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Effect of Sublingual Nitroglycerin on Absolute Coronary Blood Flow: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Mechanistic Study
CONCLUSIONS: Sublingual NTG induced a significant decrease in left ventricular preload and afterload, resulting in a marked decrease in myocardial work. This was associated with a significant and adaptive decrease in absolute coronary blood flow. →
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How GenAI Can and Can’t Help Manage Customer Insights
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images To understand their customers and markets, a growing number of customer-oriented companies are using generative AI tools, alongside the language and reasoning capabilities of popular large language models (LLMs), to access and analyze their own internal content. These hybrid knowledge approaches, which typically employ a technique called retrieval-augmented generation… →
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Finding Your Match … at the Hospital
The age-old adage “the right person in the right place at the right time” offers leaders and managers a recipe for success—in theory. But assigning a given task to the right person can be incredibly difficult in practice. Jillian Chown, an associate professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School, and Carlos Inoue of… →
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Investigation and treatment rates following minimal trauma fracture: results of a primary care physician survey
CONCLUSION: Rates of osteoporosis-directed investigations and treatment after minimal trauma fractures in primary care are below recommended levels. There remains a gap between observed management practices and established guidelines. A major barrier appears to be the reliance on DXA for confirmation of osteoporosis despite the presence of a minimal trauma fracture. →
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Etomidate combined with TAPB in ovarian cancer surgery: A controlled study on hemodynamics and immune response
CONCLUSION: Etomidate combined with transversus abdominis plane block provides stable anesthesia and modulates perioperative inflammatory and immune responses while reducing postoperative biochemical pain mediator levels, thereby supporting a safer and more physiologically balanced recovery following ovarian cancer surgery. →
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Comparison of the Efficacy of Different Doses of Glucocorticoid Nasal Spray Combined with Loratadine in the Treatment of Rhinitis in Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Pediatric rhinitis is a common recurrent disorder that may progress to asthma or sinusitis in severe cases. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of different doses of glucocorticoid nasal spray combined with loratadine for rhinitis in children, and provide evidence for optimizing clinical treatment. A total of 150 children with rhinitis admitted from June… →
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Efficacy and safety of short- versus standard-course ceftriaxone therapy in children with pneumonia: A randomized trial
CONCLUSION: Short- and standard-course ceftriaxone sodium have similar overall efficacy. A short-course is suitable for mild cases with a prompt inflammatory response, while a standard-course is preferred for severe cases or delayed inflammation to prevent relapse. →
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Family Size and Longitudinal Outcomes of a Digital-Human Parenting Intervention in Chinese Preschool Families: Secondary Analysis
CONCLUSIONS: Family size might not always be associated with short-term intervention effectiveness but was associated with divergence in longer-term trajectories. These findings suggest that caregiving demands are relevant for the sustainability of intervention effects. By integrating baseline differences, short-term effects, and longitudinal trajectories within a single framework, this study highlights the importance of moving beyond… →
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Early Nephrology Consultation and Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this randomized clinical trial of structured ENC triggered by a machine-learning AKI risk score, there was no difference in ΔSCr. AKI consultation recommendations were not followed the majority of time; whether increasing adherence to recommendations could improve outcomes deserves further study. →
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The Efficacy of Individualized Music Therapy in Patients With MCS: A Pilot Study on EEG
CONCLUSION: IMT is feasible and safe in medically fragile MCS patients and may induce right-hemisphere cortical activation. These pilot findings are hypothesis-generating and require confirmation in larger, adequately powered trials. →
