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Cancer Patient Survival and Erythropoietin

Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2005
Cancer patients are frequently anemic. Treatment of anemic patients with erythropoiesis-stimulating proteins (ESPs) such as epoetin and darbepoetin is associated with benefits that include a reduced transfusion risk and improved quality of life. The recent reports of two randomized trials in which ESP treatment was associated with a decreased survival ...
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Implant Survival in Periodontally Compromised Patients

Journal of Periodontology, 2004
Background: Relatively little is known on the longterm prognosis of implants inserted in partially edentulous, periodontally compromised patients.Methods: A total of 258 conventional implants, 57 two‐stage and 201 one‐stage implants, which were inserted in 32 and 108 patients, respectively, between June 1988 and June 2002 were followed with respect to ...
Baelum, Vibeke, Ellegaard, Birgit
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Local control and patient survival

International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 1992
Consideration is given to the concern that future improvements in radiation therapy which achieve increases of local control probabilities will fail to yield gains in survival, in that the new local control patients will ultimately fail because of the development of distant metastasis. The concept is that the local failure merely represents a marker of
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Survival of Patients With Cystic Fibrosis

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1970
The survival rates of patients with cystic fibrosis admitted in three five-year periods, July 1952 to June 1967, are compared. The "life table method" was adopted to compute the survival rates. The three cohorts included 37 patients admitted between July 1952 and June 1957 (group 1), 73 between July 1957 and June 1962 (group 2), and 129 between July ...
N N, Huang, C N, Macri, J, Girone, A, Sproul   +3 more
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Wounds and Survival in Noncancer Patients

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2010
Currently available prognostic models for noncancer patients lack high levels of discrimination. Therefore, the quest for additional prognostic factors must continue. To date, none have utilized the occurrence of wounds as a prognostic factor.As a prospective observational study, based on a sequential case series of 189 advanced noncancer patients, all
Vincent, Maida, Marguerite, Ennis, Craig, Kuziemsky, Jason, Corban   +3 more
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Survival of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy Patients

Nephron, 2000
The retrospective cohort study comprised 97 Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) and BEN-suspected patients discovered in 1971 in the field examination in the village of Šopić, one of the regions most frequently affected by the disease. Our aim was to determine the outcome of the disease in patients and to compare the survival of BEN-suspected and BEN ...
D, Bukvić, S, Janković, L, Dukanović, J, Marinković   +3 more
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Psychological Support for Patients Increases Survival

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2021
According to this study: Overall, psychological support interventions for medical patients receiving curative or rehabilitative care increased both the odds and relative length of survival to a degree comparable to other tertiary prevention methods.
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The Differential Survival of Trauma Patients

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1987
Advances in prehospital care and the development of regionalized trauma centers have reduced the mortality from major trauma. However, patients who have sustained severe brain injuries (Glasgow Coma Score less than or equal to 8) treated in such a setting still have a substantial mortality.
W G, Baxt, P, Moody
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Wounds and survival in cancer patients

European Journal of Cancer, 2009
A number of validated and objectively based prognostic models are available for use in cancer care. The quest for additional prognostic factors continues in order to increase their accuracy. To date, none has considered the effect that wounds may contribute to assessing survival.
Vincent, Maida, Marguerite, Ennis, Craig, Kuziemsky, Jason, Corban   +3 more
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Graft and Patient Survival

2014
Kidney transplantation is agreed upon as the best treatment available for most patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). It not only improves quality of life (Am J Kidney Dis 15(3):201–8, 1990; Kidney Int 50(1):235–42, 1996; N Engl J Med 28;312(9):553–9, 1985; Transplantation 54(4):656–60, 1992) of our patients and reduces medical expense (Kidney ...
Machaiah M. Madhrira, Karl L. Womer, Bruce Kaplan   +2 more
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