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Protocol for a modelling study to assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of indefinite anticoagulant therapy for first unprovoked venous thromboembolism

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction Deciding whether to stop or extend anticoagulant therapy indefinitely after completing at least 3 months of initial treatment for a first unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains a challenge for clinicians, patients and policy makers.
Marc Rodger, Grégoire Le Gal, Kednapa Thavorn, Faizan Khan, Tobias Tritschler, Dean Fergusson, Doug Coyle, Sasha van Katwyk   +7 more
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Symptom descriptors and patterns in lumbar radicular pain caused by disc herniation: a 1-year longitudinal cohort study

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective The objective of the present study was to explore the diversity, quality, severity and distribution of symptoms in patients with radicular pain and a lumbar disc herniation.Design Longitudinal cohort study.Setting Hospital-based back clinic ...
Lars Grøvle, Anne Julsrud Haugen, Eivind Hasvik   +2 more
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Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on the physique of school-age children in Japan [PDF]

Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2023
Purpose Schools in Japan were closed nationwide from March to May 2020 because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Many suspect that this school closure affected children’s mental and physical health.
Junji Takaya, Hirohiko Higashino, Ryuzo Takaya, Hiromi Sakaguchi, Jitsuo Tanoue, Takashi Higashide, Hisako Moriguchi, Masatoshi Nakao, Yasuyuki Takai   +8 more
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UK Chiari 1 Study: protocol for a prospective, observational, multicentre study

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction Chiari 1 malformation (CM1) is a structural abnormality of the hindbrain characterised by the descent of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum.
, Joseph Merola, Julie Woodfield, Linda D’Antona, Richard Edwards, Jothy Kandasamy, Paul Leach, Mano Shanmuganathan, Saurabh Sinha, Dominic Thompson, Lewis Thorne, Ahmed Toma, Shungu Ushewokunze, Laurence Watkins, James Stewart, Angelos G Kolias, Jayaratnam Jayamohan, Pasquale Gallo, Navneet Singh, Ashwin Kumaria, Rhannon Lobo, Marianne Hare, Louise Young, Ardalan Zolnourian, Rory J Piper, Daniel Thompson, Greg James, Georgios Tsermoulas, Rosa Sun, William B Lo, Wai Cheong Soon, Babar Vaqas, Muhammad Kamal, Fardad T Afshari, Edward W Dyson, Rodney Laing, Aabir Chakraborty, Adrian Casey, Adriana Baritchii, Alexandros Vyziotis, Ali Nader-Sephai, Alistair Jenkins, Amin Andalib, Anan Shtaya, Andrew Alalade, Andrew Brodbelt, Arup Ray, Asfand Baig Mirza, Aswin Chari, Barrie White, Benedetta Pettorini, Chandrasekaran Kaliaperumal, Danyal Khan, Dardis Ronan, David Choi, David Rowland, Edward Jerome St George, Eleni Maratos, Grainne McKenna, Hani Marcus, Hasan Asif, Hugo Layard Horsfall, Ian Kamaly-Asl, Ibrahim Jalloh, Jawad Naushahi, Joe M Das, John Duddy, Jonathan Funnell, Justyna Ekert, Kevin Tsang, Lizkerry Odeh, Makinah Haq, Mansoor Foroughi, Mark Nowell, Matthew Boissaud-Cooke, Melissa Gough, Menaka Paranathala, Micaela Uberti, Michael Cearns, Milan Makwana, Milo Hollingworth, Ming Yao Chong, Musa China, Nadia Salloum, Nicholas Haden, Nikolaos Tzerakis, Oscar MacCormac, Peter McGarrity, Rudrajit Kanjilal, Ryan Waters, Saeed Kayhanian, Samuel Jeffery, Setthasorn Zhi Yang Ooi, Shabin Joshi, Shady Elsayed, Shafqat Bukhari, Shailendra Magdum, Siddharth Sinha, Simon Lammy, Stana Bojanic, Stewart Griffiths, Teresa Scott, Thomas Carroll, Vasileios Raptopoulos, Vivek Josan, Yasir Chowdhury, Zubair Tahir   +106 more
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Prediction of myopia onset with refractive error measured using non-cycloplegic subjective refraction: the WEPrOM Study

BMJ Open Ophthalmology, 2021
Background/aims To evaluate the predictive performance of various predictors, including non-cycloplegic refractive error, for risk of myopia onset under pragmatic settings.Methods The Wenzhou Medical University Essilor Progression and Onset of Myopia ...
Hao Chen, Yee Ling Wong, Jinhua Bao, Björn Drobe, Yimin Yuan, Binbin Su, Shezad Tufail, Yang Ding, Yingying Ye, Damien Paille   +9 more
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Perceptions about In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) among Women of Childbearing Age in Cape Coast, Ghana

Obstetrics and Gynecology International, 2022
Background. Infertility impacts a lot of considerable negative social effects on the lives of infertile partners, especially females, who repeatedly experience the emotional sequelae of childlessness.
Samuel Kofi Arhin, Richard Tang, Aisha Hamid, Delali Dzandu, Bright Kwaku Akpetey   +4 more
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Lumbar spine surgery across 15 years: trends, complications and reoperations in a longitudinal observational study from Norway

BMJ Open, 2019
Background Studies from different Western countries have reported a rapid increase in spinal surgery rates, an increase that exceeds by far the growing incidence rates of spinal disorders in the general population.
John-Anker Zwart, Jon Helgeland, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Kjersti Storheim, Margreth Grotle, Olaf Fjeld, Lars Grøvle, Tore K Solberg   +7 more
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The association of physician assistant/associate demographic and practice characteristics with perceptions of value of certification

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background To determine physician assistant/associate (PA) perceptions of the value of certification and explore how they vary across demographic and practice characteristics.
Andrzej Kozikowski, Dawn Morton-Rias, Kasey Puckett, Colette Jeffery, Sheila Mauldin, Joshua Goodman   +5 more
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Pericardial effusion with tamponade: bedside ultrasonography saves another life

International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020
In these video clinical images, the authors present the cause for an elderly gentleman’s shortness of breath. It was presumed to be an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a condition for which he was in the process of being evaluated ...
Javier Rosario, Rohan Mangal, Jessica Houck, Mary Cate Slome, Latha Ganti   +4 more
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Machine learning with sparse nutrition data to improve cardiovascular mortality risk prediction in the USA using nationally randomly sampled data

BMJ Open, 2019
Objectives We aimed to test whether or not adding (1) nutrition predictor variables and/or (2) using machine learning models improves cardiovascular death prediction versus standard Cox models without nutrition predictor variables.Design Retrospective ...
Joseph Rigdon, Sanjay Basu
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