Patient-Directed Discharge Among Hospitalized Persons With Opioid Use Disorder in the Fentanyl Era: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Background: Patient-directed discharge (PDD), also known as discharge against medical advice, is associated with poor outcomes, such as increased hospital readmission and mortality.
William M. Garneau, MD +4 more
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Diagnostic performance of narrow-band imaging and photodynamic diagnosis compared to white light cystoscopy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: A network meta-analysis of randomized trials [PDF]
Purpose: To compare the diagnostic performance of white light cystoscopy (WLC), photodynamic diagnosis (PDD), and narrow-band imaging (NBI) in the detection of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) through a network meta-analysis of randomized ...
Se Young Choi +8 more
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A concept of radiation beam matching of some medical linear accelerators (LINACs) that have identical characteristics of the models, radiation quality, and multileaf collimator features may be implemented as long as the manufacturer provides complete ...
O. A. Firmansyah +7 more
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A Drug Utilization Study of Psychotropic Drugs Prescribed in the Psychiatry Outpatient Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital [PDF]
Background: Psychiatric disorders are one of the major causes of morbidity. Development of newer drugs like SSRIs and atypical antipsychotics has altered the treatment paradigms. Various factors like cost of drugs, local paradigms, etc. play a role in
Karan B. Thakkar +4 more
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Pavement distress detection (PDD) plays a vital role in planning timely pavement maintenance that improves pavement service life. In order to promote the development of PDD technologies and find out the insufficiencies in PDD field, this paper reviews ...
Chu Chu, Linbing Wang, Haocheng Xiong
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The Utility of a Flexible Fluorescence-Cystoscope with a Twin Mode Monitor for the 5-Aminolevulinic Acid-Mediated Photodynamic Diagnosis of Bladder Cancer. [PDF]
To evaluate the diagnostic value of a new photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) system using 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) for the diagnosis of bladder tumors. To validate whether false-positive findings caused by tangent effects in PDD can be resolved, we compared
Hideo Fukuhara +8 more
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Spatial and Temporal Variability in Positive Degree-Day in Western China under Climate Change
Positive degree-day (PDD) indicates the accumulated positive temperature in a given time period; it directly relates to the melting of snow and ice, and it is a key parameter between global warming and cryosphere changes. In this study, we calculated the
Guohua Liu, Rensheng Chen, Xiqiang Wang
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Title: The Development of Courverture Chocholate Product with Addition of Functional Food in Randualas Village, Kare District, Madiun Regency. Madiun Regency chose cocoa as one of the main commodities which could be developed because it was appropriate ...
Achmad Ridwan Ariyantoro +8 more
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Inovasi Limbah Cair Singkong Menjadi Nata de Cassava Sebagai Bisnis Kuliner
Cellulose bacterial is cellulose formed by bacteria sugar content in waste. Cassava-based industrial liquid waste contains sugar (5-7)%, so it has the potential as a substrate because it meets the minimum glucose requirements of (6-7)% to form cellulose ...
Amaliya Sita Permatasari +2 more
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Physiological and Pathological Characteristics of Sebastes schlegelii After Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae Infection [PDF]
Sebastes schlegelii, a main fish species in the deep-sea cage culture in northern China, is a near-shore cold-water carnivorous fish with low temperature resistance. However, bacterial diseases such as eye rot, bacterial enteritis, and skin ulcer disease
ZHANG Yan +7 more
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