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Nurse preparedness for the non‐communicable disease escalation in Thailand: A cross‐sectional survey of nurses [PDF]

, 2012
Chronic diseases are now the largest cause of mortality in Thailand, and form an increasingly large portion of the healthcare landscape. In the Thai health system, many patients with chronic conditions receive care and disease management services from ...
Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, Bandura, Kaufman, Patcharanarumol, Porapakkham, Potempa, Rukumnuaykit, Sindhu, Sritara   +8 more
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Outcomes following laminoplasty or laminectomy and fusion in patients with myelopathy caused by ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: A systematic review [PDF]

, 2016
Study Design Systematic review. Objective To compare laminoplasty versus laminectomy and fusion in patients with cervical myelopathy caused by OPLL. Methods A systematic review was conducted using PubMed/Medline, Cochrane database, and Google scholar of ...
Limthongkul, Worawat, Riew, K. Daniel, Singhatanadgige, Weerasak, Valone, Frank, III, Yingsakmongkol, Wicharn   +4 more
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Hybrid copula mixed models for combining case-control and cohort studies in meta-analysis of diagnostic tests [PDF]

, 2016
Copula mixed models for trivariate (or bivariate) meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies accounting (or not) for disease prevalence have been proposed in the biostatistics literature to synthesize information.
Aas K, Aristidis K Nikoloulopoulos, Brenner H, Chen Y, Chen Y, Chu H, Chu H, Demidenko E, Jerant A, Joe H, Joe H, Joe H, Joe H, Kurowicka D, Leeflang MM, Leeflang MMG, Ma X, Nash J, Nelsen RB, Nikoloulopoulos AK, Nikoloulopoulos AK, Nikoloulopoulos AK, Nikoloulopoulos AK, Sklar M, Stober J, Stroud AH, Varin C, Varin C, Xing Y   +28 more
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The narrative potential of the British Birth Cohort Studies [PDF]

, 2008
This paper draws attention to the narrative potential of longitudinal studies such as the British Birth Cohort Studies (BBCS), and explores the possibility of creating narrative case histories and conducting narrative analysis based on information ...
Blackwell, L., Blanden, J., Bynner, J., Côté, J., Dex, S., Elliott, J., Ferri, E., Galindo-Rueda, F., Jane Elliott, Joshi, H., Preston, J., Ruspini, E., Wadsworth, M.E.J., White, H.   +13 more
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Evidence based cardiology - Psychosocial factors in the aetiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease: systematic review of prospective cohort studies [PDF]

, 1999
Summary points: In healthy populations, prospective cohort studies show a possible aetiological role for type A/hostility (6/14 studies), depression and anxiety (11/11 studies), psychosocial work characteristics (6/10 studies), social support (5/8 ...
Hemingway, H., Marmot, M.
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Posterior cricoid region fluoroscopic findings: the posterior cricoid plication. [PDF]

, 2010
The region posterior to the cricoid cartilage is challenging to assess fluoroscopically. The purpose of this investigation is to critically evaluate the posterior cricoid (PC) region on fluoroscopy and describe patterns of common findings.
AR Gordon, Cheryl J. White, GW Friedland, H Butler, Jacqui E. Allen, JL Clements, JL Nosher, K Kendall, O Ekberg, Peter C. Belafsky, Rebecca J. Leonard, RG Pitman, RG Pitman, S McKenzie, WJ Dodds   +14 more
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Prospective Cohort Studies [PDF]

, 2015
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De Rango, P.
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Birth seasonality studies in a large Prader-Willi syndrome cohort. [PDF]

, 2019
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is generally due to sporadic paternal deletions of the chromosome 15q11-q13 region followed by maternal disomy 15. Advanced maternal age is more commonly seen in those with maternal disomy 15. Environmental factors (e.g., drug
Butler, Merlin G, Driscoll, Daniel J, Dykens, Elisabeth, Gold, June Anne, Kimonis, Virginia, Miller, Jennifer L, Tamura, Roy   +6 more
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Oral contraception and eye disease: findings in two large cohort studies [PDF]

, 1997
AIM : To investigate the relation between oral contraceptive use and certain eye diseases. \ud \ud METHODS : Abstraction of the relevant data from the two large British cohort studies of the effects of oral contraception, the Royal College of General ...
Chappell, D., Frith, P., Hannaford, P., Mant, J.W.F., Painter, R., Vessey, M.P.   +5 more
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Crude incidence in two-phase designs in the presence of competing risks. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundIn many studies, some information might not be available for the whole cohort, some covariates, or even the outcome, might be ascertained in selected subsamples. These studies are part of a broad category termed two-phase studies.
A Demnati, AA Tsiatis, AJ Scott, B Langholz, B Langholz, C Särndal, CE Frangakis, David V. Glidden, DG Horvitz, DV Glidden, DY Lin, DY Lin, E Geng, E Marubini, EH Geng, GA Satten, GL Anderson, J Benichou, J Neyman, JP Fine, KE Rudolph, KE Rudolph, Laura Antolini, LC de Wreede, LP Fried, M Wolkewitz, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, N Breslow, NE Breslow, NE Breslow, NP Jewell, OO Aalen, OO Aalen, Paola Rebora, R Core Team, R Franca, RJ Gray, RL Prentice, S Kang, S Kovalchik, SO Samuelsen, T Lumley, TS Lumley, W Barlow, Ø Borgan, Ø Borgan   +45 more
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