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Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme in the Context of the Health MDGs – An Empirical Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching [PDF]

In 2003 the Government of Ghana established a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve health care access for Ghanaians and eventually replace the cashand- carry system.
Joseph Mensah, Joseph R. Oppong, Christoph M. Schmidt   +2 more
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An Assessment of the Utility of a Bayesian Framework to Improve Response Propensity Models in Longitudinal Data

Survey Research Methods
Response propensity (RP) models are widely used in survey research to analyse response processes. One application is to predict sample members who are likely to be survey nonrespondents. The potential nonrespondents can then be targeted using responsive
Eliud Kibuchi, Gabriele B Durrant , Olga Maslovskaya, Patrick Sturgis   +3 more
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Early‐life high‐fat diet exposure increases Achilles tendon stiffness and induces transcriptomic alterations

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Early‐life exposure to a high‐fat diet altered intact Achilles tendons in rat offspring, making them thinner, stiffer, and molecularly distinct even without injury. These findings suggest that developmental high‐fat diet exposure may impair tendon quality and increase susceptibility to mechanical overload or tendon injury later in life.
Heyong Yin, Ziyang Yuan, Wenli Jiang, Ai Guo   +3 more
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and birthweight - A propensity score matching approach [PDF]

There is accumulated evidence of the existence of a deleterious effect of smoking on birth outcomes. Understanding the effect of smoking on pregnancy is a critical issue because of the public policy implications for dissuading maternal smoking.
Ronald P. Wilder, Paula Veiga
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AI‐NLME: A New Artificial Intelligence‐Driven Nonlinear Mixed Effect Modeling Approach for Analyzing Longitudinal Data in Randomized Placebo‐Controlled Clinical Trials

Clinical and Translational Science
A propensity weighted (PSW) methodology was recently proposed for assessing the treatment effect conditional to the probability of non‐specific response to a treatment (prob‐NSRT).
Roberto Gomeni, Françoise Bressolle‐Gomeni   +1 more
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Cyclic azapeptide CD36 ligand attenuates cardiac injury and reduces long‐chain fatty acid accumulation after myocardial ischemia–reperfusion in mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
In a murine model of myocardial ischemia and reperfusion (MI/R), the CD36 azapeptide ligand MPE‐298 reduces cardiac injury and transiently lowers left ventricular long‐chain fatty acids (LCFAs) accumulation 3 h after reperfusion, accompanied by a decrease of oxidative stress and inflammation‐associated genes' expression in the heart and adipose tissue.
Jade Gauvin, Naghme Radmannia, David N. Huynh, Liliane Ménard, Caroline Daneault, Maïté Veilleux, Ahsanullah Ahsanullah, André C. Carpentier, William D. Lubell, Matthieu Ruiz, Huy Ong, Sylvie Marleau, Simon‐Pierre Gravel   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of the Generalized Propensity Score. Evaluation of public contributions to Piedmont enterprises. [PDF]

In this article, we apply a generalization of the propensity score of Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983b). Techniques based on the propensity score have long been used for causal inference in observational studies for reducing bias caused by non-random treatment
Mattei, Alessandra, Bia, Michela
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UiO‐66 metal–organic frameworks in biomedicine: From structural tunability to bioimaging, photodiagnostics, and photodynamic cancer therapy

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
UiO‐66(Zr) metal–organic frameworks are chemically stable, biocompatible, and highly tunable nanomaterials. Their modular structure enables controlled drug delivery, multimodal bioimaging, and light‐activated photodynamic therapy, supporting integrated diagnostic and therapeutic (theranostic) applications in cancer and biomedical research.
Veronika Huntošová, Grigorii Rakhalskii, Miroslav Almáši   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments [PDF]

Failure of participants to complete training programs is pervasive in existing active labor market programs both in developed and developing countries. The proportion of dropouts in prototypical programs ranges from 10 to 50 percent of all participants ...
Lee, Sang-Jun, Choe, Chung, Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso   +2 more
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The host response in critically ill sepsis patients on statin therapy: a prospective observational study

Annals of Intensive Care, 2018
Background Statins can exert pleiotropic anti-inflammatory, vascular protective and anticoagulant effects, which in theory could improve the dysregulated host response during sepsis. We aimed to determine the association between prior statin use and host
Maryse A. Wiewel, Brendon P. Scicluna, Lonneke A. van Vught, Arie J. Hoogendijk, Aeilko H. Zwinderman, René Lutter, Janneke Horn, Olaf L. Cremer, Marc J. Bonten, Marcus J. Schultz, Tom van der Poll   +10 more
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