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Contacting dropouts from type 2 diabetes care in public primary health care: description of the patient population

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2016
Objective: To characterize dropouts from type-2 diabetes (T2D) care in communal primary health care. Design: An observational study. Setting: In a Finnish city, patients with T2D who had not contacted the public primary health care system during the past
Timo Kauppila, Merja K. Laine, Mikko Honkasalo, Marko Raina, Johan G. Eriksson   +4 more
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Deductive semiparametric estimation in Double-Sampling Designs with application to PEPFAR

, 2019
Non-ignorable dropout is common in studies with long follow-up time, and it can bias study results unless handled carefully. A double-sampling design allocates additional resources to pursue a subsample of the dropouts and find out their outcomes, which ...
Frangakis, Constantine, Qian, Tianchen, Yiannoutsos, Constantin   +2 more
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Hypnosis for acute procedural pain: a critical review [PDF]

, 2014
Clinical evidence for the effectiveness of hypnosis in the treatment of acute procedural pain was critically evaluated based on reports from randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs).
Elkins, G, Fisher, W, Johnson, A, Kekecs, Z, Kendrick, C, Sliwinski, J, Yu, Y   +6 more
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Evaluation of a 5-year programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection in Northern Uganda [PDF]

, 2010
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) is essential in HIV/AIDS control. We analysed 2000-05 data from mother-infant pairs in our PMTCT programme in rural Uganda, examining programme utilization and outcomes, HIV transmission rates and ...
Ahoua, Laurence, Ayikoru, Harriet, Balkan, Suna, Gnauck, Katherine, Odar, Emmanuel, Odaru, Grace, Olson, David, Ondoa-Onama, Christine, Pinoges, Loretxu, Pujades-Rodríguez, Mar   +9 more
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High adherence and low dropout rate in a virtual clinical study of atopic dermatitis through weekly reward-based personalized genetic lifestyle reports.

PLoS ONE, 2020
INTRODUCTION:Clinical trials often suffer from significant recruitment barriers, poor adherence, and dropouts, which increase costs and negatively affect trial outcomes.
Zarqa Ali, Kathryn Anderson, Andrei Chiriac, Anders Daniel Andersen, Ari Pall Isberg, Fernando Gesto Moreno, Aleksander Eiken, Simon Francis Thomsen, John Robert Zibert   +8 more
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Identifying Attrition Phases in Survey Data: Applicability and Assessment Study [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Although Web-based questionnaires are an efficient, increasingly popular mode of data collection, their utility is often challenged by high participant dropout. Researchers can gain insight into potential causes of high participant dropout by
Hochheimer, Camille J., Krist, Alex H., Mukhopadhyay, Nitai, Perera, Robert A., Sabo, Roy T.   +4 more
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Weight losses with low energy formula diets in obese patients with and without type 2 diabetes: Systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2016
Aim: To provide a systematic review, of published data, to compare weight losses following very low calorie (<800 kcal per day VLCD) or low-energy liquid-formula (>800 kcal per day LELD) diets, in people with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus ...
Harris, L., Lean, M.E.J., Leslie, W.S., Taylor, R.   +3 more
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CD4 trajectory adjusting for dropout among HIV‐positive patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy in an East African HIV care centre

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2014
Objective Estimates of CD4 response to antiretroviral therapy (ART) obtained by averaging data from patients in care, overestimate population CD4 response and treatment program effectiveness because they do not consider data from patients who are ...
Agnes N Kiragga, Judith J Lok, Beverly S Musick, Ronald J Bosch, Ann Mwangi, Kara K Wools‐Kaloustian, Constantin T Yiannoutsos, for the East Africa IeDEA Regional Consortium   +7 more
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Children Who Leave the Emergency Department Without Being Seen: Why Did They Leave and What Would Make Them Stay?

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2018
Introduction: Children who visit emergency departments and leave without being seen represent a multifactorial problem. We aimed to compare the sociodemographic characteristics of children who left and of those who did not leave, as well as to evaluate ...
Rodrigo Sousa, Cátia Correia, Rita Valsassina, Sofia Moeda, Teresa Paínho, Paulo Oom   +5 more
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A pilot study to assess the feasibility and impact of a brief motivational intervention on problem drug and alcohol use in adult mental health inpatient units : study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Substance misuse in those with severe mental health problems is common and associated with poor engagement in treatment and treatment outcomes.
Birchwood, M. J., Clarke, Latoya, Copello, Alex, Freemantle, Nick, Graham, Hermine L., Griffith, Emma, McCrone, Paul, Rana, Arsal, Stefanidou, Chrysi A., Walsh, Kathryn   +9 more
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