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Frequency of Parathyroid Hormone Assessment in the Evaluation of Hypercalcemia. A Comparison Between Patients With and Without a History of Malignancy in a 20-year Dataset of 20,954 Patients
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a prior diagnosis of malignancy affected the assessment of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in hypercalcemic patients and whether the rate of this assessment changed ...
Albumin administration in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis: A meta-analytic update
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Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
, 2021 , Article Review)
End-stage liver disease and its related complications exert a huge disease burden and reduce the survival rates of many patients. Albumin administration for patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis has been a controversial ...
The MethodologicAl STandards for Epidemiological Research (MASTER) scale demonstrated a unified framework for bias assessment
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
Objective: This paper presents a unified framework for assessment of the methodological quality of analytic study designs. Study Design and Setting: A systematic review of 393 methodological quality assessment tools that ...
Diagnostic accuracy of ELISA kits for measurement of rabies antibodies
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NLM (Medline)
, 2021 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Reply to: Let us not rush back to odds ratios in meta-analysis
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Flight Versus Ground Out-of-hospital Rapid Sequence Intubation Success: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
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Taylor and Francis Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Introduction: Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is a critical procedure performed by both air medical and ground based emergency medical services (EMS). Previous work has suggested that ETI success rates are greater for air ...
Research Methods for Zero Event Proportion Studies: The Incidence of Bleeding After Thoracentesis and Tube Thoracostomy in Patients With Uncorrected Coagulopathy
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
In a recent meta-analysis published in CHEST (November 2021), Fong et al1 investigated the incidence of bleeding after thoracentesis and tube thoracostomy in patients with uncorrected coagulopathy. The authors used the ...