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Global Overview of Response Rates in Patient and Health Care Professional Surveys in Surgery

Annals of Surgery, 2020
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text Objective: Identify key demographic factors and modes of follow-up in surgical survey response. Summary Background Data: Surveys are widely used in surgery to assess patient and procedural outcomes ...
V. Meyer, S. Benjamens, M. Moumni, J. Lange, R. Pol   +4 more
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RT‐PCR–Based Detection of Bone Marrow Involvement in Ewing Sarcoma: Diagnostic Validity and Prognostic Relevance

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background In Ewing sarcoma (EwS), metastases, including those to bone marrow (BM), are the main factors influencing prognosis. Although reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) offers greater sensitivity, the current EWING protocol defines BM metastases solely using light microscopic detection.
Thanh Pham, Andreas Ranft, Victor Rechl, Susanne Jabar, Wolfgang Hartmann, Kim Falkenberg, Heribert Jürgens, Norbert Graf, Torsten Keßler, Markus Metzler, Thomas Klingebiel, Thorsten Simon, Martin Benesch, Uta Dirksen   +13 more
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Safety and Efficacy of Anticoagulation Therapy in Paediatric Patients With Solid Tumours or Lymphomas at Risk of Thrombocytopenia: A Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with solid tumours or lymphomas have an increased risk of thromboembolism (TE) and thrombocytopenia. Evidence‐based strategies for anticoagulation therapy (ACT) for patients with thrombocytopenia are limited. We examined the impact of thrombocytopenia on ACT administration and bleeding incidence in children with solid ...
Andrés Felipe Fajardo, Katherine Talpin, Bishal Harry, Uma H. Athale, Anthony K. C. Chan, Mihir D. Bhatt   +5 more
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The Limitations of Online Surveys

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2020
Online surveys are growing in popularity, perhaps because they are an easy, convenient, and inexpensive means of data collection. Online surveys commonly suffer from two serious methodological limitations: the population to which they are distributed ...
Chittaranjan Andrade
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The Zwicky Transient Facility: Surveys and Scheduler [PDF]

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019
We present a novel algorithm for scheduling the observations of time-domain imaging surveys. Our integer linear programming approach optimizes an observing plan for an entire night by assigning targets to temporal blocks, enabling strict control of the ...
E. Bellm, S. Kulkarni, T. Barlow, U. Feindt, M. Graham, A. Goobar, T. Kupfer, C. Ngeow, P. Nugent, E. Ofek, T. Prince, R. Riddle, R. Walters, Quan-Zhi 志 Ye 葉泉   +13 more
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Clinical Correlates of Anxiety and Depression After Diagnosis of a Pediatric Brain Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The prevalence and clinical correlates of symptoms of anxiety and depression in pediatric patients with brain tumors are not well described. We aimed to identify clinical characteristics that are correlated with elevated symptoms of anxiety and depression following initial diagnosis.
Bryony J. Lucas, Se‐Kang Kim, Joan Yu, Ana Sofia C. Ibarrola, Heather H. Stancel, Kavyaa Choudry, Mary Elizabeth Moody, Krystal K. Christopher, David R. Grosshans, Arnold C. Paulino, Guillermo Aldave, M. Fatih Okcu, Murali M. Chintagumpala, Austin L. Brown, Michael E. Scheurer, Kimberly P. Raghubar, Lisa S. Kahalley   +16 more
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Oncogenic NRAS Mutation in Incipient Sarcomatous Transformation of Cystic Nephroma From a Patient With DICER1‐Related Tumor Predisposition Syndrome

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anaplastic sarcoma of the kidney (ASK) is a DICER1‐associated malignant tumor presumed to arise in a benign precursor, pediatric cystic nephroma (PCN). However, the initial oncogenic alteration(s) associated with malignant transformation are unknown.
Nahir Cortes‐Santiago, Sarah B. Whittle, Sarah Scollon, Sharon E. Plon, Sanjeev Vasudevan, Bryony J. Lucas, Angshumoy Roy   +6 more
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Preoperative Cytopenia in Patients Affected by High‐Risk Neuroblastoma: Just a Matter of Platelets?

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims In patients affected by high‐risk neuroblastoma (HR‐NB), complete macroscopic resection (CMR) is associated with better outcomes. These patients are often cytopenic due to intensive induction regimens. The aim of the present study is to assess the impact of preoperative cytopenia on surgical outcome in patients with HR‐NB ...
Giorgio Persano, Valerio Voglino, Federico Beati, Cristina Martucci, Chiara Grimaldi, Francesca Del Bufalo, Annalisa Serra, Francesco Fabozzi, Carmen Malaspina, Pier Luigi Di Paolo, Gian Luigi Natali, Simone Reali, Maria Antonietta De Ioris, Alessandro Crocoli   +13 more
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Efficient analysis in planet transit surveys [PDF]

, 2005
With the growing number of projects dedicated to the search for extrasolar planets via transits, there is a need to develop fast, automatic, robust methods with a statistical background in order to efficiently do the analysis.
A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Beaulieu, Beaulieu, Beaulieu, Bouchy, Brandt, Carpano, Charbonneau, Claret, Cumming, Davies, Defay, Deming, Doyle, Eadie, Fisher, Fisz, Gregory, Horne, J.-Ph. Beaulieu, Jenkins, Konacki, Kovacs, Lomb, Press, Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Stellingwerf, Struve, Tingley, Tingley, Udalski, Udalski, van Leeuwen, Weldrake, Whittaker   +37 more
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Contact Patterns in a High School: A Comparison between Data Collected Using Wearable Sensors, Contact Diaries and Friendship Surveys [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Given their importance in shaping social networks and determining how information or transmissible diseases propagate in a population, interactions between individuals are the subject of many data collection efforts.
R. Mastrandrea, Julie Fournet, A. Barrat
semanticscholar   +1 more source