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UK national clinical audit: management of pregnancies in women with HIV
Abstract Background The potential for HIV transmission between a pregnant woman and her unborn child was first recognized in 1982. Since then a complex package of measures to... -
A multicenter randomized controlled trial of surgery alone or surgery with at...
Abstract Background Postoperative cancer recurrence is a major problem following curative surgery. In a previous retrospective study of lung cancer surgery, we reported that... -
Probiotics may not prevent the deterioration of necrotizing enterocolitis fro...
Abstract Background Probiotic therapy can reduce the incidence of NEC. Therapeutic use of probiotics after NEC diagnosis reduces the severity of NEC in preterm infants or... -
Increased calcium intake is associated lower serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels...
Abstract Background There are indications that an increased intake of calcium has a vitamin D sparing effect, which might be explained by a decreased catabolism of... -
A method for sensitivity analysis to assess the effects of measurement error ...
Abstract Background Measurement error in self-reported dietary intakes is known to bias the association between dietary intake and a health outcome of interest such as risk of a... -
Climate factors driven typhus group rickettsiosis incidence dynamics in Xishu...
Abstract Background Typhus group rickettsiosis (TGR), which is a neglected vector-borne infectious disease, including epidemic typhus and endemic typhus. We explored the lag... -
Using predicate and provenance information from a knowledge graph for drug ef...
Abstract Background Biomedical knowledge graphs have become important tools to computationally analyse the comprehensive body of biomedical knowledge. They represent knowledge... -
Antenatal care and women’s decision making power as determinants of instituti...
Abstract Background Delivery by skilled birth attendance serves as an indicator of progress towards reducing maternal mortality. In Ethiopia, the proportions of births attended... -
Appendectomy, cholecystectomy and diagnostic laparoscopy conducted before pre...
Abstract Background Non-obstetric surgery conducted during pregnancy may increase the risk of adverse birth outcomes like small for gestational age, preterm birth, and... -
The potential role of infectious agents and pelvic inflammatory disease in ov...
Abstract Background The etiological cause of ovarian cancer is poorly understood. It has been theorized that bacterial or viral infection as well as pelvic inflammatory disease... -
Looking beyond appearances: a multi-analytical approach on the prehistoric cl...
Abstract In this paper we analyzed a batch of 64 clay weights from three archaeological sites located in Romania (Gumelniţa, Măgura-Jilava, and Sultana) that belong to... -
Feasibility and evaluation of a large-scale external validation approach for ...
Abstract Background To demonstrate how the Observational Healthcare Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI) collaborative network and standardization can be utilized to scale-up... -
Surface wave attenuation in the shallow subsurface from multichannelâ multish...
Abstract Surface wave analysis generally neglects amplitude information, instead using phase information to delineate near-surface S-wave velocity structures. To effectively... -
Vulnerability in elderly patients with gastrointestinal cancer – translation,...
Abstract Background “Vulnerable Elders Survey” (VES-13) is a questionnaire accurate in predicting functional decline and highly correlated with comprehensive geriatric... -
In search of universal health coverage: the hidden cost of family planning to...
Abstract Objective This study aims to estimate the cost of accessing FP services in Ghana. A cross-sectional design, involving quantitative methods were used to recruit 1194... -
Estimating the cost-effectiveness of daclatasvir + sofosbuvir versus sofosbuv...
Abstract Background As treatments for chronic hepatitis C are moving away from interferon-containing regimens, the most appropriate allocation of resources to higher cost,... -
Visual axial PSF of diffractive trifocal lenses
The ophthalmic applications of a diffractive trifocal lens design with adjustable add powers and light distribution in the foci are investigated. Axial PSFs of the trifocal... -
External quality assessment (EQA) program for the immunohistochemical detecti...
Abstract Background An External Quality Assessment (EQA) program was developed to investigate the status of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and Ki-67... -
Sensor-based characterization of daily walking: a new paradigm in pre-frailty...
Abstract Background Frailty is a highly recognized geriatric syndrome resulting in decline in reserve across multiple physiological systems. Impaired physical function is one of... -
A novel framework for horizontal and vertical data integration in cancer stud...
Abstract Background Recently high-throughput technologies have been massively used alongside clinical tests to study various types of cancer. Data generated in such large-scale...
