A comparison of standard gamble, time trade-off, and adjusted time trade-off scores. by Martin, A, Glasziou, P, Simes, R, Lumley, T

“…OBJECTIVE: To adjust patients' time trade-off (TTO) scores using information on their utility functions for survival time to derive a measure of health state utility equivalent to the standard gamble (SG). …”

A syntax–lexicon trade-off in language production by Rezaii, Neguine, Mahowald, Kyle, Ryskin, Rachel, Dickerson, Bradford, Gibson, Edward

“…Based on prior neuropsychological observations, we hypothesize that patients who have difficulty producing complex syntax might choose semantically richer words to make their meaning clear, whereas patients with lexicosemantic deficits may choose more complex syntax. …”
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Exploiting fitness trade-offs to prevent antifungal drug resistance by Vincent, Benjamin Matteson

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Patient-reported outcomes following treatment for localized prostate cancer: Helping decision making for patients and their physicians. by Hamdy, F, Donovan, J

“…When treatments are known to be successful with good oncological outcomes for specific cancers, most patients will be prepared to accept the proposed therapy and its consequences on quality of life. …”

Utility values among myopic patients in mainland China. by Li, S, Wang, G, Xu, Y, Gray, A, Chen, G

“…PURPOSE: To elicit utility values of adult myopic patients in mainland China. METHODS: A valid sample of 442 myopia patients (spherical equivalent at least -0.5 diopters) aged 17 to 44 years who were scheduled to undergo refractive surgery were recruited. …”

Money is brain: Financial barriers and consequences for Canadian stroke patients. by Ganesh, A, King-Shier, K, Manns, B, Hill, M, Campbell, D

“… <h4>Background</h4> <p>Stroke patients of lower socio-economic status have worse outcomes. …”

Patient-reported outcomes 12 years after localized prostate cancer treatment by Donovan, JL, Hamdy, FC, Lane, JA, Young, GJ, Metcalfe, C, Walsh, EI, Davis, M, Steuart-Feilding, T, Blazeby, JM, Avery, KNL, Martin, RM, Bollina, P, Doble, A, Doherty, A, Gillatt, D, Gnanapragasam, V, Hughes, O, Kockelbergh, R, Kynaston, H, Paul, A, Paez, E, Powell, P, Rosario, DJ, Rowe, E, Mason, M, Catto, JWF, Peters, TJ, Wade, J, Turner, EL, Williams, NJ, Oxley, J, Staffurth, J, Bryant, RJ, Neal, DE

“…<br><br> CONCLUSIONS<br> ProtecT provides robust evidence about continued impacts of treatments in the long term. These data allow patients newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer and their clinicians to assess the trade-offs between treatment harms and benefits and enable better informed and prudent treatment decisions. …”

Mixed strain pathogen populations accelerate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in patients by Diaz Caballero, J, Wheatley, RM, Kapel, N, López-Causapé, C, Van der Schalk, T, Quinn, A, Shaw, LP, Ogunlana, L, Recanatini, C, Britto Xavier, B, Timbermont, L, Kluytmans, J, Ruzin, A, Esser, M, Malhotra-Kumar, S, Oliver, A, MacLean, RC

“…Crucially, resistance evolves rapidly in patients colonized by multiple strains through selection for pre-existing resistant strains. …”

Routine Post-Procedure Recovery (RPPR) patients at Massachusetts General Hospital by Yeshayahu, Kfir I

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Patient-Centered Clinical Trial Design for Heart Failure Devices via Bayesian Decision Analysis by Chaudhuri, Shomesh E., Adamson, Phillip, Bruhn-Ding, Dean, Ben Chaouch, Zied, Gebben, David, Rincon-Gonzalez, Liliana, Liden, Barry, Reed, Shelby D., Saha, Anindita, Schaber, Daniel, Stein, Kenneth, Tarver, Michelle E., Lo, Andrew W.

“…These benefit–risk trade-off data allow us to estimate the loss in utility—from the patient perspective—of a false-positive or false-negative pivotal trial result. …”
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The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: Evidence from an intervention in Boston by Brennan, Mark, Dyer, Sophia, Jonasson, Jonas, Salvia, James, Segal, Laura, Serino, Erin, Steil, Justin

“…First, this study reports the pre-intervention analytics in 2017 that built the policy case for service segmentation, a new Community Assistance Team designated “Squad 80” that primarily responds to investigation incidents in one broad area of the city with high rates of substance abuse and homelessness, helping patients who often refuse ambulance transport connect to social services. …”
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Control charts for monitoring mood stability as a predictor of severe episodes in patients with bipolar disorder by Vazques-Montes, MDLA, Stevens, R, Perera, R, Saunders, K, Geddes, JR

“…<strong>Background</strong> Recurrent mood episodes and subsyndromal mood instability cause substantial disability in patients with bipolar disorder. Early identification of mood episodes enabling timely mood stabilization is an important clinical goal. …”

Label-free Neutrophil Enrichment from Patient-derived Airway Secretion Using Closed-loop Inertial Microfluidics by Qu, Yanyan, Lee, Janet S., Ryu, Hyunryul, Choi, Kyungyong, Kwon, Taehong, Han, Jongyoon

“…However, due to the heterogeneous and viscous nature of patient mucus, there is currently no reliable dissociation method that does not damage the host immune cells in the patient airway secretion. …”
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Design of low-power analog filters in WBAN receiver front-ends for hyper/hypothyroidism patients by Wang, Xiaoying

“…These thyroid-related disorders are commonly seen globally, which affect patients' basic metabolism. Patients may exhibit symptoms such as irregular heart beat, depression, muscle weakness, thyroid gland enlargement and so on. …”
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Systematic review of diagnostic accuracy of reflectance confocal microscopy for melanoma diagnosis in patients with clinically equivocal skin lesions. by Stevenson, A, Mickan, S, Mallett, S, Ayya, M

Estimating utility values for health states of type 2 diabetic patients using the EQ-5D (UKPDS 62). by Clarke, P, Gray, A, Holman, R

“…METHODS: The EuroQol EQ-5D instrument was administered in 1996 to 3667 UKPDS patients with type 2 diabetes. Tobit and censored least absolute deviations (CLAD) regression analysis based on data from the 3192 respondents was used to estimate the impact of major complications on (1) the visual analog scale (VAS) and (2) the EQ-5D utilities derived from population-based time trade-off values. …”

Does the Public Prefer Health Gain for Cancer Patients? A Systematic Review of Public Views on Cancer and its Characteristics. by Morrell, L, Wordsworth, S, Rees, S, Barker, R

“…Two directly addressed health trade-offs in the UK—one showed a preference for health gain in cancer, while the other found no such preference but provided results consistent with population health maximisation. …”

Impact of transforming mental health services for young people in England on patient access, resource use and health: a quasi-experimental study by Rocks, S, Fazel, M, Tsiachristas, A

“…<p><strong>Objective</strong> To evaluate the impact of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) transformation in South East England on patient access, resource utilisation and health outcomes. …”

4D-PET reconstruction of dynamic non-small cell lung cancer [18-F]-FMISO-PET data using adaptive-knot cubic b-splines by Ralli, G, McGowan, D, Chappell, M, Sharma, R, Higgins, G, Fenwick, J

“…Within the entire patient region the proposed algorithm produced the best bias-noise trade-off, while within the tumor region the spline- and spectral model-based reconstructions gave comparable results.…”

Spatial attention speeds discrimination without awareness in blindsight. by Kentridge, R, Heywood, C, Weiskrantz, L

“…An intimate relationship is often assumed between visual attention and visual awareness. Using a subject, patient GY, with the neurological condition of "blindsight" we show that although attention may be a necessary precursor to visual awareness it is not a sufficient one. …”