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Development and differentiability of three brief interventions for risky alco...
Background While brief intervention (BI) for risky alcohol use generally yields positive effects among those identified by screening, effect sizes are small and there is... -
Veteran-centered barriers to VA mental healthcare services use.
Background Some veterans face multiple barriers to VA mental healthcare service use. However, there is limited understanding of how veterans’ experiences and meaning systems... -
Surgical referral coordination from a first-level hospital: a prospective cas...
Background: Patients in isolated rural communities typically lack access to surgical care. It is not feasible for most rural first-level hospitals to provide a full suite of... -
Language-concordant automated telephone queries to assess medication adherenc...
Background Clinicians have difficulty accurately assessing medication non-adherence within chronic disease care settings. Health information technology (HIT) could offer novel... -
Excessive activation of the TLR9/TGF-β1/PDGF-B pathway in the peripheral bloo...
Background Our aim is to study the existence of the TLR9/TGF-β1/PDGF-B pathway in healthy humans and patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and to explore its... -
Predictors of lung function decline in scleroderma-related interstitial lung ...
Background The extent of lung involvement visualized by high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is a predictor of decline in forced vital capacity (FVC) in... -
A discrete cluster of urinary biomarkers discriminates between active systemi...
Background Management of lupus nephritis (LN) would be greatly aided by the discovery of biomarkers that accurately reflect changes in disease activity. Here, we used a... -
Exhaled carbon monoxide: a non-invasive biomarker of short-term exposure to o...
Background In urban settings of Africa with rapidly increasing population, traffic-related air pollution is a major contributor to outdoor air pollution (OAP). Although OAP has...
