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فصلنامه دانشگاه علوم پزشکی جهرم, 2013 Introduction: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) complicates the lives of patients. Most of antiemetic drugs used prevent PONV after surgery, but they have undesirable adverse effects such as excessive sedation, hypotension, dysphoria and ...
Masoud Ghaneei, Reza sahraei
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PLoS ONE, 2014 We aimed to investigate the use of placebos (e.g. saline injections) and non-specific treatments (e.g. vitamin supplements in individuals without a relevant deficiency) among physicians working in private practices in Germany, and how such use is ...
Klaus Linde +5 more
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HREC members\u27 personal values influence decision making in contentious cases [PDF]
, 2017 This article identifies 14 contentious issues faced by Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs). The authors argue that HREC members will respond variably to these issues based on their own fundamental values and worldview. In particular, we propose that
Brewer, Keagan +4 more
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Which placebo to cure depression? A thought-provoking network meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Antidepressants are often considered to be mere placebos despite the fact that meta-analyses are able to rank them. It follows that it should also be possible to rank different placebos, which are all made of sucrose.
Anne Solène Maria +5 more
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Metabolic Consequences of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may have metabolic disruption, which can contribute to adverse long‐term outcomes, for multiple reasons. Patients with RA appear to have a higher risk of sarcopenia, type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, and hypertension. Systemic inflammation in RA can cause a “lipid paradox,” with reduced low‐
Stevie Barry +2 more
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Decomposing Triple-Differences Regression under Staggered Adoption [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The triple-differences (TD) design is a popular identification strategy for causal effects in settings where researchers do not believe the parallel trends assumption of conventional difference-in-differences (DiD) is satisfied. TD designs augment the conventional 2x2 DiD with a "placebo" stratum -- observations that are nested in the same units and ...
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Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria provides substantial protection against malaria in children already protected by an insecticide-treated bednet in Burkina Faso: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children (IPTc) is a promising new approach to the control of malaria in areas of seasonal malaria transmission but it is not known if IPTc adds to the protection provided by an insecticide ...
Chandramohan, Daniel +17 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the risk of hepatotoxicity associated with the use of febuxostat and benzbromarone in patients with gout. Methods New users of febuxostat or benzbromarone with monitoring of liver function at least three times in a year after initiation of the study drugs were identified from an ...
Wenyan Sun +8 more
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Impure placebo as an unsound concept and other problems in the paper by Howick et al. : [Comment] [PDF]
, 2013 Howick et al. have reported the findings of a survey that addressed the use of placebos among primary care practitioners in the United Kingdom. They adopted methodology similar to that used in previous studies performed in other countries; however, the ...
Hemilä, Harri +2 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Our objective was to examine the relationship between colchicine plasma concentrations and clinical and demographic factors and to determine the relationship between colchicine concentrations and colchicine efficacy and colchicine‐specific adverse events.
Lisa K. Stamp +8 more
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