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Background@#With greater use of social media platforms for promotions of research articles, retracted articles tend to receive approximately the same attention. We systematically analyzed retracted articles from retractionwatch.com to look at the Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) garnered over a period of time in order to highlight the role of social media and other platforms in advertising retracted articles and its effect on the spread of misinformation. @*Methods@#Retractionwatch.com was searched for coronavirus disease 2019 related retracted papers on November 6th, 2021. Articles were excluded based on lack of digital object identifier (DOI), if they were preprint articles, absent AAS, and incomplete AAS of pre retraction, post retraction, or both scores. @*Results@#A total of 196 articles were found on the Retraction Watch website of which 189 were retracted papers and 7 were expression of concern (EOC). We then identified 175 articles after excluding those that did not have a DOI and 30 preprint articles were also excluded giving 145 articles. Further exclusion of articles with absent AAS and incomplete AAS resulted in a total of 22 articles. @*Conclusion@#Retracted articles receive significant online attention. Twitter and Mendeley were the most popular medium for publicizing retracted articles, therefore more focus should be given by journals and their Twitter accounts to discredit all their retracted articles.Preprints should be reconsidered as a whole by journals due to the huge risk they carry in disseminating false information.
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Objective: To observe the association of total absenteeism and the CBL absenteeism among the undergraduate medical students
Study Design: A cross sectional study
Place and Duration of Study: Army Medical College and study was conducted in the month of June 2016
Material and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in the month of June 2016 among the Second MBBS course at the Army Medical College. Two hundred second year M.B.B.S. students were informed and invited to participate in the study. We gathered the information from the students on total number of CBL attended in the whole academic year, reason for missing Anatomy CBL, causes for absenteeism, annual total attendance percentage of the second year class, number of pass CBL sessions in second year
Results: Out of 173 participants, there were 101 [58.4 percent] male and 72 [41.6 percent] female students with the mean age of 20.01 +/- 0.69 years. There were 84 [48.6 percent] medical cadets, 12 [6.9 percent] paying cadets, 21 [12.1 percent] additional selected cadets, 46 [26.6 percent] NUMS cadets and 10 [5.8 percent] NUMS foreign cadets. Mean CBL attendance was 13.09 +/- 1.87 with the range of 6-15. Mean attendance of classes other than CBL was 92.40 +/- 6.55. The difference of CBL attendance between various categories of cadets was insignificant [p-value=0.18]. Also, there was no effect of gender on the CBL attendance [p-value=0.10]
Conclusion: Frequency of students with attendance in CBL sessions below 75 percent is significantly different than the frequency of students with attendance above 75 percent
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Every year 350,000 people suffer an acute stroke in Pakistan. Treatment of acute stroke has not improved significantly despite the availability of intravenous thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator [tPA].The drug is expensive and is offered to a selected few. Streptokinase [SK], a low cost alternative thrombolytic agent, is widely available in Pakistan and is utilized to treat patients with acute coronary syndromes. Streptokinase was tested in acute stroke in the 1980's and found to be ineffective in ischemic stroke. This is likely due to trial design flaws, rather than the drug itself. Factors that may have contributed to poor outcomes include a prolonged treatment window, inclusion of patients with established infarction on CT scan, failure to treat excessive arterial pressures, a fixed dose of streptokinase and concomitant use of antithrombotic medications. Given the lack of therapeutic alternatives we believe that a properly designed trial in appropriate patient population utilizing stricter inclusion criteria, including early treatment with a lower dose of SK is warranted