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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 ...
Perspectives of Persons With Type 2 Diabetes Toward Diabetes Self-Management: A Qualitative Study
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SAGE Publications
, 2022 , Article)
Background. The global increase in type 2 diabetes (T2D) poses a significant public health challenge worldwide. Due to the chronic and complex nature of the disease, management does not depend on pharmacotherapy alone; ...
Likelihood ratio interpretation of the relative risk
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BMJ Publishing Group
, 2022 , Article)
Interpreting diagnostic test results in
medicine
The likelihood ratio (LR) is today commonly used
in medicine for diagnostic inference. Historically,
it was preceded by introduction, in 1966, of the
predictive value ...
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 ...
Determinants of Atrial Fibrillation Development among Patients undergoing Ibrutinib Therapy
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Marshfield Clinic
, 2022 , Article)
Objective: Within the last decade, the use of ibrutinib, a first-generation, non-selective, irreversible Burton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor for the treatment of hematological malignancies has proven highly effective in ...