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Patient perception of Breezhaler and Ellipta device feedback mechanisms in CO...
OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of the ADVANTAGE study was to compare device-naive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients' perception of the Breezhaler® and... -
Systematic literature review of the epidemiology and clinical burden of chron...
We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to determine the epidemiology and clinical burden of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and to describe how the... -
Societal implications of medical insurance coverage for imatinib as first-lin...
Objectives: Imatinib (Glivec) and nilotinib (Tasigna) have been covered by critical disease insurance in Jiangsu province of China since 2013, which changed local treatment... -
Economic burden of subsequent fracture in osteoporosis patients in South Korea
This study aimed to assess the economic burden of subsequent fracture in osteoporosis patients with incident fracture. The authors conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of... -
Predictors of insufficient recanalization and portal hypertensive complicatio...
In acute portal vein thrombosis (PVT), a six-month anticoagulation treatment achieves complete recanalization in only 35%–45% of patients, but the predictors of poor treatment... -
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We show how a factor analysis model can be fitted to nominal data using the computer program Mplus. The model is akin to multinomial logistic regression with unobserved... -
Verification of the hemolysis index measurement: imprecision, accuracy, measu...
Automated spectrophotometric measurement of hemolysis index (HI) allows rapid and cost-effective assessment of hemolysis interference. We evaluated the analytical performance of... -
Adaptation and validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to evaluate m...
Background: Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in primary care settings and is often underdiagnosed and undertreated by general practitioners (GPs). To date,... -
Casein kinases as potential therapeutic targets
Introduction: The conventional term ‘casein kinase’ (CK) denotes three classes of kinases – CK1, CK2 and Golgi-CK (G-CK)/Fam20C (family with sequence similarity 20, member C) –... -
Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide as an Inflammatory Biomarker in Chronic Obstr...
We studied whether fractional exhaled nitric oxide (F ENO) can differentiate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with concurrent diagnosis of asthma from COPD-only as... -
Systematic review of guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of iron defic...
Objective: To explore current recommendations for intravenous (IV) iron use in clinical guidelines for iron deficiency anemia (IDA) across different therapeutic areas and... -
Anti-HCV prevalence and risk factor-based screening for hepatitis C in pregna...
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence in Sweden is estimated to be <0.5%, but unclear in pregnant women. The dominating route of transmission is drug use (DU), blood...
