Browsing by Author "Toft, E."
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A comparison between the effectiveness of PBL and LBL on improving problem-solving abilities of medical students using questioning
He Y.; Du X.; Toft E.; Zhang X.; Qu B.; Shi J.; Zhang H.; Zhang H.... more authors ... less authors ( Routledge , 2018 , Article)In daily patient-history taking and diagnosis practice, doctors ask questions to gather information from patients and narrow down diagnostic hypotheses. Training medical students to be efficient problem solvers through the ... -
A History of Drug-Induced Torsades de Pointes Is Associated With T-wave Morphological Abnormalities
Bhuiyan T.A.; Graff C.; Kanters J.K.; Melgaard J.; Toft E.; K??b S.; Struijk J.J.... more authors ... less authors ( Nature Publishing Group , 2018 , Article)The hypothesis of the study is that Torsades de pointes (TdP) history can be better identified using T-wave morphology compared to Fridericia-corrected QT interval (QTcF) at baseline. ECGs were recorded at baseline and ... -
An evidence base for school health policy during the covid-19 pandemic
Badran, S.; Musa, O.A.H.; Al-Maadeed, S.; Toft, E.; Doi, S.A. ( Paris Scholar Publishing , 2021 , Article)Objective: Children represent a small fraction of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with a low case fatality rate (CFR). In this paper, we lay out an evidence-based policy for reopening schools. Methods: We gathered age-specific ... -
Drug release kinetics from a drug-eluting stent with asymmetrical coat
Zhang, H.; Li, X.; Deng, W.; Wang, X.; Wang, S.; Ge, J.; Toft, E.... more authors ... less authors ( IMR Press Limited , 2017 , Article)The aim of this study was to investigate the drug release profiles of biodegradable polymer sirolimus- or paclitaxel-eluting stents with asymmetrical coating (BPSES-A or BPPES-A) both in vitro and in vivo. In vitro, the ... -
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-linked variants of cardiac myosin-binding protein C3 display altered molecular properties and actin interaction
Da'as S.I.; Fakhro K.; Thanassoulas A.; Krishnamoorthy N.; Saleh A.; Calver B.L.; Safieh-Garabedian B.; Toft E.; Nounesis G.; Anthony Lai F.; Nomikos M.... more authors ... less authors ( Portland Press Ltd , 2018 , Article)The most common inherited cardiac disorder, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), is characterized by thickening of heart muscle, for which genetic mutations in cardiac myosin-binding protein C3 (c-MYBPC3) gene, is the leading ... -
Long-term in vivo study of biodegradable Zn-Cu stent: A 2-year implantation evaluation in porcine coronary artery
Zhou C.; Li H.-F.; Yin Y.-X.; Shi Z.-Z.; Li T.; Feng X.-Y.; Zhang J.-W.; Song C.-X.; Cui X.-S.; Xu K.-L.; Zhao Y.-W.; Hou W.-B.; Lu S.-T.; Liu G.; Li M.-Q.; Ma J.-Y.; Toft E.; Volinsky A.A.; Wan M.; Yao X.-J.; Wang C.-B.; Yao K.; Xu S.-K.; Lu H.; Chang S.-F.; Ge J.-B.; Wang L.-N.; Zhang H.-J.... more authors ... less authors ( Acta Materialia Inc , 2019 , Article)In the present study, a novel biodegradable Zn-0.8Cu coronary artery stent was fabricated and implanted into porcine coronary arteries for up to 24 months. Micro-CT analysis showed that the implanted stent was able to ... -
Measuring medical students' professional competencies in a problem-based curriculum: A reliability study
Kassab S.E.; Du X.; Toft E.; Cyprian F.; Al-Moslih A.; Schmidt H.; Hamdy H.; Abu-Hijleh M.... more authors ... less authors ( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Identification and assessment of professional competencies for medical students is challenging. We have recently developed an instrument for assessing the essential professional competencies for medical students in ...