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Protocol for a modelling study to assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of indefinite anticoagulant therapy for first unprovoked venous thromboembolism

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction Deciding whether to stop or extend anticoagulant therapy indefinitely after completing at least 3 months of initial treatment for a first unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains a challenge for clinicians, patients and policy makers.
Marc Rodger, Grégoire Le Gal, Kednapa Thavorn, Faizan Khan, Tobias Tritschler, Dean Fergusson, Doug Coyle, Sasha van Katwyk   +7 more
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Power analysis in health policy and systems research: a guide to research conceptualisation

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Power is a growing area of study for researchers and practitioners working in the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR). Theoretical development and empirical research on power are crucial for providing deeper, more nuanced understandings of
Robert Marten, Rakesh Parashar, Emma Sacks, Kerry Scott, Stephanie M Topp, Veena Sriram, Sarah L Dalglish, Marta Schaaf, Rajasulochana SR, Arima Mishra, Sumegha Asthana, João Gutemberg Quintas Costa, Rajeev BR, Katherine Ann V Reyes   +13 more
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Multi-trait multi environment analysis for stability in MABC lines of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum)

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2022
Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris) is a major disease that can cause up to 90% yield loss in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). The presence of 8 physiological races of Foc (0, 1A, 1B/C, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) makes it a complex task in the ...
J JORBEN, APOORVA RAO, C BHARADWAJ, S D NITESH, NEHA TIWARI, TAPAN KUMAR, D R SAXENA, M YASIN, P L SONTAKKE, JAGDISH E JAHAGIRDAR, V S HEGDE   +10 more
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Naive T cells inhibit the outgrowth of intractable antigen-activated memory T cells: implications for T-cell immunotherapy

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2023
Background The wider application of T cells targeting viral tumor-antigens via their native receptors is hampered by the failure to expand potent tumor-specific T cells from patients.
Malcolm K Brenner, Cliona M Rooney, Sandhya Sharma, Birju Mehta, Helen E Heslop, Michael Schmueck-Henneresse, Huimin Zhang, Mae Woods, Naren U Mehta, Tim Sauer, Kathan S Parikh   +10 more
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Surgery for rheumatic heart disease in the Northern Territory, Australia, 1997–2016: what have we gained?

BMJ Global Health, 2023
Background Between 1964 and 1996, the 10-year survival of patients having valve replacement surgery for rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in the Northern Territory, Australia, was 68%.
Clare Heal, Nadarajah Kangaharan, Marcus Ilton, Andrew Webster, Rosemary Wyber, Bo Remenyi, Zhiqiang Wang, Robert A Baker, Alan Cass, Ross Roberts-Thomson, Nigel Gray, Malcolm McDonald, James Doran, David Canty, Karen Dempsey, Georgie Brunsdon, Colin Royse, Alistair Royse, Jacqueline Mein, Jayme Bennetts, Maida Stewart, Steven Sutcliffe, Benjamin Reeves, Upasna Doran, Patricia Rankine, Richard Fejo, Elisabeth Heenan, Ripudaman Jalota, Jason King, Jonathan Doran, Joshua Hanson   +30 more
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Child mortality associated with maternal HIV status: a retrospective analysis in Rwanda, 2005-2015

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Introduction Child mortality remains highest in regions of the world most affected by HIV/AIDS. The aim of this study was to assess child mortality rates in relation to maternal HIV status from 2005 to 2015, the period of rapid HIV treatment scale-up in ...
Agnes Binagwaho, Edward J Mills, Frédérique Chammartin, Marie Paul Nisingizwe, Placidie Mugwaneza, Heiner Bucher, Nathan Ford, Muhammed Semakula, Eric Remera, Jamie Ian Forrest, Gerald E Smith, Samuel S Malamba, Jeanine U Condo, David J Riedel   +13 more
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Increased kidney disease mortality among people with AIDS versus the general population: a population-based cohort study in Italy, 2006–2018

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives This study aimed to assess whether an excess mortality related to kidney and other urinary tract diseases exists among Italian people with AIDS (PWA), as compared with the general population without AIDS (non-PWA).Design Population-based ...
Diego Serraino, Enrico Grande, Luisa Frova, Martina Taborelli, Barbara Suligoi, Federica Toffolutti, Vincenza Regine, Marilena Pappagallo, Lucia Pugliese, Francesco Grippo, Antonella Zucchetto   +10 more
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Characteristics of successful government-led interventions to support healthier populations: a starting portfolio of positive outlier examples

BMJ Global Health, 2023
Despite progress on the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, significant public health challenges remain to address communicable and non-communicable diseases and health inequities.
Robert Marten, Peter Bragge, Anders Nordström, Alex Waddell, Paul Kellner, Veronica Delafosse, Sandro Demaio   +6 more
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Evaluation of risk mitigation measures for people with substance use disorders to address the dual public health crises of COVID-19 and overdose in British Columbia: a mixed-method study protocol

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic was preceded by an ongoing overdose crisis and linked to escalating drug overdose deaths in British Columbia (BC).
Bin Zhao, Bohdan Nosyk, Amanda Slaunwhite, Natt Hongdilokkul, Kiffer G Card, Karen Urbanoski, Heather Palis, Kurt Lock, Jeong E Min, Brittany Barker, Louise Meilleur, Charlene Burmeister, Erica Thomson, Phoenix Beck-McGreevy, Bernie Pauly   +14 more
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Engaging globally with how to achieve healthy societies: insights from India, Latin America and East and Southern Africa

BMJ Global Health, 2021
The way healthy societies are conceptualised shapes efforts to achieve them. This paper explores the features and drivers of frameworks for healthy societies that had wide or sustained policy influence post-1978 at global level and as purposively ...
Robert Marten, Rene Loewenson, Eugenio Villar, Rama Baru   +3 more
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