Association between a four-parameter inflammatory index and all-cause mortality in critical ill patients with non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage: a retrospective analysis of the... by Yong-Wei Huang, Ye Zhang, Zong-Ping Li, Xiao-Shuang Yin

“…This study represents an attempt to bridge the current knowledge gap and to provide a more nuanced understanding of the role of inflammation-based biomarkers in non-traumatic SAH. Nevertheless, to endorse the predictive value of PIV for prognosticating outcomes in non-traumatic SAH patients, additional prospective case-control studies are deemed necessary.…”
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Effects of a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program on quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease by Marzieh Saeidi, Samaneh Mostafavi, Hosein Heidari, Sepehr Masoudi

“…All patients participated in a comprehensive CR program and completed the validated questionnaire Short-Form 36 Health Status Survey (SF-36), before and after CR program. Data was analyzed based on sex and age groups (≥ 65 and < 65 years) using independent t-test and paired t-test (to compare variables between groups and before and after CR, respectively).…”
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Synthèse des données probantes – Examen de la portée sur les associations entre aménagement urbain et santé : les données quantitatives canadiennes by Gavin R. McCormack, Jason Cabaj, Heather Orpana, Ryan Lukic, Anita Blackstaffe, Suzanne Goopy, Brent Hagel, Noel Keough, Ryan Martinson, Jonathan Chapman, Celia Lee, Joyce Tang, Gabriel Fabreau

“…De janvier à mars 2017, nous avons effectué des recherches dans 13 bases de données afin de sélectionner, sans égard à la date de publication, les études quantitatives ayant fait l’objet d’une évaluation par les pairs et portant sur les associations entre des mesures objectives de l’environnement bâti et divers problèmes de santé affectant les adultes cana¬diens. …”
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Medication Deprescribing in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: A Prospective Controlled Quality Improvement Study by Émilie Bortolussi-Courval, Tiina Podymow, Marisa Battistella, Emilie Trinh, Thomas A. Mavrakanas, Lisa McCarthy, Joseph Moryousef, Ryan Hanula, Jean-François Huon, Rita Suri, Todd C. Lee, Emily G. McDonald

“…Although deprescribing pairs well with routine medication reviews, it can be complex and time-consuming. …”
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Facet-joint injections for non-specific low back pain: a feasibility RCT by Saowarat Snidvongs, Rod S Taylor, Alia Ahmad, Simon Thomson, Manohar Sharma, Angela Farr, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Stephanie Poulton, Vivek Mehta, Richard Langford

“…All participants were invited to attend a group-based combined physical and psychological (CPP) programme. …”
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Policies and interventions to remove gender‐related barriers to girls' school participation and learning in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review of the evidence... by Stephanie Psaki, Nicole Haberland, Barbara Mensch, Lauren Woyczynski, Erica Chuang

“…Data Collection and Analysis A team of reviewers was grouped into pairs to independently screen articles for relevance, extract data and assess risk of bias for each included study. …”
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Effect of participatory women's groups and counselling through home visits on children's linear growth in rural eastern India (CARING trial): a cluster-randomised controlled trial by Nirmala Nair, MBBS, Prasanta Tripathy, MSc, H S Sachdev, FRCPCH, Hemanta Pradhan, MDS, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, PhD, Rajkumar Gope, PGDRD, Sumitra Gagrai, BA, Shibanand Rath, MA, Suchitra Rath, MA, Rajesh Sinha, PhD, Swati Sarbani Roy, MSc, Suhas Shewale, MSc, Vijay Singh, BA, Aradhana Srivastava, PhD, Anthony Costello, FRCP, Andrew Copas, PhD, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, PhD, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, PhD, Naomi Saville, PhD, Dr Audrey Prost, PhD

“…The Government of India has proposed a new cadre of community-based workers to improve nutrition in 200 districts. …”
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Medico-Legal Cases Involving Cardiologists and Cardiac Test Underuse or Overuse by Lisa A. Calder, MD, MSc, Heather K. Neilson, MSc, GDip, Eileen M. Whyte, RN, CPPS, Jun Ji, MHA, R. Sacha Bhatia, MD, MBA

“…Background: Evidence-based campaigns are available to support appropriate diagnostic testing in cardiology, but medico-legal concerns can impede implementation. …”
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Argument and information structures in sociology research papers : analysis of the abstract and introduction sections by Cheng, Wei-Ning

“…After tagging text chunks (mainly sentences) with argument elements, sequential pattern mining was performed to identify textual argument patterns, that is, common sequences of argument elements in the text, and logical argument steps, which are argument support => claim pairs, irrespective of sequence order. …”
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Placebo response and remission rates in randomised trials of induction and maintenance therapy for ulcerative colitis by Jairath, V, Zou, GY, Parker, CE, MacDonald, JK, AlAmeel, T, Beshir, M, Almadi, MA, Al-Taweel, T, Atkinson, NS, Biswas, S, Chapman, T, Dulai, PS, Glaire, MA, Hoekman, DR, Koutsoumpas, A, Minas, E, Mosli, MH, Samaan, M, Khanna, R, Travis, S, D'Haens, G, Sandborn, WJ, Feagan, BG

“…The minimum trial duration was two weeks for induction trials and four months maintenance trials.Pairs of authors independently determined study eligibility and extracted data with any disagreements resolved through consensus. …”

GABAergic cell types and modulation of GABAergic synaptic transmission by group III metabotropic glutamate receptors in the human neocortex by Lukacs, IP

“…I identified 5 different GABAergic interneuron types based on the distribution of their dendrites and axon, including DBCs, PMCs, axo-axonic cells (AACs), neurogliaform cells (NGCs) and rosehip cells (RHCs). 2. …”

Development Of Sybr Green I Real-Time Pcr Method For Detection And Differentiation Of Newcastle Disease Virus Pathotypes by Tan, Sheau Wei

“…All these 8 isolates possess two pairs of dibasic amino acids at the position 112 to 116 of the F cleavage site, and a phenylalanine residue at the position 117. …”
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Editorial: Community Engagement Is Key to Promoting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Health

“…Emanated from the urgent need duly noted in this collection, we conclude community engagement is critical to promoting AA and NH/PI health.30,31 Community engagement will increase awareness of anti-Asian hate crimes, address misinformation and disinformation, and reduce the language barriers by pairing bilingual or multilingual researchers and community organizers with those who have unmet medical or mental health needs. …”
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Comparison of self-administered survey questionnaire responses collected using mobile apps versus other methods by Belisario, José S Marcano, Jamsek, Jan, Huckvale, Kit, O'Donoghue, John, Morrison, Cecily P, Car, Josip

“…Selection criteria We included parallel randomised controlled trials (RCTs), crossover trials and paired repeated measures studies that compared the electronic delivery of self-administered survey questionnaires via a smartphone or tablet app with any other delivery mode. …”
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Prognostic models for newly‐diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in adults: a systematic review and meta‐analysis by Kreuzberger, N, Damen, JA, Trivella, M, Estcourt, LJ, Aldin, A, Umlauff, L, Vazquez-Montes, MD, Wolff, R, Moons, KG, Monsef, I, Foroutan, F, Kreuzer, K-A, Skoetz, N

“…We did not restrict the search based on study design.</p> <p><strong>Data collection and analysis:</strong> We developed a data extraction form to collect information based on the Checklist for Critical Appraisal and Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews of Prediction Modelling Studies (CHARMS). …”

Weak neck problem in Musa sp. cv. rastali populations in relation to magnesium, boron and silicon availability by Putra, Eka Tarwaca Susila

“…A total of 10 SSR primer pairs were used in this study. Meanwhile, forward primers were labelled with FAM fluorescent label. …”
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Multiparametric MRI to improve detection of prostate cancer compared with transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy alone: the PROMIS study by Louise Clare Brown, Hashim U Ahmed, Rita Faria, Ahmed El-Shater Bosaily, Rhian Gabe, Richard S Kaplan, Mahesh Parmar, Yolanda Collaco-Moraes, Katie Ward, Richard Graham Hindley, Alex Freeman, Alexander Kirkham, Robert Oldroyd, Chris Parker, Simon Bott, Nick Burns-Cox, Tim Dudderidge, Maneesh Ghei, Alastair Henderson, Rajendra Persad, Derek J Rosario, Iqbal Shergill, Mathias Winkler, Marta Soares, Eldon Spackman, Mark Sculpher, Mark Emberton

“…Design: A validating paired-cohort study and an economic evaluation using a decision-analytic model. …”
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Assessing the risk of crisis in gas distribution networks using the FAHP-PROMETHEE II method (Case study of Qazvin Province Gas Company) by Javad Adli, Manouchehr Omidvari

“…In this process, different options are involved in decision making and it is possible to analyze the sensitivity of indicators and sub-indicators. This process based on paired comparisons facilitates judgment and indicates the degree of compatibility and incompatibility of the decision. …”
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Spatial Analysis of Jiroft Plain Subsidence Using the Coherence Pixel Technique (CPT) by Ali Mehrabi, Sadegh Karimi, Mehran Khalesi

“…Based on this, 72 mapping overlays were generated. …”
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Stedebouwkundig(e) ontwerpen in woorden by MaartenJan Hoekstra

“…In an urbanistic sense, changes within a few pairs of concepts are particularly notable, such as stad [city] and land [country], buurt [neighbourhood] and wijk [district], straat [street] and weg [road], and huis [house] and woning [dwelling]. …”
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