Footprint of publication selection bias on meta-analyses in medicine, environmental sciences, psychology, and economics [PDF]
, 2022 Publication selection bias undermines the systematic accumulation of evidence. To assess the extent of this problem, we survey over 68,000 meta-analyses containing over 700,000 effect size estimates from medicine (67,386/597,699), environmental sciences (199/12,707), psychology (605/23,563), and economics (327/91,421).
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WormBase - Nematode Biology and Genomes [PDF]
, 2009 WormBase is the major public online database resource for the _Caenorhabditis_ research community. The database was developed primarily for the nematode _C.
Paul Davis, WormBase Consortium
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Pollution; an Aftermath of Urbanization
Journal of University College of Medicine and Dentistry, 2022 Human living, activity, refuse and waste burden the environment. The modern life has changed quantum of many aspects of human living. The present day living is attended with provision and consumption of water, electicity and fuel for cooking.
Munir Akhtar Saleemi
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Health professionals, their medical interventions and uncertainty : a study focusing on women at midlife [PDF]
, 2005 Health professionals face a tension between focusing on the individual and attending to health issues for the population as a whole. This tension is intrinsic to medicine and gives rise to medical uncertainty, which here is explored through accounts of ...
Alaszewski +48 more
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What should medical students know about artificial intelligence in medicine? [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2019 Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to affect various fields of medicine substantially and has the potential to improve many aspects of healthcare. However, AI has been creating much hype, too.
Seong Ho Park +4 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Cardiovascular disease has become a major public health problem. The concept of “cardiovascular continuum” refers to the continuous process from the risk factors that lead to arteriosclerosis, vulnerable plaque rupture, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia,
Iokfai Cheang +10 more
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Patient and Public Involvement in the Development of Healthcare Guidance: An Overview of Current Methods and Future Challenges [PDF]
, 2016 Clinical guidelines and health technology assessments are valuable instruments to improve the quality of healthcare delivery and aim to integrate the best available evidence with real-world, expert context.
Leng, G, Rashid, A, Shaw, T, Thomas, V
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Workplace mental health: developing an integrated intervention approach [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Mental health problems are prevalent and costly in working populations. Workplace interventions to address common mental health problems have evolved relatively independently along three main threads or disciplinary traditions: medicine ...
Keegal, Tessa +7 more
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USP compendial methods for analysis of heparin: chromatographic determination of molecular weight distributions for heparin sodium [PDF]
, 2016 Heparin is a polysaccharide product isolated from glycosaminoglycans of porcine mucosa (or occasionally other tissues and species). It is a linear non-uniform polymer consisting of alternating glucosamine and uronic acid monosaccharide residues and is ...
Al Hakim, Ali +6 more
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SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2023 HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis remains a key driver of AIDS-related mortality. Mortality is twice as high in those who present later to care and with severe symptoms such as confusion.
David S. Lawrence +8 more
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