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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Alan R. Barker, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Tomáš Sláma, Christina Schindera, Fabiën N. Belle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proficiency and Interlaboratory Variability in the Determination of Phthalate and DINCH Biomarkers in Human Urine: Results from the HBM4EU Project

Toxics, 2022
A quality assurance/quality control program was implemented in the framework of the EU project HBM4EU to assess and improve the comparability of biomarker analysis and to build a network of competent laboratories.
Hans G. J. Mol, Ingrid Elbers, Claudia Pälmke, Daniel Bury, Thomas Göen, Marta Esteban López, Stefanie Nübler, Vincent Vaccher, Jean-Philippe Antignac, Darina Dvořáková, Jana Hajšlová, Amrit Kaur Sakhi, Cathrine Thomsen, Katrin Vorkamp, Argelia Castaño, Holger M. Koch   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Proficiency Testing of Viral Marker Screening in African Blood Centers - Seven African Countries, 2017. [PDF]

, 2019
A 2014 report evaluating accuracy of serologic testing for transfusion-transmissible viruses at African blood center laboratories found sensitivities of 92%, 87%, and 90% for detecting infections with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus
Benech, Irene, CDC Proficiency Testing Study Group, De, Anindya, Drammeh, Bakary, Hilton, Joan F, Kaidarova, Zhanna, Kalou, Mireille, Laperche, Syria, Murphy, Edward L, Ozeryansky, Larisa, Parekh, Bharat   +10 more
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The Proficiency Illusion [PDF]

, 2007
Examines the tests states use to measure academic progress under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Deborah Adkins, G. Gage Kingsbury, John Cronin, Michael Dahlin   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Prolonged Corrected QT Interval as an Early Electrocardiographic Marker of Cyclophosphamide‐Induced Cardiotoxicity in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cyclophosphamide (CY) is associated with potentially fatal cardiotoxicity, yet no electrocardiographic indices have been established for early detection of CY‐induced cardiomyopathy. This study aimed to determine whether corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation can predict early onset of CY‐related cardiac dysfunction in pediatric ...
Junpei Kawamura, Kentaro Ueno, Takuro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Koji Nakae, Yasuhiro Okamoto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proficiency testing schemes as a quality rating in industrial hygiene laboratories

Medycyna Pracy, 2016
This publication presents the principles of organization, implementation, assessment and exploitation of proficiency testing results in the work environmental laboratory based on basic requirements included in standard PN-EN ISO/IEC 17043 and ISO 13528 ...
Marek Dobecki, Agata Wziątek
doaj   +1 more source

Quantitative Metrics for Performance Monitoring of Software Code Analysis Accredited Testing Laboratories

Sensors, 2021
Modern sensors deployed in most Industry 4.0 applications are intelligent, meaning that they present sophisticated behavior, usually due to embedded software, and network connectivity capabilities.
Wladmir Araujo Chapetta, Jailton Santos das Neves, Raphael Carlos Santos Machado   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Performance Indicator Analysis of Proficiency Criteria in the Drug-Testing-Laboratory Certification Process of the DHHS [PDF]

, 2000
The authors highlight and propose remedies for problems in the proficiency criteria used in certifying laboratories for drug testing federal employees in the United ...
Barnum, Darold T., Gleason, John M.
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Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser, Alice Bizeul, Meera Chitlur, Hugo Donato, Jelena Roganovic, Julia E. Vogt, Thomas Kühne   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The “PTB Ex Proficiency Testing Scheme” - Interlaboratory Comparisons in the Field of Explosion Protection

Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2016
The requirement of participation in interlaboratory comparisons was not sufficiently fulfilled by laboratories in the field of explosion protection (Ex-testing laboratories) due to a lack of proficiency testing programs.
Tim Krause, Jia Wu, Lisa Zater, Uwe Klausmeyer, Detlev Markus   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source