Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that multijoint osteoarthritis would modify the relation between time and frailty progression, in which more affected joints would lead to larger declines over six years compared to those without osteoarthritis using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
Carson Halliwell +2 more
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A New Estimator of Kullback-Leibler Divergence via Shannon Entropy. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Çadırcı MS, Singull M.
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Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.Objective For cartilage morphology to serve as a scalable endpoint in clinical trials, analyses should be performed automatically without human interaction. To clinically validate artificial intelligence (AI)‐based analysis, we studied cartilage loss from MRI prior to knee replacement.
Felix Eckstein +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Reliability Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery Aging Lifetime Based on Adaptive Progressive Type-II Censored Data. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Xiao S, Xu J, Zeng Y, Wu X.
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective To assess the validity of the Patient‐Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Pediatric measures in patients with chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis (CNO). Methods Within the longitudinal patient registry of CNO, English‐speaking patients aged 8 years and older self‐reported PROMIS Pediatric measures of fatigue, pain ...
Mary M. Eckert +43 more
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Validation and psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Physician Self-Efficacy to Manage Emotional Challenges (P-PSMEC) scale among medical students: a methodological cross-sectional study. [PDF]
BMJ OpenHamidkholgh G +4 more
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Automated Hand Flexor Tendon–Thickness Measurement in Systemic Sclerosis
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Systemic sclerosis (SSc) can affect flexor tendons, contributing to hand function problems and reduced quality of life. Tendon changes are currently assessed with ultrasonography and measured manually, a time‐consuming process prone to interobserver variability.
Mark Greveling +4 more
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Clinical Indications and Utilisation Patterns of Cardiac MRI in a Rural Hospital: Highlighting the Clinical Impact and Significance of the Service Delivery Model. [PDF]
CureusRaja AK +6 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by cardiovascular risk excess not fully explained by traditional factors. Whether the severity of microvascular damage correlates with structural subclinical atherosclerosis remains unclear. We investigated the relationship between nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) abnormalities and carotid ...
Eugenio Capparelli +13 more
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Validation for use in Colombia of the EORTC QLQ-THY34 questionnaire to measure quality of life in patients with thyroid cancer. [PDF]
Qual Life ResPiña-Jaramillo LJ +3 more
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