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    Barriers to effective diabetes management – a survey of people with severe me...

    © 2018 The Authors. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License...
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    Compliance with water advisories after water outages in Norway

    Background: Water advisories, especially those concerning boiling drinking water, are widely used to reduce risks of infection from contaminants in the water supply. Since the...
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    Identifying the content of home-based health behaviour change interventions f...

    Background: Meeting the needs of the growing number of older people is a challenge for health and social care services. Home-based interventions aiming to modify health-related...
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    Impacts of selected Ecological Focus Area options in European farmed landscap...

    This systematic map protocol responds to an urgent policy need to evaluate key environmental benefits of new compulsory greening measures in the European Union’s Common...
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    The efficacy of varenicline in achieving abstinence among waterpipe tobacco s...

    Abstract Background Waterpipe tobacco smoking has increased among youth across the globe including in the US, and it continues as a common and traditional form of smoking...
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    Combined interventions to reduce HIV incidence in KwaZulu-Natal: a modelling ...

    Abstract Background Combined prevention interventions, including early antiretroviral therapy initiation, may substantially reduce HIV incidence in hyperendemic settings. Our...
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    CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ALLERGY

    textabstractBackground: In all societies, the burden and cost of allergic and chronic respiratory diseases are increasing rapidly. Most economies are struggling to deliver...
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    Prioritising pathogens for the management of severe febrile patients to impro...

    Abstract Background Severe febrile illness without a known source (SFWS) is a challenge for clinicians when deciding how to manage a patient, particularly given the wide...
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    What is the available evidence that artificial light at night affects animal ...

    Abstract Background Artificial light at night (ALAN), has increased dramatically over the past two centuries and is linked to...
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    Self-monitoring of health data by patients with a chronic disease: does disea...

    Background: There is a growing emphasis on self-monitoring applications that allow patients to measure their own physical health parameters. A prerequisite for achieving...
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    Manipulation of the microbiome is an emerging approach to promote health. We conducted a Phase Ia safety study of a single bladder instillation of probiotics in asymptomatic...
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    Substitution of care for chronic heart failure from the hospital to the gener...

    Background: Shifting care from the secondary to the primary system may present an opportunity to ensure that the increasing number of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF)...
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    Effects of oncological care pathways in primary and secondary care on patient...

    Abstract Background The high impact of a cancer diagnosis on patients and their families and the increasing costs of cancer treatment call for optimal and efficient oncological...
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    Comparative efficacy between atorvastatin and rosuvastatin in the prevention ...

    © 2019 The Author(s). Background: There is no randomized clinical trials with recurrence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) as a major outcome with rosuvastatin....
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    Risk perception of blood transfusions – a comparison of patients and allied h...

    Background: Due to an increasing demand in health care services plans to substitute selective physician-conducted medical activities have become attractive. Because...
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    Emergence delirium in children is not related to intraoperative burst suppres...

    Abstract Background Emergence-delirium is the most frequent brain dysfunction in children recovering from general anaesthesia, though the pathophysiological background remains...
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    Sensitivity and specificity of using trial-of-antibiotics versus sputum mycob...

    TD is funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and the Helse Nord RHF. This review is part of his PhD work at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine....
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    Fetal sex and maternal pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Abstract Background Since the placenta also has a sex, fetal sex–specific differences in the occurrence of placenta-mediated complications could exist. Objective To determine...
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    An overview of positive cultures and clinical outcomes in septic patients: a ...

    Background: Sepsis remains one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In approximately 30-50% of cases of suspected sepsis, no pathogen is isolated,...