu, Jianping Liu, Mengze Xu, Lihui Ma
Vitamin B12 supplementation post-gastrectomy: a service closed-loop audit at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin
Hugo C. Temperley, Richard Gaule, Cian Murray, James Carey, Niall J. O’Sullivan, Matthew G. Davey, Michelle Fanning, Jarlath C. Bolger, Narayanasamy Ravi, John V. Reynolds, Claire L. Donohoe
Clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and outcomes of orbital biopsies in a single Irish centre
Siân Kneafsey, Terence MacSwiney, Clare McCloskey, Conor O’Keane, Tim Fulcher
Neoadjuvant transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) plus PD-1 inhibitor bridging to tumor resection in intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma patients
Caihua Zhu, Bing Dai, Hua Zhan, Ruoyu Deng
Breast cancer patients are diagnosed at younger ages in Turkey: a comparative study
Faruk Tas, Kayhan Erturk
The DA VINCI study: is Ireland achieving ESC/EAS guideline–directed LDL-C goals?
Gregory Offiah, Cormac O’Connor, Cormac Kennedy, Joe Gallagher, Patricia O’Connor, Brendan McAdam, Kausik K. Ray, Marieke Schoonen, Vincent Maher
Intravascular lithotripsy-assisted PCI for severely calcified coronary lesions: evaluating the impact on quality of life and outcomes
Anthony J. Buckley, John P. McCormick, James Carey, Richard Armstrong, Andrew Maree, Mark Hensey, Stephen O’Connor, Ross Murphy, Caroline Daly, John Cosgrave, Ian Pearson
MINOCA: under recognized and affecting predominantly female patients—an Australian experience
Lung En Teng, Saadat Saleemi, Manuja Premaratne
Evaluation of diagnostic efficiency of bedside cardiac ultrasonography performed by emergency specialist
Ibrahim Halil Toksul, Mustafa Kesapli, Akkan Avci, Ramazan Guven
Adherence to secondary prevention recommendations after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Taya Keating, Mohammad AlAdalieh, Zeb Chughtai, Seyed Hossein Javadpour
The effect of stress hyperglycemıa seen ın acute ST-segment elevatıon ın myocardıal ınfarctıon on ın-hospıtal mortalıty
Adem Çakır, Pınar Yeşim Akyol, Hüseyin Acar
Dietary practices, beliefs and behaviours of adults with inflammatory bowel disease: a cross-sectional study
Aoife Murtagh, Lorraine Cooney, Clement Higginbotham, Patricia Heavey
Alcohol-related acute medical reviews in an acute hospital before and immediately after the introduction of minimum unit pricing
Matthew McKenna-Barry, Paud O’Regan
Dual versus triple therapy in treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV)
Nevine Bishai, Walid el Nabawy, Mohamed El Fiki, Mohamed Ibrahim, Nouman El Garem
School-based management of type 1 diabetes in the Republic of Ireland: a cross-sectional mixed-methods analysis
Michael Joseph O’Grady, Sadhbh Aine Hurley, Danielle Clare McCollum
Effects of concentrated beetroot juice consumption on glycemic control, blood pressure, and lipid profile in type 2 diabetes patients: randomized clinical trial study
Laleh karimzadeh, Golbon Sohrab, Mehdi Hedayati, Samira Ebrahimof, Golpar Emami, Taraneh Razavion
A machine learning approach to distinguishing between non-functioning and autonomous cortisol secreting adrenal incidentaloma on magnetic resonance imaging using texture analysis
Ferhat Can Piskin, Gamze Akkus, Sevinc Puren Yucel, Ilker Unal, Huseyin Tugsan Balli, Mehtap Evran Olgun, Murat Sert, Bekir Tamer Tetiker, Kairgeldy Aikimbaev
Menstrual abnormalities post-COVID vaccination: a cross-sectional study on adult Lebanese women
Ahmad Ayman Dabbousi, Jad El Masri, Lemir Majed El Ayoubi, Omar Ismail, Bachir Zreika, Pascale Salameh
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis as a rare cause of the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
Fatma Dilek Dellal, Gulsum Karaahmetli, Serdar Can Guven, Cevdet Aydin, Oya Topaloglu, Reyhan Ersoy, Bekir Cakir
Insulin resistance and related factors in patients with moderate and severe traumatic brain injury
Nurdan Korkmaz, Serdar Kesikburun, Merve Örücü Atar, Tevfik Sabuncu
Evaluation of the ischemia modified albumin levels in familial Mediterranean fever patients
Yusuf Atabay, Zeynep Altın, Ayfer Çolak, Harun Akar
A constellation of dermatological findings in a COVID-19 positive patient
Sophie Diong, Marta Costa Blasco, Karen Eustace
Assessment of the circulatory concentrations of cathepsin D, cathepsin K, and alpha-1 antitrypsin in patients with knee osteoarthritis
Alireza Khoshdel, Mohammad Forootan, Mehdi Afsharinasab, Mohsen Rezaian, Mitra Abbasifard
Obesity trends over 10 years in primary hip and knee arthroplasty—a study of 12,000 patients
Colum Downey, Katie St John, Jeet Chatterji, Adrian Cassar-Gheiti, John M. O’Byrne, Paddy Kenny, James P. Cashman
Effects of clinical pilates exercises in patients with chronic nonspecific neck pain: a randomized clinical trial
Gonca Sahiner Picak, Sevgi Sevi Yesilyaprak
Pharmacogenetic profiling and individualised therapy in the treatment of degenerative spinal conditions
Jake M. McDonnell, Brian Rigney, James Storme, Daniel P. Ahern, Gráinne Cunniffe, Joseph S. Butler
‘Out of hours’ orthopaedics in an Irish regional trauma unit and the impact of COVID-19
Luke Turley, John Mahon, Eoin Sheehan
Sarcopenia in knee osteoarthritis: the association with clinical and sonographic findings, physical function, and nutrition
Sefa Gümrük Aslan, Hakan Genç
‘Closing the loop’: re-audit of the diagnosis and management of vitamin B12 deficiency in general practice
O. O’Donnell, J. MacCarthy
Non-diabetic fetal macrosomia: outcomes of elective delivery versus expectant management
Gillian A. Corbett, Samuel Hunter, Amina Javaid, Emma McNamee, Michael O’Connell, Stephen W. Lindow, Aisling Martin
Maternal neuropeptide galanin levels in pregnancies with intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR): neurohormonal regulation of fetal weight
Berna Şermin Kılıç, Nil Atakul, Şahabettin Selek, Yıldız Atamer
Barriers to attendance at a tertiary hospital’s perinatal mortality meeting
Barbara Burke, Sophie Boyd, Karen McNamara, Keelin O’Donoghue
Barriers to accessing aeroallergen immunotherapy in paediatrics
James Trayer, Aideen Byrne, Basil Elnazir
The quality of published paediatric audits and their standards
Gráinne C. Larkin, Sinead A. Mulroy, Tomasz Nabialek, Monica Burlacu, Mushtaq Hussain, Michael B. O’Neill
Child protection concern in patients during the COVID-19 lockdown
Valerie Bell, Aisling McCann, Claire Power, Eimear Gilchrist, Helen O’Byrne, Jean Roulston, Sheila McCrory, Emma Curtis, Michael Barrett, Sinead Harty
Palliative care services for children with life-limiting conditions
Jenny Hayden, Mary Ann Larkin, Hilary Noonan, Marian Conroy, Feargal Twomey, Val O’Reilly, Siobhan Gallagher
Reason for peripheral blood natural killer cell depletion in severe COVID-19 patients
Mohammad Hossein Razizadeh
Dublin hospital workers’ mental health during the peak of Ireland’s COVID-19 pandemic
Conan Brady, Caoimhe Fenton, Orlaith Loughran, Blánaid Hayes, Martina Hennessy, Agnes Higgins, Declan M. McLoughlin
Competency in trauma surgery: a national survey of trainees and consultants
Michael Flanagan, Jessica Ryan, Gary Bass, Kevin Barry, Oscar Traynor, Morgan McMonagle
Black and non-black population: investigation of the difference in butyrylcholinesterase activity in a healthy population in Salvador, Bahia
Jucelino Nery da Conceição Filho, Iris Campos dos Santos, Davi Pereira de Jesus Gonçalves, Junia Raquel Dutra Ferreira, Ana Leonor Pardo Campos Godoy
Evaluation of the efficiency and complications of the consecutive proning in COVID-19 ICU: a retrospective study
Esra Ozayar, Ozlem Ozbek, Adem Selvi, Adil Ozturk, Ozge Gursozlu
Efficacy and feasibility of awake proning in COVID-19: are we missing the other side of the same coin?
Prosenjit Mukherjee, Mohanchandra Mandal, Pradipta Bhakta, Antonio M. Esquinas
Prone positioning for mechanically ventilated patients with coronavirus disease 2019: the experience of an Irish regional hospital intensive care unit
Nicholas Di Mascio, Siobhan Clarke, Gillian de Loughry, Wahid Altaf
The evolution of the midwife in the obstetric high dependency unit
Jennifer Kielty, Ross Bowe, Andrew O’Donoghue, Karen Sherlock, Ingrid Browne, Terry Tan, Siaghal MacColgain
Efficacy and feasibility of awake proning in patients with COVID-19-related acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: exploring both sides of the same coin
Tharwat Aisa, Tidi Hassan, Ehtesham Khan, Khaled Algrni, Muhammed Anwar Malik
Outcomes from 7 years of a direct to audiology referral pathway
Roulla Katiri, Nina Sivan, Anthony Noone, Eric Farrell, Laura McLoughlin, Bronagh Lang, Bronagh O’Donnell, Stephen M. Kieran
Establishing a committee for antemortem reviews of suspect Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases in Ireland
Conor Fearon, Rachel Howley, Seamus Looby, Amber Byrne, Josephine Heffernan, Ciara Heeney, Alan Beausang, Jane Cryan, Michael Farrell, Sean O’Dowd, Francesca Brett
Comparison of national early warning score-2 and qSOFA in predicting the prognosis of older adults with altered mental status
Hatice Tapsiz, Sadiye Yolcu, Nurettin Yilmaz, Mehmet Tunc, Adem Kaya, Akkan Avci
The effect of applying the nursing process based on the Theory of Goal Attainment on activities of daily living and quality of life in persons with multiple sclerosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a clinical trial
Firuzeh Payamani, Mahnaz Khatiban, Alireza Soltanian, Masoud Ghiasian, Seyed Reza Borzou
Diet quality, sleep and quality of life in Parkinson’s disease: a cross-sectional study
Danielle Dunk, Philip Mulryan, Sean Affonso, Gerard W. O’Keeffe, Majella O’Keeffe, Aideen M. Sullivan
Magnesium implants in orthopaedic surgery create a diagnostic conundrum: A radiology case series and literature review
Toni Anderson, Jennifer Lee, Philip Johnston, William Torreggiani, Martin Ryan
Evaluation of pain, disease activity, anxiety, depression, and neuropathic pain levels after COVID-19 infection in fibromyalgia patients
Dilek Eker Büyükşireci, Ayla Çağlıyan Türk, Ender Erden, Ebru Erden
MRA-detected intracranial atherosclerotic disease in patients with TIA and minor stroke
Philip J. Dempsey, Mark C. Murphy, Michael Marnane, Sean Murphy, Eoin C. Kavanagh
Tumorous kidney segmentation in abdominal CT images using active contour and 3D-UNet
Mohit Pandey, Abhishek Gupta
Imaging of groin pain in athletes: patterns of injury at MRI and gender differences therein
John P. Hynes, Meadhbh O’Flaherty, David Glynn, Sarah Eustace, Eoin C. Kavanagh
Locked in and locked out: sequelae of a pandemic for distressed and vulnerable teenagers in Ireland
Aoibheann McLoughlin, Ahad Abdalla, Jade Gonzalez, Aoife Freyne, Muhammad Asghar, Yolande Ferguson
Hospital mortality and length of stay differences in emergency medical admissions related to ‘on-call’ specialty
Richard P. Conway, Declan G. Byrne, Deirdre M. R. O’Riordan, Bernard Silke
Computational insights into missense mutations in HTT gene causing Huntington’s disease and its interactome networks
Muneeza Qayyum Khan, Hira Mubeen, Zohaira Qayyum Khan, Ammara Masood, Asma Zafar, Javed Iqbal Wattoo, Alim un Nisa
Behaviour, Belief and Impairment (BBI): a diagnostic procedure for eating disorders in primary care
Laura Ridgeway, Debra Katzman, Fiona McNicholas
Adding eosinophil count to EMERALD rules predicts subarachnoid haemorrhage better in emergency department
Adem Kaya, Salim Satar, Muge Gulen, Selen Acehan, Kemal Alper Afser, Hakan Demirhindi
Reminiscence therapy is a feasible care program for improving cognitive function, anxiety, and depression in recurrent acute ischemic stroke patients: a randomized, controlled study
Jiaying Yu, Yun Tang, Jingfeng Han, Jiawei Chen, Weiwei Lin, Wei Cui
Accuracy of emergency physician bedside ultrasonography compared with private teleradiologist for acute appendicitis diagnosis
Ertuğrul Altuğ, Kemal Şener, Adem Çakir, Zeynep Betül Erdem, Gökhan Eyüpoğlu, Ramazan Güven
The effect of pelvic floor muscle training on urinary incontinence in patients with stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Fatih Özden, İsmet Tümtürk, Mehmet Özkeskin, Serkan Bakırhan
Investigation of the relationship between disease severity and development of amyloidosis and genetic mutation in FMF disease
Berk Bas, Hayriye Sayarlioglu, Zeliha Yarar, Melda Dilek, Nurol Arik, Mehmet Sayarlioglu
The effect of aerobic exercises of different intensities on anxiety, cigarette addiction, sleep quality, and quality of life in former smokers
Ahmet Sarıtoy, Serkan Usgu
The effect of ACE inhibitors and ARBs on outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19
Narges Najafi, Alireza Davoudi, Hamideh Izadyar, Abbas Alishahi, Armaghan Mokhtariani, Bahareh Soleimanpourian, Mina Tabarrayi, Mahmood Moosazadeh, Zahra Daftarian, Fatemeh Ahangarkani
A longitudinal analysis of factors associated with age-related cataract among older Australian women: a cohort study of 7851 older Australian women 79–90 years
Mitiku Teshome Hambisa, Xenia Dolja-Gore, Julie E. Byles
Shaun R McCann: Medicine Matters. 40 years working within the Irish healthcare system
William Tormey
Correction to: Implementation of an on‑site simulation programme during COVID‑19 and the assessment of its impact on medical students’ competence
Niall James McInerney, Mohammad Faraz Khan, Laoise Coady, Jeffrey Dalli, Maurice Stokes, Suzzane Donnelly, Helen Heneghan, Ronan Cahill
Correction to: Child protection concern in patients during the COVID‑19 lockdown
Valerie Bell, Aisling McCann, Claire Power, Eimear Gilchrist, Helen O’Byrne, Jean Roulston, Sheila McCrory, Emma Curtis, Michael Barrett, Sinead Harty
Correction to: Open versus laparoscopic liver resection of colorectal metastases: a meta‑analysis of matched patient populations
Michael E. Kelly, Matthew Fahy, Jarlath C. Bolger, Patrick A. Boland, Colm Neary, Gerry P. McEntee, John B. Conneely
Correction to: A new radiographic classification of fifth distal metacarpal fractures
Ertuğrul Şahin