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A Clinical Model to Predict the Occurrence of Select High-risk Infections in the First Year Following Heart Transplantation

Transplantation Direct, 2023
Background. Invasive infection remains a dangerous complication of heart transplantation (HT). No objectively defined set of clinical risk factors has been established to reliably predict infection in HT.
Whitney A. Perry, MD, MS, Jennifer K. Chow, MD, MS, Jason Nelson, MPH, David M. Kent, MD, MS, David R. Snydman, MD   +4 more
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Adequacy, suitability, effectiveness and efficiency of quality management systems: How to perceive and assess them? [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose: The paper brings set of original information related to the ISO 9001: 2015 standard's requirements focused on assessment and review of quality management systems adequacy, suitability and effectiveness.
Nenadál, Jaroslav
core   +1 more source

Resuming elective surgical services in times of COVID-19 infection

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2020
The consequences of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus have been devastating to the healthcare system.As the positive effects of social distancing, mandatory masking, and societal lockdown on the spread of the disease ...
Raul Coimbra, Sara Edwards, Bruno Cammarota Coimbra, Arnold Tabuenca   +3 more
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Independent investigator incubator (I3): a comprehensive mentorship program to jumpstart productive research careers for junior faculty

BMC Medical Education, 2018
Background In the highly competitive environment of academic medicine, junior faculty investigators face high attrition rates due to challenges in finding effective mentorship, securing grant funding, and obtaining resources to support their career ...
John Paul Spence, Jennifer L. Buddenbaum, Paula J. Bice, Julie L. Welch, Aaron E. Carroll   +4 more
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Designing Administrative Organizations for Health Reform [PDF]

, 2008
Describes proposals to create new entities to research comparative effectiveness, make coverage decisions, manage health insurance markets, or offer a public health insurance plan.
Paul N. Van de Water
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Predictably unequal: understanding and addressing concerns that algorithmic clinical prediction may increase health disparities

npj Digital Medicine, 2020
The machine learning community has become alert to the ways that predictive algorithms can inadvertently introduce unfairness in decision-making.
Jessica K. Paulus, David M. Kent
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Predictive approaches to heterogeneous treatment effects: a scoping review

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020
Background Recent evidence suggests that there is often substantial variation in the benefits and harms across a trial population. We aimed to identify regression modeling approaches that assess heterogeneity of treatment effect within a randomized ...
Alexandros Rekkas, Jessica K. Paulus, Gowri Raman, John B. Wong, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Peter R. Rijnbeek, David M. Kent, David van Klaveren   +7 more
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Open-chest versus closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation in trauma patients with signs of life upon hospital arrival: a retrospective multicenter study

Critical Care, 2020
Background The effectiveness and indications of open-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation (OCCPR) have been still debatable. Although current guidelines state that the presence of signs of life (SOL) is an indication for OCCPR, scientific evidence ...
Akira Endo, Mitsuaki Kojima, Zhi-Jie Hong, Yasuhiro Otomo, Raul Coimbra   +4 more
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How will Comparative Effectiveness Research Influence Clinical Decision Making? [PDF]

, 2012
Most health care recommendations in the United States have come from trials designed to measure efficacy of medical interventions, with randomized controlled trials considered the gold standard for evidence-based medicine.
Showalter, MD, Timothy, Zaorsky, MD, Nicholas   +1 more
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Patients’ responses to incidentally discovered silent brain infarcts – a qualitative study

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2019
Background Incidentally discovered silent brain infarcts (id-SBIs) are an understudied condition with probable clinical significance, but it is not known how patients respond to or prioritize this condition.
Lester Y. Leung, Paul K. J. Han, Christine Lundquist, Gene Weinstein, David E. Thaler, David M. Kent   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source