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Body Mass Index and Risk of Prostate Volume, International Prostate Symptom Score, Maximum Urinary Flow Rate, and Post-Void Residual in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Patients

American Journal of Men's Health, 2019
The objective of this study was to evaluate association between body mass index (BMI) and prostate volume (PV), international prostate symptom scores (IPSS), maximum urinary flow rate ( Q max ), and post-void residual (PVR) of Chinese benign prostatic ...
Bing-Hui Li, Tong Deng, Qiao Huang, Hao Zi, Hong Weng, Xian-Tao Zeng   +5 more
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The value of uncertainty: the Zika and Microcefalia link

Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, 2019
Scientific paradigm violations are common in the medical literature. This article aims to describe the principles that should guide scientific thinking, such as the philosophy of skepticism, the consideration of multiple hypothesis, epidemiological ...
Denise Silva Matias, Luis Cláudio Lemos Correia, Daniel Oliveira Medina da Silva, Larrie Rabelo Laporte, Camila Verônica Souza Freire, Gabriel de Araújo Grisi, Thiago Masashi Taniguchi, Mariana Correia Moreira Cruz   +7 more
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A systematic review of high quality randomized controlled trials investigating motor skill programmes for children with developmental coordination disorder. [PDF]

, 2017
To identify effective motor training interventions for children with developmental coordination disorder from research graded as high quality (using objective criteria) for the purpose of informing evidence-based clinical practice.We followed the ...
Bruininks R, Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, Chia CLC, Coe R, Elizabeth Andrews, Henderson S, Henderson SE, Hillier S, Liam JB Hill, Mark Mon-Williams, Nick Preston, Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine Levels of Evidence Working Group, Polatajko H, Sara M Ahern, Sara Magallón, Silkwood-Sherer D   +16 more
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Intravenous Pantoprazole as an Adjuvant Therapy following Successful Endoscopic Treatment for Peptic Ulcer Bleeding

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2009
BACKGROUND: Several studies have suggested that proton pump inhibitors are efficacious in preventing rebleeding when administered immediately after endoscopic treatments.
Jun Wang, Kehu Yang, Bin Ma, Jinhui Tian, Yali Liu, Zhenggang Bai, Lei Jiang, Shaoliang Sun, Jun Li, Ruifeng Liu, Xiangyong Hao, Xiaodong He   +11 more
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Serotonin Transporter (5-HTT) Gene Polymorphisms and Susceptibility to Chronic Periodontitis: A Case-Control Study

Frontiers in Genetics, 2019
Objective: The current study is aimed at exploring the relationship between chronic periodontitis and serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene polymorphisms (rs6354 and rs12449783) in the Chinese Han population.Methods: This study included a total of 120 ...
Lan Wu, Lan Wu, Tong Deng, Tong Deng, Chao-Yang Wang, Xue-Qun Ren, Yun-Yun Wang, Xian-Tao Zeng, Xian-Tao Zeng, Pei-Liang Geng, Pei-Liang Geng   +10 more
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Association of soft drinks and 100% fruit juice consumption with risk of cancer: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2023
Background Studies of the associations between soft drinks and the risk of cancer showed inconsistent results. No previous published systematic reviews and meta-analysis has investigated a dose–response association between exposure dose and cancer risk ...
Bei Pan, Honghao Lai, Ning Ma, Dan Li, Xiyuan Deng, Xiaoman Wang, Qian Zhang, Qiuyu Yang, Qi Wang, Hongfei Zhu, Mengting Li, Xiao Cao, Jinhui Tian, Long Ge, Kehu Yang   +14 more
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Evidence-based medicine and values-based medicine : partners in clinical education as well as in clinical practice [PDF]

, 2013
The best clinical decisions are based on both evidence and values in what is known as the ‘twofeet principle’. Anecdotally, educationalists find teaching clinicians to become more evidence based is relatively simple in comparison to encouraging them to ...
DL Sackett, Ed Peile, K Woodbridge, KWM Fulford, KWM Fulford, L Polo, MM Altamirano-Bustamante, RM Hare, SH Schwartz   +8 more
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Personalized evidence based medicine: predictive approaches to heterogeneous treatment effects

British medical journal, 2018
The use of evidence from clinical trials to support decisions for individual patients is a form of “reference class forecasting”: implicit predictions for an individual are made on the basis of outcomes in a reference class of “similar” patients treated ...
D. Kent, E. Steyerberg, D. van Klaveren
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Methodological quality (risk of bias) assessment tools for primary and secondary medical studies: what are they and which is better?

Military Medical Research, 2020
Methodological quality (risk of bias) assessment is an important step before study initiation usage. Therefore, accurately judging study type is the first priority, and the choosing proper tool is also important.
Lin-Lu Ma, Yun-Yun Wang, Zhi-Hua Yang, Di Huang, Hong Weng, Xian-Tao Zeng   +5 more
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Evidence-based medicine and progress in the medical sciences [PDF]

, 2011
The question what scientific progress means for a particular domain such as medicine seems importantly different from the question what scientific progress is in general. While the latter question received ample treatment in the philosophical literature,
Ayob, Bird, Borgerson, Gupta, Kincaid, Le Fanu, Maier, Mittra, Naylor, Nordin, Padrino, Pearce, Sackett, Swales, Tanenbaum, van der Wilt   +15 more
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