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Original articles

• Characteristics of and risk factors for death in elderly patients with acute kidney injury: a multicentre retrospective study in China (7 March, 2018)

  Jie-Qiong Liu, Guang-Yan Cai, Shuang Liang, Wen-Ling Wang, Si-Yang Wang, Fang-Lei Zhu, Sa-Sa Nie, Zhe Feng, Xiang-Mei Chen
• Frequency, comprehension and attitudes of physicians towards abbreviations in the medical record (14 March, 2018) Free

  Uri Hamiel, Idan Hecht, Achia Nemet, Liron Pe’er, Vitaly Man, Assaf Hilely, Asaf Achiron
• Can we successfully teach novice junior doctors basic interventional ultrasound in a single focused training session? (15 March, 2018)

  Grace Frances Mary McKay, Asoka Weerasinghe
• Developing a novel international undergraduate surgical masterclass during a financial crisis: our 4-year experience (8 March, 2018)

  Michail Sideris, John Hanrahan, Georgios Tsoulfas, Iakovos Theodoulou, Fatema Dhaif, Vassilios Papalois, Savvas Papagrigoriadis, George Velmahos, Patricia Turner, Apostolos Papalois
• Establishing objective benchmarks in robotic virtual reality simulation at the level of a competent surgeon using the RobotiX Mentor simulator (6 March, 2018)

  William Watkinson, Nicholas Raison, Takashige Abe, Patrick Harrison, Shamim Khan, Henk Van der Poel, Prokar Dasgupta, Kamran Ahmed
• Association between circulating leptin levels and multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (26 March, 2018)

  Xue-Feng Xie, Xiao-Hui Huang, Ai-Zong Shen, Jun Li, Ye-Huan Sun
• Association of interleukin-10 gene single nucleotide polymorphisms with rheumatoid arthritis in a Chinese population

  (27 February, 2018)

  Tian-Ping Zhang, Tian-Tian Lv, Shu-Zhen Xu, Hai-Feng Pan, Dong-Qing Ye