Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Background: The laparoscopic surgical procedure has made remarkable changes in the surgical field. Conditions, such as pneumoperitoneum, has an impact on several homeostatic systems.
Sindhuja Somasundaram +1 more
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Current Oncology, 2022 We assessed whether advanced RT techniques were associated with differences in patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Patients with bone metastases who completed the brief pain inventory (BPI) before and after RT were identified, and RT technique was ...
Robert A. Olson +5 more
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Augmentation of Mind-body Therapy and Role of Deep Slow Breathing [PDF]
, 2009 Mind-body therapies have been shown to be effective in clinical treatment of disorders such as high blood pressure and stress. Significant differences in the effectiveness of mind–body therapies have been shown and a common link among the therapies has ...
Barnes, Vernon A., Ravinder, Jerath
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An alternative to Kim and Warde’s mixed randomized response technique
Statistica, 2014 The paper proposes two mixed randomized response techniques as an alternative to the Kim and Warde’s (2005) randomized response technique. The properties of the models have been studied and found that the proposed mixed randomized response models are ...
Housila P. Singh, Tanveer A. Tarray
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A randomized clinical trial comparing family-focused treatment and individual supportive therapy for depression in childhood and early adolescence [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE: Despite the morbidity and negative outcomes associated with early-onset depression, few studies have examined the efficacy of psychosocial treatment for depressive disorders during childhood.
Asarnow, Joan R. +3 more
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Buddhist-Derived Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation for the Treatment of Psychopathology: a Systematic Review [PDF]
, 2014 Although clinical interest has predominantly focused on mindfulness meditation, interest into the clinical utility of Buddhist-derived loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion meditation (CM) is also growing.
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Yoga for generalized anxiety disorder: design of a randomized controlled clinical trial. [PDF]
, 2015 Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common disorder associated with significant distress and interference. Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown to be the most effective form of psychotherapy, few patients receive or have access ...
Bui, Eric +7 more
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The role of radiation therapy in bone metastases management [PDF]
, 2017 Bone metastases represent an important complication of malignant tumours. Despite improvement in surgical techniques and advances in systemic therapies, management of patients with bone metastatic disease remains a powerful cornerstone for the radiation ...
DE FELICE, Francesca +3 more
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Differentially Private Exponential Random Graphs
, 2014 We propose methods to release and analyze synthetic graphs in order to protect privacy of individual relationships captured by the social network. Proposed techniques aim at fitting and estimating a wide class of exponential random graph models (ERGMs ...
A. Goldenberg +17 more
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Systematic techniques for assisting recruitment to trials (START): study protocol for embedded, randomized controlled trials [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Randomized controlled trials play a central role in evidence-based practice, but recruitment of participants, and retention of them once in the trial, is challenging.
A McDonald +58 more
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