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Study Design: Observational Studies

open access: yesIndian Pediatrics, 2022
Observational study designs are those where the investigator/researcher just observes and does not carry out any intervention(s)/actions to alter the outcome. The three most common types of observational studies are cross-sectional, case control and cohort (or longitudinal). In cross-sectional studies, both the exposure/risk factor(s) and the outcome(s)
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Impact of drug therapy on brachioradial pruritus [PDF]

open access: yesAnais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2017
: Few studies have described therapeutic options in brachioradial pruritus. We describe a cross-sectional study of brachioradial pruritus patients treated in an outpatient unit.
Patrick Alexander Wachholz   +3 more
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Legal aspects regarding the use and integration of electronic medical records for epidemiological purposes with focus on the Italian situation

open access: yesEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2022
The "Observational Studies" working group of the Italian Association of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology (SISMEC) has undertaken to study the impact of recent healthcare sector regulations on the legal and organisational aspects of managing ...
Antonietta Stendardo   +5 more
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Introducing helmet non-invasive ventilation during COVID-19 pandemic: Early experience of two centres

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2023
PurposeThe helmet is a novel interface for delivering non-invasive ventilation (NIV). We conducted a case series to characterize introduction of the helmet interface in both COVID and non-COVID patients at two-centres.MethodsWe enrolled all patients with
Dipayan Chaudhuri   +11 more
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Interpretation of observational studies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 2014
Ideally, the objective of a clinical trial is to determine with a high degree of certainty whether the intervention of interest is truly effective. In high-quality randomized trials, if the results indicate that the intervention is different compared with the comparator, the results are likely to be due to real treatment differences.
Polychronopoulou, A., Pandis, N.
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Seven challenges for model-driven data collection in experimental and observational studies

open access: yesEpidemics, 2015
Infectious disease models are both concise statements of hypotheses and powerful techniques for creating tools from hypotheses and theories. As such, they have tremendous potential for guiding data collection in experimental and observational studies ...
J. Lessler   +4 more
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Healthy dietary patterns, foods, and risk of glioma: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition, 2023
BackgroundAccumulating epidemiological evidence has shown the favorable associations between healthy dietary patterns and risk of glioma, although the results remain inconclusive.ObjectiveWe therefore carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis to ...
Long Shu, Dan Yu, Fubi Jin
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A Step-by-Step Harmonization Process for Nutritional Epidemiology Purposes: A Methodological Work of the Collaborative PROMED-COG Pooled Cohorts Study

open access: yesProceedings, 2023
Background and objectives: Pooling datasets for nutritional epidemiological purposes are becoming more common because of their several advantages. Here, we described our step-by-step dietary data harmonization process applied within the PROMED-COG pooled
Federica Prinelli   +6 more
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness: A Review of the First 6 Months of COVID-19 Vaccine Availability (1 January–30 June 2021)

open access: yesVaccines, 2022
Observational studies are needed to demonstrate real-world vaccine effectiveness (VE) against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outcomes.
Sarah M. Hatcher   +10 more
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Using proton pump inhibitors increases the risk of hepato-biliary-pancreatic cancer. A systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Background: More and more studies are focusing on the adverse effects and damage caused by PPI abuse, we carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis for assessing whether the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) leads to hepato-biliary-pancreatic cancer ...
Wence Zhou   +7 more
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