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Increase in Pancreatoduodenectomy Volume at Mid‐Volume Facilities in the United States: A National Cancer Database Analysis

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The annual number of pancreatoduodenectomies (PDs) in the United States has increased over the past decade, but the facility types driving this growth and whether outcomes have improved remain unclear. We aimed to identify characteristics of facilities with increasing PD volumes and assess national trends in centralization ...
Koichi Tomita, Naruhiko Ikoma
wiley   +1 more source

Audit report on the Webster County Metropolitan Law Enforcement Telecommunications Board for the year ended June 30, 2008 [PDF]

, 2009
Audit report on the Webster County Metropolitan Law Enforcement Telecommunications Board for the year ended June 30 ...

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Risk factors for relapse in ANCA‐associated vasculitis among patients with relapse after induction of remission with rituximab

Arthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Objective To determine risk factors for relapse of ANCA‐associated vasculitis (AAV) after re‐induction of remission with rituximab and discontinuation of maintenance therapy. Methods This is a post‐hoc analysis of the RITAZAREM clinical trial. Patients 15 years or older with AAV and a positive test for anti‐proteinase‐3 (PR3‐) or anti‐myeloperoxidase ...
Ellen Romich, Joshua F. Baker, Thomas R. Riley IV, Ian Green, Rennie L. Rhee, Carol A. McAlear, Ulrich Specks, Rona M. Smith, David R. Jayne, Peter A. Merkel, for the RITAZAREM Investigators   +10 more
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Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in patients with cardiomyopathy

Annals of Hepatology, 2009
Chronic hepatitis C can be associated with extrahepatic manifestations; thus, we explored the association of this viral infection with dilated cardiomyopathy in a group of sixty-three patients with a cardiac ejection fraction of less than 40% determined ...
Vijaya Boyella;, Ikenna Onyebueke;, Najabh Farraj;, Suzette Graham-Hill;, Cherif El Younis;, Nora V. Bergasa   +5 more
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Analysis of the Impact of County-Levelization on Economic Growth and Public Service Development Based on Panel Data

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2023
County-levelization has become an important vane and propeller of urban spatial development, which is closely related to economic development and public service development. County-levelization can effectively broaden the geographic scope of urban areas,
Wangteng Xu, Shaojian Wang
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Exploring Spatial Network Structure of the Metropolitan Circle Based on Multi-Source Big Data: A Case Study of Hangzhou Metropolitan Circle

Remote Sensing, 2022
The metropolitan circle is the basic unit of regional competition. Enhancing the connection between cities in the metropolitan circle and optimizing the spatial layout of the metropolitan circle is one of the goals of regional high-quality development in
Jing Zhang, Qi Hao, Xinming Chen, Congmou Zhu, Ling Zhang, Mengjia Hong, Jiexia Wu, Muye Gan   +7 more
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Urban–Rural Differences and Sex‐Specific Cognitive Effects on Autism Symptom Trajectories: A Longitudinal Study of Autistic Children in Taiwan

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Few longitudinal studies have mapped autism symptom trajectories outside Western contexts. This study aimed to characterize trajectories of autism symptoms, assessed using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), and associated child and family factors among autistic children from two regions in Taiwan that differ by urbanicity ...
Yun‐Ju Chen, Hsiang‐Yuan Lin, Ching‐Lin Chu, Chin‐Chin Wu, Tzu‐Ling Lin, Hsing‐Chang Ni, Jiun‐Horng Liu, Yuh‐Ming Hou, Chung‐Hsin Chiang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neighborhoods and mortality in Sweden: Is deprivation best assessed nationally or regionally?

Demographic Research, 2018
Background: The association between neighborhood deprivation and mortality is well established, but knowledge about whether deprivation is best assessed regionally or nationally is scarce.
Daniel Oudin Åström, Paul W. Franks, Kristina Sundquist   +2 more
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Geographic and Institutional Patterns of Transoral Robotic Surgery in Head and Neck Cancer

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is increasingly used for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), yet national patterns of TORS availability for Medicare beneficiaries are not well defined. We characterized hospital type, geographic distribution, and market concentration of TORS.
Daniel Gilmore, Lauren R. Michelle, Xiaodan Hu, Stephen Y. Kang, Nolan B. Seim, Catherine T. Haring, Matthew O. Old, Amit Agrawal, Enver Ozer, Lauren E. Miller   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

City-regionalism as a politics of collective provision : regional transport infrastructure in Denver, USA [PDF]

, 2013
The rise of the city-region concept has focused attention on the nature of territorial politics underpinning city-regionalism. This paper investigates the relationship between territorial politics, city-regionalism and the collective provision of mass ...
Bhattacharjee, Sutapa, Goetz, Andrew R., Jonas, Andrew E. G.   +2 more
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