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Association of US Medical Marijuana Laws With Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use and Prescription Opioid Use Disorder

JAMA Network Open, 2019
Key Points Question Is enactment of medical marijuana laws in the United States associated with changes in nonmedical prescription opioid use and prescription opioid use disorder among prescription opioid users overall and by age and racial/ethnic group?
Luis E. Segura, Christine M Mauro, Natalie S. Levy, Nicole Khauli, M. Philbin, P. Mauro, S. Martins   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Left hippocampus sparing model for glioblastoma radiotherapy by utilizing knowledge‐based planning and multi‐criteria optimization

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Results of a prospective, randomized controlled trial at our institute demonstrate an association between the dose to the left hippocampus and neurocognitive decline post‐radiotherapy for patients with glioblastoma. To minimize the dose to the left hippocampus, a left hippocampus sparing model was created using RapidPlan (RP) and multi‐
Shima Y. Tari, Amr Heikal, Connie Le, Fan Yang, Deepak Dinakaran, John Amanie, Albert Murtha, Lindsay S. Rowe, Wilson H. Roa, Samir Patel   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Medical Deconfounder: Assessing Treatment Effects with Electronic Health Records [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
The treatment effects of medications play a key role in guiding medical prescriptions. They are usually assessed with randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which are expensive. Recently, large-scale electronic health records (EHRs) have become available, opening up new opportunities for more cost-effective assessments.
arxiv  

Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Prescription Medication Use In Medicare Part D.

Health Affairs, 2016
Legalization of medical marijuana has been one of the most controversial areas of state policy change over the past twenty years. However, little is known about whether medical marijuana is being used clinically to any significant degree.
Ashley C. Bradford, W. D. Bradford
semanticscholar   +1 more source

IROC phantoms accurately detect MLC delivery errors

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose We evaluated the impact of random and whole‐bank multileaf collimator (MLC) delivery errors on dosimetric delivery accuracy in the Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core (IROC) phantom audits, as well as differences in delivery accuracy between the IROC phantom prescription and typical clinical fraction sizes.
Sharbacha S. Edward, Julianne M. Pollard‐Larkin, Peter A. Balter, Rebecca M. Howell, Christine B. Peterson, Stephen F. Kry   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crystal structure of (3-(dimethoxymethyl)-5-methoxy-1H-indol-1-yl)(5-fluoro-2-iodophenyl)methanone, C19H17FINO4

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - New Crystal Structures
C19H17FINO4, triclinic, P1̄ (no. 2), a = 7.1158(2) Å, b = 11.1914(3) Å, c = 12.4974(3) Å, α = 73.015(2)°, β = 87.945(2)°, γ = 78.137(2)°, V = 931.19(4) Å3, Z = 2, R gt(F) = 0.0563, wRref (F 2) = 0.1639, T = 293(2) K.
Yuan Jia-Cheng, Zhang Yue, Zhou Yan, Tang Chen-Chen, Cong Wei   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electronic Medication Prescribing Support System for Diagnosing Tropical Diseases [PDF]

arXiv, 2015
This paper presents the development of an e-prescription system for diagnosing tropical diseases.Results after testing the developed system by medical experts indicated that the e-prescription systems is more efficient and less susceptible to common errors associated with the conventional handwritten medical prescription and can also go a long way to ...
arxiv  

Medical Use and Misuse of Prescription Opioids in the US Adult Population: 2016-2017.

American Journal of Public Health, 2019
Objectives. To characterize prescription opioid medical users and misusers among US adults. Methods. We used the 2016-2017 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health to compare medical prescription opioid users with misusers without prescriptions, misusers ...
Pamela C. Griesler, Mei-Chen Hu, M. Wall, D. Kandel   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effect of multi‐leaf collimator leaf width on VMAT treatment plan quality

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The advent of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) in radiotherapy has made it one of the most commonly used techniques in clinical practice. VMAT is the delivery of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) while the gantry is in motion, and existing literature has shown it has decreased treatment delivery times and the ...
Gregory Sadharanu Peiris, Brendan Whelan, Nicholas Hardcastle, Suzie Lynn Sheehy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple sclerosis clinical decision support system based on projection to reference datasets

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Volume 9, Issue 12, Page 1863-1873, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Objective Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a multifactorial disease with increasingly complicated management. Our objective is to use on‐demand computational power to address the challenges of dynamically managing MS. Methods A phase 3 clinical trial data (NCT00906399) were used to contextualize the medication efficacy of peg‐interferon beta‐1a vs ...
Chadia Ed‐driouch, Florent Chéneau, Françoise Simon, Guillaume Pasquier, Benoit Combès, Anne Kerbrat, Emmanuelle Le Page, Sophie Limou, Nicolas Vince, David‐Axel Laplaud, Franck Mars, Cédric Dumas, Gilles Edan, Pierre‐Antoine Gourraud   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source