BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2018 Background Researchers and funders should consider the statistical power of planned Individual Participant Data (IPD) meta-analysis projects, as they are often time-consuming and costly.
Joie Ensor +4 more
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Ethical qualms about genetic prognosis [PDF]
, 2016 The debate about direct-to-consumer genetic testing has centred on whether consumers are the best judges of their own clinical care. Inthis article, I also examine whether the science of personalized medicine is really as advanced as its proponents
Dickenson, Donna
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Comparison of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale with disability outcome measures in acute stroke trials [PDF]
, 2005 <p><b>Background and Purpose:</b> Acute stroke trials typically use disability scales as their primary end point. Neurologic impairment scales such as the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) are possibly more sensitive to
Lees, K.R., Weir, C.J., Young, F.B.
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Categorizing stroke prognosis using different stroke scales [PDF]
, 2009 <p><b>Background and Purpose</b>: Stroke severity and dependency are often categorized to allow stratification for randomization or analysis. However, there is uncertainty whether the categorizations used for different stroke scales are
Govan, L., Langhorne, P., Weir, C.J.
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Prognostic significance of right bundle branch block in patients with acute inferior myocardial infarction [PDF]
, 2009 There is little information available concerning the influence of right bundle branch block (RBBB) on the prognosis of patients with inferior myocardial infarction (MI).
Iwasaki, Jun +8 more
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Telomere dysfunction accurately predicts clinical outcome in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, even in patients with early stage disease [PDF]
, 2014 © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Defining the prognosis of individual cancer sufferers remains a significant clinical challenge. Here we assessed the ability of high-resolution single telomere length analysis (STELA), combined with an experimentally ...
Allan, James M. +14 more
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Primary leiomyosarcoma of the pancreas: report of a case treated by local excision and review of the literature [PDF]
, 2015 First described by Ross in 1951, primary pancreatic leiomyosarcoma is a rare mesenchymal tumour of the pancreas, with nonspecific clinical and radiological features and a poor prognosis, if ...
Blandamura, Stella +3 more
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Depression in Psoriatic Arthritis: Dimensional Aspects and Link with Systemic Inflammation
Rheumatology and Therapy, 2020 Studying comorbidities in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) provides a better understanding of the extended burden of the disease. Depression and anxiety are well recognized but understudied comorbidities in patients with PsA.
Ashish J. Mathew, Vinod Chandran
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Sensors, 2021 Guided Wave (GW)-based crack monitoring method as a promising method has been widely studied, as this method is sensitive to small cracks and can cover a wide monitoring range.
Qiuhui Xu +2 more
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Treatment outcomes from the largest antiretroviral treatment program in Myanmar (Burma): a cohort analysis of retention after scale-up. [PDF]
, 2012 Article approval pendingAntiretroviral treatment (ART) coverage in Myanmar is well below average. This study describes retention and baseline predictors of prognosis from the largest ART program in the ...
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