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Critical Points for Interpreting Patients’ Survival Rate Using Cancer Registries: A Literature Review

Journal of Epidemiology, 2018
Background: Survival rate is used to develop cancer control plans. However, there are limitations and biases when interpreting patient survival rate data.
Ayako Okuyama, Akiko Shibata, Hiroshi Nishimoto   +2 more
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Impact of lymphadenectomy on the treatment of endometrial cancer using data from the JSOG cancer registry [PDF]

Obstetrics & Gynecology Science, 2021
Objective Regional lymph node (LN) dissection is a standard surgical procedure for endometrial cancer, but there is currently no clear consensus on its therapeutic significance. We aimed to determine the impact of regional LN dissection on the outcome of
Keiko Saotome, Wataru Yamagami, Hiroko Machida, Yasuhiko Ebina, Yoichi Kobayashi, Tsutomu Tabata, Masanori Kaneuchi, Satoru Nagase, Takayuki Enomoto, Daisuke Aoki, Mikio Mikami   +10 more
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Establishing Patient Registries for Rare Diseases: Rationale and Challenges

Pharmaceutical Medicine, 2020
Globally, an estimated 350 million people are affected by a rare disease diagnosis. Knowledge limitations persist for the majority of rare conditions due to systemic and structural challenges in healthcare and research.
V. Boulanger, Marissa Schlemmer, S. Rossov, A. Seebald, P. Gavin   +4 more
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What Happened to the Participants of the Math Olympiad 1971? A Multiple-Case Study Concerning the Occupational Success of the Winning Team from Hungary, Math Olympiad–Occupational Success

Journal of Intelligence, 2019
The aim of this multiple-case study was to find out how the most successful team of the 1971 Mathematical Olympiad in Hungary developed professionally.
Benedikt Gasser
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Preliminary report of Iranian Registry of Alzheimer's disease in Tehran province: A cross‐sectional study in Iran

Health Science Reports, 2022
Background and Aims Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the main cause of dementia and over the 55 million people live with dementia worldwide. We aimed to establish the first database called the Iranian Alzheimer's Disease Registry to create a powerful source ...
Javad Fahanik‐Babaei, Mohsen Sedighi, Soraya Mehrabi, Omid Pournik, Abbas Sheikh Taheri, Leila Kamalzadeh, Mahsa Zarei, Mehrdad Roghani, Fereshteh Golab, Mostafa Almasi, Afshin Etezadi, Siamak Afshin‐Majd, Seyed Kazem Malakouti, Majid Rajabi, Mehdi Moghaddasi, Gholamreza Hajati, Fatemeh Golmohammadi Khamne, Arzhang Jafari, Alireza Amanollahi, Tourandokht Baluchnejadmojarad   +19 more
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Cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death registries: a systematic review of global coverage

Open Heart, 2020
Background Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major global health problem, accounting for up to 20% of deaths in Western societies. Clinical quality registries have been shown in a range of disease conditions to improve clinical management, reduce variation
E. Paratz, L. Rowsell, D. Zentner, S. Parsons, N. Morgan, T. Thompson, P. James, A. Pflaumer, C. Semsarian, Karen Smith, D. Stub, A. La Gerche   +11 more
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Psoriatic Arthritis Registries

The Journal of Rheumatology Supplement, 2015
The introduction of new biological drugs for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis has led to the creation of a number of registries in Europe and the United States. Most of them are sponsored by national rheumatology societies, and provide information that is useful in clinical practice concerning the clinical characteristics ...
Sarzi-Puttini, Piercarlo, Varisco, Valentina, Ditto, Maria Chiara, Benucci, Maurizio, Atzeni, Fabiola   +4 more
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Orthopaedic registries with patient-reported outcome measures

EFORT Open Reviews, 2019
Total joint arthroplasty is performed to decreased pain, restore function and productivity and improve quality of life. One-year implant survivorship following surgery is nearly 100%; however, self-reported satisfaction is 80% after total knee ...
I. Wilson, E. Bohm, A. Lübbeke, S. Lyman, S. Overgaard, O. Rolfson, A. W-Dahl, M. Wilkinson, M. Dunbar   +8 more
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National diabetes registries: do they make a difference?

Acta Diabetologica, 2020
The global epidemic of diabetes mellitus continues to expand, including its large impact on national health care. Measuring diabetes outcomes and their causes of variation highlights areas for improvement in care and efficiency gains; large registries ...
Jessica C G Bak, E. Serné, M. Kramer, Max Nieuwdorp, C. L. Verheugt   +4 more
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Using ecological socioeconomic position (SEP) measures to deal with sample bias introduced by incomplete individual-level measures: inequalities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis as an example

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background When studying the influence of socioeconomic position (SEP) on health from data where individual-level SEP measures may be missing, ecological measures of SEP may prove helpful.
Sébastien Lamy, Florence Molinié, Laetitia Daubisse-Marliac, Anne Cowppli-Bony, Stéphanie Ayrault-Piault, Evelyne Fournier, Anne-Sophie Woronoff, Cyrille Delpierre, Pascale Grosclaude   +8 more
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