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Early non-response as a predictor of later non-response to antipsychotics in schizophrenia: a randomized trial

BMC Medicine, 2023
Abstract Background It remains a challenge to predict the long-term response to antipsychotics in patients with schizophrenia who do not respond at an early stage. This study aimed to investigate the optimal predictive cut-off value for early non-response that would better predict later non-response to antipsychotics in ...
Long, Yujun, Wu, Qiongqiong, Yang, Ye, Cai, Jingda, Xiao, Jingmei, Liu, Zhaoqian, Xu, Yifeng, Chen, Ying, Huang, Manli, Zhang, Ruiguo, Xu, Xijia, Hu, Jian, Liu, Zhifen, Liu, Fang, Zheng, Yingjun, Meng, Huaqing, Wang, Zhimin, Tang, Yanqing, Song, Xueqin, Chen, Yunchun, Wang, Xueyi, Liu, Tiebang, Wu, Xiaoli, Fang, Maosheng, Wan, Chunling, Zhao, Jingping, Wu, Renrong   +26 more
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Are risk estimates biased in follow-up studies of psychosocial factors with low base-line participation?

BMC Public Health, 2011
Background Low participation in population-based follow-up studies addressing psychosocial risk factors may cause biased estimation of health risk but the issue has seldom been examined.
Andersen Johan, Mikkelsen Sigurd, Rugulies Reiner, Kærgaard Anette, Thomsen Jane, Hansen Åse, Kolstad Henrik A, Kaerlev Linda, Mors Ole, Grynderup Matias B, Bonde Jens   +10 more
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Enhancing Social Surveys Through the Postal Collection of Shed Milk Teeth: an Example of a Large-Scale Cost-Effective Collection on a Longitudinal Study

Survey Research Methods, 2016
Social scientists and health researchers often need valid and reliable health measures from survey respondents to address key research questions, whether on environmental risks, weight and nutrition, physical activity or health / risky behaviours.
Samantha Jayne Parsons, Lucinda Platt
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Modeling unit non-response and validity of online teaching evaluation in higher education using generalizability theory approach

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionUnit non-response is a common phenomenon in online teaching evaluation in higher education institutions. However, little is known about the relationship between the rates of unit non-response and the quality of online teaching evaluation ...
Yayra Dzakadzie, Frank Quansah
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Suppression of Interferon-α Treatment Response by Host Negative Factors in Hepatitis B Virus Infection

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Chronic hepatitis B virus (CHB) infection remains a major global public health issue for which there is still lacking effective curative treatment. Interferon-α (IFN-α) and its pegylated form have been approved as an anti-HBV drug with the advantage of ...
Jiayi Wang, Jiayi Wang, Lingyao Du, Lingyao Du, Hong Tang, Hong Tang   +5 more
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Battling the two-headed dragon of prostate cancer targeted therapy

Molecular & Cellular Oncology, 2020
Neoadjuvant intense androgen deprivation therapy for high-risk localized prostate cancer is an emerging but unproven treatment paradigm that is hoped to delay or prevent disease recurrence.
Scott Wilkinson, Adam G. Sowalsky
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Non-response to baseline, non-response to follow-up and mortality in the Whitehall II cohort [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2009
Little is known about the associations between non-response to follow-up surveys and mortality, or differences in these associations by socioeconomic position in studies with repeat data collections.The Whitehall II study of socioeconomic inequalities in health provided response status from five data collection surveys; Phase 1 (1985-88, n = 10 308 ...
Ferrie, Jane E., Kivimäki, Mika, Singh-Manoux, Archana, Shortt, Alison, Martikainen, Pekka, Head, Jenny, Marmot, Michael, Gimeno, David, De Vogli, Roberto, Elovainio, Marko, Shipley, Martin J.   +10 more
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COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH RELAPSE OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C

Žurnal Grodnenskogo Gosudarstvennogo Medicinskogo Universiteta, 2018
Background. The diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is established late, often at the stage of advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis of the liver. In the group at risk of developing severe complications are patients who have not responded to antiviral ...
Chernyak S. A.
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Exponential Type Estimators Using Sub-Sampling Method with Applications in Agriculture

Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2022
In this article, the family of exponential type estimators with the auxiliary variable is proposed in the case of non-response scheme for the purpose of obtaining the unknown population mean of the study variable. The nonresponse scheme is examined under
Ceren Ünal, Cem Kadılar
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The Oslo Health Study: The impact of self-selection in a large, population-based survey

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2004
Background Research on health equity which mainly utilises population-based surveys, may be hampered by serious selection bias due to a considerable number of invitees declining to participate. Sufficient information from all the non-responders is rarely
Bjertness Espen, Selmer Randi, Søgaard Anne, Thelle Dag   +3 more
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