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Anesthetic management of cesarean section in a patient with Takayasu’s arteritis: a case report

JA Clinical Reports, 2022
Background Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory arteritis. We presented the case of cesarean section in a patient with TA.
Taichi Ando, Makoto Sumie, Shoichi Sasaki, Miho Yoshimura, Keiko Nobukuni, Jun Maki, Katsuyuki Matsushita, Kazuhiro Shirozu, Midoriko Higashi, Ken Yamaura   +9 more
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Arthroscopic meniscectomy versus non-surgical or sham treatment in patients with MRI confirmed degenerative meniscus lesions: a protocol for an individual participant data meta-analysis

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) after degenerative meniscus tears is one of the most frequently performed surgeries in orthopaedics.
Ewa M Roos, Martin Englund, Victor A van de Graaf, Rudolf W Poolman, Maroeska M Rovers, Stan R W Wijn, Jan J Rongen, Håvard Østerås, May A Risberg, Kristoffer B Hare, Gerjon Hannink   +10 more
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Early Health Economic Modeling of Novel Therapeutics in Age-Related Hearing Loss

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
BackgroundHealth systems face challenges to accelerate access to innovations that add value and avoid those unlikely to do so. This is very timely to the field of age-related sensorineural hearing loss (ARHL), where a significant unmet market need has ...
Evie C. Landry, Evie C. Landry, Evie C. Landry, Mirre Scholte, Matthew P. Su, Matthew P. Su, Yvette Horstink, Rishi Mandavia, Rishi Mandavia, Maroeska M. Rovers, Anne G. M. Schilder, Anne G. M. Schilder   +11 more
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How many operating rooms are needed to manage non-elective surgical cases? A Monte Carlo simulation study. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundPatients often wait to have urgent or emergency surgery. The number of operating rooms (ORs) needed to minimize waiting time while optimizing resources can be determined using queuing theory and computer simulation.
Antognini, Joseph F, Antognini, Joseph M O'Brien, Khatri, Vijay   +2 more
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Functional outcomes and complications of intramedullary fixation devices for Midshaft clavicle fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2020
Background An alternative to the current gold standard in operative treatment of displaced midshaft clavicle fractures (DMCF) using plate osteosynthesis, is internal fixation by means of intramedullary fixation devices.
Paul Hoogervorst, Tess van Dam, Nico Verdonschot, Gerjon Hannink   +3 more
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Robot assisted radical cystectomy versus open radical cystectomy in bladder cancer (RACE): study protocol of a non-randomized comparative effectiveness study

BMC Cancer, 2018
Background Despite the fact that the cost-effectiveness of robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) is not yet proven, and open radical (ORC) cystectomy is recommended as the standard of care in patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive and muscle ...
C. J. Wijburg, C. T. J. Michels, J. R. Oddens, J. P. C. Grutters, J. A. Witjes, M. M. Rovers   +5 more
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Prospective methods for identifying perioperative risk‐assessment methods for patient safety over 20 years: a systematic review

BJS Open, 2020
Background Serious preventable surgical events still occur despite considerable efforts to improve patient safety. In addition to learning from retrospective analyses, prospective risk‐assessment methods may help to decrease preventable events further by
A. J. Heideveld‐Chevalking, H. Calsbeek, J. Hofland, W. J. H. J. Meijerink, A. P. Wolff   +4 more
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When policy meets reality: the new 18-hour on-call shift policy and the Israeli anesthesia workforce crisis

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2023
Background The Israeli physician workforce faces multiple challenges. These include planned policies reducing physician on-call from 26 to 18 h and, from 2026, allowing only graduates of Ministry of Health approved foreign medical schools to take the ...
Ariel Wimpfheimer, Charles Weissman, Shai Fein, Yehuda Ginosar, The Israel Anesthesiology Workforce Study Group   +4 more
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Translation and validation of two disease-specific patient-reported outcome measures (Bladder Cancer Index and FACT-Bl-Cys) in Dutch bladder cancer patients

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2019
Background The Bladder Cancer Index (BCI) and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bladder-Cystectomy (FACT-Bl-Cys) were developed to measure disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in bladder cancer patients and patients treated with ...
Charlotte T. J. Michels, Carl J. Wijburg, Inger L. Abma, J. Alfred Witjes, Janneke P. C. Grutters, Maroeska M. Rovers   +5 more
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Measuring health-related quality of life in cervical cancer patients: a systematic review of the most used questionnaires and their validity

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2017
Background Data on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is paramount for shared and evidence based decision-making. Since an overview of cervical cancer HRQoL tools and their validity appears to be lacking, we performed a systematic review on usage of ...
Casper Tax, Marlie E. Steenbergen, Petra L. M. Zusterzeel, Ruud L. M. Bekkers, Maroeska M. Rovers   +4 more
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