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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Active surveillance"”.
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The accuracy of prostate biopsy to assign patients with low-grade prostate cancer to active surveillance
… is a satisfactory diagnostic procedure to offer active surveillance for patients with low-grade prostate cancer. METHODS: This study was conducted in Tuft Medical Center as retrospective cohort study over the period from 2007-2010. The study included 83 patients for whom biopsy and prostatectomy …
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Traps, Tensions and Transmissions: The Unionisation of Resistance Movements against External Destabilising Forces; Design, Development and Deployment of Holographic System for Active Surveillance and Targeted Manipulation
… and optogenetics, combined with the ability for active surveillance and monitoring of biological targets through confocal imaging and potential capacity for super-resolution imaging. This hybrid system is comprised of a spinning disk confocal unit, a spatial light modulator and a digital …
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An exploration of treatment decision making and psychological wellbeing of men with prostate cancer
… manage cases of localised prostate cancer with Active Surveillance. Although a number of studies have explored aspects of men’s decision making around Active Surveillance, no systematic review of qualitative studies had been conducted. Systematic reviews of qualitative studies can provide …
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Molekuliniai ir klinikiniai inkstų vėžio prognozės rodikliai /
… information about the oncological safety of active surveillance of small kidney tumors. It identifies the prognostic factors of aggressive kidney cancer that can help the urologist choose the right treatment tactics.The work evaluated the predictive value of epigenetic markers in determining …
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Privacy in the face of surveillance: Fourth Amendment considerations for facial recognition technology
… adds a new dimension to government and police surveillance. If these organizations were to employ active surveillance using facial recognition technology, the implication could mean that people appearing in public places no longer have an expectation of privacy in anonymity. Real-time …
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Ankstyvosios diagnostikos programos poveikio sergamumui priešinės liaukos vėžiu Lietuvoje vertinimas /
… program by additional means of information. The active surveillance should be widely used for management of the low-risk prostate cancer.
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A “tick”-Ing Threat: The Surveillance And Ecology Of The Lyme Disease System
… a strong correlation between citizen science and active surveillance tick collections. Importantly, this led to models that combined citizen science data and population-level factors to accurately estimate tick population sizes at a statewide scale and across years. Utilizing citizen science data …
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Surveillance for hard ticks of public health concern in Illinois: methods, application, and education
… such as avoiding tick habitat when ticks are active and using personal protective measures when in tick habitats, often rely on tick surveillance to inform prevention strategies. In 2019, the CDC published guidelines for public health agencies to follow when performing tick surveillance. To …
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Ambulatory and hospitalized childhood pneumonia: a longitudinal study in a peri-urban low-income community with high vaccination coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the first 2 years of life. A community pneumonia surveillance system was established; active case finding was used for birth cohort participants over 4 respiratory seasons. Children were examined at scheduled visits and at the time of pneumonia events. Pneumonia or severe pneumonia was diagnosed …
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Prevalence of human African trypanosomiasis and its associated risk factors in Itezhi-tezhi district of Zambia.
… in Itezhi-Tezhi (ITT) District of Zambia through active surveillance. Human infective trypanosomes have been demonstrated to be in circulation in cattle and tsetse flies as well as wildlife. Equally, ITT has HAT epidermic and sporadic case history. This was a cross-sectional study that collected …
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An evolutionary genomics approach towards analysis of genes implicated in transmission of trypanosomes between tsetse fly and mammalian host
… of human African trypanosomiasis relies on active surveillance and chemotherapy of infected patients. Efforts to develop a vaccine to immunize the human host have been hampered by antigenic variation of the parasites cell coat. The advent of the genome era has opened up opportunities for …
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The association of early childhood nutrition and growth with the intestinal microbiome and pneumonia
… collected using food-frequency questionnaires. Active surveillance for World Health Organization (WHO)-defined pneumonia was undertaken. Longitudinal stool samples were collected at study visits and during pneumonia episodes. WHO z-scores were calculated, and malnutrition classified as stunted, …
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The burden of serious adverse drug reactions in South Africa
… to ADRs was 6.4% [IQR 4.0% to 8.4%] among nine active surveillance studies in adults in SSA, with antiretroviral and antituberculosis drugs often implicated in serious ADRs. Conclusions Fatal, near-fatal, and hospitalising ADRs occurred frequently in South African hospitals. Many of these …
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Extracting Information on Dietary Supplements from Clinical Notes in Electronic Health Record Systems Through Natural Language Processing Techniques
… safety and efficacy. The current post-marketing surveillance primarily relies on voluntarily submitted reports of suspected adverse events (AEs) caused by DS. A reporting schema such as this inherently suffers from underestimation and reporting bias. Additionally, there remains a paucity of …
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Comprehensive Investigation into the Molecular Mechanisms Driving the Emergence of emm4 Group A Streptococcus
… Kingdom. Using strains collected as part of active surveillance, we estimated that a new <em>emm4</em> clone emerged around 1996 and, by 2017, had completely replaced the existing “historic” <em>emm4</em> strains. My thesis sought to identify mechanisms underlying this temporal clonal …
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The use of m-Health active participant centred (MAPC) systems to improve surveillance of adverse events following Immunization (AEFIs) in Zimbabwe
Introduction A robust national AEFI surveillance system ensures timely AEFI detection, good quality AEFI reports, prompt case investigation and robust causality assessment for corrective AEFI case management, signal detection and appropriate feedback ultimately to improve public safety and trust in …
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Risk stratification in the management of localised prostate cancer treated with radical radiotherapy
… of treatment but have now been joined by active surveillance, dose escalation (via multiple strategies), systemic approaches using androgen deprivation and up-front chemotherapy in addition to adjuvant androgen deprivation therapies and radiotherapy in the post-prostatectomy setting. In …
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Retrospective review: diagnostic performance of PI-RADS V2.1 4 and 5 lesions in predicting clinically significant prostate cancer at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa
… part of prostate cancer primary diagnosis, active surveillance, and lesion localization. PI-RADS reporting lexicon is used to report mpMRI prostate examinations and is a risk- adjusted reporting structure designed by the European Society of Urogenital Radiology in combination with the …
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Detection and description of influenza a virus transmission in commercial weaned pigs in Illinois, USA
… as seen during the 2009 swine flu pandemic. Surveillance of IAV-S is useful in monitoring for mutations that confer increased pathogenicity and virulence. Commercial swine are thought to be the diversity reservoir for H1N1 and H3N2 viruses, due to the abundance of strains in circulation. We …