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Exams in China and a generation’s struggle for survival

June in China is the month of the Gaokao (the university entrance exam) and the Zhongkao (the secondary school entrance exam) ...
Open Heart

Impact of socioeconomic deprivation on early and long-term outcomes after major aortic surgery: insights from a 20-year single-centre cohort

Background Socioeconomic deprivation has been associated with adverse outcomes after aortic surgery, although evidence ...
The Lancet

Long-term survival in patients discharged alive from hospital following an intensive care unit admission with sepsis or septic shock in Australia and New Zealand: an ...

Septic shock was associated with persistent independent excess mortality over five years after hospital discharge, whereas in sepsis without shock, this was largely explained by pre-existing ...
BMJ Quality & Safety

Mapping Theories, Models and Frameworks from implementation science for evaluating quality improvement initiatives: a scoping review

Background Improvement science has supported the methodological foundations for the application of quality improvement (QI) ...
BMJ Open

Longitudinal serological detection of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in a cohort of pregnant women in Malawi: a secondary analysis from a randomised controlled trial

Objective To investigate whether IgG to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antigens could reveal undetected SARS-CoV-2 exposure in a cohort of Malawian pregnant women ...