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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Among Individuals With Spinal Implant Infections: A Descriptive Study. [PDF]

, 2016
Little is known about the clinical presentation and outcomes associated with spinal implant infections. Here, we describe a single center's experience in a retrospective cohort of 109 individuals with spinal implant infections, including clinical ...
Baxi, Sanjiv M, Doernberg, Sarah B, Grill, Marie F, Liu, Catherine, Robinson, Makeda L, Schwartz, Brian S   +5 more
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Outcome predictors and clinical presentation of syringomyelia

Asian Journal of Surgery, 2023
Summary: Background: The prognosis of syringomyelia is not yet established. Syringomyelia derived from different etiologies contributes to similar symptoms.
Yun-Cong Zheng, Yin-Tso Liu, Kuo-Chen Wei, Yin-Cheng Huang, Pin-Yuan Chen, Yung-Hsin Hsu, Chih-Lung Lin   +6 more
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Patient Dietary Supplements Use: Do Results from Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes Agree with Survey Data?

Medical Sciences, 2023
There is widespread use of dietary supplements, some prescribed but many taken without a physician’s guidance. There are many potential interactions between supplements and both over-the-counter and prescription medications in ways that are unknown to ...
Douglas Redd, Terri Elizabeth Workman, Yijun Shao, Yan Cheng, Senait Tekle, Jennifer H. Garvin, Cynthia A. Brandt, Qing Zeng-Treitler   +7 more
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Impact of sitagliptin on endometrial mesenchymal stem-like progenitor cells : a randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled feasibility trial [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is associated with the loss of endometrial mesenchymal stem-like progenitor cells (eMSC). DPP4 inhibitors may increase homing and engraftment of bone marrow-derived cells to sites of tissue injury.
Brighton, Paul (Paul J.), Brosens, Jan J., Da Costa, Maria José Minhoto Diniz, Ewington, Lauren J., Fishwick, Katherine, Fujihara, Risa, Kimani, Peter K., Lacey, Lauren, Lucas, Emma S., Muter, Joanne, Polanco, Angela, Quenby, Siobhan, Takeda, Satoru, Tewary, Shreeya   +13 more
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Acute cough in Italian children: parents’ beliefs, approach to treatment, and the family impact

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2019
Background Acute cough is the most common symptom among children in primary care, but the impact of cough episodes was never investigated in Italian families.
Roberto W. Dal Negro, Alessandro Zanasi, Paola Turco, Massimiliano Povero   +3 more
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Process control: simply a matter of efficiency or of survival and costs? A single-centre quality improvement project in living donor renal transplant

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Rising incidence and prevalence of end-stage renal disease is a worldwide concern for sustainability of healthcare systems and societies. Living donor renal transplant [LDRT] provides highest health achievements and cost containment than any ...
Filippo Paoletti, Vittori Giorgio, Adel Jaser, Natalia Romina Zanoni, Walter Ricciardi, Franco Citterio, Antonio Giulio De Belvis   +6 more
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A meta-analysis of the use of intraoperative cholangiography; time to revisit our approach to cholecystectomy?

Surgery Open Science, 2021
Background: Despite some evidence of improved survival with intraoperative cholangiography during cholecystectomy, debate has raged about its benefit, in part because of its questionable benefit, time, and resources required to complete.
Eoin Donnellan, Medical student, Jonathan Coulter, Specialist Surgical Registrar (BM BS BSc MRCSI), Cherian Mathew, Medical student, Michelle Choynowski, Doctor (BSc MB BCh BAO), Louise Flanagan, Registered Nurse (BSc), Magda Bucholc, PhD, Lecturer in Data Analytics, Alison Johnston, Specialist Breast Care Nurse (MSc), Michael Sugrue, Consultant Surgeon (MB BCh BAO MD FRSCI FRACS)   +7 more
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Residual Weighted Learning for Estimating Individualized Treatment Rules

, 2015
Personalized medicine has received increasing attention among statisticians, computer scientists, and clinical practitioners. A major component of personalized medicine is the estimation of individualized treatment rules (ITRs).
Khan, Umer, Kosorok, Michael R., Mayer-Hamblett, Nicole, Zhou, Xin   +3 more
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Influenza and influenza-like syndromes: the subjects’ beliefs, the attitude to prevention and treatment, and the impact in Italian general population

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2018
Background Influenza and influenza-like syndromes (I-LSs) are infectious diseases occurring on a seasonal basis which can lead to upper (URTI) and lower respiratory tract illness (LRTI) of different severity.
Roberto W. Dal Negro, Alessandro Zanasi, Paola Turco, Massimiliano Povero   +3 more
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Development and usability testing of an electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) solution for patients with inflammatory diseases in an Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) basket trial

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2023
Background Electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) systems are increasingly used in clinical trials to provide evidence of efficacy and tolerability of treatment from the patient perspective.
Christel McMullan, Ameeta Retzer, Sarah E. Hughes, Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Camilla Bathurst, Alan Boyd, Jamie Coleman, Elin Haf Davies, Alastair K. Denniston, Helen Dunster, Chris Frost, Rosie Harding, Amanda Hunn, Derek Kyte, Rebecca Malpass, Gary McNamara, Sandra Mitchell, Saloni Mittal, Philip N. Newsome, Gary Price, Anna Rowe, Wilma van Reil, Anita Walker, Roger Wilson, Melanie Calvert   +24 more
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