How often is each utility feature satisfied in studies published in major general medical journals and across all clinical research?*

Background Adolescent aspirational models are sets of preferences for an idealized self. Aspirational models influence behavior and exposure to risk factors that shape adult...

Submitted by Fábio Marques (fabio.marques@ini.fiocruz.br) on 2018-09-20T19:02:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Traditional and HIV-specific risk...

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...

Background The immune system plays a major role in the pathogenesis of age-related dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). An insight into age-associated changes in the...

Background Some veterans face multiple barriers to VA mental healthcare service use. However, there is limited understanding of how veterans’ experiences and meaning systems...

Background To assess the potential acceptability and inform the development of behaviorally-congruent vaginal douche- or gel-based HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) products,...

Background: Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) often have poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL) despite advances in treatment. Patient-centered research may...

Background Growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15), a cytokine associated with cardiovascular mortality, increases during chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

Author(s): Lyons, Elizabeth; Zhang, Laurina | Abstract: Digitization has facilitated the proliferation of crowd science by lowering the cost of finding individuals with the...

Background: Health information systems are central to strong health systems. They assist with patient and program management, quality improvement, disease surveillance, and...

Background Clinicians have difficulty accurately assessing medication non-adherence within chronic disease care settings. Health information technology (HIT) could offer novel...

Background The extent of lung involvement visualized by high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is a predictor of decline in forced vital capacity (FVC) in...

Background The presence of population structure in a sample may confound the search for important genetic loci associated with disease. Our four samples in the Family...

Author(s): McMenamin, Sara B; Cummins, Sharon E; Zhuang, Yue-Lin; Gamst, Anthony C; Ruiz, Carlos G; Mayoral, Antonio; Zhu, Shu-Hong | Abstract: BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The...

Data sharing at a clinical research institute in Vietnam. This material was presented in the 'Data Management and Sharing workshop' in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 25th...

Background As malaria prevalence declines in many parts of the world due to widescale control efforts and as drug-resistant parasites begin to emerge, a quantitative...

Background: There are currently no treatments for empathy deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders. Acute administration of the hormone oxytocin has been...

Background Psoriasis impacts 1–3% of the world’s population and is characterized by hyper-proliferation of keratinocytes and increased inflammation. At the molecular level,...

Background: Countdown to 2015 was a multi-institution consortium tracking progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. Case studies to explore factors...