The Scottish school leavers cohort: linkage of education data to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge and offspring birth characteristics [PDF]
Purpose: The Scottish school leavers cohort provides population-wide prospective follow-up of local authority secondary school leavers in Scotland through linkage of comprehensive education data with hospital and mortality records.
Dundas, Ruth +2 more
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Background: Most of the developing countries still suffer from a high burden of communicable diseases. The paucity of proper data about the current trends and seasonal variations of different infectious diseases (IDs) further prevents the policy makers ...
Rammohan Roy +3 more
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Role of Monocyte Count and Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio in Survival of Oral Cancer Patients
Introduction Inflammation seems to play a critical role in the development and progression of numerous cancers. Peripheral blood leukocyte count is an easily assessable parameter of systemic inflammatory response.
Saurabh Bobdey +3 more
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Linking very large, consented birth cohorts to birthing hospitals clinical data could elucidate the lifecourse outcomes of health care and exposures during the pregnancy, birth and newborn periods.
Yanhong Jessika Hu +9 more
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Risk factors for hospital admission with RSV bronchiolitis in England: a population-based birth cohort study. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To examine the timing and duration of RSV bronchiolitis hospital admission among term and preterm infants in England and to identify risk factors for bronchiolitis admission.
A Bottle +35 more
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Effects of HBsAg carriers on pregnancy complications in pregnant women: a retrospective cohort study
ObjectiveHepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major health threat worldwide, especially in developing countries. We aimed to investigate the impact of hepatitis B carrier on pregnancy complications in pregnant women, in China.MethodsThis retrospective ...
Mengqing Weng +7 more
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Anger and assaultiveness of male forensic patients with developmental disabilities : links to volatile parents [PDF]
This study with 107 male forensic patients with developmental disabilities investigated whether exposure to parental anger and aggression was related to anger and assaultiveness in a hospital, controlling for background variables.
Novaco, Raymond, Taylor, John
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Resource use data by patient report or hospital records: Do they agree? [PDF]
Background: Economic evaluations alongside clinical trials are becoming increasingly common. Cost data are often collected through the use of postal questionnaires; however, the accuracy of this method is uncertain.
Adrian Grant +17 more
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Background The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) are both widely used global classification systems.
Yicong Xu, Jingya Zhou, Yi Wang
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Is depression a real risk factor for acute myocardial infarction mortality? A retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Background: Depression has been associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events and a higher mortality in patients with one or more comorbidities.
Baldo, V. +7 more
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