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Economic evaluation of parasitic diseases: A critique of the internal and external validity of published studies [PDF]

Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2000
SummaryIt was estimated that in 1990, major parasitic diseases accounted for 11.7% of the disease burden from communicable disease. As advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of parasitic diseases are made and implemented, there is a growing economic literature to help decision‐makers choose the most efficient control method.
D, Walker, J, Fox-Rushby
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Prognostic models for locally advanced cervical cancer: external validation of the published models [PDF]

Journal of Gynecologic Oncology, 2017
To externally validate the prognostic models for predicting the time-dependent outcome in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) who were treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy in an independent cohort.A historical cohort of 297 women with LACC who were treated with radical concurrent chemoradiotherapy from 1999 to 2014 at the 12 de ...
David Lora, Agustín Gómez de la Cámara, Sara Pedraza Fernández, Rafael Enríquez de Salamanca, José Fermín Pérez-Regadera Gómez   +4 more
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Efficacy and safety of external therapy of TCM for primary dysmenorrhea

Medicine, 2022
. Background:. Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is a painful disease that severely affects the daily lives of young women. External therapy using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is widely used in the clinical treatment of this disease and has achieved a good
Haiyu Zhu, MD, Hongyi Guan, MD, Tingwei Ding, MS, Yunpeng Bi, MS, Yue Zhuo, MD, Yuanyuan Chen, MS, Tie Li, MD, Zhihong Wang, MD   +7 more
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SYSTEMATIC EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF PUBLISHED POPULATION PHARMACOKINETIC MODELS FOR TACROLIMUS IN ADULT LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS [PDF]

Transplantation, 2020
Background:Diverse tacrolimus population pharmacokinetic models in adult liver transplant recipients have been established to describe the PK characteristics of tacrolimus in the last two decades. However, their extrapolated predictive performance remains unclear.Therefore,in this study,we aimed to evaluate their external predictability and identify ...
Xiaojun Cai, Ruidong Li, Changcheng Sheng, Yifeng Tao, Quanbao Zhang, Xiaofei Zhang, Juan Li, Conghuan Shen, Xiaoyan Qiu, Zhengxin Wang, Zheng Jiao   +10 more
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Japan’s Ancient Indic Heritage: A Review of “'Hindu Deities Worshipped in Japan'” by Benoy K. Behl: Text and photographs by Benoy K. Behl, with an essay on ‘The Japanese Perspective’ by Dr. Mihoko Hiraoka, co-researched by Sujata Chatterji, The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited, 2019, ISBN 978-9387791312.

Ancient Asia, 2022
Benoy K Behl is an art historian, photographer and film-maker whose work aims at presenting a wider perspective in understanding the art of India and Asia. This book was published based on the research output of a photographic exhibition of the same name
Amita Kini-Singh
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Publishing Clinical Trials and Dealing with External Comparisons

Controlled Clinical Trials, 1998
This brief note is designed to provide research teams that are involved with the publication of clinical trials in peer-reviewed medical journals with a reference for the rebuttal of referees' criticism that your results are in some way inferior overall to those of others.
Pediatric Oncology Group Statistical Office, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida USA ( host institution ), Shuster, Jonathan J.   +1 more
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Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the new region-generic version of Fremantle Body Awareness-General Questionnaire.

PLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundAs the field of pain evaluation grows, newer and more targeted tools are being published for patient-centric evaluation of specific aspects of the pain experience.
David M Walton, Goris Nazari, Pavlos Bobos, Joy C MacDermid   +3 more
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Risk factors for major external structural birth defects among children in Kiambu County, Kenya: a case-control study [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

F1000Research, 2021
Background: Although major external structural birth defects continue to occur globally, the greatest burden is shouldered by resource-constrained countries with no surveillance systems.
George N. Agot, Marshal M. Mweu, Joseph K. Wang'ombe   +2 more
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External Validation of Equations that Use Demographic and Anthropometric Measurements to Predict Percent Body Fat

Obesity Science & Practice, 2018
Summary Objective Numerous equation to predict percent body fat using demographics and anthropometrics have been published but external validation of these equations is limited.
K. R. Reynolds, J. Stevens, J. Cai, C. E. Lewis, A. C. Choh, S. A. Czerwinski   +5 more
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External evaluation of published population pharmacokinetic models of tacrolimus in adult renal transplant recipients [PDF]

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2016
AimSeveral tacrolimus population pharmacokinetic models in adult renal transplant recipients have been established to facilitate dose individualization. However, their applicability when extrapolated to other clinical centres is not clear. This study aimed to (1) evaluate model external predictability and (2) analyze potential influencing factors ...
Chen-Yan, Zhao, Zheng, Jiao, Jun-Jun, Mao, Xiao-Yan, Qiu   +3 more
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