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60/30: 60% of the Morbidity-Associated Multiple Sclerosis Disease Burden Comes From the 30% of Persons With Higher Impairments

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common chronic, non-traumatic, neurologic disease in young adults. While approximate values of the disease burden of MS are known, individual drivers are unknown.Objective: To estimate the age-, sex-, and ...
Marco Kaufmann, Milo Alan Puhan, Anke Salmen, Christian P. Kamm, Christian P. Kamm, Zina-Mary Manjaly, Zina-Mary Manjaly, Pasquale Calabrese, Sven Schippling, Sven Schippling, Stefanie Müller, Jens Kuhle, Caroline Pot, Claudio Gobbi, Claudio Gobbi, Nina Steinemann, Viktor von Wyl, Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Registry (SMSR)   +17 more
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Recruitment interventions for trials involving adults lacking capacity to consent: methodological and ethical considerations for designing Studies Within a Trial (SWATs)

Trials, 2022
Background The number of interventions to improve recruitment and retention of participants in trials is rising, with a corresponding growth in randomised Studies Within Trials (SWATs) to evaluate their (cost-)effectiveness. Despite recognised challenges
Victoria Shepherd, Fiona Wood, Katie Gillies, Abby O’Connell, Adam Martin, Kerenza Hood   +5 more
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Motivational Interviewing Conversational Agent for Parents as Proxies for Their Children in Healthy Eating: Development and User Testing

JMIR Human Factors, 2022
BackgroundIncreased adoption of off-the-shelf conversational agents (CAs) brings opportunities to integrate therapeutic interventions. Motivational Interviewing (MI) can then be integrated with CAs for cost-effective access to it.
Diva Smriti, Tsui-Sui Annie Kao, Rahil Rathod, Ji Youn Shin, Wei Peng, Jake Williams, Munif Ishad Mujib, Meghan Colosimo, Jina Huh-Yoo   +8 more
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Coupled ethical-epistemic analysis of public health research and practice: categorizing variables to improve population health and equity [PDF]

, 2015
The categorization of variables can stigmatize populations, which is ethically problematic and threatens the central purpose of public health: to improve population health and reduce health inequities. How social variables (e.g., behavioral risks for HIV)
Katikireddi, S. Vittal, Valles, Sean A.
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Hospital stay as a proxy indicator for severe injury in earthquakes: a retrospective analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
INTRODUCTION: Earthquakes are the most violent type of natural disasters and injuries are the dominant medical problem in the early phases after earthquakes.
Lu-Ping Zhao, Martin Gerdin, Lina Westman, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes, Qi Wu, Barbara van den Oever, Liang Pan, Manuel Albela, Gao Chen, De-Sheng Zhang, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Johan von Schreeb   +11 more
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A cross-sectional pilot study of the Scottish early development instrument : a tool for addressing inequality [PDF]

, 2013
Early childhood is recognised as a key developmental phase with implications for social, academic, health and wellbeing outcomes in later childhood and indeed throughout the adult lifespan.
Booth, Josephine, Frank, John, Geddes, Rosemary, McNicol, Stephanie, Woolfson, Lisa   +4 more
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Patient and Proxy Recall After Providing Written or Oral Informed Consent to Participate in an Interventional Trial

JAMA Network Open, 2022
This cohort study assesses recall rates among patients and their proxies who consented to participate in a randomized clinical trial.
Csaki Huttner, Angela, Von Dach-Saouter, Elodie, Prendki, Virginie, Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen, Kaiser, Laurent   +4 more
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The Effect of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Implemented in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic on Seasonal Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Analysis of Google Trends Data

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
BackgroundRespiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of respiratory infection in children. Despite usually following a consistent seasonal pattern, the 2020-2021 RSV season in many countries was delayed and changed in ...
Hersh D Ravkin, Elad Yom-Tov, Lior Nesher   +2 more
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Measuring the effect of opportunity cost of time on participation in sports and exercise [PDF]

, 2013
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Background: There is limited research on the association between opportunity cost of time and sports and exercise due to lack of data on opportunity cost of time. Using a
Anokye, NK, Fox-Rushby, J, Pokhrel, S
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Participatory approaches in the development of health interventions for migrants: a systematic review

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective Analysis of participatory approaches to developing health interventions for migrants and how approaches embody core participatory principles of inclusivity and democracy.Design A systematic review of original articles.
Laura Nellums, Sally Hargreaves, Sebastian S Fuller, Jon S Friedland, Anna Deal, Lucy Goldsmith, Kieran Rustage, Alison Crawshaw, Saliha Majeed-Hajaj, Yusuf Ciftci   +9 more
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