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A Personalised and Gamified Digital Decision Aid for Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Randomised Controlled Pilot Study
CONCLUSIONS: Preliminary findings suggest that a digital DA with personalised and gamified content may enhance CRC screening uptake and partially support informed choice. Larger, multisite studies are warranted to evaluate scalability, inclusivity, and long-term effectiveness in population-based cancer prevention. →
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Expressive writing intervention on optimism and coping modes of newly diagnosed people with human immunodeficiency virus: A randomized controlled trial
CONCLUSION: The expressive writing intervention would improve optimism and promote more positive coping modes for newly diagnosed people with HIV. →
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Exploring transdiagnostic factors for mental health screening in primary care: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled pilot study
OBJECTIVE: This secondary analysis of a randomised controlled pilot study (n = 87 patients) examined how transdiagnostic factors-including emotion regulation mechanisms (emotion beliefs, cognitive reappraisal, emotion suppression and experiential avoidance) and negative affectivity-relate to depressive, anxiety and somatic symptoms in the primary care setting, and whether emotion regulation mechanisms provide potential screening relevance beyond negative… →
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Fit your own mask first: Leading under pressure
“Fit your own oxygen mask first” is a universally accepted safety instruction, but can the same logic be applied to leadership? Marita, Ming, Saher, Adam, Egan, and Dongsoo, argue that in high pressure environments, the ability for managers to self-regulate their own stress is a prerequisite for effective decision-making, emotional presence, and team performance. When… →
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Lorazepam Versus Diazepam in Alcohol Dependence Syndrome: Which Is Better?
Objective: To compare the efficacy of lorazepam and diazepam in managing alcohol withdrawal and associated anxiety and depressive symptoms in alcohol dependence syndrome. →
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VC: Tomasz Tunguz on AI’s $575B Bet, the 5th-Largest Infrastructure Project Ever
Listen on YouTube Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify You can also watch/listen to the entire episode on X. Bigger Than Apollo, Bigger Than the Highway System: Inside the $575B AI Infrastructure Bet Hyperscalers are spending every dollar of free cash flow they generate. Then they’re borrowing more. Meta, Google, and Oracle are now levered roughly… →
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A Staff-Directed Electronic Medical Record Alert to Increase Chlamydia Screening: A Randomized Clinical Trial
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this randomized clinical trial of chlamydia screening, an alert directed to medical assistants was associated with increased odds of a test ordered in primary care practices. This study’s results suggest that an alert could increase the proportion of women screened for chlamydia and reduce the reproductive sequelae of this common STD. →
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Modifying implementation strategies for integration of screening and management of mental disorders, including substance use disorders into other NCD care in Faridabad, Haryana as part of ICMR-MINDS project
CONCLUSION: The study highlights the importance of systematic approach and documentation for adapting implementation strategies to real-world conditions. The modified strategies intend to offer a feasible approach to integrated MSUD care in Faridabad district of Haryana. The findings indicate feasibility and system fit. Further evaluation is required to assess effectiveness and scalability. →
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A Randomized Trial to Investigate the Effects of Low-Dose Colchicine in Patients with Hypertension: Rationale and Design of the COlchicine and HypERtENsion Trial (COHERENT)
Hypertension is a prevalent and significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The immune system and inflammatory response are involved in the pathophysiology of hypertension. We hypothesize that treating hypertension with colchicine on top of standard therapy, will decrease pulse wave velocity (PWV), left ventricular mass, cardiac/inflammatory biomarkers. COHERENT was an investigator-initiated, single-center, prospective, randomized,… →
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Effects of pneumatic tube systems on next-generation viscoelastic coagulation test devices in septic patients and healthy individuals: Results of the randomized controlled VETaPT trial
Rapid coagulation assessment is essential in critical care to enable timely correction of coagulopathy. Viscoelastic testing (VET) supports this goal but may be affected by mechanical stress during transport by pneumatic tube systems (PTS). As PTS are widely used to expedite sample delivery, evaluating the robustness of next-generation VET and platelet function assays under these… →
