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A validation of the Oswestry Spinal Risk Index [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose The purpose of this study was to validate the Oswestry Spinal Risk Index (OSRI) in an external population. The OSRI predicts survival in patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC).
A Leithner, A. Tambe, B Balain, C Wibmer, CS Lee, DA Karnofsky, HC Bauer, I Laufer, Irfan Siddique, J. Gregory, J. Stephenson, K Tomita, Mohammad Saeed, NA Quraishi, P Paholpak, PS Rose, R. Verma, S Yang, S. Whitehouse, V. Sinclair, Y Tokuhashi, Y Tokuhashi   +21 more
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The cost-effectiveness of nivolumab monotherapy for the treatment of advanced melanoma patients in England [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Nivolumab was the first programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1) immune checkpoint inhibitor to demonstrate long-term survival benefit in a clinical trial setting for advanced melanoma patients.
Ellis, John, Hertel, Nadine, Johnson, Helen, Lee, Dawn, Meng, Yang, Morais, Edith, Philips, Zoe, Roskell, Neil, Walker, Andrew   +8 more
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Nonparametric survival analysis of epidemic data

, 2011
This paper develops nonparametric methods for the survival analysis of epidemic data based on contact intervals. The contact interval from person i to person j is the time between the onset of infectiousness in i and infectious contact from i to j, where
Aalen, Aalen, Altshuler, Becker, Becker, Carcione, Cauchemez, Cox, Dempster, Donnelly, Ferguson, Ferguson, Fine, France, Fraser, Kalbfleisch, Kaplan, Kenah, Kenah, Lee, Lipsitch, McBryde, Mills, Morgan, Müller, Nelson, Rampey, Rhodes, Roberts, Sinha, Sugimoto, Svensson, Van der Vaart, Wallinga, Wallinga, Watts, Wegman, White, Yang   +38 more
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The role of adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with resected pancreatic cancer: Systematic review of randomized controlled trials and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2007
Background: In patients undergoing surgery for resectable pancreatic cancer prognosis still remains poor. The role of adjuvant treatment strategies (including chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy) following resection of pancreatic cancer remains ...
Bakkevold KE, Berger AC, Blackstock AW, Cress RD, Donna Pauler Ankerst, Gastrointestinal Tumour Study Group, Hochster HS, Kalser MH, Khanna A, Knaebel HP, Kosuge T, Luttges J, Oettle H, Ozols RF, Peto R, Regine WF, Stefan Boeck, Volker Heinemann   +17 more
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KMSubtraction: reconstruction of unreported subgroup survival data utilizing published Kaplan-Meier survival curves

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022
Background Data from certain subgroups of clinical interest may not be presented in primary manuscripts or conference abstract presentations. In an effort to enable secondary data analyses, we propose a workflow to retrieve unreported subgroup survival ...
Joseph J. Zhao, Nicholas L. Syn, Benjamin Kye Jyn Tan, Dominic Wei Ting Yap, Chong Boon Teo, Yiong Huak Chan, Raghav Sundar   +6 more
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A Bayesian geoadditive relative survival analysis of registry data on breast cancer mortality [PDF]

, 2006
In this paper we develop a so called relative survival analysis, that is used to model the excess risk of a certain subpopulation relative to the natural mortality risk, i.e. the base risk that is present in the whole population.
Held, Leonhard, Hennerfeind, Andrea
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survextrap: a package for flexible and transparent survival extrapolation

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2023
Background Health policy decisions are often informed by estimates of long-term survival based primarily on short-term data. A range of methods are available to include longer-term information, but there has previously been no comprehensive and ...
Christopher H. Jackson
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90552 Evidence synthesis with reconstructed survival data

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021
IMPACT: A one-stage Bayesian multilevel model for meta-analysis integrating different survival data is introduced to complete the information synthesis without assuming proportional hazard.
Chenqi Fu, Shouhao Zhou, Nicholas Short, Xuelin Huang, Donald Berry, Farhad Ravandi-Kashani   +5 more
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Time to Death and Its Predictor Among Outpatients With COPD: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Northwestern Ethiopia

Health Science Reports
Background and Aims Globally, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the main causes of illness and death. Understanding the problem with respect to these factors is essential to finding a solution.
Yoseph Kassa, Anteneh Asmare Godana, Habtamu Geremew, Chalachew Gashu   +3 more
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Topological data analysis of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and non-O157 survival in soils. [PDF]

, 2014
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 and non-O157 have been implicated in many foodborne illnesses caused by the consumption of contaminated fresh produce.
Crowley, David E, Ibekwe, Abasiofiok M, Johnson, Alexis M, Lum, Pek Y, Ma, Jincai, Petrossian, Tanya C, Yang, Ching-Hong   +6 more
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