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Differentiated thyroid cancer: millions spent with no tangible gain?
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Bio Scientifica
, 2017 , Article)
The incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) has rapidly increased worldwide over the last decades. It is unknown if the increase in diagnosis has been mirrored by an increase in thyroidectomy rates with the ...
An Early Warning Tool for Predicting Mortality Risk of COVID-19 Patients Using Machine Learning
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Springer
, 2021 , Article)
COVID-19 pandemic has created an extreme pressure on the global healthcare services. Fast, reliable, and early clinical assessment of the severity of the disease can help in allocating and prioritizing resources to reduce ...
Prostate-based biofluids for the detection of prostate cancer: A comparative study of the diagnostic performance of cell-sourced RNA biomarkers
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
Background Prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis requires improvement with the aid of more accurate biomarkers. Postejaculate urethral washings (PEUW) could be a physiological equivalent to urine obtained following rectal prostatic ...
Comparison of immunogenicity and safety of licensed Japanese encephalitis vaccines: A systematic review and network meta-analysis
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article Review)
IntroductionAnnually more than 100,000 Japanese encephalitis (JE) cases and 25,000 deaths worldwide are caused by JE virus infection. More than 15 JE vaccines are currently in use worldwide. It is unknown whether any of ...
The Economic Impact of Optimizing a COVID-19 Management Protocol in Pre-Existing Cardiovascular Disease Patients
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This study answers the question of whether the health care costs of managing COVID-19 in preexisting cardiovascular diseases (CVD) patients increased or decreased as a consequence of evidence-based efforts to optimize the ...
Overconfident results with the bivariate random effects model for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies
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Wiley
, 2022 , Other)
Meta-analyses of diagnostic accuracy studies are a fundamental component of evidence-based medicine, and they are extensively used in medical imaging and the clinical laboratory. Techniques specifically developed to combine ...
Does the Sex of the Firstborn Child Affect the Breast Cancer Risk and Survival: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Over 1 Million Cases
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Galenos Yayinevi
, 2022 , Article)
Background: Reports on the risk and prognosis of breast cancer in relation to the sex of a child have been conflicting. Since medical sciences play an important role in informing sociocultural understandings of health and ...
A Delphi consensus study introducing a Problem And attRibutes‐bAsed DIabetes self‐manaGeMent (PARADIGM) intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
AimEncouraging patients to improve their self-management behavior based on a strict definition of the intervention is important for a standardized delivery but, until recently, there was no consensus on the core attributes ...
Duration of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness against Severe Disease
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MDPI
, 2022 , Article)
Waning immunity following administration of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines remains a concern for many health systems. We undertook a study to determine if recent reports of waning for severe disease could have been attributed ...
Data reproducibility issues and their potential impact on conclusions from evidence syntheses of randomized controlled trials in sleep medicine
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
In this study, we examined the data reproducibility issues in systematic reviews in sleep medicine. We searched for systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials published in sleep medicine journals. The metadata in ...