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Creating a Single Application and Approval Process to Enable Research; an example using CPRD Primary Care Data and Public Health England Cancer Registry Data

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Objectives To enhance the research value and capability of its primary care database, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) has collaborated with Public Health England (PHE)’s National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service to facilitate ...
Sophia Amjad, Rachael Williams, Rachael Brannan, Tariq Malik, Janet Valentine   +4 more
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Pharmacogenetics in Clinical Practice [PDF]

Prague Medical Report, 2012
Pharmacogenetics is a discipline that investigates how genetic variation relates to the drug efficacy and safety. The goal of pharmacogenetics is a personalized treatment, where according to genotype we would be able to prescribe the most effective drug at the most appropriate dose for an individual patient.
Hana Bakhouche, Ondřej Slanař
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Machine learning for screening prioritization in systematic reviews: comparative performance of Abstrackr and EPPI-Reviewer

Systematic Reviews, 2020
Background Improving the speed of systematic review (SR) development is key to supporting evidence-based medicine. Machine learning tools which semi-automate citation screening might improve efficiency.
Amy Y. Tsou, Jonathan R. Treadwell, Eileen Erinoff, Karen Schoelles   +3 more
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Economic impact of a rapid, on‐demand ADAMTS‐13 activity assay for the diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2022
Background Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare, life‐threatening thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), characterized by ADAMTS‐13 activity
Alicia White, Rosie Martin, Keven Sew, Amanda Stucke, Rob Cook   +4 more
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Clinical practice.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2023
Basal ganglia and thalamus (BGT) hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury is currently the most contentious issue in cerebral palsy (CP) litigation in South Africa (SA), and merits a consensus response based on the current available international literature. BGT pattern injury is strongly associated with a preceding perinatal sentinel event (PSE), which has a ...
I Bhorat, E Buchmann, K Frank, P Soma-Pillay, E Nicolaou, L Pistorius, I Smuts   +6 more
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Assimilating South African medical students trained in Cuba into the South African medical education system: reflections from an identity perspective

BMC Medical Education, 2016
Background In terms of the Nelson Mandela Fidel Castro Medical Collaboration programme, an agreement between the governments of South Africa and Cuba, cohorts of South African students receive their initial five years medical training at a Cuban ...
B. M. Donda, R. J. Hift, V. S. Singaram
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The Impact of the Choice of Data Source in Record Linkage Studies Estimating Mortality in Venous Thromboembolism

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Objective Linked electronic healthcare databases are increasingly being used in observational research. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of the choice of data source in estimating mortality following VTE, with a secondary aim to ...
Arlene Gallagher, Tim Williams, Frank de Vries   +2 more
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The utilization of simulated patients for teaching and learning in the pharmacy curriculum: exploring pharmacy students’ and recent alumni’s perceptions using mixed-methods approach

BMC Medical Education, 2021
Background The use of simulated patients (SPs) is considered a significant resource for teaching and assessing clinical and communication skills in health professional education.
Hager ElGeed, Maguy Saffouh El Hajj, Raja Ali, Ahmed Awaisu   +3 more
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Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)

Population Health Metrics, 2023
Background This descriptive study assessed the completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom (UK) Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) primary care databases alone and, for those patients registered ...
Suhail I. Shiekh, Mia Harley, Rebecca E. Ghosh, Mark Ashworth, Puja Myles, Helen P. Booth, Eleanor L. Axson   +6 more
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Hypothyroidism in clinical practice

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2014
Hypothyroidism is the most common endocrine disease that was seen in the clinical practice especially for family physicians.This review article covered the important practical clinical issues for managing overt hypothyroidism, subclinical hypothyroidism and hypothyroidism during pregnancy.The clinical issues were addressed by clinical scenario followed
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