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Treatment Discontinuation and Clinical Events in Type 2 Diabetes Patients Treated with Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors or NPH Insulin as Third-Line Therapy

Journal of Diabetes Research, 2018
Objective. To compare dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors with neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin, in terms of effectiveness and safety for the management of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) not controlled on metformin and ...
Cristiano S. Moura, Zale B. Rosenberg, Michal Abrahamowicz, Sasha Bernatsky, Hassan Behlouli, Louise Pilote   +5 more
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EGFR Testing Patterns and Detection of EGFR Exon 20 Insertions in the United States

JTO Clinical and Research Reports, 2022
Introduction: EGFR exon 20 insertions (EGFRex20ins) are a diverse set of mutations in NSCLC that are refractory to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. We describe real-world EGFRex20ins detection patterns in patients with advanced NSCLC in the United States ...
Huamao M. Lin, PhD, Yu Yin, MS, Victoria Crossland, PhD, Yanyu Wu, PhD, Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou, MD, PhD   +4 more
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Learning Outcome Outcomes: An Evaluation of Quality

2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2018
Learning outcomes are a standard specification of knowledge, skills and capabilities that a student is expected to acquire by attending a course or a degree program. While, in theory, the process of evaluating learning outcomes appears to be trivial, in practice it is a complicated and daunting process.
Daniel Brur Sigurgeirsson, Marta Lárusdóttir, Mohammad Hamdaqa, Mats Daniels, Björn Þór Jónsson 0001   +4 more
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Understanding the role of community resilience in addressing the Ebola virus disease epidemic in Liberia: a qualitative study (community resilience in Liberia)

Global Health Action, 2019
Background: There is an increasing recognition that community resilience plays a significant role in addressing health shocks like the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic.
O. Alonge, S. Sonkarlay, W. Gwaikolo, C. Fahim, J. L. Cooper, D. H. Peters   +5 more
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Patient reported outcome measures in rare diseases: a narrative review

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2018
Background Rare diseases can lead to a significant reduction in quality of life for patients and their families. Ensuring the patients voice is central to clinical decision making is key to delivering, evaluating and understanding the efficacy of ...
Anita Slade, Fatima Isa, Derek Kyte, Tanya Pankhurst, Larissa Kerecuk, James Ferguson, Graham Lipkin, Melanie Calvert   +7 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
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Physical Activity: The impact of incontinence on health‐related quality of life in a South Australian population sample

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2004
Objective: To assess prevalence of incontinence in a South Australian representative population sample and compare the health‐related quality‐of‐life impact of incontinence with other chronic conditions.
Jodie C. Avery, Tiffany K. Gill, Alastair H. MacLennan, Janet F. Grant, Anne W. Taylor, Catherine R. Chittleborough   +5 more
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Substance use and overdose risk: documenting the perspectives of formerly incarcerated persons in the Fraser East region of BC

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background The relationship between incarceration and risk of overdose has been well-documented in the literature, but few studies document the perspectives of persons at risk of overdose who were incarcerated.
Celine McCaughran-Contreras, Saranee Fernando, Mike Sikora, Jennifer Hawkins, Marinel Kniseley, Daniel Snyder, Connie Long, James Robson, Amanda Slaunwhite, Amy Salmon   +9 more
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Health‐Related Social Needs in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Are Associated With Worse Health‐Related Quality of Life

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks, Molly Sonenklar, Cerelia Donald, Cecelia Valrie, Wally Smith, India Sisler   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Men’s and women’s response to treatment and perceptions of outcomes in a randomized controlled trial of injectable opioid assisted treatment for severe opioid use disorder

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2017
Background To test whether there are gender differences in treatment outcomes among patients receiving injectable opioids for the treatment of long-term opioid-dependence.
Heather Palis, Kirsten Marchand, Daphne Guh, Suzanne Brissette, Kurt Lock, Scott MacDonald, Scott Harrison, Aslam H. Anis, Michael Krausz, David C. Marsh, Martin T. Schechter, Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes   +11 more
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