JAMA Internal Medicine, 2019 Importance Low-value care is prevalent in the United States, yet little is known about the downstream health care use triggered by low-value services. Measurement of such care cascades is essential to understanding the full consequences of low-value care.
Ishani Ganguli +10 more
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Preoperative Treatment of Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2023 BACKGROUND Pelvic radiation plus sensitizing chemotherapy with a fluoropyrimidine (chemoradiotherapy) before surgery is standard care for locally advanced rectal cancer in North America. Whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy with fluorouracil, leucovorin, and
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Stromal vascular fraction (SVF) may enhance nerve repair, especially when delivered in a self‐assembling peptide hydrogel (SAPH). In vitro, softer SAPH increased neuronal explant outgrowth and supported greater SVF viability and proliferation. In a rat sciatic defect, SVF in an optimized SAPH produced motor and sensory recovery equivalent to autograft ...
Liam A. McMorrow +6 more
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Day surgery and general anaesthesia : what makes patients anxious? [PDF]
, 2010 For many patients the prospective of undergoing surgery and general anaesthesia is highly anxiety provoking. With the global rise in day surgery and limited nurse/ patient contact, anxiety has become a prominent issue.
Mitchell, MJ
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Diagnostic value of risk malignancy index in the preoperative evaluation of ovarian mass correlated with histopathology and comparison of conventional USG with other higher radio diagnostic modalities like CT, CECT and MRI in validating RMI: A prospective observational study in a tertiary care setting of Tamil Nadu [PDF]
, 2021 Sankaran Mirunalini +3 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This study characterizes the presence of microplastics in human normal gastric, para‐tumor, and gastric tumor tissue and confirms the association between microplastic exposure and lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer. This study explores the transcriptomic changes induced by microplastic exposure, laying the foundation for further investigation into
Liqiao Chen +13 more
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Monovision LASIK in emmetropic presbyopic patients. [PDF]
, 2018 BackgroundTo evaluate the efficacy and patient satisfaction of laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) monovision correction in presbyopic emmetropic patients.MethodsA retrospective review of 294 patients who underwent LASIK for monovision was conducted ...
Hannan, Stephen +4 more
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Clinical review: Can we predict which patients are at risk of complications following surgery? [PDF]
, 2013 There are a vast number of operations carried out every year, with a small proportion of patients being at highest risk of mortality and morbidity. There has been considerable work to try and identify these high-risk patients.
Hamilton, M, Shah, N
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3D‐Printed Gastrointestinal Stents: In Vivo Evaluation in a Swine Small Bowel Perforation Model
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Gastrointestinal fistulae and perforations can lead to severe complications including sepsis and patient death. In this work, the efficacy of 3D‐printed gastrointestinal stents composed of poly‐lactic‐acid (PLA) was evaluated in an in vivo swine model.
Gweniviere Capron +9 more
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Evaluation and Management of Sleep Disorders in the Hand Surgery Patient. [PDF]
, 2016 Despite posing a significant public health threat, sleep disorders remain poorly understood and often underdiagnosed and mismanaged. Although sleep disorders are seemingly unrelated, hand surgeons should be mindful of these because numerous conditions of
Gaspar, Michael P. +4 more
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