Quality improvement can decrease blood delivery turnaround time: Evidence from a single tertiary-care academic medical center by Hammad Y.A.

“…The transport time significantly decreased from an initial majority of > 15 mins duration, to a majority of < 15 mins transport time after the second audit; there was a 50% improvement in 30 mins response time; and the percentage of requests processed in < 10 mins were significantly higher after the second audit. …”
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A vector quantization based k-NN approach for large-scale image classification by Ozan, Ezgi Can

“…However, with the growth of the size of image datasets and the number of dimensions of image descriptors, popularity of k-NNs has decreased due to their significant storage requirements and computational costs. …”
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Energy-Efficient Transmission Technique based on Dijkstra Algorithm for decreasing energy consumption in WSNs by Abderrahim M.

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Burden of disease attributable to suboptimal diet, metabolic risks and low physical activity in Ethiopia and comparison with Eastern sub-Saharan African countries, 1990-2015: findi... by Melaku, Yohannes Adama

“…While the age-adjusted proportion of all-cause mortality attributable to CMU decreased significantly between 1990 and 2015, it increased from 10.8% [95% UI: 8.8-13.3] to 14.5% [95% UI: 11.7-18.0] for dietary risks and from 17.0% [95% UI: 15.4-18.7] to 24.2% [95% UI: 22.2-26.1] for metabolic risks. …”
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apoA2 correlates to gestational age with decreased apolipoproteins A2, C1, C3 and E in gestational diabetes. by Ramanjaneya, Manjunath

“…Pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are at risk of adverse outcomes, including gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, and preterm delivery. …”
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Uncertain training data set conceptual reduction: A machine learning perspective by Rezk, Eman

“…Knowledge discovery from data is a challenging problem that has significant importance in many different fields such as biology, economics and social sciences. …”
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Pharmacist Role in Hypertension Management in the Community Setting: Questionnaire Development, Validation, and Application by Soubra, Lama

“…Pharmacists can play a substantial role in decreasing the burden of the disease. Purpose: The primary aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale assessing the pharmacist role in hypertension management in the community pharmacy setting. …”
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The Association between Zinc and Copper and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adults by Al Kudsi, Dana Samir

“…0.13; p=0.01). High Cu significantly decreased the risk of MetS (0.121; p?0.001). …”
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Nutritional quality and health risk of pepper fruit as affected by magnesium fertilization. by Lu, Ming

“…Increasing health risk was mainly attributed to decreasing concentrations of Ca and Vc in pepper fruit, though the increased Mg intakes offset the impact of 1.74% to 14.4%. …”
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Impact of pharmacist-involved collaborative care on diabetes management in a primary healthcare setting using real-world data by Abdulrhim, Sara

“…Results After 17 months of follow-up, pharmacist-involved collaborative care compared to usual care resulted in a significant decrease in HbA1c (6.8 ± 1.2% vs. 7.1 ± 1.3%, p < 0.01). …”
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Risk Management Assessments and Recommendations Among Students, Staffs, and Health Care Workers in Educational Biomedical Laboratories. by Rizk, Nasser M

“…Both laboratories were free from radiation hazards. There is a significant difference between adopted and recommended control measures in each laboratory in terms of likelihood, severity, and risk priority number (RPN). …”
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Tranexamic Acid for Traumatic Injury in the Emergency Setting: A Systematic Review and Bias-Adjusted Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Pieter Francsois, Fouche

“…ResultsSeven randomized controlled trials met the set criteria. This meta-analysis indicated an 11% decrease in the death risk at 1 month after TXA use (odds ratio [OR] 0.89, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.84 to 0.95) with a number needed to treat of 61 to avoid 1 additional death. …”
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Tranexamic Acid for Traumatic Injury in the Emergency Setting: A Systematic Review and Bias-Adjusted Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Pieter Francsois, Fouche

“…ResultsSeven randomized controlled trials met the set criteria. This meta-analysis indicated an 11% decrease in the death risk at 1 month after TXA use (odds ratio [OR] 0.89, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.84 to 0.95) with a number needed to treat of 61 to avoid 1 additional death. …”
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Dietary patterns associated with the risk of pancreatic cancer: Case-control study findings by Tayyem, Reema

“…The "Traditional"dietary pattern, which presented a diet rich in fresh fruits, vegetables, milk, yogurt, and lentils, was associated with a significant decrease in the odds of PC (OR = 0.42, 95% CI = 0.21-0.84) for the third quartile compared to first one. …”
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INTERACTION BETWEEN CLOCK GENE AND LIFESTYLE FACTOR IN RELATION TO OBESITY RISK FACTOR by ABDULKADER, HADIL

“…Participants with a high level of education also showed a decreased risk of obesity (OR: 0.60, 95% CL: 0.54-0.67) compared with a low education level. …”
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Consumption of some food groups is associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease among Jordanians by Tayyem, Reema

“…Increased consumption of fruits, vegetables and moderate consumption of vegetables oil and seeds and nuts are may be associated with decreased risk of CVD among Jordanian population.…”
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DVF-fog: Distributed virtual firewall in fog computing based on risk analysis by Kamoun-Abid, Ferdaous

“…Furthermore, the comparison with existing approaches based on the openstack framework illustrates that the fog-based distributed virtual firewall (DVF) approach decreases significantly the false positive rate (FPR) to be 0.0942% and increases the true positive rate (TPR) to be 99.9%. 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.…”
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Dietary patterns and the risk of coronary heart disease among Jordanians: A caseecontrol study by Tayyem, RF

“…Background and Aims Dietary pattern and lifestyle have been reported to be significant risk factors in the development of coronary heart diseases (CHD). …”
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Dietary patterns and the risk of coronary heart disease among Jordanians: A case-control study. by Tayyem, R F

“…Dietary pattern and lifestyle have been reported to be significant risk factors in the development of coronary heart diseases (CHD). …”
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High-quality and anti-inflammatory diets and a healthy lifestyle are associated with lower sleep apnea risk by Melaku, Yohannes Adama

“…There was a significant interaction between healthy lifestyle and sex with sleep apnea risk (P for interaction = .049) whereby females with higher healthy lifestyle scores had a lower risk of sleep apnea compared to males. …”
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