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Evolution of functional and mental status and quality of life in people aged 75 years and over after the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: a prospective cohort study

The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant health and psychosocial consequences in the older adults. However, there is little community-based evidence that clearly distinguishes the effect attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection to be differentiated from the contextual impact of the...

Usefulness of custom-made orthoses with 3D scanning and printing for the conservative treatment of rhizarthrosis

Background: Trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis (rhizarthrosis) is often managed with orthopedic orthoses that are prefabricated in various sizes and may be manipulated to be adapted to the patient’s anatomy. Advances in three-dimensional scanning and printing now allow fabrication...

MassCas tabletop game as a training tool in mass casualty incidents for undergraduate medical students: a quasi-experimental study with knowledge assessment at 6-month follow-up

Mass casualty incidents (MCI) require a coordinated prehospital response from multiple healthcare teams. Undergraduate medical students rarely receive systematic MCI training, and some of the methods that have shown good results so far, full-scale simulations and extended reality...